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General Physics Corporation Employees received Awards for Excellence from the Social Security Administration.


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ELKRIDGE, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 2004

Global workplace solutions provider General Physics Corporation (GP), a subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange
:GPX GPX - Early system on UNIVAC II. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959). ), announced that five employees who support the Social Security Administration (SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) A fault tolerant peripheral interface from IBM that transfers data at 80 and 160 Mbytes/sec. SSA uses SCSI commands, allowing existing software to drive SSA peripherals, which are typically disk drives. ) recently received Deputy Commissioner Awards for Excellence, in support of SSA's Office of Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. .

GP's Project Manager Don Willett Don R. Willett is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. He serves as the member of Place 2. Willett's term expires December 31, 2012.

He was appointed by Governor Rick Perry on August 24, 2005 to serve out the remainder of former Justice Priscilla Owen's term following
 and team members Alison Wells, Holly Denham and Judy Koelbl were each presented an award for their support of the SSA's Interactive Video Teletraining Network (IVT IVT

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). The IVT network is one of the primary vectors for delivering training to the 65,000 employees of SSA. Using satellite delivered video and featuring an interactive keypad A small keyboard or supplementary keyboard keys; for example, the keys on a calculator or the number/cursor cluster on a computer keyboard. See programmable keypad.  that allows students to respond to the instructor in real-time, this system creates a nationwide classroom comprised of six studios and nearly 1,600 downlink sites. Last year alone nearly 6,000 hours of training were provided through this system.

Ed Hendley was presented an award for his contribution to the implementation of an XML XML
 in full Extensible Markup Language.

Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations.
 development and authoring environment which supports the only on-line training delivery mechanism to pass SSA's stringent Section 508 and accessibility testing standards. Mr. Hendley developed these standards two years ago. This environment also supports the development of IVT entry level training for all claims representatives and service representatives' course materials for IVT training for approximately 3000 students per year.

GP's team has been supporting SSA on-site for nearly eight years.

About GP

GP is the principal operating subsidiary An operating subsidiary is a business term frequently used within the United States railroad industry. In the case of a railroad, it refers to a company that is a subsidiary but operates with its own identity and rolling stock.  of GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE: GPX). GP is a global provider of training, e-Learning solutions, management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business
service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects
 and engineering services, improving the effectiveness of organizations by customizing solutions to meet the specific needs of clients. Clients include Fortune 500 companies, manufacturing, process and energy industries, and other commercial and government customers. Additional information about GP may be found at www.gpworldwide.com.

The forward-looking statements contained herein reflect GP Strategies' management's current views with respect to future events and financial performance. We use words such as "expects", "intends" and "anticipates" to indicate forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the control of GP Strategies, including, but not limited to, our inability to generate funds by selling any assets that are included in the proposed spin-off, our holding company structure, failure to continue to attract and retain personnel, loss of business from significant customers, failure to keep pace with technology, changing economic conditions, competition, and those other risks and uncertainties detailed in GP Strategies' periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

If any one or more of these expectations and assumptions proves incorrect, actual results will likely differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Even if all of the foregoing assumptions and expectations prove correct, actual results may still differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements as a result of factors we may not anticipate or that may be beyond our control. While we cannot assess the future impact that any of these differences could have on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows or the market price of shares of our common stock, the differences could be significant. We do not undertake to update any forward-looking statements made by us.
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