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ATS Corporation Awarded $260K Department of Veteran's Affairs Employee Education System Services Contract.


MCLEAN, Va. -- ATS Corporation ("ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) An international digital television (DTV) standard adopted by the U.S., Canada, South Korea, Taiwan and Argentina. " or the "Company") (OTCBB OTCBB

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.OB), today announced that it has been awarded the Department of Veteran's Affairs Survey Evaluation Exam System ("SEES") Contract, valued at $260,000. The Employee Education System ("EES See Skipjack algorithm. ") serves as the Veteran's Health Administration's education and training organization. With nine Employee Education Resource Centers placed throughout the country, their mission is to provide high quality educational services to employees that are customer-based, accessible, performance measured, and cost effective to the Veteran's Health Administration. The EES vision and commitment is to be the partner of choice for employee learning.

Under this contract, ATSC will complete development of a sophisticated and broadly-functioning survey, evaluation and exam system to replace multiple antiquated and embedded on-line systems for exams, survey and evaluation systems. Once complete, SEES will provide more flexibility in the evaluation process through an easy to use graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI)

Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to
 "GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. " forms creation tool, allowing for direct customization of survey and evaluation forms. Surveys can be received in a variety of different formats including through a web portal. SEES will utilize full Optical Character Recognition optical character recognition (OCR), method for the machine-reading of typeset, typed, and, in some cases, hand-printed letters, numbers, and symbols using optical sensing and a computer.  ("OCR OCR
 in full optical character recognition

Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry.
")/Intelligent Character Recognition ("ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition or Image Character Recognition) The machine recognition of hand-printed characters as well as machine printing that is difficult to recognize. ").

ATSC Senior Vice President Shannon Brown commented, "This contract represents eBusiness support to a relatively new customer for ATS, and while we have built similar automated systems for other clients, we are excited about broadening our relationship with the Department of Veteran's Affairs."

About ATS Corporation

ATS Corporation operates through its subsidiaries, ATS, Reliable Integration Services, Potomac Management Group ("PMG"), and Appix, Inc. ("Appix").

ATS is a leading provider of systems integration and application development, IT infrastructure management and strategic IT consulting services to U.S. federal government agencies. Since its founding in 1978, ATS has been recognized for its custom software development and software integration capabilities and its deep domain expertise in federal government financial, human resource and data management systems. ATS has built and implemented over 100 mission-critical systems for clients.

ATSC leverages its IT services, management consulting, and software and systems development solutions expertise into financial institutions, insurance companies and government sponsored enterprises through a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary

A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock.

Notes:
In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners.
, Appix. Additional information about Appix may be found at www.appix.com.

In addition, ATSC's subsidiary PMG provides government and commercial clients with in-depth, proven expertise and assistance on global maritime operations, regulations, program management, and information technology support. Additional information about PMG can be found at www.potomacmgmt.com.

Any statements in this press release about future expectations, plans, and prospects for ATSC, including statements about the estimated value of the contract and work to be performed, and other statements containing the words "estimates," "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "will," and similar expressions, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including: our dependence on our contracts with federal government agencies for the majority of our revenue, our dependence on our GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM.  schedule contracts and our position as a prime contractor on government-wide acquisition contracts to grow our business, and other factors discussed in our latest annual report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 26, 2007. In addition, the forward-looking statements included in this press release represent our views as of September 10, 2007. We anticipate that subsequent events and developments will cause our views to change. However, while we may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we specifically disclaim any obligation to do so. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any date subsequent to September 10, 2007.

Additional information about ATSC may be found at www.atsva.com.
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