TRW Inaugurates Pomona Census 2000 Data CaptureProcessing Center.

Center brings more than 2,500 temporary jobs to the area

POMONA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 1999--

TRW Inc. (TRW: NYSE) and the U. S. Census Bureau today opened the third of four data capture centers that together will process more than 120 million Census 2000 questionnaires

TRW and its teammates will manage and operate the Pomona Center and two others - a center near Baltimore, Md., which opened in June, and the center in Phoenix, Ariz., which is scheduled to open in November. The fourth facility, located in Jeffersonville, Ind., became operational in July; it will be staffed and operated by the Bureau. Each center will be equipped with data capture imaging technology (optical recognition scanners) to process census questionnaires.

Speakers at today's inauguration include: Pomona Mayor Edward Cortez; John Thompson, associate director for decennial census; Jerry Agee, vice president and general manager, TRW Federal Enterprise Solutions; Paul Lombardi, president and chief executive officer, DynCorp; and Carlaine Blizzard, director of operations, Information Systems Integration, Lockheed Martin.

Pomona will receive about one million forms daily beginning March 16 through April 17, 2000. The Spanish-language forms from Puerto Rico will also be processed at this site. Pomona is located approximately 30 miles east of Los Angeles, adjacent to San Bernardino and Orange counties.

Chosen because of its location, availability, and accessibility to five freeways, Pomona is also home to several universities including California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; DeVry Institute of Technology; and Westech College. Students from these local colleges will be among the groups targeted for hiring early next year. The site is also actively recruiting employees from community-based organizations to ensure a diverse workforce. Already, more than 800 resumes have been submitted.

TRW's teammate DynCorp, of Reston, Va., that will operate the Pomona data capture center, has begun local area recruiting to hire and train approximately 2,500 temporary personnel. These employees - for many, their first job - will be trained as data entry clerks, mail sorters, and scanner operators. "One of DynCorp's goals," says Sue Ann Maloney, Census 2000 human resources supervisor, "is for these employees to come away with skills they did not have before working with this program."

The 247,000-square-foot facility was previously an engineering facility for General Dynamics and Hughes. The site is owned by Tech Systems Group and leased to TRW for the Census project through December 2000. The improved facility features 56 miles of cabling, 42 optical scanners, nearly a 1,000 workstations, eight sorting machines, and two loading docks for questionnaire delivery.

"TRW has decades of experience managing large high-technology projects. This contract is among the more intriguing enterprises we've undertaken," said Agee. "We are taking our large systems integration expertise and applying it to this immense and complex national program. As we manage and operate these data capture centers, the Bureau can count on performance from the TRW team that helps make this unparalleled national count the best census ever."

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