Joint Strike Fighter Program Selects ORBexpress Communications Middleware for Security Certification

HERNDON, VA, Apr 20 (MARKET WIRE) --
Making it easier to develop highly secure communication systems,
Objective Interface Systems, Inc. (OIS) announced today that
ORBexpress(R) is the first communications middleware ever to be evaluated
under the Common Criteria, the world's most widely adopted security
certification standard. ORBexpress is undergoing this certification for
the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter's Communications, Navigation
and Identification (CNI) system, an advanced and complex avionics system
that must be certified to comply with rigorous security requirements. The
certification of ORBexpress will save programs significant time and money
by making it easier and faster to develop and certify secure systems
using fully evaluated COTS communications middleware.

The CNI system, being developed by Northrop Grumman for the F-35's prime
contractor, Lockheed Martin, is a crucial component for the success of the
F-35's advanced warfighting mission. The CNI system needs the highest
level of security to insure seamless and uninterrupted performance on the
battlefield.

"As with any system involving national security, the F-35 needs to depend
on certified software. Lockheed Martin is responding by selecting COTS
products that are certified to the Common Criteria, the international
standard for security evaluations," said Dr. Ben Calloni, Fellow for
Security and Sr. Research Program Manager for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Company. "ORBexpress is the only communications middleware being certified
to EAL-4+. By selecting it for the CNI project, we are demonstrating our
commitment to building secure systems with evaluated products."

The Northrop Grumman CNI system uses software defined radios based on the
Software Communications Architecture (SCA). Developed by the U.S.
Department of Defense as part of the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS),
the SCA uses the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) as the
communications middleware framework. ORBexpress meets the rigorous
requirements for JTRS radios transmitting classified data.

Joe Jacob, senior vice president of OIS, commented further on the
evaluation of ORBexpress: "The use of evaluated software in national
security applications is important because using evaluated software is
mandatory according to policies set by the highest government levels. In
addition to saving many engineer months during the development process,
ORBexpress also saves the JSF program a significant amount of money by
reducing the number of engineer months required for certifying the CNI
system."

Mr. Jacob added: "The Common Criteria evaluates not just the code but also
the quality of the development and engineering processes. This evaluation
provides independent verification of the quality of our product."

About ORBexpress

ORBexpress is an Object Request Broker (ORB) based on the Real-time CORBA
standard that enables real-time and embedded devices in diverse
environments to communicate seamlessly while securing those systems
against a variety of threats with confidence. ORBexpress is used wherever
systems need an extremely fast, small-footprint communications
infrastructure where failure or compromise is not an option. Thousands of
customers worldwide use the ORBexpress communications foundation to build
flexible, upgradeable and capable products. ORBexpress is in a wide range
of systems, including mission-critical avionics systems, magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) systems, nuclear fusion control systems and the
military's next-generation software-defined radio systems. Available for
C++, Java and Ada, ORBexpress has been recognized repeatedly as the
smallest and fastest ORB in the industry by a variety of independent
benchmark tests.

About Objective Interface Systems

Objective Interface Systems is the worldwide leader of high-performance,
real-time and embedded communications middleware solutions. The company
provides ORBexpress, a family of high-performance CORBA ORBs and
PCSexpress(R), secure communications middleware development tools based on
the Multiple Independent Levels of Safety/Security (MILS) architecture, to
meet the high-performance requirements of military and aerospace,
telecommunications, medical devices, data communications, industrial
automation and process control, transportation, robotics and consumer
electronics markets.

OIS is also the distributor of the first real-time physical modeling
products for military simulation, DMMfx(TM) Animator and DMMfx(TM) Engine.

For more information on ORBexpress and the OIS portfolio of products,
please visit: www.ois.com/products/ois-products.html, call 1 800-800-OIS7
in the U.S., +33 (0) 6 68 35 15 45 in Europe or +81 (0)3-5623-2112 in
Japan or e-mail inquiries to: info2009@ois.com. Visit OIS at www.ois.com.

NOTE TO EDITORS: ORBexpress and PCSexpress are single words with "express"
in italics, and DMMfx is a single word with "fx" in italics.

ORBexpress and PCSexpress are a registered trademarks and Objective
Interface are trademarks of Objective Interface Systems, Inc. DMMfx is a
trademark of Pixelux Entertainment. All other trademarks are the property
of their respective owners.

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