United Devices Adds Former Assistant Director Of Central Intelligence To Team

James M. Simon Jr. Joins Board of Directors

AUSTIN, Texas, May 6, 2003 — United Devices, the market leader in secure grid solutions, today announced that James M. Simon Jr. has joined the company's board of directors and will take an active role in the company's strategic government initiatives.

Mr. Simon retired as Assistant Director of Central Intelligence (ADCI/A) earlier this year. He was nominated Assistant Director by President Clinton in 1998 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1999 after twenty-eight years with the CIA. In this role he directed many initiatives including the evaluation and purchase of key technology assets for all of the United States' key intelligence agencies.

"The success of intelligence and homeland security depends largely on the technology resources underlying human decisions," said Simon. "United Devices has enormous potential in this arena with their current platform and should play a vital role in making homeland security successful across many applications and throughout many agencies."

After four years in the Army where he was a signals intelligence/electronic warfare officer, Mr. Simon joined the CIA in 1975. He served briefly in the Clandestine Service before joining the Directorate of Intelligence as an analyst specializing in military strategy, tactics, and doctrine. In 1990, he was assigned to the US delegation in Vienna as principal negotiator for the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty's information exchange protocol. After ratification of the Treaty, Mr. Simon managed intelligence support for arms control inspections in Europe and held various senior management posts before being named to his last position.

"The role of a board is to direct the company in the right strategic direction," said Ed Hubbard, United Devices' Chief Executive Officer. "Serving government agencies is a key initiative at United Devices and there is no better qualified choice for this position than the individual who set the technology direction for the National Foreign Intelligence Program and Central Intelligence."

Mr. Simon's experience working with the federal government will allow him to play a significant role in United Devices' government initiatives. The company's Grid MP™ software, a grid computing platform that enables clusters, servers, desktops and workstations to act as a processing grid for compute-intensive research and analysis, is already being utilized by several agencies. The platform's architecture offers industry-leading features in security, transparency, reliability and manageability.

Mr. Simon has made numerous public appearances and has lectured at both civilian universities and military colleges here and abroad. He has written extensively on military history, intelligence, and homeland security and has a number of publications to his credit. Mr. Simon has presented papers before various professional associations including the Business Executives for National Security, the Operations Research Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.

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