VT MAK CEO Warren Katz is Keynote Speaker at Eurosatory


CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 3 /PRNewswire/ --

VT MAK, (MAK), a company of VT Systems Inc (VT Systems), is pleased to
announce that company founder and chief executive officer Warren Katz will be
a keynote speaker at the "Future Trends in Simulation" conferences at
Eurosatory in Paris, France. Katz's presentation, titled "Industry Trends -
COTS and Simulation" will discuss the rise of COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf)
tools in the defense simulation market. Katz's presentation is on Tuesday,
June 17 at 1600 hours and MAK's solutions will be showcased at the Antycip
Simulation booth U210 in the exhibition.

A noted industry advocate of open interoperability standards and
commercial business models in defense procurement, Katz also has expertise in
collaboration between the defense and video game industries. He was a
six-term chairman of the Simulation Interoperability Standards
Organization, the international not-for-profit consortium that manages the
process for developing open interoperability standards for synthetic
environments. Katz co-founded MAK Technologies with John Morrison in 1990.
The company was acquired by VT Systems of Alexandria, Virginia in December
2006 and changed its name to VT MAK in February 2008. Katz holds dual
bachelor's degrees in mechanical and electrical engineering from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"The modeling and simulation market is in the midst of a disruptive
transition from low-volume, high-priced simulations that are custom-made for
each application, to a high-volume, low-priced market of interoperable COTS
products. This explosion of simulation deployment will have a similar effect
to what the PC did to the mainframe, the car did to the train, and GPS did to
the map."

~ Warren KATZ
                                            Chief Executive Officer, VT MAK

Eurosatory is an annual international defense conference and exhibition.
The 2008 show will be held from June 16-20 at Paris Nord Villpointe. For more
information about the event please visit www.eurosatory.com.

MAK, a company of VT Systems Inc, develops software to link, simulate and
visualize the virtual world. MAK creates tools and toolkits for distributed
simulations, develops PC-based military tactical and operational trainers,
crafts custom solutions, and researches and develops the latest simulation
technologies. The company builds commercial off the shelf simulation software
that is flexible, portable and supported. MAK puts its distributed simulation
expertise in each of its interoperable products, from the VR-Link networking
toolkit, to VR-Forces, MAK's computer generated forces toolkit. MAK's
worldwide customers include ITT Industries, Boeing, Lockheed Martin,
Raytheon, Thales, Tenix, Dassault and BAE. Please visit www.mak.com.

Antycip Simulation, a subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Electronics
Limited, is the European leader in the distribution and support of modeling
and simulation COTS tools. The company also designs and creates projection
solutions. With over 10 years of presence in visualization, simulation and
training, Antycip Simulation has regional offices in France, the United
Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Italy and Spain.

VT Systems, and its subsidiaries are preferred providers of engineering
solutions, products, integrated systems, and services in the Americas across
the core business areas of marine, aerospace, electronics and land systems.
Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, VT Systems operates throughout North
America and offers a broad range of proven innovative services to both the
commercial and government sectors. VT Systems is a wholly owned subsidiary of
Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd. Please visit www.vt-systems.com.

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              http://www.eurosatory.com
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