Safe Ports, LLC and IIT form alliance to provide inter-modal security solutions

CHARLESTON, S.C. & HERNDON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 20, 2006–Safe Ports, LLC, the holding company of Carolinks, Inc. and EWA Information and Infrastructure Technologies, Inc. (IIT), a subsidiary of Electronic Warfare Associates, Inc., have signed a strategic alliance as the first step to developing a new joint venture entity. The new company will enable IIT to migrate and expand its extensive security experience and capabilities into inter-modal operations, and to meet Carolinks’ emerging security requirements. Carolinks will be the new company’s launch customer in the United States.

Safe Ports, LLC, led by chairman and CEO, Lucy Duncan Scheman, and its subsidiary company, Carolinks, are developing a $250 million inter-modal operation in Charleston, South Carolina, to speed containers from the Port of Charleston to a new inland port by rail and barge.

A subsidiary of Electronic Warfare Associates, IIT was established in 1997 and is led by John W. Lindquist, President and CEO. It supports government and critical industry sector clients with advanced and actionable risk analysis and management, and with sophisticated information security systems. Its executives have extensive military, government, and special operations backgrounds. Their expertise has been validated by high level security clearances.

In a joint statement, Lucy Duncan Scheman and John Lindquist said, “The creation of our new company will provide the transportation sector with much needed inter-modal security practices, by bringing together our experience with rail, barge and port operations, and critical infrastructure protection. Through its operations in Charleston covering rail, barge and highway transportation, Carolinks is a perfect customer for our initial implementation of this leading-edge process. As the new company develops its operations, we intend to engage both government and the public sector with solutions to inter-modal security issues.”

IIT has extensive capability in railroad security. It has provided security risk analysis and security support for the North American Railroad System, including Canada and Mexico, the Alaskan Railroad Corporation, and Chicago Metra. IIT supports the National Guard, Department of State, and the US Agency for International Development with world wide vulnerability assessments and security support. IIT also works with the American Public Transportation Association, and have performed port security/vulnerability assessments for ports in Italy required by the International Ship and Port Security Code. IIT is also a founding member of the Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security, and operates the Critical Infrastructure Protection Center in Charleston, South Carolina.