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Advanced Business Sciences, Inc. Announces Contract With General Security Services Corporation.


OMAHA Omaha, city, United States
Omaha (ō`məhä, –hô), city (1990 pop. 335,795), seat of Douglas co., E Nebr., on the west bank of the Missouri River; inc. 1857.
, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 1999--Advanced Business Sciences, Inc. (OTC OTC

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:ABSH) ("ABS"), an Omaha based technology company that provides real-time monitoring and tracking of adults and juveniles released from incarceration Confinement in a jail or prison; imprisonment.

Police officers and other law enforcement officers are authorized by federal, state, and local lawmakers to arrest and confine persons suspected of crimes. The judicial system is authorized to confine persons convicted of crimes.
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1. To restore to good health or useful life, as through therapy and education.

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 alternative, has announced the signing of an agreement with General Security Services Noun 1. General Security Services - the Israeli domestic counterintelligence and internal security agency; "the Shin Bet also handles overall security for Israel's national airline"
Shin Bet
 Corporation (GSSC GSSC GLAST Science Support Center (NASA)
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GSSC Global Shared Service Centre (Malaysia) 
) to supply the ABS<ComTrak(R) System and the ABS<ComGuard(TM) house arrest unit for resale to GSSC's customers. Since 1946, the Minneapolis based GSSC has been providing security services Security services are state institutions for the provision of intelligence, primarily of a strategic nature, but also including protective security intelligence. Examples include the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the United Kingdom, and the  to businesses and government agencies throughout the country. GSSC is currently one of the largest providers of alternative monitoring in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. .

Keith Feilmeier, Director of Marketing for ABS, stated "The enhanced products and services that ABS will be introducing in 1999 can only serve to improve our position in the industry. Providing variable levels of service addresses our customers needs and will allow us to retain our existing contracts while growing our revenue streams by adding new customers in both GPS tracking See vehicle tracking.  and house arrest. Having a company like GSSC select ABS in a strategic marketing agreement, will insure a more rapid distribution of those products and services over the next year. We believe this contract with GSSC will generate $2.5 to $3 million in revenue for ABS in 1999. GSSC is a major provider of monitoring products and services with annual revenues approaching $100 million. With its industry reputation and experienced sales force, we believe this strategic partnership will strengthen both companies positions as major forces in the criminal justice industry."

Dennis Doffing, Director of Alternative Monitoring for GSSC, said "We are excited to have both the GPS product and the low cost house arrest unit as product offerings and we believe we can be instrumental in the introduction of the new GPS/HA seamless product - that is the single unit that can provide all the levels of monitoring services." The two companies have already been co-bidders on contracts in California and Missouri.

Additionally, ABS has announced the signing of contracts in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Illinois. Framingham County, Massachusetts, has signed a six month pilot program to begin January 15, 1999, utilizing the ABS<ComTrak(R) unit in monitoring adults in the Intensive Supervision Sexual Offender Program. The New Jersey Probation Service has issued a state purchase order to ABS for use of the ABS<CinTrak(R) unit in its Adult Intensive Supervision program. This purchase order follows one previously issued by the same agency for its Juvenile program. ComGuard Corporation, the wholly-owned subsidiary of ABS, has signed several contracts to provide ABS<ComGuard(TM) house arrest units in the states of Illinois, North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures


Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop.
 and Kansas.

Through its patent-pending ABS<ComTrak(R) system which utilizes global-positioning technology, wireless telephone communications and advanced computer systems, Advanced Business Sciences, Inc. provides an economical answer to the high cost of prison incarceration and a much-needed service to overloaded parole and probation officers while addressing the public safety concerns of having offenders out in the community. Through controlled monitoring, the system tracks the geographic whereabouts of properly equipped individuals and is coupled with a programmable alarm that reports when the individual's physical movements extend past specified, identifiable time and/or geographic boundaries. Visit the company's Website at www.abscomtrak.com.

Statements in this news release that relate to future plans, financial projections, events or performance, are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement

A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections.
 within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended in Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Actual results may differ from such forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including but not limited to competitive factors and pricing pressures, ability to obtain necessary capital or financing, successful execution of the Company's business plans, shifts in market demand, general economic conditions and other risks and uncertainties which the Company urges investors to consider.
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