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SAIC's Management Solution Enables Enterprise and Government IT Departments to Cost-Effectively Implement Secure Remote Access Solutions

Cupertino, California, October 21, 2002 -Atreus Systems" today announced a value added reseller agreement with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), enabling SAIC to resell the Atreus xAuthority" Service Provisioning platform as part of its Global Telecommunications Enterprise Management Solution.

The systems integration capabilities of SAIC's Global Telecommunications Group combined with Atreus' IP service provisioning product can provide a cost-efficient and reliable service provisioning management platform that allows government and commercial enterprises to manage and securely deliver corporate network access, applications and IP services to employees and customers.

"Enterprise IT departments are faced with challenges as businesses depend on the ability to quickly and securely access critical data and applications residing within the corporate network," said Bob Young, general manager and senior vice president of SAIC's Global Telecommunications Group. " Atreus xAuthority can help our customers to bring an automated, streamlined approach to the delivery and management of IP services and applications."

"We are excited that a company with the reputation and reach of SAIC has selected Atreus Systems," said Wil Cochran, CEO at Atreus Systems. "Together, SAIC and Atreus can deliver a cost-efficient and reliable provisioning management solution for government and commercial enterprises seeking to enable secure access to critical data, hosted applications and network-based services to employees and customers. We are proud, with Atreus xAuthority, to provide one of the key building blocks in SAIC's solution."

SAIC Enterprise Management Solution
The SAIC solution, using the Atreus xAuthority platform, features the following unique characteristics:

Atreus xAuthority" Solution
Atreus xAuthority is a service provisioning management platform that enables enterprise IT staff to simplify the assignment and activation of applications and the management of employee profiles. At the front end, users administer and consume services through self-service portals. At the back end, Atreus xAuthority automates service configuration and provisioning across mixed IT environments.

The platform's directory capabilities bring order to the increasingly complex tasks of user profiling, service authorization and entitlement management in the emerging era of subscriber-level services in enterprise networking. With Atreus xAuthority, an enterprise IT technician, from a single interface, can simply create and dynamically change business and application rules, and modify user groups and their service entitlements across an organization's intranet and extranet. For example, Enterprise IT departments are enabled to cost-effectively grant quick, secure access to critical data, hosted applications and network-based services such as storage and voice to authorized employees and customers. Companies boost productivity, improve customer service and ensure business continuity while keeping operational costs in check.

About SAIC
SAIC is the nation's largest employee-owned research and engineering company, 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 homeland security, energy, the environment, telecommunications, health care and transportation. With annual revenues of $6.1 billion, SAIC and its subsidiaries, including Telcordia Technologies, have more than 40,000 employees at offices in more than 150 cities worldwide. More information about SAIC can be found on the Internet at www.saic.com.

About Atreus Systems
Atreus Systems" is a service provisioning leader for enterprise services and applications. The Atreus xAuthority" Service Provisioning Management Solution helps government and enterprise customers to manage increasingly complex relationships between employee identities and service entitlements for Web-based network services and applications. Atreus xAuthority helps IT departments to improve their client services and to control IT management costs through user self-administration portals and automated service provisioning. Atreus Systems, headquartered in Cupertino, California, is a privately held company financed by leading telecom venture capital firms Mobius Venture Capital, Blueprint Ventures, Skypoint Capital Corporation, BDC Venture Capital and Aliant, Inc. For more information, visit the company's web site at atreus-systems.com or call (North America).