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SMS Receives Order From Alliant Techsystems

1 February 1999

SMS Receives Order From Alliant Techsystems; Aerospace and Defense Supplier to Lease SMS CT System and Services

    AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 29 -- Scientific Measurement Systems
(OTC Bulletin Board: SCMS) (SMS) announced today that it had received a
purchase order from Alliant Techsystems, a prime supplier of aerospace and
defense technologies to the U.S. and its allies.  Under the terms of the
contract, SMS will build and operate one of its SMARTScan(TM) Computed
Tomography (CT) systems to scan military components for Alliant.  The system
will reside at SMS' scanning services facility in Austin.
    "As a true technology leader in many fields, Alliant adopted CT early on
as the preferred method for inspecting some of their most critical parts,"
said Matt Gutierrez, Vice-president of Sales and Marketing for Scientific
Measurement Systems.  "In fact, Alliant has been a long-time services customer
of SMS, using our CT images to evaluate internal features in critical
components that allow them to monitor their manufacturing processes.  Their
scanning services needs simply outgrew our existing capacity.  The operating
lease significantly expands our scanning services department while providing
Alliant almost instant access to state-of-the-art CT scanning and analysis
capabilities."
    SMS designs, manufactures, and sells industrial CT equipment and services
to a worldwide customer base.  The company is a recognized leader in the
development and commercialization of CT technology.  CT provides a fully non-
destructive method for creating 2-D and 3-D data sets of an object, allowing
the user to examine both internal and external features.  SMS is a public
company traded on the OTC Bulletin Board under the symbol SCMS.  SMS is based
in Austin, Texas, and can be reached at 512-837-4712 or at http://www.sms-ct.com.
    Contact:  investors, Howard Burris, President & CEO, email,
howard@sms-ct.com, or media, Matt Gutierrez, VP Sales & Marketing, email,
matt@sms-ct.com, both of Scientific Measurement Systems, 512-837-4712, or
fax, 512-837-9082.