Northrop Grumman Joins Cogito Partner Program

Partnership enables federal agencies to improve intelligence and security with Relationship Analytics

(Salt Lake City UT) - January 23, 2006 -- Cogito, Inc. today announced Northrop Grumman Mission Systems has joined the Cogito Solution Provider Program. Northrop Grumman is also trained on the Cogito Knowledge Center, a graph-based relationship analysis tool that allows organizations to quickly query and view large data sets and identify n-degree relationships and pattern matching to improve data analysis, situation intelligence and process understanding.

Northrop Grumman Corporation is integrating the Cogito Knowledge Center with its clients’ applications, enabling them to do predictive modeling on hard-to-solve national problems.

“Integrating advanced technology with our clients’ solutions is a key tenant of our business,” said Sandra Hettinga, principal investigator for Northrop Grumman Mission Systems sector. “Cogito’s partner program and commitment to supporting third-party developers has helped us deliver superior solutions that incorporate the latest advancements in graph-based relationship analytics.”

William Donahoo, Cogito vice president of marketing and product management, said, “Northrop Grumman is a valued partner for us as we target our solutions to the intelligence and homeland security community. Together, we can help government agencies determine relationships between different people or events in their data to provide actionable intelligence.”

The Cogito Solution Provider Program provides products and resources to Solution Providers and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) who need to conduct social networking analysis, pattern discovery and relationship analytics in large amounts of complex security data. For more information please visit www.cogitoinc.com or contact Cogito at 801-858-1000.

About Cogito
Cogito’s Graph-Based Relationship Analytics products allow organizations to leverage their existing data structures and applications and identify previously unknown links and sub groups buried deep in generations of structured and unstructured data. Cogito's Knowledge Center provides a robust framework of application services that allow businesses to improve their data analytics and decision-making capabilities by overcoming the limitations of SQL and relational database technology. The Cogito Knowledge Center allows a dynamic schema that can be updated, changed or reorganized at a moment's notice to reflect an ever-changing business environment. For more information, please visit www.cogitoinc.com.

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