Blue Canopy Wins Large Enterprise IT Services Contract To Support Defense Intelligence Community

ThunderCat Technology is proud member of best of breed SITE team

Reston, Va. May 14, 2010 – Blue Canopy Group, LLC, a woman owned small business provider of innovative technologies and solutions for mission-critical national security programs, announced today that it was competitively selected to receive a prime contract, under a $6.6 billion multi-award contract from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to provide worldwide Information Technology (IT) support services to the Government. The services include enterprise, end-to-end life cycle IT support from requirements analysis through system design, development, fielding, and sustainment of global Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and the intelligence components of Command and Control (C2) system assets that are vital to the security of the United States.

The award of the highly competitive Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise (SITE) contract was made officially on 14 May 2010. The multiple award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract has one base-year and four annual option years. Blue Canopy was one of 5 small businesses that were awarded a prime contract. ThunderCat Technology, LLC, is part of the awarded Blue Canopy team.

“We have assembled a world class team that brings both fresh ideas and proven capability to the community. Blue Canopy has supported DIA for the past seven years, and we are excited to have the opportunity to continue providing essential IT mission support to DIA and the customers serviced through the SITE vehicle,” said Blue Canopy’s President & CEO, Bradley Schwartz. “ThunderCat brings datacenter capabilities in data storage, network security, and datacenter automation proven in the Intelligence Community.”

The SITE contract will allow Blue Canopy and its teammates including ThunderCat, Accenture, Dell Perot Systems, ManTech International Corporation, and 14 other specialty firms, to continue our long histories of providing IT services support to DIA, the Armed Services, Combatant Commands, Defense Agencies, National Command Authorities, and other Departments and Agencies with intelligence missions.

Tom Deierlein, President and CEO of ThunderCat stated, “The SITE vehicle will be a showcase platform for ThunderCat’s solution-driven success in the Intelligence Community.  We are a proud member of the Blue Canopy team, and are confident in the team’s mission execution.”

About ThunderCat Technology, LLC

ThunderCat Technology is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business that delivers technology services and solutions to the federal government and fortune 500 companies. Specifically, ThunderCat brings an innovative approach to solving customer problems in and around the datacenter by providing strategies for Data Storage, DR, COOP, Network Security, Modeling, WAN Optimization-Acceleration, as well as DataCenter Automation and Virtualization. ThunderCat represents, distributes, integrates, and provides technologies from best of breed manufacturers. ThunderCat differentiates itself by manufacturer mix, innovative ability to integrate specific technologies, and capacity to re-provision or optimize existing resources for federal and commercial customers.

Additional information on ThunderCat can be found at www.thundercattech.com.

About Blue Canopy Group, LLC

Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Blue Canopy Group, LLC, is a woman owned small business that focuses on delivering outcomes that make a difference. We do that by combining technology and process excellence, along with good governance and great people to enable clients to execute their mission. Our clients include the Intelligence Community, the departments of Defense, Homeland Security, other U.S. federal government agencies and commercial customers. Blue Canopy prides itself on being “easy to do business with”.

Additional information on Blue Canopy can be found at www.bluecanopy.com.