performance specifications and other credible data that Militec Incorporated previously submitted was not considered useful to ARDEC personnel at that time.

However, once the traditional MIL-SPEC laboratory work began, we were not advised that a report was generated and released (we first learned, and obtained a copy of this report at the Pentagon) until an inconclusive and partially inaccurate report was circulated through certain military channels; The report did not specify pass or fail, but all interested parties who received the report said that they were "surprised" to learn that MILITEC-l failed the ARDEC preliminary laboratory testing. Paul Tremblay stated on several occasions, prior to this testing, that there would be no official position on pass/fail, nor would there be a report generated until ARDEC understood exactly what they were testing. We fully endorsed this plan of action. Unfortunately, once the testing began, Militec Incorporated was excluded from the necessary technical interchange on MILITEC-l. Further, ARDEC openly admitted that it was unfamiliar with this technology and how and why this product reacted differently than their MIL-SPEC lubricants. As a result, Militec Incorporated was excluded from the previously agreed- upon participation that was considered essential and had been initially requested by ARDEC for this required first step.

For over a year, ARDEC has been unsuccessful in its attempt to establish the specifications and the effectiveness of MILITEC-l using CLP MIL-SPEC testing as a control baseline in their laboratory. In our view, there are four reasons why ARDEC has been unsuccessful in its attempt to understand and characterize MILITEC-1:

(1) ARDEC has consistently tried to put MILITEC-l in the same MIL-SPEC category as CLP (cleaner, lubricant, preservative), i.e., a "square peg in a round hole,"
(2) The ARDEC laboratory does not have the technological capability to duplicate or correlate laboratory testing to "real world" field use. Unfortunately, ARDEC can only rely on their historical laboratory data with CLP MIL-SPEC testing and other MIL-SPEC testing standards. We wholeheartedly agree that it is not uncommon for laboratories to lack this capability concerning a category of products for which it has no historical laboratory baseline specifications.

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