PRESS RELEASE

Modus Operandi, Inc. Wins Navy Contract to Develop High-Level Coordination Solution for Battlespace Environment

MELBOURNE, Florida, July 15, 1998 — Modus Operandi has been awarded a contract by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Arlington, Virginia, to develop a Virtual Interactive Scenario Generation and Execution Environment (VISGEEN). Modus Operandi will apply state-of-the-art software technologies to provide a high-level coordination capability for creating and managing complex, synthetic battlespace environments. The resultant product will provide an increased level of interoperability and reusability of the models and simulations currently being used in the battlespace domain.

"The need to reduce software development costs by reusing existing models and simulations has universal applicability to both the government and commercial sectors," states program manager Bruce McQueary. "Tools such as VISGEEN, that provide comprehensive support for creating meaningful simulations, will be widely marketable. VISGEEN’s complete support of the simulated environment, and its underlying open integration framework, make it uniquely attractive to the commercial modeling and simulation community."

For this contract, Modus Operandi will develop VISGEEN and integrate it with existing Modeling and Simulation assets. These integrated assets will be used within VISGEEN to create a scenario, and then initialize, manage, and visualize it executing within the context of the DoD standard High-Level Architecture (HLA). This prototype will provide a solid foundation for a future full-scale VISGEEN implementation.

Upon successful completion, this effort is expected to lead to follow-on development contracts, and eventually to have a significant, worthwhile impact on our national security, through application to military training and systems development. VISGEEN is also directly applicable to commercial applications, such as medical simulation and entertainment-based simulation.

Additional information about the VISGEEN effort is available from Bruce McQueary, Modus Operandi, Inc., 122 Fourth Ave., Indialantic, FL 32951. Telephone: (321) 984-3370. Fax: (321) 728-3957..

About Modus Operandi

Modus Operandi provides products and services for enterprise information integration and process improvement. The company’s solutions address both the processes and the key enabling technologies necessary to link people, processes, and systems for critical information sharing. Modus Operandi is an IBM Certified for e-business Business Partner and was named 2001 Solution Partner of the Year by Borland Software Corporation.

Additional information on Modus Operandi solutions is available from Modus Operandi, Inc., 122 Fourth Avenue, Indialantic, FL 32903. Phone: (321) 984-3370. Fax: (321) 728-3957. E-mail: inquiries@modusoperandi.com. Website: http://www.modusoperandi.com. The company maintains offices in Ft. Monmouth , NJ ; Tampa and Melbourne , Florida.