INDUSTRY

FAIRFAX, VA -- PEC Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ NM:PECS), announced today that as a subcontractor to Raytheon, the company will provide engineering support to help design and build the information security architecture for the Department of the Navy's Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) project. PEC will provide information security support to the NMCI information assurance architecture, including elements for network boundaries, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), directory services and security operations centers. PEC will provide network security engineering, including requirement analysis, architectural design, system interoperability, configuration and integration, test and evaluation, training, and policy development and management. The order provides for support for the first year of the program and is valued at $7.3 million. The company anticipates the Raytheon relationship to be extended as the program proceeds. The NMCI contract, which was awarded to the EDS-led Information Strike Force team in October 2000, is a comprehensive, enterprise-wide initiative that will make the full range of network-based information services available to Sailors and Marines for day-to-day activities and in war. NMCI will give the Navy and Marine Corps secure, universal access to integrated voice, video and data communications, afford pier-side connectivity to Navy vessels in port, and link more than 371,000 desktops across the United States as well as sites in Puerto Rico, Iceland and Cuba. The NMCI contract is the largest Federal information technology contract in history valued at more than $6.9 billion