Calian Press Release 2000

CALIAN AWARDED CONTRACT BY DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE FOR PERFORMANCE ORIENTED ELECTRONICS TRAINING

Kanata, Ontario November 23rd, 2000 - Calian (TSE: CTY) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract by the Department of National Defence to provide Training Staff to assist with Electronic, IS and Cryptographic training at the Canadian Forces School of Communications and Electronics (CFSCE) located at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Kingston. If all three option years of the contract are exercised, the total value of the contract will be approximately $5.5 Million. The contract could employ up to 26 personnel in Kingston.

CFSCE provides the electronics training for the Communications and Electronics Branch. The Performance Oriented Electronics Training (POET) Course serves to provide a prerequisite to the advanced specialized (apprentice) training for the Land Communications and Information Systems (LCIS), Avionics Systems (AVS), Aerospace Telecommunications and Information Systems (ATIS), and Fire Control Systems (FCS) courses provided in Kingston, Trenton and Borden. The Calian instructors also assist in the conduct of training which serves as the basis for the Data Communications Systems Maintenance Course (DCSM), the Small Systems Specialist Support (SSSS) Course, the Network Operating Systems (NOS) Course, the Canadian Network Encryption System (CNES) and Tempest High Speed Message Encryption (THSME) Cryptographic courses which are also conducted at CFSCE.

About Calian:
Calian is a workforce productivity solutions provider focusing on the Business to Employee (B2E) sector. Calian's solutions focus on all aspects of employee attraction, development, and retention. Calian, through a series of strategic offerings, assists clients in attracting key resources and in taking advantage of e-Business technologies to leverage their knowledge capital. Calian's Systems Engineering division provides leading-edge communications infrastructures to the telecommunications and government sectors.

Ranking among the top professional services organizations in Canada, Calian has annual revenues of more than $125 Million. Investing in new markets and new opportunities, Calian now serves customers in over 14 countries on six continents through its three principal locations in North America.

For further information, please contact:

Greg Strong
Vice President
Corporate Communications
Calian Ltd.
Telephone: (613) 599-8600

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