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December

Catapult becomes a Lotus and an IBM Business Partner

Catapult is providing Lotus software and IBM Netfinity Servers to the Department of Transportation's Office of Emergency Management and the United States Coast Guard in association with eteam.com. Eteam.com is the leading edge emergency management software firm that pioneered internet based emergency management. The U.S. DOT will use eteam during disasters and emergencies to monitor the status of the nation's transportation infrastructure. In addition, e-team will be used to report, monitor and respond to incidents. It will also monitor the status of critical agencies and departments.

September

Catapult Wins SSA Contract

Catapult teamed with RS Information Systems to win the Social Security Administration's Engineering Support Services Contract. RS Information Systems (Prime) and Catapult have won SSA's eight year Engineering Support Services contract. Catapult will provide the S/390 Systems Programming and DB2/IMDS database services portion of the contract while RSIS will provide the information center, electronic mail, WAN, and LAN engineering services. The initial contract is for $65M and can easily grow as SSA requirement increase.

August

Small Business Act Passed in Congress

The Veterans Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Act of 1999, Public Law 106-50, was passed unanimously by Congress on August 7, 1999 and signed by President Clinton on August 17, 1999. It, among other items, places service disabled veteran (SDV) owned business concerns on a par with women-owned and minority business concerns in the Federal sector. A government-wide goal of not less than three percent of all agency and primes contracts has been established. The market is estimated at $6 billion per year. Catapult fully meets the requirements as an SDV owned business concern. This means that Catapult's ITOP customers will receive participation credit toward the new SDV goals on ITOP-II tasks. This legislation allows veterans increased opportunity to contribute to the success of their Federal customers.