NCI Awarded $26.5 Million Task Order for the Air National Guard

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NCI, Inc. (NASDAQ:NCIT), a leading provider of information technology (IT), engineering, logistics, professional services, and solutions to U.S. Federal Government agencies, announced today that it has been awarded a $26.5 million task order through GSA Schedule 70 to direct the Consolidated IT/DBA Support for the Air National Guard. The task order has a six-month base and four one-year option periods and continues and expands NCI’s role with this important customer.

“NCI recognizes the importance of this task order as part of a larger Air National Guard effort to meet its infrastructure mandates and advancing interoperability. NCI is pleased to continue its partnership with the Air National Guard to achieve superior mission accomplishment”

Under the Consolidated IT/DBA Support contract, NCI will be responsible for the program management, development, sustainment and security posture for new and legacy Air National Guard headquarters level enterprise applications and their hosted environments. Additional requirements include the management of enterprise record management capabilities, IT advisory functions and enterprise architecture planning and management.

“NCI recognizes the importance of this task order as part of a larger Air National Guard effort to meet its infrastructure mandates and advancing interoperability. NCI is pleased to continue its partnership with the Air National Guard to achieve superior mission accomplishment,” said Terry Glasgow, President.

About NCI:

NCI is a leading provider of information technology (IT), engineering, logistics, and professional services and solutions to U.S. Federal Government agencies. We have ISO 9001:2008 and other industry-leading and globally recognized certifications. NCI’s award-winning expertise encompasses areas critical to its customers’ mission objectives, including enterprise systems management; network engineering; cybersecurity and information assurance; software development and systems engineering; program management, acquisition, and lifecycle support; engineering and logistics; health IT and informatics; and training and simulation. A member of the Russell 2000 and S&P Small Cap 600 indexes, the company was recently named to the Forbes list of America’s 25 Fastest-Growing Tech Companies for 2010, as well as FORTUNE Magazine’s 2010 “100 Fastest-Growing Companies” list. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, NCI has approximately 3,100 employees at more than 100 locations worldwide. For more information, visit our website at www.nciinc.com, or email [e-mail].

Forward-Looking Statement: Statements and assumptions made in this press release, which do not address historical facts, constitute “forward-looking” statements that NCI, Inc. believes to be within the definition in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside of our control. Such forward-looking statements are subject to factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated results. These factors include but are not limited to: the failure of the Government to allot funds to NCI to complete performance of the task order; the risk of task order performance; government contract procurement (such as bid protest) and termination risks; competitive factors such as pricing pressures and/or competition to hire and retain employees; and material changes in laws or regulations applicable to the company's businesses. For a discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, please refer to the section titled “Risk Factors” in the NCI, Inc. Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the period ended December 31, 2010. The forward-looking statements included in this news release are only made as of the date of this news release and NCI, Inc. undertakes no obligation to publicly update any of the forward-looking statements made herein, whether as a result of new information, subsequent events or circumstances, changes in expectations or otherwise.