Convera Selected for Department of Defense's Visual Information Management System; RetrievalWare Search Now Available to 700 DOD Multimedia Databases.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 2003

Convera (Nasdaq:CNVR) today announced that it has been selected to provide multimedia search solutions to the Department of Defense's new Visual Information Management System (VIMS). VIMS is intended to be a standard for digital asset repositories in the DOD and is designed to capture, edit, index, store, search, retrieve, distribute, and manage the Department of Defense's rich media digital assets, which include still images, video, audio, graphics, and eventually textual documents.

The multimedia search portion of the VIMS contract was awarded to Convera by TranTech, Inc., the lead integrator on the $9 million VIMS project. Convera's RetrievalWare(R) will be integrated into the VIMS web-based e-commerce portal to enable users to quickly and accurately search for and retrieve visual information from multimedia archives expected to grow substantially in size. Within the Department of Defense, there are approximately 700 databases that process and manage multimedia assets that RetrievalWare search can be made available to in follow on projects. Powered by RetrievalWare, users would be able to look for video and images across all repositories that are part of VIMS.

The VIMS project is headed by the American Forces Information Service (AFIS), an element within the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense. The VIMS solution initially will be used by AFIS, the Defense Visual Information Center (DVIC), the Joint Combat Camera Center (JCCC), and the Joint Visual Information Services Distribution Activity (JVISDA). The contract is to be administered through DISA, and made available as the standard VIMS solution to all Department of Defense and Federal Government agencies.

Other partners brought on by TranTech as part of the VIMS team include Artesia, Atkins-Benham, Avid, ContentGuard and EMC. Convera will partner with these companies to market the VIMS system to other Department of Defense offices and government agencies. Convera should receive additional license revenue as new offices adopt the VIMS solution.

TranTech's Senior Vice President for Business Development, Mr. George Kolesar says: "VIMS is a great example of how TranTech and Convera help the government solve the problems associated with the explosion in digital material. For a relatively small initial investment, VIMS will increase functionality for thousands of users, making them more productive, and reducing the actual costs of handling these visual assets."

About Convera

Convera is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise search and categorization solutions. Convera's RetrievalWare(R) solutions maximize return on investment in vast stores of unstructured information by providing highly scalable, fast, accurate and secure search across more than 200 forms of text, video, image and audio information, in more than 45 languages. More than 800 customers in 33 countries rely on Convera's search solutions to power a broad range of mission-critical applications including enterprise portals, knowledge management, intelligence gathering, profiling, corporate policy compliance, regulatory compliance, customer service and more. For more information, contact Convera at 800-788-7758, via e-mail at [e-mail] or on the Web at www.convera.com.

About TranTech, Inc.

TranTech, Inc. is an award-winning, woman-owned professional and technical services firm located in Alexandria, Virginia. TranTech provides enterprise management and IT solutions and services in support of enterprise operations. Dun & Bradstreet's customer satisfaction assessment ranked the company at 94 out of 100, with no negative comments. D&B also awarded TranTech a financial rating of 3A1, the highest possible rating for a company of this size. TranTech has achieved formal external assessment at Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) Level 2, Repeatable. Visit TranTech's website at www.trantech-inc.com.

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