| Location: | Greenwood Village, Colo. |
| Annual growth rate: | 361.88% |
| 2004 revenue: | 88,244,880 |
| 2003 revenue: | 18,382,030 |
| 2002 revenue: | 8,826,738 |
| 2001 revenue: | 1,092,293 |
| 2000 revenue: | 193,900 |
| Leadership: | David Phelps, president and CEO |
| Number of employees: | 70 |
| Web site: | www.merlints.com |
| Lines of business: | Enterprise architecture, information life cycle management, information assurance, infrastructure and systems modernization |
| Major customers: | Veterans Affairs Department, Defense Information Systems Agency, Homeland Security Department and Air Force |
| Major contracts/projects: | Merlin designed, developed and integrated the Enterprise Data and Global Exchange Portal for the Defense Information Systems Agency on a $1.4 million contract awarded in April 2005. Merlin also won a $573,000 contract in September 2004 to develop a Service Oriented Architecture framework for U.S. Transcom. Merlin served as the prime contractor on a mainframe conversion project at the National Finance Center under a $2.8 million contract awarded in April 2004. |