Horne Engineering Services, LLC Executes Agreement with Search and Clear, LLC to Provide Cross Collaboration™ to Government and Commercial Customers

FAIRFAX, Va., July 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Horne Engineering Services, LLC, a subsidiary of Horne International, Inc. (OTCBB: HNIN), today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Search and Clear, LLC of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to provide Cross Collaboration™ to government and commercial customers.  

Cross Collaboration™ combines document management, work flow management, real time feedback, a sophisticated auditing system, and absolute security all in one easy to use platform.  The software readily and seamlessly integrates with the user's current enterprise document management system.  Pricing is made simple with a monthly charge per user.  Package discounts are available for large organizations.  Cross Collaboration™ is a perfect fit for companies and organizations developing requests for proposals, managing permitting processes, and otherwise dealing with the mountains of documents necessary to implement complex business operations, both for internal communications and collaboration with their own customers/clients, vendors and outside collaborators in the process.    

"Current Federal government budget constraints are opening the door for efficiency software products.  Doing more with less will undoubtedly be the mandate for the U.S. government going forward," said Neal Nordlinger, President of Search and Clear, LLC.  "Horne is providing Cross Collaboration™ with a direct marketing opportunity to the Federal government.  We expect that our product will be just as well received in government agencies as it is with our Fortune 500 customers."

"Agreements like the ones with Search and Clear and our other reseller partners provide an effective method of bringing a suite of Efficiency products to customers," said Evan Auld-Susott, CEO of Horne International.  "Cross Collaboration™ won't only be a catalog product for Horne, but we intend to harness the power of this software ourselves in our upcoming systems and services integration work."

About Horne

Horne International provides engineering services for a sustainable infrastructure, with an emphasis on security, energy, and the environment. The company is a trusted partner for its customers in the defense, environment and energy, homeland security and transportation sectors. For more information, please visit www.horne.com.

About Search and Clear, LLC

Search and Clear's collaborative platform was originally created in 2005 to serve the complex world of intellectual property rights clearances for the motion picture and television industry and was quickly embraced by producers, production companies, attorneys, and insurance carriers -- providing a secure, web-based collaborative platform enabling companies to centralize and manage the complex process of managing the moving parts of motion picture, television and commercials production rights research and documentation (for licensed images, music, copyrights, locations, etc.). Search and Clear has since then expanded the platform as a collaboration/process management tool for other industries, making Cross Collaboration™ today's most-intuitive and productive platform for project team to enterprise wide collaboration.  For more information, please visit www.crosscollaboration.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This news release contains forward-looking statements as defined by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance and underlying assumptions and other statements, which are other than statements of historical facts. These statements are subject to uncertainties and risks including, but not limited to, risks set forth in documents filed by the company from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All such forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, and whether made by, or on behalf of, the Company, are expressly qualified by these cautionary statements and any other cautionary statements which may accompany the forward-looking statements. In addition, the Company disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof.

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