(VIRGINIA BEACH, VA) - SAIC announced today that Knowledge Information Solutions, Inc. (KIS) recently won SAIC's 2004 Small Business of the Year Award. SAIC's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and President Kenneth C. Dahlberg presented the award to Catherine Giordano, President and CEO of KIS, at SAIC's bi-annual corporate Meetings Week earlier this month. SAIC has been recognizing outstanding members of the small business community with this award since 1998.

“Currently, KIS is a subcontractor to SAIC on four government contracts and both companies are working together on designing strategies for organizations to utilize more efficient operating methods and modern technological solutions,” said Carl Albero, president of SAIC's Naval Engineering Technical Services Group and sponsor of the KIS nomination. “SAIC's experience with KIS runs the gamut of business enterprise, from teaming arrangements on proposal efforts to working joint taskings to business development. We look forward to seeing this mutually beneficial relationship continue to grow.”

Established in 1983 and headquartered in Virginia Beach, KIS is an 8(a) certified minority woman owned small business that specializes in providing technology products, information technology (IT) services, IT outsourcing, network design, client-tailored training programs and products, and service level support up to the infrastructure (operating system) level. KIS serves government and commercial organizations throughout the East Coast.

In addition to receiving honors from SAIC, KIS also has recently been recognized by organizations such as the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce's “Rising 25 Small Business of the Year Award,” City of Virginia Beach, City Managers' “Award For Excellence,” Office Depot's “Business Woman of the Year 2002,” and KIS was runner-up in the Hampton Roads “Technology Business of the Year Awards.”

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SAIC is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States, providing information technology, systems integration and eSolutions to commercial and government customers. From science to solutions, SAIC engineers and scientists work to solve complex technical problems in national and homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, health care and logistics. More information about SAIC can be found at www.saic.com.

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