WASHINGTON, D.C. — Civil Air Patrol announced today that Intergraph Corporation has become its newest corporate partner.

Intergraph is a leading global provider of Spatial Information Management (SIM). Civil Air Patrol, the nonprofit civilian auxiliary of the U.S.Air Force, made the announcement at its Winter National Board Meeting in Washington, D.C.

Intergraph committed a $50,000 cash donation to help fund CAP cadet programs in 2005. In a separate initiative, Intergraph also has offered to develop an aircraft and ground team tracking prototype that would be field tested by CAP. Plans for this initiative are still being developed.

Intergraph’s cash donation will help fund CAP’s prestigious National Cadet Competition to be held July 6-12 in Washington, D.C., as well as CAP’s cadet orientation flight program. CAP orientation flights are, for many young people, their first experience flying.

As a CAP Corporate Partner, Intergraph receives the right to use the CAP name and corporate partner mark in the company's advertising, marketing and promotional programs.

"Intergraph’s support for CAP represents a true partnership," said Maj. Gen. Dwight Wheless, CAP national commander. "Countless young people will benefit from Intergraph’s financial support for our cadet program. Countless others can benefit from Intergraph’s willingness to provide their technical expertise in developing an aircraft and ground team tracking system to help us perform our missions more effectively.”

CAP performs search and rescue, disaster relief and homeland security missions throughout the nation.

According to Wheless, the aircraft and ground team tracking prototype under discussion is based on Intergraph's IntelliWhere(R) technology, which was most recently used to track security resources during the 2005 Presidential Inauguration and 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City.

“This prototype would give CAP commanders the ability to track the location and activity of their mobile resources,” said Al Allenback, CAP National Headquarters executive director. “It would also allow them to assign work based on the nearest available resources, and quickly deliver mission-critical information to CAP emergency services personnel.”

CAP and Intergraph are now determining what features in such a system will be most useful for the CAP mission environment ad how best to field test the system.

"Intergraph is proud to support Civil Air Patrol and their mission to keep America's skies safe," said Tom Young, vice president at Intergraph Corporation.

Civil Air Patrol is a non-profit organization with some 60,000 members nationwide. CAP performs 95% of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and is credited with saving an average of 100 lives each year. CAP volunteers also perform homeland security, disaster relief and counterdrug missions at the request of federal, state and local agencies. Members take a leading role in aerospace education and serve as mentors to the almost 25,000 young people currently participating in CAP cadet programs. CAP has been performing missions for America for more than 60 years.

Intergraph Corporation is the leading global provider of Spatial Information Management (SIM). Governments and businesses in more than 100 countries around the world use Intergraph technology in their operational systems. Intergraph stock trades on the NASDAQ under the symbol INGR.

On the Web: www.intergraph.com