ENLIGHTENED ACHIEVED CMMI LEVEL 2 RATING

WASHINGTON (September 5): Enlightened, Inc. ("Enlightened"), a leading provider of Information Technology (IT) consulting services, announced today it has achieved a Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 2 rating for software engineering by the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI).

The CMMI is an internationally recognized standard for assessing software development practices. CMMI involves assessing and comparing key fundamentals of process improvement approaches to facilitate quality and performance improvements throughout an organization. CMMI standards ensure Enlightened provides detailed process definition of project management, requirements, and change management procedures. The appraisal was conducted by experts from Cepeda Systems & Software Analysis, Inc. (CSSA) a leader in independent testing and evaluation services.

"This is a great milestone for Enlightened", said Habib Nasibdar, Program Manager of Enlightened. "Adoption of the CMMI framework demonstrates Enlightened's continued efforts to maintain quality standards which successfully deliver measurable and effective business benefits to its clients."

About SEI
Software Engineering Institute (SEI), at Carnegie Mellon University, is a federally funded research and development center conducting software engineering research in acquisition, architecture and product lines, process improvement and performance measurement, security and system interoperability and dependability. SEI is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense through the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics.

About Enlightened
Enlightened, Inc. is an information technology (IT) and management consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. Enlightened provides support to federal and local government agencies and commercial customers. Enlightened holds GSA IT-70 and MOBIS schedule contracts, and is certified as a Small Business by the Small Business Administration.

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09/21/09


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