Applied Communication Sciences will continue to deliver research and advanced network solutions, with an emphasis on cyber security and critical infrastructure protection (CIP), cyber integration and emergency preparedness for its key customers in the defense and intelligence communities including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), National Communications System (NCS) and U.S. Army Research Laboratory; as well as selected commercial providers.

Brent Greene will oversee day-to-day operations of Applied Communication Sciences and will report to a newly formed and U.S. government-approved Proxy Board of Directors that includes:
– John Hillen, the former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs from 2005 until early 2007. John currently serves as the President and CEO of Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc. formerly Global Defense Technology & Systems, Inc. (GTEC).
– Alan Wade, the former Chief Information Officer of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2001 until 2009. In addition to earlier technical work in telecommunications and security, Alan’s executive positions at the CIA included serving as the Chief Information Officer for the U.S. intelligence community.
– Dr. Lawrence Cavaiola, the President of Cavaiola & Associates, LLC, a consulting and advisory services company focusing on the defense and security sectors, as well as corporate leadership and management Dr. Cavaiola has nearly 20 years of executive level experience in the defense and security sectors, and served as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense and Special Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense.

According to Greene, the exceptional military, federal agency and commercial credentials of the Proxy Board will help ensure the continuity and reliability of the company’s government business. “The selection of our board was critical to demonstrate our long-term commitment to the government sector,” said Greene.

For more information on Applied Communication Sciences, visit www.appcomsci.com. For more information on Telcordia, visit www.telcordia.com.

“etisalat is continually working to offer new and exciting products and services to our customers, and Telcordia has always delivered first-rate, state-of-the-art solutions that help us deal with today’s operational challenges with an eye on tomorrow’s network,” said Nasser Salim, General Manager- Converged Networks, etisalat. “The evolution of Telcordia’s Network Engineer supports our overall OSS transformation plan, optimizing our network and helping us continue to provide leading edge services in the Middle East.”

etisalat, the incumbent service provider in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has been utilizing Telcordia(R) Network Engineer for several years and recognized that with network convergence a reality, now was the critical time to reap the benefits that the enhanced solution provides. Network Engineer, an end-to-end geospatial network planning and engineering solution for the management of telecommunications networks, helps to simplify network operations, increase customer satisfaction and paves the way for the creation and deployment of new revenue generating advanced services.

etisalat has already realized tremendous benefit from the new deployment of Network Engineer including automated planning and engineering, inside and outside plant management in a single system, improvements in work order management from planning to build-out, and the ability to share information across the company from strategic planning, marketing, sales, field crews, engineers, planners and more. Telcordia’s extensible, open framework allows service providers such as etisalat to manage and deploy services without costly integration.

“etisalat was looking for a system to support any network, any technology and any equipment type for its existing network to enable it to rapidly offer new services to new and existing customers,” said Jon Collins, Regional Vice President, EMEA, Telcordia. “A key element in the decision path was choosing a vendor that could manage network convergence and new network technologies as etisalat continues to grow. Telcordia met the challenge with Network Engineer and has provided the company with a clear migration path to offer advanced services.”

Network Engineer allows for the visual management and planning of networks to maximize network resources, improve customer service, increase data flow and achieve operational efficiency. As a result, network errors are reduced and faster fault resolution can be achieved through accurate identification and location of equipment for etisalat’s extensive field force.

Network Engineer, built on the ESRI(R) GIS(TM) platform, is a comprehensive geospatial solution for the planning, design and management of network and physical inventory. It supports an integrated view of both inside and outside plant engineering and has proven performance and production ready credentials with more than 60 successful implementations in 21 countries. This visually intensive, easy-to-use solution provides a unique combination of land-base information overlaid with network data contained in a sophisticated geo-database that supports all new network technologies.

About etisalat
Established in 1976, Emirates Telecommunications Corporation – etisalat – is known as an innovative and reliable provider of telecommunications, Internet and related services in the UAE. The Corporation is ranked by Financial Times as one of the Top 500 companies in the world in terms of market capitalization, and the sixth largest in the Middle East according to the UK-based The Middle East magazine. Business units and subsidiary companies provide etisalat and clients with a whole range of services including voice, data, satellite, Internet, IT solutions and consulting, smart card manufacture, data clearing, submarine cables laying and maintenance and related telecommunications services.

About Telcordia
Telcordia Technologies, Inc. is a leading global provider of telecommunications network software and services for IP, wireline, wireless, and cable. As the industry continuously evolves, Telcordia is focused on being the undisputed transformation partner for its customers. By delivering flexible, standards-based software solutions and consulting services that optimize complex network and business support systems, Telcordia helps customers transform their business while aggressively reducing costs and growing revenues. Telcordia is headquartered in Piscataway, N.J, with offices throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Central and Latin America. (www.telcordia.com)

“Disney Mobile is providing a high-quality, family-oriented service that gives parents more control of their family’s communications in ways that have not been seen before,” said George Grobar, senior vice president and general manager of Disney Mobile. “We’re working with Telcordia to offer customization options that will allow our customers to personalize their service to meet their lifestyle.”

The Telcordia MVNO Hosted Solution will support Disney Mobile’s Family Monitorâ„¢ feature that allows parents to set spending allowances, providing parents with the opportunity to determine the amount each child can spend on various wireless services, as well as Disney Mobile’s Call Control function, which can control the time of day that calls can be made, while allowing restricted calling to predetermined key contacts during those times.

“Our converged solution enables Disney Mobile to offer the enhanced functionality that their customers demand at the highest level of quality and reliability that their customers expect,” said Bruce Marrett, Co-General Manager, Hosted Solutions, Telcordia.

Telcordia holds a leadership position in the emerging mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) space, which is expected to exceed $10.7 billion by 2010, according to The Yankee Group.

About Disney Mobile
Disney Mobile is the first national wireless phone service built to meet the unique communication needs of today’s family. Launching June 2006, Disney Mobile will provide wireless voice and data services and custom handsets. In addition, Disney Mobile will offer a package of features and applications tailored to meet the unique communication needs of families. The Family Centerâ„¢, a suite of four exclusive services, will enable parents to directly manage their family’s wireless experience, including controlling when and how often kids use their phone; locating kids’ handsets using GPS technology; protecting their kids from unwanted calls and messages and sending priority text messages to all Disney Mobile family plan members simultaneously. Disney Mobile will offer an array of content that parents trust and kids enjoy drawn from the rich entertainment heritage of Disney.

George Grober is senior vice president and general manger of Disney Mobile, a division of the Walt Disney Internet Group, which is headquartered in North Hollywood, California.

Telcordia has taken a leadership position in the MVNO market by providing key customers with a seamless, turnkey solution to enable them to quickly offer differentiated services and plans to their subscribers. The MVNO business model has opened the door for many enterprise companies such as Flying J to offer wireless services to a very targeted audience such as the transportation industry.

“Flying J recognizes the need our professional driver customer has to communicate with family and business associates while on the road and across the nation. We are launching Go Smart service with simple, no commitment, prepaid plans that minimize the barrier to sign up. Our service includes an unlimited nights and weekends option that is important to this market segment,” said Jeff Foote, President of Flying J Communications. “Telcordia provides us the ability to manage this service on a real time basis essential in a prepaid offering. Their superior technology and unmatched expertise allow us to be creative with our plan design and to deploy quickly and efficiently.”

MVNOs are growing in popularity across the U.S. and around the world because of the benefits realized by all parties. Customers who might not otherwise purchase wireless services often sign up with MVNOs who tailor offerings to the specific needs of particular demographic groups. MVNOs benefit from the ability to extend their brands and open up new revenue opportunities without incurring the costs associated with building and managing network infrastructure.

“Flying J has a very targeted and loyal customer base, which is a significant key in being a successful MVNO,” said Doug Patterson, Vice President, Telecom Services, Telcordia. “Telcordia’s comprehensive product portfolio provides a seamless solution for companies such as Flying J to continually expand offerings to better serve its customers.”

Telcordia’s Hosted Solution, which enables companies such as Flying J to offer high-quality, prepaid wireless services without having to own or manage a network, features real-time call management, helps eliminate revenue leakage and facilitates a positive end-customer experience. The deployment of the Telcordia Hosted Solution dramatically reduces upfront capital investment in technical infrastructure and minimizes the need to hire skilled telecom resources enabling the company to launch service quickly. For the Hosted Solution, Telcordia works closely with Sprint, who is providing access via its proven nationwide digital network.

About Flying J, Inc.

Of the 10 million privately held companies in the U.S., Flying J, an Ogden, Utah, based corporation has the distinction of being ranked number 30 among Forbes’ 500 Largest Private Companies in America with 2005 annual sales exceeding $11 billion. This fully integrated oil company employs over 14,000 people across the United States and Canada through its interstate operations, transportation, refining and supply, exploration and production, as well as its financial services and communications divisions. (www.flyingj.com)

About Telcordia

Telcordia Technologies, Inc. is a leading global provider of telecommunications network software and services for IP, wireline, wireless, and cable. As the industry continuously evolves, Telcordia is focused on being the undisputed transformation partner for its customers. By delivering flexible, standards-based software solutions and consulting services that optimize complex network and business support systems, Telcordia helps customers transform their business while aggressively reducing costs and growing revenues. Telcordia is headquartered in Piscataway, N.J., with offices throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Central and Latin America. (www.telcordia.com)

Telcordia is a trademark of Telcordia Technologies, Inc. Other companies and products mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective trademark owners.

As operators introduce new services with real-time authorization, charging and settlement requirements, the need for scalable, high performing solutions that can control hundreds of thousands of complex simultaneous transactions is mission critical. Active mediation augments Telcordia’s extensive converged real-time charging capabilities, increasing the functionality that frees operators to create, deliver, and accurately charge in real time for new revenue-generating services including rich interactive multimedia, location-based and personal information services. The enhanced solution tracks every stage of a transaction from ordering, through delivery and payment, and ensures that customers are only charged if the service request has been fulfilled and they have sufficient credit to complete a given transaction. This is the latest example of how Telcordia continues to deliver market-leading, sophisticated real-time charging systems that operators rely on in order to manage the entire transactional charging process from beginning to end, while also guaranteeing a smooth customer experience.

“As Telcordia continues to enable operators to flexibly create, deploy and charge for new services in real time, our offering with Openet Telecom offers operators a pre-integrated solution for active mediation that allows them to continue creating new services while remaining fully in control of subscriber transactions,” said Doug Fantuzzi, Vice President, Global Solutions, Telcordia. “We expect active mediation, as part of real-time charging, to accelerate the adoption of new services since it allows operators to quickly and seamlessly provide more billing options and encourage subscribers to use and pay for new services, while gaining even more interactivity.”

The addition of active mediation allows subscribers to put in place a number of real-time controls over the prepaid or postpaid accounts they hold. For example, parental controls can be set over accounts where children are downloading data that mandates a limit to their account spend within a set of parameters, all in real time. As operators respond to growing consumer demand for greater control over their own accounts, Telcordia is clearing the way for operators to empower their customers, which in turn will result in quicker adoption of new services.

“Openet is pleased to work with Telcordia, the undisputed leader in the growing real-time charging market,” said Joe Hogan, founder and CTO of Openet. “This is a powerful relationship because we have anticipated the integrated approach to real-time charging and active mediation that the market now needs, and the solution is a market leading combination.”

Telcordia(R) Converged Real-Time Charging is an IMS-ready online charging system that supports both IMS and legacy networks simultaneously. A unique, highly flexible solution, it enables quick, easy creation and implementation of advanced services, rate plans, and promotions based on true real-time charging for any service on any network.

It is an open, flexible and fully interoperable element of the Telcordia(R) Maestro(TM) IMS Portfolio, a powerful set of wireless, wireline and converged products, services and applications that enables carriers to offer any service, over any network, via any device. With customer deployments in all regions of the world, Telcordia has already taken an early lead in the emerging IMS market, which is quickly becoming the standard network architecture for rich, converged services offered by operators of all types. With the Maestro portfolio, wireless, wireline, cable, and converged operators can realize the broad advantages of complete convergence and benefit from added revenue potential, greater network and operational efficiencies, reduced churn, and increased customer satisfaction and retention.

Fusionworks(TM) ActiveCharge from Openet is an IMS-compliant Online Charging Systems (OCS) that supports the widest set of standardized fixed, mobile and IP interfaces in the industry. With the addition of ActiveCharge, operators that plan to adopt IMS can begin using the Telcordia Converged Real-Time Charging solution immediately to converge prepaid and postpaid services, delivered by the Telcordia(R) Converged Application Server, across a broad range of highly tailored service transaction types.

More information about Telcordia(R) Converged Real-Time Charging and the Telcordia(R) Maestro(TM) IMS Portfolio is available at www.telcordia.com/maestro.

About Openet Telecom
Openet Telecom is a world-leading provider of Active OSS solutions that enable network operators to maximise the profitability of their network and services. Its products, FusionWorks Mediation, FusionWorks ActiveCharge and FusionWorks ActiveRate enable network operators with diverse networks to easily implement, manage, charge for, rate and bill sophisticated services – leading to enhanced profitability and quality of service.

With headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and offices in Reston VA, San Francisco, London, Paris, Rome, Madrid, Singapore and Sao Paulo, Openet Telecom has signed customers that include Cingular/AT&T Wireless, British Telecom, Orange Group, Telecom Italia Mobile and Verizon Wireless. (www.openet.com)

About Telcordia
Telcordia Technologies, Inc. is a leading global provider of telecommunications network software and services for IP, wireline, wireless, and cable. As the industry continuously evolves, Telcordia is focused on being the undisputed transformation partner for its customers. By delivering flexible, standards-based software solutions and consulting services that optimize complex network and business support systems, Telcordia helps customers transform their business while aggressively reducing costs and growing revenues. Telcordia is headquartered in Piscataway, N.J, with offices throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Central and Latin America. (www.telcordia.com)