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Continuously Revitalizing CTC

Making Our Code of Ethics and Business Conduct Relevant Every Day

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How we do business

“Our Code of Ethics and Business Conduct is the cornerstone of our success and must be adhered to—always.”

- CTC Code of Ethics and Business Conduct

Concurrent Technologies Corporation’s (CTC’s) Code of Ethics and Business Conduct is a living document, relevant to the way we do business every day. At CTC, we spend a lot of time caring about how we adhere to our Code of Ethics and Business Conduct. How we do business makes us unique. To clients and employees we are a trusted partner where core values matter, as reflect-ed in the stories that follow. According to our written Code, “Conducting ourselves in a manner consistent with this Code of Ethics and Business Conduct will provide the maximum opportunities for employees throughout the organization to achieve challenging and fulfilling assignments and growth, commensurate with their interests, demonstrated capabilities, and willingness to take on added responsibility.

“Adherence to this Code of Ethics and Business Conduct will allow CTC to continue to expand the professional and technical opportunities with current clients as well as clients with whom we are not currently working, to continuously improve our professional and technical capabilities, and to execute our Mission in the public interest.” Imbedded in CTC’s Code of Ethics and Business Conduct is the following set of values, which pro-vide a compass for all of us to follow:

• We bring passion to the work that we do.

• We strive to treat our colleagues and clients like family.

• We are results-motivated, not profit-motivated.

• We are relentless in providing solutions that assist our clients in achieving their missions.

• We are humble and respectful.

We invite you to see exactly how CTC employees are bringing these words to life.

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We bring passion to the work that we do.

Members of the Johnstown Safety Committee and Senior Executive Leadership Team gathered to celebrate CTC Johnstown’s successful recertification as a Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) Star Site. The Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s (OSHA’s) VPP Star Status is the highest safety designation granted by OSHA to a worksite.

This designation is a credit to all employees, who

Celebrating a Successful Client Solution Delivered Under a Tight Deadline

CTC personnel (left to right: Joe Nibert, Matt Elliott, Damian Vuckovich, Brian Wechtenhiser, Matt Schmouder, Laura Marsh, Dan Rentz and Matt Majcher) celebrate the successful completion of an innovative new embedded system for the U.S. intelligence community in just seven weeks. The client is getting exceptional feedback on the new system.

Team Effort by all CTC Employees Contributes to VPP Recertificationconstantly strive for excellence and to provide quality services in a safe environment. We watch out for each other and our clients’ interests, which is evident in the culture of safety that we have developed.

We’ve also taken this safety culture and turned it into a significant business area. Clients come to CTC for VPP consulting, Industrial Hygiene and other safety-related activities.

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Members of the Johnstown Safety Committee and Senior Executive Leadership TeamSeated L-R: Lisa Webb, Kevin Smith, and Lynn Summerson. Standing L-R: Jerry Hudson, Jim Balint, Thomas Monito, Dave Dougherty, Sherri Slavick, Mike Jones, Ed Schellenbach, Ed Sheehan, Margaret DiVirgilio, and Mark Parseghian. Members not present; Scott Brant, Norman Joseph, Kathy Josephson, Jamie Schaffranek, Lori Schroth, Heidi Wildauer.

Denim Days. Daffodil Days. United Way Days of Caring. Family picnics. Volunteer time, downtime, and time to relax with co-workers, friends, and family mean a lot at CTC. We encourage a good work/life balance.

Denim Days are CTC-specific fundraisers in which employees donate to a common charity in exchange for the ability to wear jeans. The American Cancer Society, Heart Association, and Red Cross are among the other nonprofits that we partner with and support with gusto each year.

In addition to our summer picnics, National “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day” is a very popular family activity for our employees. Many CTC offices participate, offering a wide variety of activities for employees’ children. For example, in Crystal City, VA, children toured the Pentagon. In Johnstown, PA, students learned how to create their own electroplating cell using vinegar, copper wire, and a battery. An electric pickle demonstration capped off the electroplating demonstration!

Encouraging a Good Work/Life Balance

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We strive to treat our colleagues and clients like family.

CTC employees sign banners expressing support for employees serving overseas and working in Afghanistan.

Celebrating Thanksgiving in Afghanistan

CTC team members Ed Schellenbach, Mark Burgess, and Rob Millwood enjoyed Thanksgiving in Kabul, Afghanistan. From the decorations to the trimmings, everyone worked hard to make this an All-American holiday.

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When you’re deployed overseas or working with our team in Afghanistan, you can’t make a quick trip to the corner grocery store for Nacho Cheese Doritos® or Double-Stuff Oreos®. To help our employees enjoy some of the comforts of home and remind them that we are behind them all the way, we sign and send banners, stay in touch in various ways, and send care packages!

Here’s one email we received from our team lead in Kandahar Air Field (KAF):

All,(Please pass this along to everyone who signed this poster.)

We all here on KAF THANK YOU!! for the thoughts and recognition of efforts with NATO in Afghanistan.

Supporting Our Colleagues Serving in the Military and Working in Afghanistan

The support you give us is noticed every day, and despite the miles apart, we have always felt part of the CTC family. Attached is a pic of the signed poster and the ISO Certification for all to see in our office that displays the connection we have. NSPA, our customer, has mentioned a number of times how impressed they are with the support and connection we have with the CTC HQ.

Thanks again for the prayers, support and boxes of goodies!!!

Bryan R. YoungKandahar Air Field Quality Management Systems CTC Team Lead

Honoring Personal AchievementsAt CTC, we share credit and celebrate achievements with everyone who plays a role inour success. We acknowledge personal triumphs and are supportive of our colleagues.

CTC’s Connie Muncy, Industrial Hygienist III, has been selected for the 50th Annual Dayton Daily News Top Ten Women Award. This is one of a long list of awards Connie has earned. She ultimately takes comfort in knowing that through her professional efforts, somewhere in the United States a worker that might have otherwise been injured or killed in the workplace will go home tonight as a whole person to their family and friends.

Michael W. True, CTC’s Director, Force Protection & Nonlethal Technologies Discipline, and member of the Rotary Club of Pulaski County, Missouri, was inducted into the Paul Harris Society of Rotary International. Michael’s nomination, which is based on community service and role modeling Rotary values, recognizes his outstanding contributions of time and talent to multiple service projects.

Colonel Karen A. Esaias, CTC Executive Assistant, was inducted into the Cambria County Military Hall of Fame. Her distinguished 27-year military career includes groundbreaking achievements that opened the doors to women throughout the Service. Colonel Esaias held leadership positions in counterintelligence, counter-espionage, anti-terrorism, law enforcement and security operations.

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We are results-motivated, not profit-motivated.

CTC internships provide opportunities for students willing to learn and prepare for their careers. College students Jesse Davis (at the podium), Jason Lorah and Raquel Larson (on screen) presented their report from CTC offices in

Johnstown, PA, and Fort Leonard Wood, MO.

Paying it forward. Our subject-matter experts are excited to give willing students the opportunity to prepare for their careers through a variety of internships.

For example, CTC’s 12-week, technically focused Participative Internship Program provides mentorship, leadership, technical subject-matter expertise, and competency development opportunities to a select group of interns each summer.

This year’s program, titled Immersive Training Micro Facial Expressions, focused on techniques to detect truthfulness as well as deception. With

Internship Programs Train Future Subject-Matter Expertsthe guidance of CTC’s Mike True, the interns conducted research and analysis to determine the feasibility of a virtual reality solution based on the Real Time Environments & Avatars for Learning (REAL) prototypes, previously developed by CTC. The team developed an industry report that outlined the reliability of this type of immersive training solution and the industry gaps this tool could address. Based on technological improvements and research over the last seven years, the interns found that with proper training a person’s intent and truthfulness can be ascertained more than 95% of the time by viewing that person interacting with another.

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Each year two students win cash prizes for essays they have researched and written about great Americans—an event sponsored by CTC Foundation. Frederick Douglass, Hillary Clinton, George Washington, and George Washington Carver...eighth-grade students learn about themselves while learning about others.

Partnerships are important to CTC. The essay contest is part of the Great Americans Day Citizenship Forum presented annually by the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Office of Community Education and Outreach, the Pitt-Johnstown History Department, Phi Alpha Theta International History Honor Society, and Sodexho Campus Services. The awards were made possible through a generous donation by Conway B. Jones, Jr., CTC Foundation Chair. Howard M. Picking, III, Chairman, CTC Board of Directors, and his wife, Adelle, started the Great Americans Day Citizenship Forum in 1998.

Annual Essay Contest Encourages Students to Research Great Americans

When Federal Budget Cuts threatened to cancel the annual Alternative Energy NOW Conference, a group of CTC employees stepped in to save the event. Since its inception in 2007, the U.S.

Enthusiastic Employees Save Energy Conference

Air Force had sponsored the event. Dedicated and determined CTC employees continued the tradition, bringing together an array of professionals from the power and energy arena and giving them the opportunity toexchange information on alternative energy topics.

The two-day conference was held March 5-6, 2012, in Orlando, FL. CTC received an overwhelming response to the call for abstracts, and a second track was added to each day to accommodate the number of presentations. CTC also successfully secured high-level keynote speakers: Ms. Debra Tune, P-DAS SAF/IE; Mr. Patrick Dulin, Acting Commander for DLA Energy; LTC Per Rasmussen, Danish Embassy; and Mr. Tom Eziember, Exxon Mobil Corporate Strategy and Planning. The event offered a mix of relevant topics such as alternative fuels, energy storage, solar and wind technologies, and waste-to-energy methods.

These and other CTC team members made the Alternative Energy NOW Conference a success. Back row (left to right): Carianne Weakland, Tricia Kibler, and Aimee Ritchey. Front row: Brenda Balon, Scott Kenner,

John Ford, and Georgette Nelson.

Left to right: Edward J. Sheehan, Jr., Howard M. Picking, III, Kelly Ingram, and Conway B. Jones, Jr.

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We provide solutions that assist our clients in achieving their missions.

Artist’s depiction of robots deployed to strip coatings from a C-130 cargo plane (National Robotics Engineering Center)

Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) and Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) are working with the Air Force Research Laboratory and Ogden Air Logistics Center 309 AMXG to develop and demonstrate a robotic system that uses high-powered lasers to remove coatings from fighter and cargo aircraft.

In a two-year project sponsored by the National Defense Center for Energy and Environment, CTC, under Prime Contract W91ZLK-10-D-0005

Carnegie Mellon, Concurrent Technologies Corporation to Develop Robotic Laser System that Strips Paint from Aircraft

with NREC as a subcontractor, will build six autonomous mobile robots, each with a laser coating remover, and deploy them to work in teams to remove paint and other coatings from aircraft at Hill Air Force Base in northern Utah.

The demonstration at Hill AFB is the latest phase of development for the Advanced Robotic Laser Coating Removal System (ARLCRS). Earlier, CTC and NREC developed a prototype of the robot, which is undergoing testing at CTC’s facilities.

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CTC approaches projects with enthusiasm and a “get it done right” attitude. Our employees are true subject-matter experts who relentlessly pursue innovative and transformative solutions for clients in the specific areas of:

• Advanced Engineering and Manufacturing • Environment and Sustainability • Intelligence and Information Security • Logistics, Management and Acquisition• Power and Energy• Readiness, Preparedness and Continuity• Safety and Occupational Health• Special Missions

CTC subject-matter experts helped design processes to create discrete corrosion defects on substrates, won the Environmental Excellence in Transportation Award for designing and implementing laser coatings removal systems throughout the U.S. Air Force, and is providing Oracle development services to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

These and more projects highlight CTC’s diverse capabilities and its important role as a Top 100 Government Contractor (as rated by Washington Technology magazine).

CTC, partnered with Bettergy Corp. and SMLCO Pure Water System, LLC., is reinventing and improving the way purified, portable water is made available to forward-deployed soldiers. This improvement has been an ongoing request from the military due to the significant need for a less hindering, more efficient water purification system on-site.

Through an Independent Research and Development project, CTC is developing a smaller, non-fossil fueled water purification system that will ultimately provide up to 40 soldiers with enough drinkable water to span a 10-day mission. The Magnesium Powered Water Purification System (MPWPS) uses a magnesium-carbon battery to power a reverse osmosis water purification unit that uses salt, fresh water, and brackish water to supply soldiers with drinkable water.

The MPWPS will help decrease the amount of weight troops carry on their backs, eliminatethe element of danger that accompanies the current loud diesel-powered water purification system, make deployment easier, enable troops to focus more on their mission, and create a new energy source.

Providing Pure Water for Military Troops

Viewing the portable Magnesium Powered Water Purification System are (l to r) Edward J. Sheehan, Jr., CTC President and Chief Executive Officer; Michael J. Pollock,

CTC’s Senior Director, Discipline Lead; The Honorable Frank Kendall, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition,

Technology and Logistics; and U.S. Representative Mark Critz (PA-12).

Holding Ourselves to a Higher Standard

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We are humble and respectful.

Sometimes you never see the change that a humble, quiet act of kindness makes in the world. This time, we received a letter that included the story of Robert Larimore’s return to employment thanks to a CTC donation.

When they had excess property to deal with, Melissa Zegarelli, CTC Senior Director and Discipline Lead, and Gregg Majercsik, CTC Property Administrator, took the time to do it right. They made the choice to help others, deciding to donate excess property to Straight Ahead Outreach (STA) in Clearwater, Florida. Lance Greene, STA Founder, expressed appreciation to CTC for the generous donation, noting that the computers “are still making a difference!”

Helping Others; Changing LivesHe shared this story with us:

Robert Larimore was an unemployed finish carpenter, days away from losing his apartment and becoming homeless. He had parked his truck and custom-made tool trailer along the Gulf to Bay Boulevard, hoping someone would hire him for a job. He was nervous and feeling defeated.

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In September of 2012, Mr. Larimore was given one of the laptops that CTC donated to Straight Ahead Outreach (STA) in Clearwater, Florida. STA built a website to help him promote his skills. Only a week later, Mr. Larimore had a job—Crediting STA and

the donated laptop for providing him with the tools he needed to get back to work and stay there. He says that he hasn’t had so many job prospects or business contacts in more than six years!

Dear CTC,I wanted to thank you for your support of our soldiers and families, and in particular for the recent CBRN Soldier of the Year competition at Fort Leonard Wood. It is companies such as Concurrent Technologies Corporation that helps make our military men and women understand that their sacrifices are truly appreciated and supported, as well as help guide them for success in the future.

My son, Jason Meffley from the 101st Chemical Company (CBRN) Fort Bragg, NC, was a member of the winning team for this year’s competition. During his visit with his family over the 4th of July week, he explained how great the support was

Taking Time to Help Othersfrom the Army, CTC, and from the community in general. As a 30 year veteran and a proud father, I want to sincerely thank you and your company for your outstanding support of our country and our military members. Your efforts and generosity towards our soldiers are greatly appreciated by those who take care of us as a nation, their families and friends, as well as those of us who live or work in our nation’s capital. Again, thank you for all and job well done!

Very Respectfully, Roger Meffley, USN Command Master Chief (ret.)

Celebrating Our Employees

Among the activities organized to commemorate CTC’s silver anniversary, the 25 employees with the most years of service were honored. They were highlighted in the company’s award-winning annual report and in articles on the company’s internal and external Web sites.

We appreciate their observations about CTC’s history as they lived it. They represent a variety of jobs—administrative, engineers, contract specialists—yet the common thread in their stories is that they really like the people they have worked with through the years. As Bob Stossel, Senior Project Engineer, the employee with the most years of service notes, “I was one of the first people hired. I remember when there were just a handful of people working on one contract. The very best thing about CTC then and now is its great people.”

Bob Stossel, Senior Project Engineer

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CTC Awards

• One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies 2012, 2013 by Ethisphere Institute• Most Valuable Employer for Military™ 2010, 2011 by CivilianJobs.com• Best for Vets Employer 2010, 2011, 2013 by Military Times EDGE Magazine• S.M.A.R.T. 100 Awards 2010 by Minorities and Women In Business Magazine* • Best Places to Work in Pennsylvania, 2001–2012• Best Places to Work in Virginia, 2011, by Best Companies Group• Top 100 U.S. Government Contractor 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 by Washington Technology magazine• Top 50 Best Nonprofits to Work for in the Nation 2010 by NonProfit Times, (ranked #4) • VPP STAR Award 2009 and renewed in 2012 by OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs • PA Governor’s Award for Safety Excellence, 2009• ISO 9001:2008 (Quality) & 14001:2004 (Environmental) International Certifications 1998–present• Extraordinary Employer Support Award from Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), 2012• Pro Patria Award 2008 by Employer Support of the Guard & Reserve (ESGR)• 5-Star Recognition by ESGR• Seven Seals Award by National Department of Defense• Above & Beyond Awards by Pennsylvania and Maryland ESGR

• Gold Edison Award for Innovation in Material Science 2013• Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Award 2013• Technology Provider of the Year 2013• Center for Environmental Innovation and Leadership Achievement in Inauguration Award, 2011• Environmental Excellence in Transportation (E2T) Award, 2011• TECHQuest Pennsylvania Technology Product of the Year Award, 2011• Defense Logistics’ 2010 Best Technology Implementation Award • Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Award, 2010 • TECHQuest Technology Product of the Year Award, 2009 • Excellence.Gov Award for Excellence in Acquisition, 2009• Defense Logistics’ 2008 Technology Implementation of the Year Award• Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Award, 2008

*NOTE: CTC was recognized as one of the elite top three corporations under the “Employment” category for the S.M.A.R.T. 100 Awards. The 2010 S.M.A.R.T. 100 Awards honor America’s top veteran, minority, and women-friendly corporations and agencies.

Awards for Excellence in Science and Technology

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