Sotera Supports Delivery of New Aberdeen Test Center Terrain Mapping Profilometer

USGIF, Sotera Team Up to Donate $10K to Fisher House

National security leaders partner to help fund foundation that supports
wounded vets and their families

HERNDON, March 7, 2012 — The U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), an organization dedicated to supporting the geospatial intelligence community and tradecraft, and Sotera Defense Solutions (Sotera), a leading national security technology company, teamed up to present a $10,000 donation to the Fisher House Foundation to help wounded veterans and their families. Keith Masback, President of USGIF, and John Hillen, President & CEO of Sotera, presented the check together at a brief ceremony at the Foundation’s headquarters in Rockville, Maryland.

“We are pleased to partner with USGIF in supporting the Fisher House,” said John Hillen. “We selected Fisher House as the beneficiary because they have an outstanding track record in supporting members of the military and their families while they undergo treatment from injuries and illnesses.  As a government contracting company that focuses on delivering national security solutions, a big focus of our Corporate Responsibility is supporting members of the military and veterans.”

Keith Masback commented, “Through our partnership with Sotera we are able to contribute to the community and support the amazing work of the Fisher House Foundation. I’m a firm believer in partnerships. It’s absolutely the way we work at USGIF, and so joining forces with Sotera is exactly how we at USGIF like to support the families of our men and women in uniform.”

The donation for Fisher House Foundation came from a fundraising effort USGIF and Sotera teamed on during the 2011 GEOINT Symposium held last October in San Antonio. Sotera raised over $3,700 selling raffle tickets for a series of patriotic paintings painted by Stephen Fishwick live in Sotera’s booth on the show floor.  USGIF matched and supplemented Sotera’s contribution to bring the total donation to $10,000.

About Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc.

Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc. (Sotera) is an agile, mid-sized national security technology company that delivers innovative systems, solutions and services in support of the critical missions of the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and federal law enforcement agencies charged with ensuring the safety and security of our nation. Sotera provides essential counterterrorism, cyber operations, intelligence, C4ISR and force mobility solutions to our customers throughout the national security community.  Learn more about Sotera at www.soteradefense.com. 

About the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation
USGIF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational foundation dedicated to building a stronger GEOINT Community across government, military, industry, academia, professional organizations and individuals who rely on geospatial intelligence to address national security challenges. USGIF develops numerous programs and events to support the GEOINT Community. The Foundation’s scholarship program has awarded $.5 Million since 2004, and its GEOINT Accreditation Program certifies college and university geospatial intelligence programs. USGIF also supports the next generation of GEOINT professionals through its Young Professionals Group, which host events focusing on networking, career development and professional development. USGIF’s signature event is the annual GEOINT Symposium. The Nation’s largest intelligence event of the year, GEOINT 2011 attracted more than 4,450 Defense, Intelligence and Homeland Security professionals and over 250 exhibitors in over 100,000-square-feet of exhibit space.

The GEOINT 2012 Symposium takes place 8 - 12 October in Orlando, FL. To learn more about the Foundation and its programs, please visit www.USGIF.org.
 
About Fisher House
Fisher House Foundation is best known for the network of comfort homes built on the grounds of major military and VA medical centers. The Fisher Houses are 5,000 to 16,800 square-foot homes, donated to the military and Department of Veterans Affairs, where families can stay while a loved one is receiving treatment. Additionally, the Foundation ensures that families of service men and women wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan are not burdened with unnecessary expense during a time of crisis.

Located in close proximity to the medical center or hospital it serves, each Fisher House consists of between 8 and 21 suites, with private bedrooms and baths. Families share a common kitchen, laundry facilities, spacious dining room and an inviting living room with a library and toys for children. Fisher House Foundation ensures that there is no fee to stay in a Fisher House. Since inception, the program has saved military and veteran families an estimated $192 million in out of pocket costs for lodging and transportation.

Fisher House Foundation operates the Hero Miles Program, using donated frequent flyer miles to bring family members to the bedside of injured service members. To date, Hero Miles has provided over 26,000 airline tickets to our military and their families. The Foundation also manages a grant program that supports other military charities and scholarship funds for military children, spouses and children of fallen and disabled veterans.

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Lauren Peduzzi
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Sotera Completes the Acquisition of Potomac Fusion, Inc. 

HERNDON, Va., January 3, 2012 – Sotera Defense Solutions (Sotera), a provider of mission-critical, technology-based systems, solutions and services for national security customers announced that on December 30, 2011 the company completed the acquisition of Potomac Fusion, Inc. Potomac Fusion develops data fusion, data analytics, cyber and visualization solutions for U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DOD) Tactical ISR mission systems operating in a cloud computing environment.

John Hillen, Sotera President & CEO commented, “This business combination is a natural fit – joining two organizations with the same emphasis on agility, ingenuity and integrity and a strong commitment to the national security mission. The addition of Potomac Fusion’s expertise in cloud computing architectures, data fusion and data analytics expands the broad range of support we can provide to help our national security customers achieve their missions at home and abroad.”

The Chantilly, Virginia-based company was founded in 2002 with a focus on developing software frameworks for data fusion and big data analytics for DOD customers.  With the accelerated demand for cloud architectures and data analytics, Potomac Fusion has grown steadily and now has over 200 employees delivering leading-edge cloud architecture and software engineering solutions to the U.S. IC and DOD.  The company is projecting revenues of $40 million for 2011.

Potomac Fusion will now be known as Potomac Fusion, a Sotera Defense Solutions Company and will be led by Russell Richardson.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

About Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc.
Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc. (Sotera) is an agile, mid-sized national security technology company that delivers innovative systems, solutions and services in support of the critical missions of the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and federal law enforcement agencies charged with ensuring the safety and security of our nation. Sotera provides essential counterterrorism, cyber operations, intelligence, C4ISR and force mobility solutions to our customers throughout the national security community.  Learn more about Sotera at www.soteradefense.com. 

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Lauren Peduzzi
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SOTERA CONTINUES ITS SUPPORT OF NRL ACOUSTICS RESEARCH

HERNDON, Va., December 12, 2011 – Sotera Defense Solutions (Sotera), a provider of mission-critical, technology-based systems, solutions and services for national security agencies and programs of the U.S. government, was recently awarded a contract to continue its support of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C.  The $6 million, one-year contract includes 4 option years which if exercised will increase the total contract value to $34 million.

Under the contract which is part of the Laboratory and At Sea Based Acoustic Techniques program, Sotera will support the Physical Acoustics Branch in its theoretical and experimental studies of acousto-elastic systems. Much of the branch's work is directed towards developing advanced techniques in antisubmarine warfare and mine countermeasures.

Sotera President & CEO John Hillen commented on the contract, “As a longtime mission partner of the NRL we have leveraged our C4ISR and mission systems expertise to support the valuable research done by the organization. We are pleased to further our commitment to help the NRL design and deploy critical systems that enhance the capabilities of our U.S. military.”

About Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc.
Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc. (Sotera) is an agile, mid-sized national security technology company that delivers innovative systems, solutions and services in support of the critical missions of the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and federal law enforcement agencies charged with ensuring the safety and security of our nation. Sotera provides essential counterterrorism, cyber operations, intelligence, C4ISR and force mobility solutions to our customers throughout the national security community.  Learn more about Sotera at www.soteradefense.com
 

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Lauren Peduzzi
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Sotera Announces the Acquisition of Potomac Fusion, Inc.

MCLEAN, Va., Nov  14, 2011– Sotera Defense Solutions (Sotera), a provider of mission-critical, technology-based systems, solutions and services for national security agencies and programs of the U.S. government, recently served as a key mission partner supporting the Aberdeen Test Center’s (ATC) Phase 2 testing of the U.S. Army’s WIN-T tactical communications network backbone. To complete this task, Sotera helped the Army orchestrate the largest instrumented test ever performed at the Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG).

The Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T)provides high-speed, high capacity voice, data and video communications to units on the battlefield.  The current Increment 1 WIN-T system provides function while military formations are stationary. The recent Phase 2 testing examined WIN-T improvements via the Increment 2 WIN-T system that provides network function to military formations while in motion on the battlefield.  

Conduct of the Phase 2 Production Qualification Test-Government (PQT-G) testingrequired ATC to collect and analyze thousands of gigabytes of data on the WIN-T network performance.  As a key contractor supporting ATC, Sotera produced the Vehicle Integration Kits (VIK) and the VIK hardware that were key elements in collecting the test data. 

The VIK, mounted on each of the WIN-T system vehicles, provides an Electro-Magnetic Interference (EMI) and weather-protected, enclosed data acquisition and recording system consisting of twin Net Advanced Distributed Modular Acquisition System (NetADMAS) data acquisition and solid-state hard drive units, with a GPS interface.  The NetADMAS processes all WIN-T system network traffic into storable, streaming data adding position and time stamping at the microsecond time level. In addition, Sotera also provided the analytical expertise required to prepare and conduct analysis of the WIN-T traffic data collected during the testing.  

A larger, nation-wide, Initial Operational Test (IOT) is scheduled for May, 2012 with all elements of the system in motion for nearly 100% of the duration of the test.

Sotera holds a services support contract with ATC providing engineering, procurement, and manufacturing services across a broad range of tasks.  With about thirty-five active tasks currently on the contract, services provided range from design and manufacturing of future electronic test data recorder equipment to equipping the new automotive dynamometer test facility while supporting a U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) study of ways to utilize optical polarization for battlefield identification.  To assist the broad variety of tasks Sotera supports, Sotera maintains an on-site engineering staff within the ATC premises who provide software and engineering design and fabrication support.

About Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc.

Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc. (Sotera) is an agile, mid-sized national security technology company that delivers innovative systems, solutions and services in support of the critical missions of the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and federal law enforcement agencies charged with ensuring the safety and security of our nation. Sotera is projecting revenues of over $320 million in 2011. Our 1,400+ employees are focused on delivering essential counterterrorism, cyber operations, intelligence, C4ISR and force mobility solutions to our customers throughout the national security community.  Learn more about Sotera at www.soteradefense.com. 

Sotera Media Contact
Lauren Peduzzi
t: +1.703.738.2861
e: media@soteradefense.com

SOTERA TO DEMO NATIONAL SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES AT GEOINT 2011

Featuring Live Performances by Artist Stephen Fishwick in booth #122

Rock the House with Sotera to Support the Fisher House Foundation

MCLEAN, Va., October 10, 2011 – Sotera Defense Solutions (Sotera), a provider of mission-critical, technology-based systems, solutions and services for national security agencies and programs of the U.S. government, will share their national security technology story through a unique live painting performance in booth #122 at the GEOINT 2011 Symposium in San Antonio, Texas October 16-19, 2011.

In line with this year’s symposium theme, Forging Integrated Intelligence, Sotera representatives will be on hand to demonstrate how the company leverages its expertise in cyber solutions, counterterrorism and intelligence, C4ISR and mission systems to enhance the quality of mission-critical national security decisions.  Visitors to booth #122 will have the opportunity to experience several demonstrations of Sotera’s C4ISR and counterterrorism solutions including:

• WatchIT®,  designed to monitor and fuse information from disparate sensors and controls to create actionable intelligence to enhance the decision-making capability of the user

• Line of Sight Application (LOSA), employing an extremely accurate earth model coupled with terrain data to create a more efficient process in accurately ascertaining radio coverage and determining visual line of sight

• Weapons Reporting Information Tool for Exploitation (WRITE), an expert system which integrates data from multiple intelligence sources to help warfighters accurately identify the enemy's training, tactics, and procedures, as well as conduct threat assessments and provide situational awareness in relation to the threat posed via Improvised Explosive Devices

Applying a different twist to their booth, Sotera will also feature Paint in Motion artist Stephen Fishwick in three live painting performances that will demonstrate the company’s core values and approach to national security. 

Together with the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), Sotera will raffle off the paintings created by Mr. Fishwick as part of their hospitality event, Rock the House with Sotera, at the annual GEOWalk.  USGIF has generously agreed to match all funds raised by Sotera and all proceeds will benefit the Fisher House Foundation, an organization that provides comfort homes on the grounds of major military and VA medical centers to aid injured members of the U.S. military and their families.

With approximately 4,000 attendees, GEOINT, hosted by the USGIF, is the nation’s largest intelligence event bringing together leading experts from the U.S. defense, intelligence and homeland security communities and the private sector to address the latest national security developments and best practices. 

Sotera Media Contact
Lauren Peduzzi
t: +1.703.738.2861
e: media@soteradefense.com

MCLEAN, Va., September 22, 2011 – Sotera Defense Solutions (Sotera), a provider of mission-critical, technology-based systems, solutions and services for national security agencies and programs of the U.S. government, today announced that the company has completed the acquisition of Software Process Technologies, Inc. (SPT).  SPT delivers a range of mission-focused, specialized software engineering capabilities to support the cyber intelligence missions of its customers.

John Hillen, Sotera President & CEO commented, “This business combination underscores a key element of Sotera’s business strategy to become a leading mission partner supporting our customers’ critical needs in the cyber intelligence and cyber operations areas. Adding SPT to our team doubles our presence in the Ft. Meade area and we look forward to leveraging our expanded capabilities to provide even greater support to our existing and future customers.”

Based in Columbia, Maryland, SPT has grown rapidly since its inception in 1997 and today employs approximately 140 professionals in the Ft. Meade, Maryland area. The company expects to generate approximately $35 million in 2011 revenue and its outstanding financial performance is driven by its unique solutions focus, leading edge technical expertise and direct exposure to programs addressing the pressing cyber security mission requirements of the Intelligence Community.

Christine Dockstader, SPT Founder, President & CEO shared her thoughts on the acquisition, “We are pleased to join Sotera, a company that is truly dedicated and responsive to the critical missions of its national security customers.  By being part of the Sotera team we can combine capabilities in cyber intelligence, cyber operations, counterterrorism and C4ISR to offer even greater support to our customers and expanded opportunities for our employees.”

SPT will now be known as Software Process Technologies, a Sotera Defense Solutions Company and will be led by Ms. Dockstader.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
 

Sotera Media Contact
Lauren Peduzzi
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SOTERA SECURES OVER $15 MILLION IN CYBER & C4ISR CONTRACT AWARDS TO SUPPORT SPACE AND NAVAL WARFARE SYSTEMS COMMAND

MCLEAN, Va., August 31, 2011– Sotera Defense Solutions (Sotera), a provider of mission-critical,technology-based systems, solutions and services for national security agencies and programs of the U.S. government, was recently awarded over $15 million to support several cybersecurity and C4ISR programs within the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR).  The recent awards represent a combination of new work and expanded opportunities under existing contracts including:

• A task order to provide secure engineering support to SPAWAR’s Navy Medicine Enterprise Information Assurance and Network Engineering Program
• A task order to provide engineering support for Integrated RF Communications Systems to the Department of State in support of its U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) mission
• An award to provide engineering, development and information assurance services to the U.S. Navy Cyber Command’s Collaboration at Sea (CaS) Unified Atlantic Regional Network Operations Center (UARNOC)
• A task order to provide information assurance services to the U.S. Navy’s TacMobile program, responsible for equipping maritime patrol aircraft with pre-flight, in-flight and post-flight data processing and analysis
• A task order to provide security technical testing and certification support for the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI).  This includesCertification Test & Evaluation (CT&E) of NMCI components, and conducting site Security Test & Evaluation (ST&E) of classified and unclassified NMCI sites

John Hillen, President & CEO of Sotera, commented on the recent wins, “The breadth of these recent wins illustrate the successful expansion of Sotera’s capabilities, particularly in the growing cyber operations, cyber intelligence and C4ISR mission areas.  We are pleased to add this additional expertise to the wide range of mission support solutions and services we provide to our valued SPAWAR customer.”

About Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc.

Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc. (Sotera) is an agile, mid-sized national security technology company that delivers innovative systems, solutions and services in support of the critical missions of the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and federal law enforcement agencies charged with ensuring the safety and security of our nation. Sotera is projecting revenues of over $320 million in 2011. Our 1,200+ employees are focused on delivering essential counterterrorism, cyber operations, intelligence, C4ISR and force mobility solutions to our customers throughout the national security community.  Learn more about Sotera at www.soteradefense.com. 

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Sotera Media Contact: Lauren Peduzzi
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Sotera Announces the Acquisition of Software Process Technologies, Inc.

Expands Software Engineering Expertise in Cyber Intelligence Customer Base

MCLEAN, Va., August 9, 2011 – Sotera Defense Solutions (Sotera), a provider of mission-critical, technology-based systems, solutions and services for national security agencies and programs of the U.S. government, announced today that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Software Process Technologies, Inc. (SPT) on August 8, 2011. SPT delivers a range of mission-focused, specialized software engineering capabilities to support the cyber intelligence missions of its customers.

John Hillen, Sotera’s President & CEO, stated, “SPT, with a strong software engineering pedigree and expertise in content exploitation and defense analytics, combined with its strong culture of innovation, is a natural fit for Sotera and the company’s addition is a key element in fulfilling our vision to become a leading mid-size, mission-focused partner for our national security customers. Adding SPT to our team doubles our presence in the Ft. Meade area and further expands our capabilities in the growing areas of cyber intelligence and cyber operations.  We look forward to leveraging these new capabilities to provide even greater mission support to our customers.”

Based in Columbia, Maryland, the company has grown rapidly and employs approximately 140 professionals in the Ft. Meade, Maryland area. The company expects to generate approximately $35 million in 2011 revenue and its outstanding financial performance is driven by its unique solutions focus, leading edge technical expertise and direct exposure to programs addressing the pressing mission requirements of the cyber community.

Christine Dockstader, SPT President & CEO commented, “We are pleased to join forces with Sotera - a mission-oriented and customer focused prime-contractor recognized within the industry for its responsiveness and ingenuity. Our leadership team is excited about the expanded opportunities for all of our employees through the combination with Sotera. Sotera’s established expertise in cyber security, counterterrorism and C4ISR are a strong complement to our competencies and will allow us to offer even greater support to existing and future customers.”

Terms of the deal were not disclosed and Sotera expects the transaction to close in September 2011.