CAP INDEX LICENSES SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORY’S RAMPART™ RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL

CAP Index Will Integrate RAMPART™ Software into its Location Risk Assessment Solutions

Philadelphia, PA, September 20, 2004  – CAP Index, Inc., the world leader in crime vulnerability and loss prevention analytics, announced today that it has licensed the RAMPART™ risk assessment method and software from Sandia National Laboratories, a U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratory managed and operated by Sandia Corporation.  The license gives CAP Index exclusive rights to market RAMPART™ to the North American financial, health care, retail, and commercial real estate markets as well as non-exclusive rights for federal, state/provincial, and local government and other private sector markets.  The license is effective immediately.  Financial terms were not announced.

Jon Groussman, CAP Index President and Chief Operating Officer, said:  “After extensive study of virtually all existing risk assessment software, CAP Index determined that RAMPART™ is the most robust, intelligent, and user-friendly risk assessment software tool available.  RAMPART™ has already been extensively used by Sandia to assess security risks at government sites managed by the General Services Administration.  CAP Index’s Professional Services division will incorporate RAMPART™ into our location risk assessment and loss prevention services.”

RAMPART™ consists of a user interface, a threatening-events database, and an expert system of rules that embody industry-specific knowledge about buildings and tenants and Sandia’s risk assessment and security expertise. RAMPART™ is designed to be user friendly and intuitive, enabling risk consultants or security personnel to conduct a thorough building risk analysis in less than two hours.  RAMPART™ analyzes survey findings, determines a building’s overall risk level, and prioritizes specific risks by level of severity.  Risk survey findings can be graphically depicted both for single sites and to compare risk at multiple sites.

About Sandia:

Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin company, for the U.S. Department of Energy.  With main facilities in Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA, Sandia has major R&D responsibilities in national security, energy and environmental technologies, and economic competitiveness.  For more information, visit www.sandia.gov.