For Immediate Release

Naval Aviation Enterprise Chooses PowerSteering for Lean Six Sigma Deployment

PowerSteering to Help Drive Transformation Through Lean Six Sigma

July 31, 2006

PowerSteering, the market leader in On-Demand Enterprise Performance Improvement solutions for Lean, Six Sigma and Operational Excellence today announced that the Naval Aviation Enterprise (NAE) AIRSpeed team has selected PowerSteering Software as its exclusive deployment management solution to support its Continuous Process Improvement efforts led by the highest levels of the United States Navy.

The NAE is a warfighting partnership where interdependent issues affecting multiple commands are resolved on an Enterprise-wide basis. The NAE enables communication across all elements of the Enterprise, fosters organizational alignment, encourages inter-agency and inter-service integration, stimulates a culture of productivity, and facilitates change when change is needed to advance and improve. Working together optimizes the use of existing resources, manages the costs associated with generating readiness, and harnesses change as a positive force within our Navy and Marine Corps.

The NAE AIRSpeed team's mission is to reduce the cost of doing business and maximize the value of delivered products and services across Naval Aviation. AIRSpeed applies a combination of Lean, Six Sigma, and Theory of Constraints methodologies to deliver cost wise current and future readiness for the Fleet.

"NAE AIRSpeed conducted a comprehensive vendor evaluation including our existing internal solution. We chose PowerSteering because it was intuitive, flexible, and highly configurable. The productivity capabilities around project searching and knowledge sharing were especially important to us and very complementary to AIRSpeed's objectives," noted Dale L. Moore, AIRSpeed Deputy Corporate Deployment Champion of the Naval Air Systems Command.

"We are delighted that NAE AIRSpeed has decided to partner with PowerSteering for Lean Six Sigma program management. I'm confident that our breadth and depth of LSS deployment experience, coupled with our defense industry expertise, will be a significant asset to the NAE," said Stephen Sharp, PowerSteering CEO.

NAE's use of PowerSteering will be extensive including advanced metrics, executive dashboards, best practice methodology templates, black belt productivity tools, idea portal, keyword search and knowledge management capabilities.

About AIRSpeed

AIRSpeed is the NAE's philosophy of continuous process improvement. It is also a strategy and set of tools used by the entire NAE. The NAE measures the efficiency and effectiveness of the NAE by the single Fleet-driven metric of "aircraft and carriers ready for tasking at reduced cost."