Sapient Helps U.S. Navy Improve Mission Performance with Award-Winning Web Logistics System.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Joint Expeditionary Warfare Logistics System Receives E-Gov Award on September 28

Sapient (NASDAQ: SAPE), a leading business consulting and technology services firm, today announced it helped the Department of the Navy eBusiness Operations Office develop the Joint Expeditionary Warfare Logistics System (JEWLS). Utilizing Web services technology, JEWLS provides an integrated logistics decision support and execution system that enables total material and operational visibility in a joint command environment. The system allows the Marines, Naval Construction Forces and other expeditionary Naval units to access shared information across geographies, regardless of service.

The JEWLS project team, which debuted a pilot of the system in December 2003, has already received multiple government IT awards that acknowledge the system's contribution to improving readiness for deployed forces. Today at 11am ET, the JEWLS development team will be honored with the Department of Navy eGov Award at a ceremony held in Arlington, VA. The eGov award recognizes projects that are successfully transforming Department of the Navy processes to reduce costs, improve mission performance and support effective information sharing.

"Providing logistics integration and supply chain visibility is a tremendous challenge for Naval Construction Forces and the Marine Corps units they support when deployed under a Joint Commander," said Captain Joseph Mecca, U.S. Navy. "JEWLS is the only system available in production today that can provide logistics and operational interoperability in a tactical environment to Marine Corps and Naval Expeditionary Forces."

Benefits of the system include:

--Promotes resource visibility and reusability among Naval Expeditionary Forces

--Produces a 20% reduction in man-hours needed to collect, aggregate, and disseminate logistics information

--Improves Marine Corps unit readiness by leveraging construction material inventory carried by Naval Construction Units

--Follows commercial best practices for maximizing efficiencies for request and order management

--Leverages existing communication assets, providing tactical Inter-Networking between currently procured stove-piped networks at minimal marginal cost 

Sapient applies its unique, iterative methodology - commonly known as Sapient|Approach - to rapidly define user requirements and build mission-critical IT solutions that successfully meet those requirements in a fixed-price, fixed-time model. For the Department of the Navy, Sapient used its Fusion workshops to define user requirements for a multi-functional set of stakeholders. Sapient was then able to create a set of initial system prototypes, which were made available to the expeditionary Navy in a matter of months, not years - a sharp contrast to many traditional Government programs.

From the prototypes, Sapient utilized agile development methodologies to develop field-ready software releases in small, rapidly testable iterations. This approach allowed Sapient to create multiple releases of the system and respond rapidly to changes in the real-world environment by providing updated features in the shortest possible timeframe.

"We are proud that this solution has already received so much recognition, underscoring the system's criticality to improving mission readiness in the near term," said Boyd Scroggins, a vice president in Sapient's Public Services industry group. "This partnership with the U.S. Navy demonstrates how Sapient can build mission critical systems in accelerated timeframes for the government using our proven Fusion workshop approach and unique agile development methodology."

Earlier this year, JEWLS was awarded the Intergovernmental Solutions Award, which acknowledges innovative technology solutions that provide intergovernmental collaboration, show measurable results in improving an agency's ability to meet its mission, and have widespread national or regional application. The JEWLS system was also recognized by The American Council for Technology, which honored eight outstanding intergovernmental programs.

About Sapient

Sapient is a leading business consulting and technology services firm that plans, designs, implements, and manages information technology to improve business performance for Global 2000 clients. Sapient was founded in 1991 based on a single promise: to deliver the right business results, on time and on budget. Sapient's fixed-price/fixed-time model, combined with industry, design, technology, and process expertise, provides clients with the highest business value at the lowest total cost of ownership. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sapient has offices in Canada, Germany, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. More information about Sapient can be found at www.sapient.com.

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