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U.S. Army Awards 2 Year $3.2 Million contract to Avanco International, Inc. of McLean, VA

McLean, Virginia, October 11, 2007 – Avanco International, Inc. of McLean Virginia was awarded a 2 year $3.2 Million contract by the U.S. Army to perform Systems Integration and development for the U.S. Army Enterprise Management Decision Support (EMDS) System. Avanco, a leading Oracle software systems Integrator specializing in Decision Support solutions, will develop the EMDS application to provide Senior Army leaders with a multi-functional decision support capability that will enable them to make more accurate, timely, transparent, reliable, and holistic cross-functional decisions. The Business Intelligence system, to be developed for the Department of the Under Secretary of the Army – Business Transformation (DUSA-BT), will realize the Army’s goal of developing and providing tools to enhance enterprise-wide situational awareness and decision making and reducing organizational redundancy and overhead. The result will be to free human and financial resources for more compelling operational needs by improving business processes.

“Avanco has a firm corporate commitment to the Department of Defense to provide solid and consistent support for our service men and women that are fighting the War on Terror,” said Steve Vandivier, CEO of Avanco International. “This contract is a wonderful opportunity for us to support the Army in their effort to apply actionable intelligence and situational awareness to directly support Army readiness and ultimately our soldiers serving overseas.”

In business since 1982, Avanco is a Certified Oracle Authorized Reseller and services provider specializing in the customization of Oracle products to fit individual customer requirements. As president of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Oracle Professionals, a 1000 person Oracle User Group based in the Washington D.C. area and serving Virginia, Maryland, and Washington D.C., Mr. Vandivier is very focused on fostering an academic team oriented environment within the company. Avanco’s consultants and sales personnel are highly technical and understand the leading-edge approaches required to solve customer business problems.

Avanco has implemented numerous Oracle Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence solutions throughout the country for DoD and commercial clients. Business Intelligence customers include the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Army, Select Medical Corporation, AETNA Insurance, Mid-Atlantic Medical Services, Inc., Podiatry Insurance Corporation of America, ROHM Electronics, the University of Pennsylvania, Georgia Tech, the State of Pennsylvania, and various local counties in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland. Avanco provides full life cycle support including business process analysis, database design, Business Intelligence design and development, web-based software development, software and database conversion, database administration, Internet services, network administration, documentation, training and end user support. Avanco’s staff includes Oracle developers and published authors, many of them certified as Oracle DBA’s and Developers.

Avanco is a DoD Services vendor who was recently awarded the U.S. Army Five Star Certificate for excellence in our support of our Avanco Army Reserve and National Guard employees that are currently serving overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan.

For more information about Avanco International, call (703) 749-7749, or browse Avanco’s home Page on the Web at http://www.avanco.com.

Avanco International, Inc. Awarded Fauquier County, VA Government and Public Schools IT Consulting Services Contract

May 2007 | Mclean Virginia

Avanco was awarded a contract to support Fauquier County with a broad spectrum of support capabilities covering the full range of requested services:

Web Developer
Data Base Architect
Network Security
Software Security
Application Security
Disaster Recovery
Contingency Planning
Network Administrator
Computer Hardware/Software Technician
Audio/Video Technician
Network Engineer
Microsoft Systems Engineer

Joining the Avanco team are five local leaders in the technology arena.

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Avanco International, Inc. is a premier technology solutions provider with over 20 years of experience serving our clients in government and commercial organizations. We look forward to providing our creativity, expertise and experience in helping our client's achieve real and sustainable improvements in their organizations and their results. Visit www.avanco.com for additional information.

Avanco International helps United States Air Force, Air Combat Command achieve GeoBase mission.

January 2007 | Mclean Virginia

Avanco International has successfully completed phase one of a multi-phased Air Combat Command GeoBase (an enterprise level Geographic Information System) integration study. Overall Avanco has assisted the Air Combat Command GeoBase mission by gathering geographic information system requirements and documenting a critical path for the successful integration. To date, over 70 specific spatial data requirements have been captured. The GeoBase integration study also identified spatial data overlap from new requirements; this allows Air Combat Command to minimize data redundancy throughout the GeoBase enterprise. Key stakeholder partnerships have been made as a result of Avanco findings.

Program Highlights:

To date, the Air Combat Command intelligence community is working diligently with the GeoBase office to enable imagery sharing and enhance the current imagery processing workflow. This new partnership will save Air Combat Command millions of dollars in imagery procurement and Imagery process time over the years.
Based on result from the Space & Information Operations Directorate (A3) GeoBase integration study, the Air Combat Command A3 Directorate has funded satellite imagery for 7 US Air Force training ranges. The Air Combat Command GeoBase office is working with A3 to expand the data associated with these ranges. Also, the study results have helped to spawn discussions with Safe Range which has grown into a multi-service initiative. Safe-Range is a proprietary software application which supports range managers in ensuring the safety of ground based personnel and assets in military air-to-surface weapon training operations. It is now licensed by the US Air Force, the Department of the Navy (which includes the US Marine Corps) and a number of foreign military services. It is required for use by the USAF on every Air Combat Command training range and is in exclusive use in range planning activities and safety operations within the Department of the Navy.
As a result of the Avanco GeoBase integration study, Air Combat Command Security Forces (A7S) funded an Emergency Management Program (EMP) which involves all first responders throughout the Command. The program will be hosted on the GCSS-AF portal and will document all responses to an incident as it is occurring.

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Avanco Supports Fairfax County Public School System

January 2007 | McLean, Virginia

Avanco International began an engagement with one of America’s largest public school systems. The purpose of this initiative is to reduce business risk by recording the vital management practices of a department within the school system’s Information Technology (IT) organization.

The department can be characterized as employing experienced staff with little documentation regarding how the staff members perform their roles. Avanco is working closely with these staff members to model critical business processes. The business process models produced describe the sequences of activities, involvement of staff, use of automated tools, interactions with external groups, and measures of performance. The process information has been collected by conducting individual interviews and facilitated meetings, observing work performed, and studying existing documentation. The type of process model chosen to meet the needs of the IT department is IDEF0.

When the engagement is completed, the public school system will have a library of business process models that describes how critical business processes are performed. Management will have a greater understanding of work performed by its staff (e.g., task interdependencies, timing constraints). The school system, as a whole, will be in a stronger position if there is ever a time when key staff members are not able to perform these critical activities.

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Avanco Awarded Contract for MIS Development for Army Corps of Engineers LA District

September 2006 | Mclean Virginia

Avanco was recently awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Los Angeles District to provide Requirements Definition, Design services and IT development support for a Project Management Database and Reporting System. The overall requirement for the Program and Project Management Database and Reports System is an improved storage, retrieval and reporting environment for Project Management information. Currently a MS Access system provides information utilized by Project Managers with information derived from many sources. The system, while providing a means to report project information, often contradicts USACE reports or provides erroneous information due to the manual nature of the system. The overall concept of this scope of work is to create an Oracle database, create a method to draw standard system information into the reporting environment, and develop reports and forms to enter data into the database if needed. The resulting system will provide reports that will retrieve and display the data in useful formats and in a consistent manner that will be available to the LA District and other Corps offices whenever needed via an intranet website.

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Avanco Supports Pennsylvania Counties with Hosted Business Intelligence Portal Services

August 2006 | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Avanco International provides business intelligence portal services to support Pennsylvania counties that are hosted at our Harrisburg, Pennsylvania offices. These services enable to counties and their employees to focus their efforts on supporting their citizens while Avanco International provides the economical and efficient access to their data.

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