BBN Technologies Announces Key Promotions.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, today announced that Penny Ellard, Jack Marin, Prem Natarajan, and Peter Pflugrath have been promoted to the position of Vice President.

Penny Ellard joined BBN as a software engineer in 1988 after graduating Cum Laude from Harvard University. During her tenure at BBN, Ellard earned an M.B.A. from Babson College, Magna Cum Laude. In 1995 she was promoted to Project Manager and over the next 11 years served as the technical lead on several large distributed applications programs involving logistics, scheduling, collaboration, and Quality of Service. In her new position, Ellard is responsible for the Modeling and Planning Systems business team.

Former Lieutenant Colonel Jack Marin joined BBN in 2001 after 22 years as an officer in the U.S. Army, serving the last six years as a professor at West Point. Marin earned a Ph.D. in systems engineering at the University of Virginia, an Executive Management Diploma at the U.S. Army Command and Staff College, an M.S. in operations research at the Naval Postgraduate School and a B.S. in engineering at the United States Military Academy. Formerly Director of BBN's Columbia, MD office, Marin now brings his expertise in information systems, information security, and knowledge management and his talent for business development to leadership of the Information Systems and Security Solutions business team.

Prem Natarajan has been a member of the Speech and Language Processing department at BBN since 1996. His technical leadership, business acumen, and talent for attracting funding have helped to grow BBN's business in speech-to-speech translation and optical character recognition. Natarajan holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Tufts University and is a graduate of The Greater Boston Executive Program at MIT's Sloan School of Management. In his new position, Natarajan will lead the Multi-Media Technologies and Solutions Business team.

During the ten years that he has been with BBN, Peter Pflugrath has led teams to forward deployed locations world-wide in support of US military operations such as Desert Storm/Shield (Saudi Arabia/Kuwait), Operation Restore Hope (Somalia), and Operation Joint Guard (Bosnia-Herzgovania). Pflugrath earned a B.S. in computer science from the College of William and Mary and an M.S. in software engineering from George Mason University. In his new position, Pflugrath holds operational responsibility for the Enterprise Solutions team in BBN's National Intelligence Research and Applications business unit.

About BBN Technologies

BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm, is focused on solving some of the world's most pressing problems. From national security, information security, speech recognition and language translation, to integrating disparate systems and networks, BBN has been at the forefront of technological change for over 50 years. Known for pioneering the development of the ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet, BBN continues to create advances in Internet and networking technologies through its work on ad hoc networking, the semantic web, quantum communications, and advanced protocols. Building on its substantial list of firsts, BBN operates the first metro quantum cryptography network, the first real-time foreign broadcast monitoring system, and has developed the world's first stereoscopic digital mammography system. For more information on BBN Technologies, visit www.bbn.com.