HIRESTRATEGY OPENS NEW PUBLIC SECTOR PRACTICE TO SERVE COMPANIES DOING GOVERNMENT BUSINESS

Reston, VA, January 16, 2002

HireStrategy, a Reston-based executive recruiting firm, has opened a new Public Sector Practice to serve companies doing business with the government. HireStrategy Vice President M. Scott Laemmle has been named to head the new practice.

Paul Villella, HireStrategy's President & CEO, says the new practice has been created in response to increased requests from government contractors in recent months for help in filling critical positions. Villella points out that the federal government is the largest purchaser of information technology in the world. "The FY 2002 budget for IT is $45 billion. Federal IT spending will continue to grow over the next decade in both the defense and civilian sectors. Much of that will be spent in the Washington area. The government technology market offers both stability and growth."

Says Villella: "We have always worked with government contractors, but the world has changed since the tragic events of September 11. Large, established government contractors - together with their small and medium-sized business partners - are being called on to provide a limitless array of technology products and services to meet the critical needs of homeland security and national defense. Contractors need tens of thousands of new employees to meet these needs."

Laemmle, who has nearly a decade of federal contracting experience with the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) and Logicon/Northrop Grumman, says: "Contractors working on national defense and homeland security projects are grappling with a critical shortage of tech workers; we are focusing our resources on helping contractors find and hire these workers."

Laemmle says HireStrategy's Public Sector Practice is helping fill positions in finance and administration; human resources/recruiting; logistics management; operations management; project controls management; network administration/desktop support; network, software and systems engineering; security planning, evaluation and testing.

Laemmle predicts that "In 2002 and for years to come, technology professionals with expertise in fields like enterprise management, systems security, national security and requirements analysis will be in great demand."

HireStrategy's Public Sector Practice is managed by recruiters with government contracting experience themselves. The company offers government contractors, their sub-contractors and teaming partners a full range of placement services: temporary, temporary-to-permanent and permanent. In addition to technology talent, HireStrategy provides sales and marketing, finance and accounting professionals with experience doing business with the government.

Says Laemmle: "The list of Washington area government contractors includes billion-dollar companies like Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, DynCorp, BAE Systems, SAIC, Computer Sciences Corporation, GTSI, CACI International, SRA International, BTG, OAO and Signal. We already work with a number of these companies. But the list of area technology companies that do business with the government also includes thousands of firms that sub-contract and team with these large contractors. We intend to help these companies, as well."