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ENSCO Wins $67 Million Contract with the Federal Railroad Administration

Falls Church, Va., April 17, 2007 — ENSCO Inc., a diversified research, development and information technology company, today announced it has been awarded a contract to support the Automated Track Inspection Program (ATIP) for the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). The five year contract is valued at $67 million.

ATIP, which is administered by the FRA Office of Safety Assurance and Compliance, serves an important role in the FRA’s overall safety oversight program. The primary purpose of ATIP is to ensure track safety standards are met by FRA inspectors in identifying the most important locations and conditions for them to evaluate. The FRA sets and enforces federal track safety standards and ATIP supplements conventional inspection methods by allowing FRA to monitor track conditions in a safe, accurate, and efficient manner. To meet this goal, ATIP utilizes automated track inspection vehicles, also known as track geometry survey cars, to examine critical parts of the nation’s railroad system.

Under the ATIP contract, ENSCO will operate and maintain the FRA’s three track geometry survey cars. The FRA ATIP fleet was recently expanded with the addition of two new cars. In addition to the DOTX 217, FRA has added DOTX 219, a self-propelled track geometry car; and DOTX 220, which is a towed high-speed track geometry car capable of surveying at speeds up to 125 mph. ENSCO, and its partners, Plasser American and Colorado Railcar, built these new state-of-the-art track inspection cars under a separate contract and delivered them to the FRA earlier this year.

We are honored to have been awarded the FRA ATIP contract. ENSCO takes great pride in our rail safety work; though we often work behind the scenes, our company has been a leading source of technology to the rail industry, transit industry and the FRA for more than three decades,” said Kevin Kesler, ENSCO’s Division Vice President for railroad and transit technology.

About ENSCO’s Rail Transportation Group

For more than 30 years, ENSCO’s team of engineers has been leading the rail industry in developing new, advanced technologies for transportation. ENSCO systems help customers improve the safety, security and quality of their operations. As an active member of the railroad and transit research communities, ENSCO is committed to the creation, development and application of new technology to improve rail safety and performance. Automated and autonomous inspection systems, Web-based data management systems, vehicle dynamics analysis and simulations, large-scale systems integration and other new products and services. The ENSCO name represents the rail industry’s premier source for track inspection, vehicle/track interaction monitoring and railroad asset management technology. The ENSCO-developed line covers technologies for every phase of rail operations.

About ENSCO, Inc.

ENSCO, Inc. provides engineering, science and advanced technology solutions for the defense, security, transportation, environment, and aerospace industries. Founded in 1969, ENSCO is a $100 million, 850-person, privately owned corporation. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., ENSCO has major offices in Springfield, Va., Endicott, N.Y., Melbourne, Fla. and Cocoa Beach, Fla.; field offices throughout the United States; and sales agent offices in China, Israel, the United Kingdom and throughout central and eastern Europe.
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