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SumTotal Systems (Nasdaq:SUMTE), the largest provider of learning and business performance technologies and services, along with partner International Software Systems Inc. (ISSI), today announced that it has been awarded two contracts by the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to support its GoLearn program. Through these two contracts, SumTotal will form the backbone of a fully-configured solution that will enable government and Department of Defense agencies to drive personnel readiness, increase operating efficiencies, provide leadership, professional and career development and more rapidly achieve organizational goals. The OPM created GoLearn as part of its e-Training Initiative, one of the e-government initiatives on the President's Management Agenda. GoLearn focuses on unifying, simplifying and increasing access to high quality e-learning products and services to help advance the accomplishment of federal agency missions. The program offers federal agency employees a wide range of online learning and career growth opportunities, including academic, technical, executive and organizational training. The first GoLearn contract awarded to SumTotal and ISSI under Specialized Technical Area 1, LMS/LCMS solutions, is for SumTotal's Total LMS and Total LCMS. The second is for SumTotal's TotalInformation, TotalCollaboration and TotalAccess modules under Specialized Technical Area 3, Collaboration Tools & Human Capital Performance Applications. SumTotal will team with ISSI, which has extensive experience developing, customizing and configuring learning management systems, to deliver the solutions and services. "With today's constantly changing legislative and regulatory environment and complex, global political and economic events, it is more critical than ever for employees of government agencies and military organizations to be able to respond quickly and competently to these circumstances," said R. Andrew Eckert, SumTotal CEO. "Our long track record of expertise in delivering successful, scalable solutions that meet the specialized needs of this sector -- the nation's largest workforce -- ideally positions SumTotal to support the objectives of the GoLearn initiative. The new contracts will allow us to continue expanding our marketshare in the government space and to reach an even broader user base with our mission-critical products and services." SumTotal's military and local, state and federal government customers span the globe. In the US, they include the US Air Force, Army, Navy and Coast Guard, the City of Washington D.C., the State of California, the EPA, USDA and DSHS. International customers include the Royal Navy and Ministry of Defence (UK), Stato Maggiore della Defesa (Italy), Japan Agriculture and the Canadian Air Transportation Security Authority, among others. "SumTotal Systems leads the industry with the best platform on the market today. That leadership, coupled with our experience and best-of-breed services and technologies, represented a winning combination to OPM," said Bhaskar Ganti, president and CEO of ISSI. "We look forward to partnering with SumTotal over the long-term to provide the federal government with the most innovative and effective learning, content and information management technologies and services available." About the SumTotal Enterprise Suite Providing unparalleled breadth in application and depth in functionality, the SumTotal Enterprise Suite is the industry's most comprehensive, globally scalable learning and business performance offering, and the only one to combine learning management, learning content management, in-depth analytics and other mission-critical applications on a single, integrated platform. The SumTotal Suite promises more flexible, rapid, strategic delivery and management of learning activities; unprecedented options for measuring learning impact on organizational goals and objectives; and unique interoperability and integration capabilities to dramatically reduce the cost of ownership. About GoLearn OPM's e-Gov Program is dedicated to carrying out the mandate of the President's Management Agenda, the e-Government Act of 2002, and the Federal Enterprise Architecture. The mission of OPM's e-Gov Program is to develop world-class secure, modern, cross-agency, human resource solutions that transform the management of Federal human capital. OPM has the vision for Federal agencies to use OPM E-Gov human resource solutions to improve their ability to build successful, high performance organizations. The e-Training Initiative of the President's e-Gov program leverages the Internet, and the accessibility it provides, to the greatest possible degree as demonstrated by the Gov Online Learning Center (www.GoLearn.gov) that was launched July 23, 2002. The Gov Online Learning Center, commonly known as Go Learn, is a fully integrated learning center of excellence with e-Training courseware and performance support tools. About ISSI ISSI is a software development and IT consulting company formed in 1995 as small business firm 8(a) certified by the Small Business Association in the State of Maryland. ISSI is headquartered in Greenbelt, MD, with offices in Sacramento, CA, and Hyderabad, India. ISSI has a highly skilled and technologically competent workforce. ISSI has successfully provided software development, project management and systems design to many federal government contractors and commercial firms. ISSI has received numerous awards and recognition for services from its list of clients in both the U.S. and Europe. For more information, visit www.issi-software.com. About SumTotal Systems SumTotal Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:SUMTE) is the largest provider of learning and business performance technologies and services. Formed by the merger of industry pioneers Docent and Click2learn, SumTotal deploys mission-critical solutions that align learning with organizational goals to generate significant bottom-line results. With more than 12 million users in 37 countries, SumTotal has helped accelerate performance and profit for more than 675 of the world's best-known companies and government agencies, including the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard, Microsoft, United Airlines, the State of California, DSHS, Vodafone, Aetna, Accenture, USDA, Cendant, Harley-Davidson, Wyeth, Wachovia and D & B. Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, SumTotal has offices throughout the US, as well as in London, Paris, Heidelberg, Sydney, Tokyo and Hyderabad, India. For more information on SumTotal's solutions and services, visit www.sumtotalsystems.com. Safe Harbor Statement/Forward-Looking Statements "Information in this press release contains forward-looking statements. These statements represent SumTotal Systems' expectations or beliefs concerning future events and include statements, among others, regarding SumTotal Systems' new product, SumTotal Enterprise Suite 7.1. These statements are not historical facts or guarantees of future performance or events and are based on current expectations, estimates, beliefs, assumptions, goals and objectives, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from the results expressed or implied by these statements. 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