Advanced Interactive Systems, Inc. Trains Airport Baggage Screeners; Up to 30,000 Expected to be Trained This Year.

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Seattle-based Advanced Interactive Systems, Inc. (www.ais-sim.com) has been selected by The Boeing Company to provide training to up to 30,000 federal government employees for screening baggage at 438 airports in the United States.

Under the terms of the contract, AIS will design, develop and implement a national training program to teach federal baggage handlers how to operate new explosive-detection machines that will be installed at airports nationwide. The award to AIS is estimated to be worth nearly $63 million dollars.

"This is obviously a tremendous opportunity for AIS and will represent significant growth for our company," says Tim May, CEO of Advanced Interactive Systems, Inc. "We look forward to working with Boeing on this extremely important project."

Boeing hired AIS as a sub-contractor to fulfill its new government contract to deploy Explosive Detection System machines (EDS) and Explosive Trace Detection machines (ETD) to the nation's airports. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) awarded the $508 million contract to The Boeing Company Space and Communications Services Group June 7, 2002. Through this contract, Boeing and AIS will help fulfill the mandate of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act to screen all checked luggage for explosives by Dec. 31, 2002.

About AIS

Advanced Interactive systems is a Seattle, Washington based designer and manufacturer of high-tech simulator systems, virtual reality systems, and training facilities worldwide. Since 1993, AIS has been a leading provider of interactive simulated training systems for law enforcement, aviation, security and military agencies. In its innovative line of products using software engineering, video production, and intelligent computer graphics technologies, AIS combines state-of-the-art technology with extensive tactical experience to provide immersive real-life judgmental training scenarios. AIS also designs and builds anti-terrorist and other special application training facilities for military and special operations groups, with installations in 32 countries. Based in Seattle, Washington, AIS is a privately owned company with offices in Monterey, California; Orlando, Florida and London, England.