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IT Industry Leaders Dendy Young and Kenneth Thornton Join Infodata Board.


HERNDON, Va. -- Infodata Systems Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB

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:INFD INFD Infeed ), a leader in delivering open solutions for enterprise content management, today announced that Dendy Young, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of GTSI(R) Corp. (NASDAQ NASDAQ
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:GTSI), and Kenneth Thornton, former General Manager for the Public Sector at IBM, have joined the Infodata Board of Directors.

"We are delighted to welcome Dendy and Ken to Infodata's Board," said Richard T. Bueschel, Chairman of the Board. "We are pleased that such highly regarded, successful global business leaders will add their voices and ideas to ours. We look forward to their contributions."

Edwin Miller, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Infodata, said, "Our new board members will have a direct impact on the future development of our business. Both Dendy and Ken have strong backgrounds in helping organizations capitalize on growth opportunities. With their experience and business knowledge, we will gain partnerships and relationships that will be advantageous to our technology partners, customers and shareholders. We look forward to their leadership as an integral part of our continued growth and development."

Dendy Young is an award-winning executive with more than 27 years of experience in the IT industry. He serves on VARBusiness magazine's advisory board, is Vice Chairman of the Board of the Northern Virginia Technology Council and serves on the Board of Directors, class of 2001 of AFCEA AFCEA Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association , the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. He is a member of the Government Information Technology Executive Council (GITEC GITEC Government Information Technology Executive Council ) Executive Advisory Committee (EAC EAC an abbreviation used in studies of complement, in which E represents erythrocyte, A antibody, and C complement. ) and an active member of the Industry Advisory Council (IAC). Young also serves on the Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors.  of the Landon School, a private boys school in Maryland. In addition, he was only one of two-dozen private sector leaders to serve on former Virginia Governor Gilmore's Commission on Information Technology.

Prior to GTSI, Young served as CEO of Falcon Microsystems, Inc., the second of two companies he founded and sold between 1982 and 1994. Included among Young's awards and recognition are the Lifetime Achievement Award from VARBusiness magazine and the Federal CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.


(Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization.
 Council's Azimuth award for 2000 which is bestowed upon one industry leader each year. He was named three times to the "Fed 100," a prestigious group nominated by their peers for outstanding contributions to government and industry and won the coveted Eagle Award given to one industry leader each year.

Kenneth Thornton retired from IBM in 2001, where he led the government, education, healthcare and pharmaceutical business operations worldwide. Throughout his extensive career at IBM, Mr. Thornton served in numerous executive and senior management roles in sales, marketing and services operations. He was a member of IBM's Worldwide Management Council, Corporate Technology Council, and the Next Generation Internet See Internet2.  Council. Mr. Thornton was a founding board member of the IBM services subsidiary, Integrated Systems Solutions Corporation (now IBM Global Services IBM Global Services is the world's largest business and technology services provider. It is the fastest growing part of IBM, with over 190,000 professionals serving customers in more than 160 countries. ). Mr. Thornton currently serves on numerous corporate and community organization boards, including CyberSource Corporation (NASDAQ:CYBS), First Genetic Trust Corporation, and Cogent Systems Corporation. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the U.S. Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processes and delivers mail to individuals and businesses within the United States. The service seeks to improve its performance through the development of efficient mail-handling systems and operates its own planning and engineering programs.  and Cross Match Technologies. Past board roles include Chairman - Community Foundation for the National Capital Region The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region is a public charity founded in 1973 serving the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan region. It is the fifth largest community foundation nationally according to grants paid at over $83 million in 2005, and the ninth largest , Federal City Council, Virginia Chamber of Commerce, Wolftrap Foundation, and the Greater Washington Board of Trade The Greater Washington Board of Trade is a network of business and non-profit leaders in Washington, D.C.

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About Infodata Systems Inc.

Infodata Systems Inc. is a leader in delivering open solutions for enterprise content management. Bringing together content with critical business processes, Infodata delivers its own software and services from within the Content Management Services Layer (CMSL) that enhances the ability of content management systems to solve problems around regulatory compliance while managing and securing content across its lifecycle. The result for customers is the ability to ensure regulatory compliance, operational integrity and continuity across the entire enterprise. Based just outside Washington, D.C., in Herndon, VA, Infodata has over 35 years of proven ability in providing comprehensive content management solutions to the Government, Intelligence and Commercial communities.

Except for the historical information contained herein, this press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risk or uncertainties. Future operating results of Infodata may differ from the results discussed or forecasted in the forward-looking statements due to factors that include, but are not limited to, risks associated with customer relations, such as the availability of Infodata's products and services, customer implementation of products and services, relationships with customers, third-party vendors and systems integrators, concentration of revenue in a relatively small number of customers, existence of errors or defects in products, ability to successfully manage growth, significant current and expected additional competition and the need to continue to expand product distribution and services offerings. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of Infodata are included in Infodata's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-QSB and its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available at http://www.sec.gov. Infodata assumes no obligation to update the information in this press release.
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