Acquisition Contributes to SI International's Focus Area
                             of Homeland Defense

RESTON, Va., Feb. 9 PRNewswire-FirstCall -- SI International, Inc. (Nasdaq: SINT), an information technology and network solutions (IT) company, announced today that it completed the purchase of Shenandoah Electronic Intelligence, Inc. (SEI) on February 9, 2005. SEI is a provider of critical business process outsourcing primarily for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). SEI's services include: data and records management; applications processing; file and mail management; analytical support services; and secure optical card processing at one of the largest facilities of its kind.

The acquisition supports SI International's strategic growth plan to broaden its customer base in one of its key focus areas -- Homeland Defense. The SEI acquisition strengthens SI International's relationships with DHS agencies and expands SI International's portfolio of mission-critical outsourcing services.

Founded in 1986, SEI performs facilities and records management functions for several government entities and produces personalized identification cards at a secure optical card processing facility, which is considered one of DHS' "Centers for Excellence." SEI has approximately 1,600 employees with over 99 percent holding security clearances.

Under the terms of the definitive stock purchase agreement, SI International acquired SEI for $75 million in cash, subject to certain adjustments. The transaction was funded through cash-on-hand and borrowings from a new $160 million credit facility. The purchase price is subject to adjustment as a result of certain tax elections. The definitive stock purchase agreement also provides that the SEI stockholders will retain certain non-operating assets and contingent accounts receivable. SI International expects the acquisition to be accretive to earnings. SEI's trailing twelve months revenue ended September 30, 2004 was approximately $73.9 million.

"We believe that the combined strengths of SI International and SEI can better serve our Federal government clients' growing requirements, and create more opportunities to provide our service offerings to a larger client base," said Ray Oleson, Chairman and CEO of SI International. "Combined, we have over 3,500 employees that will enable us to take on larger scale assignments."

"SEI has some tremendous talent and experience in key areas of the business process outsourcing sector for the Federal government," added SI International's President and Chief Operating Officer, Brad Antle. "This acquisition is an excellent fit within our company and will blend well with our culture."

About SI International: SI International, a member of the Russell 2000 index, is a provider of information technology and network solutions (IT) primarily to the Federal government. The company combines technological and industry expertise to provide a full spectrum of state-of-the-practice solutions and services, from design and development to documentation and operations, to assist clients in achieving their missions. More information about SI International can be found at http://www.si-intl.com.

This press release contains various remarks about the future expectations, plans and prospects of SI International, Inc. that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The actual results of SI International, Inc. may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various risks and uncertainties, including the following risks and uncertainties that relate specifically to the acquisition: (i) the risk that the transaction will not be consummated, including as a result of any of the conditions precedent; (ii) the ability to obtain government approvals required for closing the acquisition; (iii) the risk that the Shenandoah Electronic Intelligence, Inc. will not be integrated successfully into SI International; (iv) the risk that the expected benefits of the acquisition may not be realized, including the realization of accretive effects from the acquisition; and (v) SI International's increased indebtedness after the acquisition. Other non-acquisition related risks and uncertainties include: differences between authorized amounts and amounts received by SI International under government contracts; government customers' or prime contractors' failure to exercise options under contracts; changes in federal government (or other applicable) procurement laws, regulations, policies and budgets; SI International's ability to attract and retain qualified personnel; and the important factors discussed in the Risk Factors section of the annual report on Form 10-K/A filed by SI International, Inc. with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available directly from the Commission at http://www.sec.gov. SI International disclaims any obligation to update or correct any forward-looking statements made herein due to the occurrence of events after the issuance of this news release.

CONTACT: Alan Hill of SI International, +1-703-234-6854, alan.hill@si-intl.com .

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IF you or your relative have submitted any petition or application with the defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) -- now taken over by the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS) -- and you had been worrying about the fact that you have not heard anything from either of the agencies, worry some more.

Sometime the end of January this year, firms contracted by the INS at the Western Service Center were indicted for destroying 90,000 documents at the California Service Center in 2002. The shredding wasn't undertaken by INS federal officers, but rather by private contractors -- private company employees who, under contract with the federal government, carry out the mail room operations, which include receiving and acknowledging petitions and applications as well as sending out the approval notices and transmitting approved petitions to the National Visa Center.

Based on published accounts and court records, the manager of the Western Service Center mail room one Dawn Randall, 24 years old was indicted at the end of January by a federal grand jury, along with a supervisor who worked under her, Leonel Salazar, 34 years of age. Both were accused of ordering low-level employees to destroy thousands of documents beginning in February of 2002 and several months after. The reason: to reduce a growing backlog of unprocessed paperwork that the Western Service Center was facing.

According to the indictment, Ms. Randall ordered her subordinates at the INS to count the number of unprocessed papers in the filing center. They indicated to her that about 90,000 documents were waiting to be handled. According to the report, she ordered at least five night shift workers to begin shredding many boxes of these papers. By the end of March, no backlog existed. Problem solved. Ms. Randall continued the shredding orders. Without any backlogs, the INS supervisors were happy, except for those who filed petitions and applications who had been waiting and wondering why they have not received any word from the INS.

The essential question is, what type of documents were destroyed forever? Since some applicants submit original documents, it is likely that the following original documents establishing the petitioner,s eligibility to file the petition and documents establishing the relationship between the petitioner and the beneficiaries are gone for good:

US passports
Foreign passports
Asylum applications
I-140 petitions
I-129 petitions
Employment authorization requests
Original birth certificates
Advanced parole requests
Applications for US citizenship

The scariest part is that the INS has no clue what was happening.

Federal contractors

Because the government believes that private corporations are more efficient in doing the work (both in terms of cost and efficiency standpoints) the INS -- and other government agencies -- give lucrative contracts to private firms. JHM Research got the INS contract for 325 million dollars.

According to the New York Times, the company in charge of servicing not just the Western Service Center but all four INS Service Centers is called JHM Research and Development, a Maryland corporation, owned by its president, a certain John H. Macklin. Mr. Macklin suddenly became unavailable for comments.

Based on company info posted on their website, was incorporated in 1987 under the laws of the district corporation. The self-described company profile includes the following statement:

"The company is a wholly owned and operated minority enterprise certified by the Minority Business Opportunity Commission of the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the State of Maryland."

Other US government agency clients of JHM includes:

US Department of Health and Human Services
Food and Drug Administration
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
National Institutes of Health

This does not include "new contract awards" according to the company website with National Institutes of Health (two contracts), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (three contracts), and a host of prior contracts including the FBI, USDA, NOAH, US Air Force, US Department of Commerce, and others.

The Los Angeles Times, identified the two JHM subcontractors as:

Datatrac Information Services, a Texas-based corporation
SEI Technology Inc., a Virginia-based company

Datatrac is in itself a minority/women contractor: actually named the leading diversity-owned business in Texas, (actually #4), appearing as #40 on the national list. Datatrac was also named "#1 on the top women-owned businesses" list in Federal Computer Week which identifies the top 25 revenue producers among women-owned IT businesses in the federal government. Datatrac President and COO Cathi Yeager appeared in the September 16 issue of the magazine. As for SIE Technology, it seems they have gone stealth, undetected by inquiring radar from immigration practitioners and people whose petitions and applications were destroyed.

The INS or the new bureau that took over its functions, the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS) have not been that helpful either in determining what petitioners and applicants could do, other than ask them to send duplicate petitions and applications if they believe that their cases were part of the 90,000 documents destroyed.

For those who sent original documents -- passports, citizenship certificates, certificates of marriage and birth -- it will take more months of agonizing wait. And that is if the INS or BCIS will acknowledge that the petition or application was indeed part of the destroyed documents.

The problem is, if the BCIS does not know what were destroyed, the agency cannot verify or confirm what petitions and applications are to be given consideration.

Crispin R. Aranda is a US-based immigrant specialist and executive director of the Immigrant Visa Center in Quezon City -- tel. nos. +632 411-0806, +632 414-2655 and +632 373-6799. He may be reached at usvisacenter@yahoo.com or legal@visacenter.org or in San Francisco, CA through +415 834-1052.

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A federal grand jury has indicted two clerical workers for allegedly
destroying thousands of Immigration and Naturalization Service documents in
an effort to eliminate mounting paperwork.

Dawn Randall, 24, of San Clemente and Leonel Salazar, 34, of Laguna Niguel
were contract employees working in the file room of the INS California
Service Center in Laguna Niguel when agency officials grew suspicious about
late-night document shredding at the center, according to the U.S.
attorney's office.

Each was charged Wednesday with conspiracy and five counts of willfully
destroying documents, and must appear in court Monday in Santa Ana. If
convicted, they each face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.

The INS service center receives all mail from Arizona, California, Nevada,
Hawaii and Guam. As file room manager, Randall oversaw supervisors and
clerks who processed thousands of visa applications, passports, birth and
marriage certificates and other papers.

According to prosecutors, in early 2002 Randall ordered Salazar, a
supervisor, to begin shredding unprocessed paperwork after an inventory
revealed a processing backlog of about 90,000 documents.

By March 2002, a month later, the backlog was reported to be zero. At that
point, prosecutors say, Randall told Salazar and others to continue
shredding incoming documents to keep the backlog at zero. The shredding
reportedly stopped in April, when INS officials discovered two file room
clerks shredding documents during an evening shift.

Prosecutors estimated that tens of thousands of documents were destroyed.

"We'll never know for sure," said Asst. U.S. Atty. Greg Staples. "All of
this stuff has been destroyed. There's just no trace of it."

Randall's attorney, Joseph Cavallo, said his client did nothing wrong. He
said she was being made a scapegoat in a dispute between the INS and the
outside contracting firms that employed her and processed documents for the
INS. Cavallo described Randall as an energetic employee who worked her way
up from clerk to manager in rapid order.

"She's an ethical, hard-working young girl and she's been caught up in a
corporate whirlwind," Cavallo said. "She did not willfully destroy records,
nor did she instruct anyone else to destroy records."

The INS contracts with JHM Research and Development Inc. of Maryland to
handle document management services nationwide. JHM in turn contracts with
two other firms, Datatrac Information Services, of Texas, and SEI
Technology Inc. of Virginia, to do work in the Laguna Niguel center.
Staples said the firms had cooperated with the investigation and were not
charged with wrongdoing.

Neither Salazar nor his lawyer could be reached for comment Thursday.

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2 INS filers indicted
O.C. contract workers accused of extensive document shredding to reduce
mail backlog.
By John Gittelsohn and Rachanee Srisavasdi
The Orange County Register, January 31, 2003
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Two workers ordered thousands of visa applications and other personal
documents shredded at the Immigration and Naturalization Service center in
Laguna Niguel to get rid of a growing backlog of mail, federal prosecutors
said Thursday in Santa Ana.

In a case that alarmed immigrant applicants and gave the INS another black
eye, a federal grand jury charged Dawn Randall, 24, of San Clemente and
Leonel Salazar, 34, of Laguna Niguel with conspiracy and five counts of
willfully destroying documents at the INS California Service Center.

Randall, then assistant manager of the file room, ordered the shredding a
year ago after employees reported a backlog of 90,000 unprocessed
documents, the indictment says. The shredding reportedly stopped April 4,
2002, when INS officials discovered two file- room clerks - not Randall or
Salazar - shredding unprocessed documents during the evening.

"It's like a murder case without a body. We don't know specifically what
was destroyed," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Greg Staples. "It's a very
serious breach of the public trust, and the impact falls on a potentially
large number of people."

The destroyed documents, the indictment says, included foreign passports,
birth and marriage certificates, and INS letters notifying applicants of
their visa status. Officials couldn't say how many individuals were
affected. The service center processes documents from California, Ari zona,
Nevada, Hawaii and Guam.

Randall and Salazar are scheduled to be arraigned Monday in federal court
in Santa Ana. If convicted on all the charges, each could be sentenced to
up to 20 years.

Randall's attorney, Joseph Cavallo, said his client is innocent. He said
Randall was a "loyal and hardworking employee" promoted five times while at
the INS from July 1999 to September 2001.

"She's caught up in a whirlwind of entities that are trying to assess what
took place themselves," Cavallo said. "She did not do these things. She did
not conspire with anyone."

Salazar worked under Randall as a senior supervisor. He declined to
comment, other than to say he worked for the INS for four years.

Randall worked for Datatrac Information Services, and Salazar worked for
SEI Technology, two private companies subcontracted to file applications
for permanent residency, citizenship, work visas and family reunifications.
Both companies still provide workers for the government agen cy, but the
INS no longer allows them to shred any documents, said Lori Haley, INS
spokeswoman.

"We were extremely distressed when we found out about this, and the second
we found out about the wrongdoing, we reported it," Haley said. "It's
helped us enhance our security and, hopefully, now the applications are
going forward."

Hundreds of INS applicants called an INS hot line set up after news of the
shredding investigation went public last May, but Haley said fewer than 20
people were confirmed to have lost documents.

But local attorneys and advocates for immigrants said it's impossible to
know what happens to applications submitted to the INS.

"I could have 50 cases that have been shredded and have no idea what
happened to them," said Kathryn Terry, a Santa Ana immigration attorney.
"It takes years to process cases, and we just sit here and wait for them."

The INS is required to send a receipt within 30 days of receiving initial
applications, Haley said, but doesn't always send receipts for follow-up
documents.

Haydee Sanchez, director of Youth Empowerment Services, a Los Angeles
immigration-assistance group, said she was forced to reconstruct seven
applications in the past year because they disappeared somewhere in the INS=
2E

"We don't know what happened to them," said Sanchez, who processes about
2,000 applications a year. "And there are other cases we are still waiting
to hear about."

Several advocates for immigrants said the allegations of shredding point to
a pattern of callousness at the INS at a time when immigrants face
increased scrutiny amid national-security concerns.

"Now we know why they tell us they can't find our applications," said
Sabiha Khan, spokeswoman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in
Anaheim. "This is a case that's been discovered. How many more are out ther
e?"

For years, INS critics have complained that the agency is overwhelmed. The
agency became even more stretched after Sept. 11, 2001, when it shifted
more resources to enforcing visa violations.

Angelo Paparelli, an Irvine immigration attorney, said the INS' growing
reliance on private contractors may be contributing to callous treatment of
clients, invasions of privacy and possibly identity theft. He cited the
INS' embarrassment last year when it was found that a private contractor
had renewed the student visas of Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi six
months after the two men were listed among the 19 suspected Sept. 11 hijack=
ers.

Keith Simmons, general counsel for SEI Technology, said his company is
cooperating with the investigation and continues to supply contract workers
to the Laguna Niguel service center. He declined to further comment on the
case or answer questions about background checks performed on SEI employees
hired for government work.

"The two employees were indicted in their individual capacity," Simmons sai=
d.

In March, the INS will be folded into the new Department of Homeland
Security and separated into service and enforcement agencies.

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I.N.S. Shredder Ended Work Backlog, U.S. Says
By John M. Broder
The New York Times, January 30, 2003
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It was alleged in 11/99 that, from November 1992 through May 1993, Matlock and Root, through their companies Legacy Trust and Legacy Management Group, Inc., raised $3.5 million from 8 investors, including $3.2 million from the Chicago Housing Authority pension plan.

Investors were told that their funds would be pooled with other investors' funds to buy and sell prime bank instruments, specifically, letters of credit, standby letters of credit, and notes issued by the top 100 world banks, all of which do not exist.

The Complaint further alleged that Matlock and Root told investors to expect a high rate of return on their investment, and their principal investment was guaranteed even though they suffered losses of over $2.6 million dollars.

Instead of investing the money as represented, they allegedly used the funds to pay personal and business expenses and to operate a Ponzi scheme by paying interest and principal to prior investors...."

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