Anteon Awarded $47.6M Contract by U.S. Navy to Support Innovative Litt

    Business Editors/Defense Writers

    FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 2005--Anteon International Corporation (NYSE:ANT), a leading information technology and systems engineering and integration company, today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy to provide acquisition and engineering services support to the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Program. The estimated value of this contract, if all options are exercised, is $47.6 million over five years. Anteon has supported the LCS Program since its inception in October of 2000.
    "The award of the LCS contract affords Anteon the distinction of supporting every major ongoing shipbuilding program in the Navy and Coast Guard today," stated Dan Johnson, Anteon chief operating officer. "Anteon is proud to support the LCS Program. LCS is one of the Navy's most transformational programs, countering the global war on terror."
    The LCS Program is building an entirely new breed of U.S. Navy warship. The ships are fast, agile, and networked surface combatants and will possess multiple capabilities to detect diesel submarines and underwater mines, as well as countering high speed patrol boats in shallow waters. LCS is a modular, focused-mission program, designing and providing Combatant Commanders the required war-fighting and operational capabilities. The LCS Program includes innovations such as focused-mission packages that deploy manned and unmanned vehicles to execute missions as assigned by Combatant Commanders.
    Anteon will provide support to the LCS Program acquisition plan in a variety of areas including program management and acquisition, cost analysis, business and financial management, earned value management, risk management, production planning and engineering. Anteon offers LCS high-level support in test and evaluation, life cycle engineering and support, warfare systems development, Mission Module development and Mission Package Computing Environment support.

    About Anteon

    Anteon, headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, is a leading systems integrator, providing information technology and engineering solutions to the federal government and international sectors. Anteon designs, integrates, maintains and upgrades state-of-the-art systems for national defense, intelligence, emergency response and other high priority government missions. Anteon also provides many of its government clients with the systems analysis, integration and program management skills necessary to manage the development and operations of their mission critical systems. The Company was founded in 1976 and has grown to currently employ over 9,100 employees in more than 100 offices worldwide. Anteon consistently ranks among the top information technology integrators based on independent surveys, and has been named to the Forbes List of the 400 Best Big Companies in 2005, earning distinction on the Forbes Platinum List. For more information, visit www.anteon.com.

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CONTACT: Anteon International Corporation Press: Mark Meudt, 703-246-0525 mmeudt@anteon.com or Investors: Dennis Kelly, 703-246-0318 dkelly@anteon.com

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