Teledyne Brown Engineering Forms AMCOM Omnibus 2000 Alliance Team

Business Wire, March 3, 1999

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 1999--Teledyne Brown Engineering has formed an Alliance Team structured to provide total technical support for the Omnibus 2000 Technical Contract for the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM).

"I am very excited about the strong, balanced team we have created," said Richard A. Holloway, President of Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE). "Our Alliance Team is a select group of technology-based companies that will provide quality missile and aviation technical support at a very competitive price.

"The Teledyne Brown team also provides significant depth in aviation and missile technologies that will directly benefit AMCOM," he added.

AMCOM officials have said the AMCOM Omnibus 2000 program represents a consolidation of a broad range of advisory and assistance services into larger, more manageable contracts that will provide flexible pricing arrangements and improved ordering procedures to meet AMCOM's broad technical, programmatic, and logistics requirements. The consolidation is designed to lower overall procurement costs by increasing competition and avoiding the duplication of efforts.

According to John E. Reece, Vice President of TBE's Defense Programs, "The cornerstone of our strategy was to have an integrated team of select firms with the proper mix of technical capabilities to fully support all of AMCOM requirements. We interviewed over 100 firms and selected only those firms with impeccable credentials and no actual or perceived organizational conflicts.

"Our outreach programs have helped us tremendously, and I'm extremely pleased with the quality minority firms that we selected to be part of our Alliance Team," said Reece. "We are a participant in the current Department of Defense Mentor-Protege Program, which provides a wide range of assistance to minority firms through mentoring relations with large stable firms," he added.

TBE's Omnibus 2000 Technical Team consists of six 8(a) firms, six small business firms, five large businesses, and three educational institutions. They include the following: CACI; Southern Research Institute; ACS Government Solutions; Battelle; AMTEC Corporation; Federal Data Corporation; Applied Resources, Inc.; Amherst Systems, Inc.; AZ Technology; MTA, Inc.; MRJ Technology Solutions; University of Alabama in Huntsville; Alabama A&M University, the Research Institute of Georgia Institute of Technology; Saitech, Inc.; Maximum Technology Corporation; Future Research Corporation; Infosurv Incorporated; FlowLynx Incorporated; and SDA, Inc.

Teledyne Brown Engineering, an Allegheny Teledyne Incorporated company, is a world-class provider of systems engineering solutions and defense and space engineering services. The company is a local Huntsville-based firm employing over 2,000 people in a variety of technical, engineering, and research areas. Teledyne Brown's web site address is www.tbe.com.

Allegheny Teledyne Incorporated (NYSE:ALT) is a diversified manufacturing company serving global markets with specialty metals, aerospace, electronic, industrial, and consumer products. The Company is one of the largest and most diversified specialty metals producers in the world. Allegheny Teledyne's web site can be found at www.alleghenyteledyne.com.