Boeing is the world's leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined. Additionally, Boeing designs and manufactures rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, satellites, launch vehicles and advanced information and communication systems. Boeing is a major service provider to NASA, and also provides numerous military and commercial airline support services. Boeing has customers in more than 90 countries.

website: www.boeing.com

Energy Northwest is a Joint Operating Agency composed of 22 member utilities. It has been a leading power supplier to the Northwest public power community for 50 years. Headquartered just north of Richland, Washington, Energy Northwest provides electricity, at cost, to public power utilities and municipalities. Its staff represents a broad range of professions, from electricians to project managers, nuclear operators to accountants, and pipe fitters to engineers.

website: www.energy-northwest.com

Exelon Corporation is one of the nation’s largest electric utilities, with more than $15 billion in annual revenues. It distributes electricity to approximately 5.2 million customers in Illinois and Pennsylvania, and gas to 480,000 customers in the Philadelphia area. Exelon operates the largest fleet of nuclear power plants in the United States, the third largest commercial nuclear fleet in the world, and is generating nuclear energy more efficiently than ever.

website: www.exeloncorp.com

Founded as Federal Express in 1971, today FedEx provides customers and businesses worldwide with a broad portfolio of transportation, e-commerce and business services. We offer integrated business applications through operating companies competing collectively and managed collaboratively, under the respected FedEx brand. It is consistently ranked among the world's most admired and trusted employers, and has 290,000 employees and contractors.

website: www.fedex.com

Fluor Corporation is one of the world's largest publicly traded engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance services companies. With a work force of more than 46,000, Fluor maintains a network of offices in more than 25 countries across six continents. Fluor is a FORTUNE 200 company that serves clients in the chemicals and petrochemicals; commercial and institutional; government; life sciences; manufacturing; microelectronics; mining; oil and gas; power; telecommunications; and transportation & infrastructure industries.

website: www.fluor.com

Ford Motor Company, a global automotive industry leader based in Dearborn, Michigan, manufactures or distributes automobiles in 200 markets across six continents. With about 244,000 employees and about 90 plants worldwide, the company’s core and affiliated automotive brands include Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Volvo, Mazda, and, until completion of their sale, Jaguar and Land Rover. The company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company.

website: www.ford.com

Lockheed Martin Corporation, an advanced technology company, was formed in March 1995 with the merger of two of the world's premier technology companies, Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta Corporation. Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems, products and services.

website: www.lockheedmartin.com

The NB Power Group employs over 2,500 New Brunswickers and consists of a holding company and four operating companies. The Group operates one of North America’s most diverse networks of generating stations consisting of nuclear, hydro, coal, oil and diesel powered stations, with an installed net capacity of 3,959 MW. The NB Power Group is committed to providing safe, reliable and efficient power to its more than 375,000 customers in New Brunswick.

website: www.nbpower.com

Northrop Grumman Corporation is a global defense and technology company whose 120,000 employees provide innovative systems, products, and solutions in information and services, electronics, aerospace and shipbuilding to government and commercial customers worldwide. Seven business sectors comprise Northrop Grumman.

website: www.northropgrumman.com

Pacific Gas and Electric Company, incorporated in California in 1905, is one of the largest combination natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, the company is a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation. With approximately 20,000 employees, the company provides natural gas and electric service to approximately 15 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern and central California.

website: www.pge.com

Progress Energy, headquartered in Raleigh, N.C., is a Fortune 250 energy company with more than 21,000 megawatts of generation capacity and $9 billion in annual revenues. The company will observe its 100th anniversary in 2008. Progress Energy includes two major utilities that serve more than 3.1 million customers in the Carolinas and Florida. The company is the 2006 recipient of the Edison Electric Institute's Edison Award, the industry's highest honor, in recognition of its operational excellence. The company also is the first utility to receive the prestigious J.D. Power and Associates Founder's Award for customer service.

website: www.progress-energy.com

The South Texas Project (STP) Electric Generating Station is one of the newest and largest nuclear power plants in the country. STP's two reactors produce 2,700 megawatts of electricity, enough for more than one million homes and businesses in south central Texas. The plant is an industry leader in safety, reliability and efficiency. In the last three years, STP has achieved the lowest fuel cost of all power plants in the U.S.

website: www.stpnoc.com