News Release: Markland Technologies Adds to Management Team to Meet Increasing Revenue Growth Demands Chairman to Assume CEO Role; Two Key Additions Made to Corporate Management Team

Mr. Michael Curran, Former Raytheon Sonar design Specialist and Mr. Ed Kessler, Former United States Navy, Agree to join Markland as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Science and Technology Research
RIDGEFIELD, Conn. (Nov. 25, 2003) - Markland Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB: MRKL.OB - News), an integrated homeland security company, (http://www.marklandtech.com) announced today that it has added key personnel to its corporate management team and also changed roles between its Chairman and CEO management positions. Effective immediately Mr. Robert Tarini will assume the roles of both Chairman of the Board as well as CEO. Mr. Del Kintner will assume the role of President of Markland's Advanced Technologies Group and remain as a Director.

These organizational changes are being made to prepare the company for increased sales growth while also providing more effective focused management of the company's portfolio of emerging technologies. The company has ramped up its sales revenues and is now delivering approximately $1M of products and services monthly to its Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security customer base.

Mr. Michael Curran has been named Chief Technology Officer and Mr. Ed Kessler has been named Vice President of Markland's subsidiary Science and Technology Research Inc. They will oversee key management activities which direct the company's staff of approximately 40 employees and key technical and advisory consultants.

Markland Chairman Mr. Robert Tarini stated, " I look forward to taking a more active role in executive management and operations decisions. I am extremely happy to have Del Kintner take over the role of managing our portfolio of emerging technologies in our Advanced Technology Group and feel that he will help to accelerate the commercialization of these technologies. I am also extremely pleased to be able to tell our shareholders that we have shipped approximately $2M of products and services in the months of October and November to date and expect to sustain and grow that $1M shipment target per month figure in the coming months".

Chairman Tarini also stated " Mr. Curran and Mr. Kessler will add many decades of DOD engineering and marketing experience to our management team and will work closely with Ken Ducey and Del Kintner to accelerate strategic sales and product development efforts".

Mr. Curran has a BSEE degree from Columbia University and a MSEE degree from Brown University. He began his career at Raytheon where he was an electrical design specialist in the Sonar Trainers group for 7 years. The sonar training systems he helped design for were installed on US and foreign navy submarines and surface ships throughout the world. After departing Raytheon he has worked on numerous DOD and scientific based product development efforts including most recently the Vehicle Stopping System and APTIS portal prototypes. Mr. Curran will become responsible for all engineering research and product development activities for the company.

Mr. Kessler has a BS Engineering degree from the U.S. Naval Academy and subsequently completed post graduate courses in Business Management. He served 22 years in the United States Navy before joining the private sector. Mr. Kessler has 23 years experience in the Government technical services industry with small companies, the last 21 of which have been in V.P. or President positions. He currently manages the company's chemical agent detector production, new detector development, and Government technical support efforts performed at STR's Fredericksburg, VA facility.

About Markland Technologies

Markland Technologies, Inc is committed to helping secure America by providing innovative emerging technologies and expert services to meet the country's needs to protect our people, our borders and our infrastructure assets.

The Company is a Board member of the Homeland Security Industries Association (http://www.hsianet.org) and is the featured Company on http://www.Homelanddefensestocks.com.

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