10 august 2004

EMW, Inc. of Fairfax, Virginia, USA, is pleased to announce the award of a new contract from the NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency (NC3A) to EMW to provide Security Tools for the NATO Computer Incident Response Centre (NCIRC).

The NCIRC is being established by NATO at the NATO Information Security (INFOSEC) Command at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), Belgium to serve as a support center for prevention of and response to Computer incidents on NATO owned and operated networks.

This contract was awarded as the result of a competitive procurement under NC3A’s Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) procurement procedures. EMW is one of over 250 companies from the 26 NATO Nations which hold a NATO BOA.

Under the terms of the contract, EMW will provide a limited suite of hardware and software tools for an initial operational capability at the NCIRC for Network Vulnerability Scanning and for System Vulnerability Scanning and Forensics.

On this contract, EMW is serving as the prime contractor with LogicaCMG UK Limited of the United Kingdom serving as EMW’s subcontractor for specialty software and support services. The contract will be managed by Dr. Kamal Raychaudhuri, EMW Director of Technology, under the direction of Mr. Alan Fulton, EMW Vice President of Operations. EMW’s Belgian Subsidiary Managing Director, Mr. Xavier Duyck, will provide acquisition, integration, testing and deployment support to the project from the EMW Office in Ghent, Belgium.

The value of the contract is approximately $600, 000 for the Initial Operational Capability.

EMW, Incorporated, a Fairfax Va. based company since 1995, provides excellence in Information Technology and telecommunications consulting services to Commercial and Government entities worldwide using a customer first attitude. EMWs’ vision is to deliver value added and technologically advanced products and services fulfilling all of its customers needs.

EMW’s value added offerings in expert systems and integration of information and communications technologies include the following core competencies:

• Advanced voice, data, and video convergence solutions
• Network security solutions and services
• Transmission media design, planning, deployment, and maintenance
• Operations and maintenance support services and solutions for WAN/LAN, desktop, file server environments
• Logistics business processes and asset management products and services
• Software development and customization services

EMW, Inc. is a Small Business Administration (SBA) Certified 8(a) program participant and maintains a GSA Schedule contract, number GS-35F-4931H encompassing all of its products and services offerings.

EMW has offices in Fairfax, VA; Ghent, Belgium; Beijing, China; and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.