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WASHINGTON D.C., Feb 15, 2007--Atlantic Media Company announced today that Allan Holmes, a leading authority on the federal government's use of technology, will join its senior editorial ranks.

Holmes, currently Washington bureau chief for CIO magazine and former editor in chief of Federal Computer Week, will lead a new web-based venture aimed at serving the huge federal market for technology. The government is expected to spend more than $65 billion on information technology alone this year, and billions more on technologies embedded in Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps weapons systems.

Holmes will join the staff of Government Executive, a 77,000-circulation magazine and associated web sites serving senior officials in the executive branch. As leader of the new venture, he will shape content for this audience and for other IT professionals in government and the contractors who serve them. His efforts will augment the already substantial coverage of technology offered by Government Executive, which publishes 21 issues a year and also offers a daily news service through Governmentexecutive.com.

"Allan Holmes is deeply experienced and full of insights about the challenges federal agencies and their contractors confront as they bring government up to 21st century standards," said Timothy B. Clark, Editor and President of Government Executive. "He will bring an authoritative voice and new approaches to serving the thousands of people who comprise the public sector technology community."

John Fox Sullivan, Group Publisher and Chief Executive of Atlantic Media, said the addition of Holmes to the company's senior editorial team "will add immeasurably to the expertise we are seeking as we develop new ideas and new initiatives."

Holmes will assume the title of Executive Editor at Government Executive, joining Executive Editors Tom Shoop and Anne Laurent in the senior management of the enterprise.

Steve Vito, Group Publisher and Executive Director of Government Executive, said: "Our entire business and sales team is excited by this new venture. We expect our new IT initiative will offer companies in the federal market an entirely new way to reach their government clients as well as prospective teaming partners."

Allan Holmes has been CIO's Washington Bureau Chief since 2004.

He was editor in chief of Federal Computer Week magazine and FCW.com from January 2001 to August 2003, and FCW editor and managing editor prior to that. He developed, launched and managed the award-winning daily news site, FCW.com. During his nearly nine years at FCW, the magazine and web site won more than three dozen awards, including Folio Magazine's Best Government Publication and first-place awards from the American Society of Business Press Editors for Best Government Coverage and Best Overall Web Publication.

Holmes also served as editorial director for events and new projects at FCW Media Group. This included running FCW's Government CIO Summit, and managing research projects that measure the effectiveness of government management reforms, governance issues, the interaction between electronic government and the public, and other topics. In an earlier project, he oversaw an expansive joint study with the Pew Internet and American Life Project on the federal government's increasing use of the Internet to sell goods and services to the public.

Holmes has covered health care, business issues and state government, and has written for The New York Times, Time magazine, U.S. News and World Report and Government Executive. He has a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's degree in Public Policy from Duke University.

In addition to Government Executive, Atlantic Media Company publishes The Atlantic, National Journal, Technology Daily, The Hotline, and CongressDaily, reaching a combined readership of 1.5 million decision makers and opinion leaders from Pennsylvania Avenue to the Pentagon, Wall Street to Harvard Square.