FAIRFAX, Va., Aug. 07, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSCPAC) has awarded ManTech International Corporation (Nasdaq:MANT) a prime contract to provide a broad array of technical and professional services in support of unmanned maritime systems, both surface and subsurface, engaged in waterborne and underwater mine countermeasures. Under this contract, ManTech will provide full lifecycle services including specification and design, fabrication, installation, test and evaluation, fielding, maintenance, training, and configuration and program management of both hardware and software systems. The multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract has a 3-year period of performance, with a potential value of $174 million.
This new award is expanding ManTech’s presence at SSCPAC and enhancing its 9 years of successful support to unmanned maritime systems support (UMSS) capabilities across the U.S. Navy and other Department of Defense organizations. ManTech will send subject-matter experts to Navy ships and activities worldwide as required.
“Providing full-spectrum lifecycle mission-critical support to military personnel in remote locations is essential for UMSS capability,” said Daniel J. Keefe, president and chief operating officer of ManTech's Mission Solutions & Services Group. “We are pleased to provide innovative solutions to enhance the effectiveness of SSCPAC’s UMSS efforts.”
About ManTech International Corporation
ManTech is a leading provider of innovative technologies and solutions for mission-critical national security programs for the Intelligence Community; the Departments of Defense, State, Homeland Security, Energy, Veterans Affairs, and Justice, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the health and space communities; and other U.S. federal government customers. We provide support to critical national security programs for approximately 50 federal agencies through approximately 1,000 current contracts. ManTech's expertise includes cyber security; command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) solutions and services; information technology (IT) modernization and sustainment; intelligence/counter-intelligence solutions and support; systems engineering; healthcare analytics and IT; global logistics support; test and evaluation; and environmental, range, and sustainability services. ManTech supports major national missions, such as military readiness and wellness, terrorist threat detection, information security and border protection. Additional information on ManTech can be found at www.mantech.com.
Forward-Looking Information
Statements and assumptions made in this press release, which do not address historical facts, constitute "forward-looking" statements that ManTech 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. These forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, and actual results and outcomes may differ materially from the results and outcomes we anticipate. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results we anticipate include, but are not limited to, the following: failure to obtain option awards, task orders, or funding under contracts; failure to realize the full amount of our backlog; renegotiation, modification, or termination of our contracts; or failure to perform in conformity with contract terms or our expectations. These and other risk factors are more fully discussed in the section entitled "Risk Factors" in ManTech's Annual Report on Form 10-K, and, from time to time, in ManTech's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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