Army's Mobile Parts Hospital to Deploy to Kuwait

  WHO:      United States Army's National Automotive Center (NAC)
            based in Warren, MI and Focus: HOPE Detroit

  WHAT:     The Mobile Parts Hospital has been a joint venture of the United
            States Army's National Automotive Center and Focus: HOPE.  The
            deployed unit will be in regular contact from Camp Arifjan,
            Kuwait with Focus: HOPE via satellite in order to exchange
            production data that enables immediate fixes to military
            vehicles on duty in the field.

            Editors:  The software programming for the MPH was done and will
            be monitored by Detroit Area Focus: HOPE students!

  SCHEDULE:  Monday, August 25, 2003, 10:30 a.m.
             Focus: HOPE, 1400 Oakman Blvd., Detroit

  ADDITIONAL
  INFORMATION:
            Press Conference Participants:
            David Lyles, Chief-of-Staff for US Senator Carl Levin
            Eleanor M. Josaitis, Executive Director of Focus: HOPE
            Colonel Gary Carney, Chief-of-Staff for the U.S. Army Tank
             automotive & Armaments Command
            Dennis J. Wend, Executive Director of the U.S. Army National
             Automotive Center

  See www.focushope.edu/news for a photo of the Mobile Parts Hospital.

PRNewswire -- Aug. 21