Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc. Wins Two E-Learning Development Contract Awards.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 2002

Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc. (ISTI) (www.intelsystech.com) announced today that it has won two early stage e-learning contract awards from The Office of the Secretary of Defense and the U.S. Air Force. Combined, the two Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) awards total $200K, with potential follow-on contracts of $1.5 million.

The first award is to develop an interactive process training tool for personnel within an Air Operations Center (AOC). These individuals have to work as a team when planning, executing, and assessing aerospace operations. The training framework and tool developed on this effort will allow trainees to understand and learn both horizontal and vertical relationships, as well as information flows within the AOC, and between the AOC and other organizations.

The technology created on this project has high payoff in the commercial sector for team training. "Our goal is to transform a team of individuals into high performance teams," said Dr. Azad Madni, Chairman and CEO of ISTI. "It is team productivity that creates competitive advantage for organizations."

The second award is for creating a standards-compliant, Web-based training framework for accelerated e-learning and aptitude evaluation. This project is inspired by the fact that depots at Air Force bases need to be able to recruit and rapidly qualify potential workers so they quickly become "contributing members" of the depot workforce.

In response to this overarching need, ISTI is creating a conceptual prototype training framework capable of rapidly evaluating a candidate's training needs, and creating a candidate-specific training syllabus that gets the candidate qualified in the shortest amount of time at the lowest possible cost. "Rapid qualification of personnel is a key objective of commercial enterprises as well," said Dr. Madni.

Dr. Madni emphasized: "We intend to incorporate the core technologies created on these two projects into our forthcoming web-based performance support product suite."

About Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc.

Intelligent Systems Technology, Inc. is a national corporation headquartered in Santa Monica, CA. ISTI provides web-based learning and performance support solutions for both military customers and Fortune 500 companies. ISTI is the winner of the 2000 Software Developer of the Year Award from the Software Council of Southern California, and has ranked in the Deloitte & Touche Los Angeles Technology Fast 50 for four consecutive years, and in the Deloitte & Touche U.S. Technology Fast 500 for two consecutive years. The Company was a recipient of the SBA's prestigious 1999 National Tibbetts Award for California for excellence in technology, research, and innovation.