Before selecting ATSC, Salient evaluated quite a number of companies for acquisition. But as we conducted a detailed analysis of those companies, ATSC stood out as a clear match from a customer base, to culture, from a financial performance, and to future opportunities. The fact that we’re here today is a testament to the accomplishments of John Hassoun, and Pamela Little, and the ATSC team in building a company with world-class capabilities. It’s a testament to the quality of your performance that has enabled ATSC to build such solid customer relationships. We are a services company and recognize that you are clearly the greatest asset in the business. You face the customer, you drive the growth, support their missions, and are entrusted — and the missions which are entrusted to ATSC. This is why we need every one of you to be fully informed, completely engaged, and as totally enthused as we are going forward. Joining with Salient will provide ATSC employees with exciting, new, and challenging professional opportunities as we invest in new business pursuits and future acquisitions. So who is Salient Federal Solutions? Well, first of all, we’ve only been around since 2009, but we are becoming a global leader, providing information technology and engineering solutions to the federal government. Salient was founded by many of the former senior executives from SI International, which was also a federal IT engineering and network solutions company that grew from $20 million in 1999 to $580 million at the end of 2008. I served as the SI CEO — President and CEO. And the rest of our management team includes SI former Chairman Roy Oleson, the former CFO Ted Dunn, former HR leader Kay Curling, former (inaudible) and business (inaudible) and executive Tom Pettit, former CIO Steve Hunt, former VP of Accounting, JD Kuhn, and former Director of Corporate Development Tom Lloyd. To this strong experienced team, we also added Bill Parker who was the former COO of NCI and is acting as Salient’s COO. Larry Rose was the former head of contracts of ICF International and is Salient’s VP of Contracts. Our management team is among the most experienced in the federal technology services sector and is actively building a world-class IT and engineering solutions company. Through strong organic growth and strategic acquisitions, such as ATSC as our latest addition, we continue to continue that — we expect to continue on that trend. We are built for change with constantly evolving capabilities reinforced by a revolutionary approach to managing and leveraging talent and a workforce able to solve the toughest challenges. We continue to prepare for the successes that strong organic growth and strategic acquisitions will bring by investing in our infrastructure, our tools, systems, facility, and our talent. Our core domains of intelligence, defense, homeland security, and cyber security represent areas of continuing importance to the federal market space. And our commercial clients as well. |