Engineered Support Earns $279 Million Contract for MNF-I Command & Control Infrastructure

Engineered Support Earns $279 Million Contract for MNF-I Command
& Control Infrastructure 


ST. LOUIS, April 12  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Engineered Support Systems, Inc.
(NASDAQ:EASI) received a contract from the U.S. Army to provide a scaleable,
highly-available, integrated, open-standards Command and Control Information
Technology Infrastructure (C2ITI) for the Multi-National Forces -- Iraq
(MNF-I), the Coalition military command providing for security in Iraq at the
request of the Iraq Interim Government.  The MNF-I effort is a follow-on to a
$52 million ceiling contract with the Army to support the communications needs
of the Coalition Provisional Authority, the erstwhile governing body of Iraq,
received by TAMSCO early in 2004.

The "time and materials" contract provides an initial funding level of $12.2
million, with a ceiling of $279 million over the 3-year performance period, and
will be performed by team led by Engineered Support's wholly-owned subsidiary,
Technical and Management Services Corporation (TAMSCO), and will be supported
by a number of subcontractors including Raytheon, Artel, AT&T, Obron and by
Engineered Support's most-recently acquired subsidiary, Spacelink International
LLC, according to Gerald A. Potthoff, Engineered Support's Vice Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer.

"Under this effort, the TAMSCO team provides program management, architectural
design and engineering, installation, operation and maintenance, network
management and systems administration support," Potthoff said. "Our team's
knowledge and experience along with state-of-the-art technical engineering and
support solutions offers unique capabilities to the U.S. Army."

Engineered Support Systems, Inc. provides advanced sustainment solutions
including the design, manufacture and supply of integrated military
electronics, support equipment and technical and logistics services for all
branches of America's armed forces and certain foreign militaries, homeland
security forces and selected government and intelligence agencies.  The company
also produces specialized equipment and systems for commercial and industrial
applications.  For additional information, please visit the Company's website
at http://www.engineeredsupport.com/ .

Certain statements in this press release are forward looking in nature and,
accordingly, are subject to risks and uncertainties.  The actual results may
differ materially from those described or contemplated. 

DATASOURCE: Engineered Support Systems, Inc.



CONTACT:  Larry Cox, Communications Manager of Engineered Support

Systems, Inc., [phone],  



Web site:  http://www.engineeredsupport.com/ 

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