CONCEPTSOLUTIONS COMPLETES FAA MILOPS DEPLOYMENT

Nationwide Rollout Fulfills 20-Year Mission to Improve Safety, Security and Efficiency of Interagency Air Traffic Scheduling System

Reston, VA - May 1, 2007 - ConceptSolutions (www.Concept-Solutions.com), a fast growing information management and technology consultant company serving commercial, government, and military organizations, announced today it has completed the nationwide rollout of the Military Airspace Data Entry (MADE) system for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The new MADE system is a key component in the upgrade of FAA’s Military Operations System (MILOPS), a real-time information management gateway that offers invaluable online airspace information to a variety of government, military and civilian agencies, including general and commercial aviation.

“ConceptSolutions is pleased to be helping FAA achieve its long-sought goal of ensuring the safest, most efficient means of managing the increased special usage of US airspace,” said John Krahulec, executive vice president and COO, ConceptSolutions.

MADE is an automated, Web-based system that, in coordination with FAA, enables the Department of Defense (DOD) and branches of the military to safely and efficiently schedule use of Special Use Airspace (SUA), Air Traffic Control Assigned Airspace (ATCAA), and Military Training Routes. The MADE system works in conjunction with FAA’s SUA Management System (SAMS) to provide real-time data for scheduling airspace usage. SUA includes, but is not limited to, Military Operations Areas (MOA), restricted areas, warning areas, prohibited areas, alert areas, and controlled firing areas.

The MADE system is now operational at 282 military SUA scheduling sites, as well as all FAA Air Route Traffic Control Centers (ARTCC) and combined center/radar approach control (CERAP) facilities. ConceptSolutions has trained more than 450 MADE users across the country, a number that the company expects to continue growing over time as more sites become MADE candidates.

Earning High Marks

In March, the MADE system drew outstanding reviews from FAA officials in Anchorage, Alaska. “We owe our thanks and a ‘Job Well Done’ to everyone at MILOPS that has helped us get MADE/SAMS up and running here in Alaska,” said Greg Sonnabend, MOS, Anchorage ARTCC. “With the rapidity of the Internet responses and updating, it has greatly enhanced real-time use of SUA’s here and helped reduce the impact to non-military users.”

Earlier use of the MADE system in July 2005 at the Naval Air Station (NAS) Fort Worth, Texas, garnered strong praise. FAA officials in Fort Worth provided ratings of 10 – on a scale of 1 (Strongly Disagree) to 10 (Strongly Agree) – in all six questionnaire categories for the trial, including:

1. MADE simplifies the process of DOD’s daily SUA schedule submission to the FAA's ARTCC
2. MADE allows the FAA’s ARTCC to receive timely, accurate daily SUA schedules from DOD customers
3. MADE reduces significantly the amount of time needed to enter the DOD’s daily SUA schedules into the FAA’s Special Use Airspace Management System (SAMS) database
4. MADE supports all items of airspace scheduling parameters that need to be communicated to the FAA’s ARTCC (e.g., dates, times, altitudes, call signs, live fire designation, etc.).

Achieving a Critical Mission

The upgraded MADE and SAMS, together, satisfy the original safety, efficiency, interagency coordination, and reporting objectives set forth by the 1987 Congressional Order (PL 100-223). After nearly 20 years searching for a viable solution, FAA is now able to meet the following critical MILOPS objectives:

• Provide the most efficient use of US airspace while ensuring maximum safety to users
• Improve operations and provide maximum coordination between DOD, FAA and airspace users affected by SUA and other special-purpose airspace operations
• Provide authoritative auditing and reporting of actual US airspace usage.

Using Internet technologies, MADE enables:

• All segments of the civil aviation community to access military SUA schedules from a central database, and determine when SUA’s are available and safe to navigate
• Efficient interagency collaboration between FAA, DOD and other users of SUA
• Significant travel and fuel efficiencies for civilian users, while preserving the priority of military and other special government users
• MILOPS to operate at half the cost with higher output
• Completeness of data between MADE and SAMS, which provides the public with the benefits of safety (i.e., avoiding SUA in use by the military) and cost savings (i.e., ability to fly through SUA when available rather than taking longer routes around)
• Best use of available resources, including staff, system hardware, and purchased software.

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About ConceptSolutions

ConceptSolutions is an information management and technology consulting company that provides strategic, technical, and problem solving expertise to large and mid-sized businesses, government organizations, and branches of the military. Using proven program management methodologies and cutting-edge ideas and techniques in IT integration, system engineering, network management, and business process automation, ConceptSolutions delivers customized solutions that give organizations the information they need to make the best business decisions, reduce costs, and increase productivity, while complying with corporate governance regulations. ConceptSolutions enables federal departments and agencies to operate with the same efficiencies as successful businesses by providing reliable, scalable and secured enterprise environments that meet DOD standards as well as OMB-mandated enterprise architecture and eGovernment requirements. ConceptSolutions maintains federal contract vehicles and partner alliances, including GSA Schedule 70, GSA 8(a) STARS, FAA Results National Qualified Vendor program, FAA BITS II, Oracle Partner Network, and the Microsoft Partner Program. Founded in 1999, ConceptSolutions is headquartered in Reston, Virginia. For more information, please visit www.Concept-Solutions.com.

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Contact: John Krahulec
ConceptSolutions, LLC
703-889-8444

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