U.S. Air Force Selects Telos to Implement Secure, Automated Health and Morale System; Automated Technology Will Enhance Phone System Connectivity, Increase Facilitating and Improve Operability, Efficiency and Capacity.

ASHBURN, Va. -- United States Air Force personnel will soon be making health, morale and welfare phone calls using an Automated Health and Morale System (AHAMS), which will deliver faster, more efficient communications, thanks to Telos(R) Corporation. The Air Force, through the Network Centric Solutions (NETCENTS) contract, awarded Telos a $1.5 million contract, with $2 million in options to implement and maintain the automated system.

Currently Air Force health, morale and welfare (HMW) calls for deployed personnel are manually serviced by operators. AHAMS will provide an automated capability to identify and authenticate authorized morale callers as well as an automated control of the time and frequency of morale calls.

The system will continue to deliver the same highly reliable service that manual attendants provide today, in addition to providing identification and authentication of personnel for HMW phone calls. The system will be structured to ensure compliance with Department of Defense (DoD) and Air Force policies while providing performance monitoring and enterprise network management controls.

"Telos' automated solution will be transparent to the deployed personnel making the HMW calls and will provide them with additional capabilities not currently available with today's manual system. As operator consolidation progresses across the Air Force, AHAMS will ensure personnel forward deployed maintain a robust and flexible means to reach their loved ones at home," said Andrew Johnson, director of programs of Telos Corporation.

Telos will lead a team of four technology vendors, including Electronic Data Systems (EDS), Karta Technologies (Karta) and Unique Communications Inc. in the design, implementation and management of the system. The initial testing of AHAMS will occur this summer followed by implementation across all Air Force bases, set to be completed by early next year.

About Telos

Telos Corporation has provided innovative IT solutions and services to the federal government for more than 30 years. Telos and Xacta Corporation, its subsidiary for security solutions, have since 1989 ensured that the government's most security-conscious organizations comply with demanding federal and DoD information security mandates. Xacta's offerings include enterprise IT security management solutions, enterprise security consulting services, secure wireless networking, secure enterprise messaging, and identity management solutions. Its solutions are represented to the federal government on Telos' GSA schedule and other federal contract vehicles. For more information, visit www.telos.com.

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