Alion Awarded $84.7M Task Order to Support Naval Sea Systems IT Management

Technology Solutions Company to Analyze, Design and Consolidate Navy
Enterprise Sites
MCLEAN, Va.--(Business Wire)--
Alion Science and Technology, an employee-owned technology solutions provider,
has been awarded an $84.7 million task order to support the Naval Sea Systems
(NAVSEA) Command Information Officer (CIO) by consolidating and enhancing key IT
systems, including the NAVSEA Intranet.

The Alion team will support and manage the NAVSEA Legacy applications and
operations as they transition into the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) program
or the Navy Enterprise Resource Planning Tool. The team will also assist NAVSEA
in defining requirements and design standards for its follow-on system, the Next
Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN).

In addition, NAVSEA is consolidating all of their external Web sites and
migrating to single-point hosting while the internal sites are migrated to a
Microsoft SharePoint-based system. Alion is leading the effort and consolidating
the sites under an information portal called I-NavSea.

"This contract helps NAVSEA combine a majority of its support services under one
contractor, which improves technical efficiency, reduces costs, improves IT
security and provides an enhanced integration of all NAVSEA enterprise IT
functions and assets," said Timer Keenan, Alion Senior Vice President and
Manager of the Strategic Operations Group. "Our goal is to assist NAVSEA in
viewing information technology as a contributor to mission effectiveness versus
a simple cost of doing business."

Alion has been providing IT consultation and services to the NAVSEA CIO since
2000. Under this new task order, which has one base year, an option year, and
three Award Term Years, Alion will provide a broad range of operational and
technical services, including resource management, enterprise application
management, database and software development, and network management.

To support the task order, issued under the NAVSEA SeaPort-E contract, Alion is
leading a team that includes General Dynamics IT, Infosoft, Pac Solutions,
Information Innovators and Imagine One.

About Alion Science and Technology

Alion Science and Technology (pronounced: ah-LYE-un) is an employee-owned
technology solutions company delivering technical expertise and operational
support to the Department of Defense, civilian government agencies and
commercial customers. Building on 70 years of R&D and engineering experience,
Alion brings innovation and insight to multiple business areas: defense
operations; modeling & simulation; wireless communication; industrial
technology; chemical, biological, nuclear & environmental sciences; information
technology; and naval architecture and marine engineering. Based in McLean, Va.,
Alion has employee-owners at major offices, customer sites and laboratories
worldwide. For more information, call 877.771.6252 or visit Alion online at
www.alionscience.com.

This press release contains information about management`s view of Alion`s
future expectations, plans and prospects that constitute forward-looking
statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially
from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of a
variety of risk factors and uncertainties discussed in documents periodically
filed by Alion with the SEC.Due to such uncertainties and risks, readers are
cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which
speak only as of the date hereof.

Alion Science and Technology
Peter J. Jacobs, 703-269-3473
pjacobs@alionscience.com

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