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COLOMBIAN LOGISTICS AND SECURITY
FIRM DEPLOYS RFID-BASED INFORMATION
SOLUTION FROM SAVI TECHNOLOGY TO
CONTINUOUSLY MONITOR CARGO SHIPMENTS

Emprevi Ltda. Purchases Savi Transportation Security
Solution (TSS) To Establish a Regional Cargo Visibility and Security Network in Colombia

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – May 10, 2006 – To enhance visibility, management and security of Colombian container shipments, Emprevi Ltda. is deploying Savi Technology's SmartChain® Transportation Security Solution (TSS), which leverages real-time information from active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies. By providing Emprevi with value-added services for its customers, Savi TSS will help Emprevi to generate new business opportunities and enable its customers to cut costs, improve inventory management, decrease safety stock, and reduce the potential for drug trafficking and smuggling, theft, loss, or terrorist intrusions.

Emprevi Ltda. (Empresa de Prevencion y Vigilancia Ltda.) is a Colombia-based provider of logistics and security services for importers and exporters, including major U.S.-based public companies in the pharmaceutical and healthcare, consumer product goods, food and beverage, transportation and logistics services industries. Emprevi plans to integrate Savi TSS into a new Emprevi service offering called, "Global Trade Control," which will provide its clients with continuous online monitoring of cargo containers and their contents, and rapid detection and deterrence of potential security breaches.

Beyond tracking container movements within Colombia, Emprevi plans to extend end-to-end visibility of these shipments by linking their service with SaviTrak™, the global information service provided by Savi Networks. SaviTrak provides real-time, information services on the location, security and integrity of containerized cargo shipments as they move throughout a global network of RFID-enabled ports and inter-linked supply chain checkpoints.

"Today, Emprevi is leveraging the latest-generation security and logistics management solutions from Savi Technology to maximize service value for our clients," said Mauricio Barberan Canas, President of Emprevi. "Savi's world-class solutions will help Emprevi to further enhance our client's supply chain security, visibility, and shipment tracking, which in turn will help us to generate new business opportunities. It also will help to reduce our clients' costs, help ensure compliance with international regulations and lower time-consuming inspections. In addition, we anticipate that Savi's TSS solution will help to improve inventory management, automatically generate electronic cargo manifests for customs, and reduce insurance premiums on security."

The Savi Regional Cargo Visibility and Security Network, powered by Savi TSS, will provide Emprevi's customers in Colombia with real-time information of RFID-tagged containers that are transported by truck or rail to and from Distribution Centers in Cali and the Port of Buenaventura, which handles a large portion of Colombia's foreign trade volume. Plans call for extending Savi TSS through Emprevi's Global Trade Control offering to additional clients and facilities in Colombia.

"We're pleased to start this relationship with Emprevi through our newly established Regional Cargo Visibility and Security Network, and Savi plans to strengthen our partnership as we work together more closely to improve both the security and efficiency of product shipments entering and leaving Colombia," said Mark Weidick, Savi Technology's General Manager of Commercial Markets. "This project initially shows how the Savi Transportation Security Solution can provide new business value for logistics service providers in closed-loop environments between key supply chain nodes, and how TSS can eventually integrate to Savi Networks, the end-to-end supply chain network from source factory to final destination."

Following a lengthy analysis of numerous technology solutions, Emprevi selected Savi's TSS because of its proven success and its alignment with Emprevi's primary "Supply Chain Control" objectives, which are aimed at providing its clients in Latin America with a competitive advantage through world-class information services that reduce risk and costs, facilitate customs clearance and compliance, enhance chain of custody visibility, and better manage inventory.

Savi TSS is based on RFID technology and software solutions developed since 1989 that have successfully tracked more than 1.5 million shipments in real-time. Savi TSS includes the Savi Transportation Security Application, a rule-driven, event and process management software application integrated with Savi's SmartChain Enterprise Platform. Savi TSS produces state and exception reporting that is essential to ensure that containers and cargo have not been tampered with, and can incorporate data fed from a variety of Automatic Identification and Data Collection (AIDC) devices, such as RFID, electronic seals, biometrics, sensors, and global positioning tracking systems (GPS).

Savi Technology's active RFID devices are based on ISO 18000-7 standards operating at 433.92 MHz, and the company is actively involved with the maritime industry to further develop standards for container tracking and security. Savi's solutions are built on an open technology platform accommodating multiple and interoperable AIDC technologies used to track items, carton, pallets, containers, and transport vehicles such as trucks, ships and rail cars.

About Emprevi Ltda.
Emprevi is a 100 percent Colombian owned and operated company with more than 18 years of experience in the management and prevention of logistics risks. Emprevi's services have been a fundamental part of the logistics strategy of important multinationals, incorporating deep logistics knowledge, experience and advanced technologies. Clients include Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Gillette, Cadbury Adams, DHL Danzas, NYK Logistics, and Eagle Logistics. In an effort to constantly satisfy the needs of its clients, Emprevi is committed to continuously upgrading its services, such as pioneering the integration of closed circuit television and Web-based image and data transmissions with electronic security systems. These innovations have helped to transform local logistics and enable security to add value at each point in the supply chain.

About Savi Technology
With over 17 years experience, Savi is a proven leader in RFID solutions for the management and security of supply chain assets, shipments and consignments. Savi's integrated RFID hardware and software solutions drive business value, such as reducing supply chain assets, inventory and operational costs. Founded in 1989, Savi Technology is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, with headquarters in Mountain View, California, and offices in Johannesburg, London, Melbourne, Singapore, and Washington D.C. For more information, visit www.savi.com

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About Lockheed Martin
Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation reported 2006 sales of $39.6 billion. For additional information, visit www.lockheedmartin.com.






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