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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

         SunFed Wins Contract With Defense Intelligence Agency

SunFLASH Vol 52 #25					          April 1993
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Contact: Carol Hartzell, SMCC PR at (415) 336-0598


         Will Be Exclusive Supplier of Secure, RISC-based
    	        Network Servers and Workstations


MILPITAS, Calif. -- April 21, 1993 -- Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc.
(Sun Federal) has been selected by the Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA) under a requirements contract to supply a secure, RISC-based
family of workstations and servers. The one-year (with four option
years) SASS (System Acquisition and Support Strategy) multi-vendor
acquisition contract anticipates purchasing 5,400 RISC-based Sun(TM)
workstations, the majority of which will be used in a secure network
environment. Sun Federal will provide workstations and network servers
to enhance and leverage the investment of existing equipment as well as
move the DIA from a mainframe environment to a secure client-server
workgroup environment.

Sun Federal will supply Sun SPARCstation(TM) IPX(TM) and SPARCstation 2
workstations, along with a version of the Solaris(R) operating
environment that is being evaluated by the DIA for CMW (Compartmented
Mode Workstation) operation. Options for file servers and SPARCstation
10 workstations are also included.

Sun Microsystems Federal, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sun
Microsystems, Inc., the world's leading supplier of client-server
computing solutions. Sun Federal, founded in 1984, is headquartered in
Milpitas, Calif.

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