Chassis Plans Forms Strategic Partnership with The Marlin Alliance

San Diego, Calif. - January 12, 2006 - Chassis Plans, The Original Industrial Computer Source™, and The Marlin Alliance, Inc., a business transformation consulting practice, today announced a strategic partnership that will leverage strengths from both organizations to offer a unique combination of products and services to meet the requirements for targeted customer groups in government and commercial industries. The companies' combined expertise will be especially beneficial for customers needing assistance to maximize the use of Chassis Plans hardware solutions within the overall context of larger multi-participant government or commercial programs.

"We only collaborate with a select group of partners who enable us to achieve consistent and superior results for our clients," said Angela Bashenow, Vice President and Director of Strategic Relationships at The Marlin Alliance, Inc. "The sustained track record of expertise in the design, manufacturing and integration of computing platforms that Chassis Plans brings to the table, makes them an excellent partner for us when it comes to specific market segments."

"The Marlin Alliance is an organization that successfully transforms the businesses they represent by employing the most efficient solutions available to achieve everything from business process optimization, to compliance and regulatory standards," said Mark Lovett President and CEO of Chassis Plans. "In most instances, Chassis Plans hardware solutions provide an important element within much larger and multi-faceted programs. Through this strategic relationship with The Marlin Alliance, Chassis Plans is able to offer our customers a greatly expanded set of resources to address overall program and project management, multi-company partnering efforts, and governmental compliance issues."

About Chassis Plans
Chassis Plans is a specialized designer, manufacturer and integrator of award-winning custom and COTS rackmount computer systems and LCDs for mission critical industrial and embedded applications such as commercial and homeland security, defense and aerospace, command and control, factory automation, simulation, imaging, instrumentation, test and measurement and other diverse environments which require performance, ruggedness and reliability.

Chassis Plans products are manufactured to CE and UL standards, satisfying the industry's increasing demands for features and performance. All Chassis Plans products are backed by a full two-year warranty and Chassis Plans' engineer-oriented technical support. For more information, please call (858) 571-4330, visit www.chassis-plans.com or send e-mail to saleseng@chassisplans.com.

About The Marlin Alliance
The Marlin Alliance, Inc. is a Business Transformation Consulting practice. The need for Business Transformation services continues to grow as enterprises look beyond transformation from Internet and Technology enablement to optimization of their IT solutions investments.

The Marlin Alliance, Inc. will help you bridge the gap between business and IT strategies. We team with you to reduce operating costs and increase revenue through process optimization and technology innovation. For more information, please visit www.themarlinalliance.com