Bloomington, IN - May 9, 2006 - ENVISAGE Technologies, the leader in training automation and human capital management technology for the Law Enforcement and Homeland Defense markets, today announced the addition of Massad Ayoob to its Advisory Board. In this capacity, Mr. Ayoob will be assisting the Company in identifying litigation trends and supporting the development of next generation tools designed to help Law Enforcement and First Responder personnel avoid and mitigate the cost of civil litigations.

Massad Ayoob is considered one of the industry's foremost legal experts on the use of deadly force in self-defense situations. Mr. Ayoob is the Director of the Lethal Force Institute, Chair for the Firearms Committee of the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers (ASLET), advisory board member for International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association (ILEETA), and a member of the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors (IALEFI). Ayoob is an international leader in self-defense and firearms training for both law enforcement and civilians. He holds over two dozen professional special weapons and tactics certifications, a dozen professional awards, and dozens of competitive combat shooting awards. As a sworn police officer presently at the rank of Captain with the Grantham, NH, PD, he has 32 years experience as a patrol and training officer.

In addition to enforcing the law, he has extensive experience on both sides of the courtroom, for the prosecution and for the defense, as a highly trained homicide investigator, certified police prosecutor for the State of New Hampshire, expert witness. As former Vice Chair of the Forensic Evidence Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), he is believed to have been the only non-attorney ever to hold this position.

Ayoob has also served as an expert witness, consultant and defense architect in a multitude of court cases across the nation on the defensive use of deadly force. His course for attorneys, titled "The Management of the Lethal Force/Deadly Weapons Case" was, according to Jeffrey Weiner (former President of NACDL), "the best course for everything you need to know but are never taught in law school."

"I have witnessed many cases of officers involved shootings where “Failure to Train” was cited as a means for establishing supervisory negligence,” stated Mr. Ayoob. “A legally defensible system of training records is a vital component in mitigating such claims and ensuring our Law Enforcement Officers and Training Departments are able to document their skills and competence in a court of law.”

"We are especially pleased to have to the counsel of an industry expert of Mr. Ayoob’s caliber. His direction will be invaluable as we continue to evolve our legally defensible training records platform," said Ari Vidali, CEO of ENVISAGE. "With civil litigation on the rise, the Acadis Readiness Suite for the Law Enforcement community is becoming a vital component of a law enforcement department’s strategy to mitigate the risk of litigation.”