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CAMBER CORPORATION AND VIRTUAL HEROES INC. SIGN STRATEGIC TEAMING AGREEMENT
Leading Modeling and Simulation Companies Establish Joint Team for the Development of Advanced Learning Technologies

Research Triangle Park, NC (May 15, 2007) – Camber Corporation, a leading contractor of services and solutions for government and commercial clients, and Virtual Heroes Inc. (VHI), a leader in advanced learning technologies, today announced that they have signed a strategic teaming agreement. The agreement was established to help develop large government contract wins and enhance the advanced technology base of both companies. It will also facilitate the sharing of technical expertise, contract support and marketing resources as both companies will work together to build a joint team, common technology base and brand to drive the development of interactive training solutions and products.

“Virtual Heroes has definitely established a leadership position in the advanced learning industry, with its successful track record in the federal systems arena and innovations such as HumanSim™ in the healthcare arena and their state-of-the-art Advanced Learning Technology (A.L.T.) platform,” said Walter Batson, CEO, Camber Corporation. “We selected Virtual Heroes to enhance and strengthen our Team's ability to further the delivery of PC based simulations and other advanced learning solutions for our clients. This agreement will provide the means to expand our advanced modeling and simulation product solutions within the Federal marketplace.”

“We are very excited to combine our resources, technology and expertise with Camber Corporation to create and deliver even greater value to clients of both companies,” stated Jerry Heneghan, Virtual Heroes founder and CEO. “Together, we can make those products and solutions available to even more organizations.”

Camber provides a wide variety of services and solutions in the areas of Joint Technical Services, engineering, training, information technology, modeling and simulation, decision support, and homeland security. They have been recognized by agencies and offices within the chemical and biological defense community for outstanding performance and contributions to the nuclear, biological and chemical defense program and national security. Camber has been recognized for providing state-of-the-art technology support to R&D centers, government labs and program offices. They have also been recognized for providing the most comprehensive real-time Weather Radar Simulation. Camber was also the recipient of the 2000 Frost & Sullivan Award, the 2001 Defense Acquisition Executive Certificate of Achievement, ad the 2002 Packard Excellence Award in Acquisition for Chemical and Biological Detection and one of the “2005 Top 100 Federal IT Contractors”.

VHI creates advanced learning technology solutions for the federal systems, healthcare and commercial markets, leveraging sophisticated electronic computer game and graphics technology to address training and education needs. The company has been recognized for its significant achievement and competency in the areas of instructional design, digital engineering, project management, modeling and simulation, courseware development and assessment in providing unprecedented immersive training experiences. VHI is also reaching new heights with the current development of a HumanSim™ dual-use medical training product platform for military personnel and civilian first responders.

About Camber Corporation
Camber Corporation is an employee-owned company, headquartered in Huntsville, AL. From our founding in 1990, we have grown to over 26 Camber offices and over 1400 employees, positioned to provide responsive support to our customers across the United States and overseas. In addition, we have personnel on-site at several other locations providing daily interface on technical, programmatic and operations issues.

Our mission is to provide "best value" management and decision support, joint technical services, and products to government agencies, related industries and clients and to enhance our customers'/clients' best business practices. The Camber Information technology Division provides unparalleled expertise in the development and integration of Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) simulations into networked environments designed to support distributed training and mission planning. Our experience includes developing, integrating, and supporting state-of-the-art simulator architectures and providing interoperability solutions for legacy devices to extend and expand their training value.

About Virtual Heroes Inc.
Founded in January 2004, and located in Research Triangle Park, NC, Virtual Heroes Inc. (VHI), the “Advanced Learning Technology Company,” creates collaborative interactive learning solutions for the federal systems, healthcare and commercial markets. Advanced Learning Technologies leverage simulation learning and digital games-based learning paradigms to accelerate learning, increase proficiency and reduce training costs for next generation workforce development. As a global market leader in this field, VHI applications facilitate highly interactive, self-paced learning and instructor-led, distributed team training on the Virtual Heroes Advanced Learning Technology (A.L.T.) platform using the Unreal® Engine 3 by Epic Games. In both 2005 and 2006, VHI was honored by Military Training and Technology magazine as one of the industry’s Top 100 companies. Virtual Heroes has expanded its experience and success in the defense sector into the healthcare market with the development of HumanSim™, and into the commercial market with custom solutions.

 
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