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SEC USE ONLY
DOCUMENT SEQUENCE NO.
 
CUSIP NUMBER
 
WORK LOCATION
 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FORM 144
 
NOTICE OF PROPOSED SALE OF SECURITIES
PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
 
ATTENTION:
Transmit for filing 3 copies of this form concurrently with either placing an order with a broker to execute sale
 
or executing a sale directly with a market maker.
1 (a) NAME OF ISSUER (Please type or print)
 
Fortress International Group, Inc.
(b) IRS IDENT. NO.
 
20-2027651
(c) S.E.C. FILE NO.
 
000-51426
    
1 (d) ADDRESS OF ISSUER                                                                          STREET                                 CITY                                    STATE ZIP CODE
 
 
7226 Lee DeForest Drive, Suite 209                                                   Columbia           MD           21046
AREA CODE
(410)
(e) TELEPHONE NO.
423-7300
2 (a) NAME OF PERSON FOR WHOSE ACCOUNT THE SECURITIES ARE TO BE SOLD
 
John Morton III
(b) SS NO. IRS IDENT. NO 
 
N/A 
(c) RELATIONSHIP TO ISSUER
 
Affiliate
(c) ADDRESS STREET, CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE
 
Same as the Issuer
INSTRUCTION:  The person filing this notice should contact the issuer to obtain the I.R.S. Identification Number and the S.E.C. File Number.
3 (a)
(b)
SEC USE ONLY
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
Title of the
Class of
Securities
To Be Sold
Name and Address of Each
Broker Through Whom the
Securities are to be Offered
or Each Market Maker
who is Acquiring the Securities
 
Broker-Dealer
File Number
Number of Shares
or Other Units
To Be Sold
(See instr. 3(c))
Aggregate
Market
Value
(See instr. 3(d))
Number of Shares
or Other Units
Outstanding
(See instr. 3(e))
Approximate
Date of Sale
(See instr. 3(f))
(MO. DAY YR.)
Name of Each
Securities
Exchange
(See instr. 3(g))
Common Stock
Merrill Lynch Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.
One Bryant Park, 28th Floor
New York, NY  10036
  
50,000
$72,500
(8/23/10)
 
14,268,494
8/24/10
N/A
 
INSTRUCTIONS:
1.
(a) Name of Issuer
3.
(a) Title of the class of securities to be sold
 
(b) Issuer's IRS identification number
  
(b) Name and address of each broker through whom the securities are intended to be sold
 
(c) Issuer's SEC File Number, if any
  
(c) Number of shares or other units to be sold (if debt securities, give the aggregate face amount)
 
(d) Issuer's address, including zip code
  
(d) Aggregate market value of the securities to be sold as of a specified date within 10 days prior
 
(e) Issuers telephone number, including area code
  
      to the filing  of this notice
2.
(a) Name of person for whose account the securities are to be sold
  
(e) Number of shares or other units of the class outstanding, or if debt securities the face amount
 
(b) Such person's Social Security or IRS identification number
  
      thereof outstanding, as shown by the most recent report or statement published by the issuer.      
 
(c) Such person's relationship to the issuer (e.g. officer, director, 10%
  
(f) Approximate date on which the securities are to be sold
 
      stockholder, or member of immediate family of any of the foregoing)
  
(g) Name of each securities exchange, if any, on which the securities are intended to be sold
  (d) Such person's address, including zip code    
 

TABLE I - SECURITIES TO BE SOLD
Furnish the following information with respect to the acquisition of the securities to be sold
and with respect to the payment of all or any part of the purchase price or other consideration therefor:
Title of
the Class
Date you Acquired
Nature of Acquisition Transaction
Name of Person from Whom Acquired
(If gift, also give date donor acquired)
Amount of Securities Acquired
Date of Payment
Nature of Payment
Common Stock
 
*
 
Awards under Equity Compensation Plan
 
Fortress International Group, Inc.
 
*
 
*
 
*
 
 
INSTRUCTIONS:       If the securities were purchased and full payment therefor was not made in cash at the time of purchase, explain in the table or in a note thereto the nature of the consideration given. If the consideration consisted of any note or other obligation, or if payment was made in installments describe the arrangement and state when the note or other obligation was discharged in full or the last installment paid.
  
 
TABLE II - SECURITIES SOLD DURING THE PAST 3 MONTHS
Furnish the following information as to all securities of the issuer sold during the past 3 months by the person for whose account the securities are to be sold.
 
 
Name and Address of Seller
 
Title of Securities Sold
 
Date of Sale
Amount of
Securities Sold
Gross Proceeds
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
REMARKS:  * The number of shares on the face of this Form 144 is the maximum number of shares the reporting person intends to sell at this time.  The shares were acquired by the reporting person from time to time under an equity compensation plan.

INSTRUCTIONS:
See the definition of “person” in paragraph (a) of Rule 144. Information is to be given not only as to the person for whose account the securities are to be sold but also as to all other persons included in that definition. In addition, information shall be given as to sales by all persons whose sales are required by paragraph (e) of Rule 144 to be aggregated with sales for the account of the person filing this notice.
  
ATTENTION:
The person for whose account the securities to which this notice relates are to be sold hereby represents by signing this notice that he does not know any material adverse information in regard to the current and prospective operations of the Issuer of the securities to be sold which has not been publicly disclosed.  If each person has adopted a written trading plan or given trading instructions to satisfy Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act, by signing the form and indicating the date that the plan was adopted or the instruction given, that person makes such representation as of the plan adoption or instruction date.
 
August 24, 2010
  
/s/ John Morton III
DATE OF NOTICE
  
John Morton III
     
DATE OF PLAN ADOPTION OR GIVING OF INSTRUCTION,
IF RELYING ON RULE 10B5-1
  
 
 
The notice shall be signed by the person for whose account the securities are to be sold.  At least onecopy of the notice shall be manually signed.  
Any copies not manually signed shall bear typed o  printed signatures.
 
ATTENTION:  Intentional misstatements or omission of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations (See 18 U.S.C. 1001)