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Brownsville Utility Selects Cayenta Revenue Cycle Management Platform as eBusiness Solution

SAN DIEGO, CA., November 6, 2000 /PRNewswire/ - Cayenta, a subsidiary of the Titan Corporation (NYSE: TTN) and a Total Service Provider of e-business infrastructure solutions, today announced that the Brownsville Public Utility Board (BPUB) has selected Cayenta's revenue cycle management solution, UtilityManager, to replace its legacy customer information system (CIS). Cayenta was selected as the vendor of choice over competition that included SCT and PeopleSoft. Cayenta will provide BPUB with the latest in CIS features and functionality, including the option of eCommerce solutions for its customers. Cayenta's UtilityManager is a complete utility billing, customer information and eCommerce solution for municipal and privately owned utilities. Located along the northern bank of the Rio Grande on the United States Mexican Border, Brownsville, Texas is a center for technology, industry and distribution. The Brownsville Public Utilities Board, (BPUB) was created by a referendum of city voters in 1960, and has provided low-cost reliable, electric, water and sewer utility services to Brownsville-area residents for over forty years.

"We began looking for a new solution because the legacy systems we have in place for customer service and billing are not flexible enough to Handle the needs of a deregulated environment. Cayenta's UtilityManager solution not only provides us with the latest in technologies for CIS and billing but was developed to Handle the needs associated with a municipal utility. The system's emphasis on rates, billing, collections and service orders, along with easy to use inquiry screens, showed us that Cayenta has done their homework in developing a solution for this industry. This is a system that will not only meet our current needs for the existing business processes, but provides us with the capabilities to expand into eCommerce to Handle the types of business transactions our customers are coming to expect," said Eddy Hernandez, Director of Customer Service for the Brownsville Public Utility Board.

"We are proud towelcome Brownsville to our family of customers," said Mike Gardner, Vice President of Development and General Manager, Cayenta Revenue Cycle Services Group. "With Cayenta's UtilityManager, our customers are able to meet the challenge of integrating the Web with traditional billing, while maintaining the highest level of customer service. UtilityManager offers a highly flexible foundation product that allows our clients to add on components as the utility market and their customers dictate."

About Cayenta:
Cayenta, a Total Service Provider (TSP), provides software applications and services to Customers to Solve specific business problems. These services include providing information technology and business consulting services as well as the implementation, operation and support of software applications. Cayenta's Corporate Headquarters and Network Operations Center is in San Diego, California, with regional offices in Vancouver, British Columbia; Reston, Virginia; Orlando, Florida; and Salt Lake City, Utah; with service offices across the United States. Cayenta delivers solutions to clients in the retail, manufacturing, trade-media, transportation and logistics and utility industries.

About Titan:
Headquartered in San Diego, California, The Titan Corporation creates, builds and launches technology-based businesses, offering innovative technical solutions. Three of Titan's four core businesses develop and deploy communications and information technology solutions and services. In addition, Titan markets the leading technology for the electronic pasteurization of food products and is continually identifying promising technologies suitable for commercialization. The company has 7,600 employees, annualized sales of approximately $1.1 billion and total backlog in excess of $2.2 billion.

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: The statements contained in this release, which are not historical facts, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Examples of such forward looking statements include the Company's belief that it is in the strongest financial position in its history, that its technology- based businesses will continue to grow or result in profitability, that its new businesses can eventually be spun off as independent companies, that its government information technology business is stable and predictable and that it will be able to capitalize on government funded research and development, and that it expects half of its wireless revenues in the fourth quarter to come from its service business. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in or implied by forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include the risks associated with the Company's entry into new commercial businesses and new markets such as the food pasteurization market that require the company to develop demand for its product, its ability to execute its spin off strategy, its ability to access the capital markets, dependence on continued funding of U.S. Department of Defense and federal civilian agency programs, contract termination risks, risks associated with acquiring other companies, including integration risks, the risks of doing business in developing countries and international markets including foreign currency risks, and other risks described in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings."

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