Located in the Washington, D.C. suburb of McLean, Va., SAIC's PSIC is a testing and demonstration facility that is used to illustrate the integration of capabilities and expertise from SAIC with vendors, service providers and the federal government to suit specific customer needs. Presented with scenarios tailored to PSIC visitors' requirements in the areas of homeland security, homeland defense and national security, PSIC staff demonstrates various integrated solutions to suit visitors' needs in areas that include policy, enterprise architecture, systems engineering, information technology, training and prevention.

With LocatioNet, SAIC's PSIC can show a full set of capabilities for topographical settings. These start with advanced terrain analysis and line-of-sight calculations for deployment planning. LocatioNet's tools create an integrated, synchronized multi-sensor observation center from a wide array of surveillance and detection systems (such as antennas, radars, electronic fences, classified sources). The common operational picture (COP) is distributed to the field (on PDAs, mobile phones, and ruggedized portable computers). The system allows bi-directional sharing of information in real time, including free hand sketching on maps. It runs over a wide set of wireless communication means (such as HF, VHF, UHF, CDPD, GPRS, 1X). Where needed, it integrates detection systems with lethal and non-lethal response.

LocatioNet's software is offered as a set of modules that can interface with existing systems and augment their capabilities.

"LocatioNet's software can assist law enforcement and anti terror efforts in border protection, and in perimeter protection of sensitive infrastructure," said Robert Desourdis, vice president and director of SAIC's PSIC. "SAIC and LocatioNet can deliver to emergency decision-makers tactical arena management tools to present and share information effectively and in real time."

"Homeland security officers have sophisticated requirements in perimeter protection", said Gadi BenMark, LocatioNet Inc.'s CEO. "LocatioNet draws on years of experience with demanding military users to bring battle proven capabilities to the homeland security environment. SAIC's Public Safety Integration Center can establish new standards of capabilities across all levels of the homeland security community"

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About SAIC:

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. SAIC engineers and scientists work to solve complex technical problems in national and www.saic.com.

About LocatioNet:

LocatioNet originated as a provider of software products to the most demanding military and