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U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Awards Contract to SRA Company Wins Potential Five-Year Contract to Provide Information Technology Engineering Services FAIRFAX, Va., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SRA International, Inc. (NYSE:SRX), a leading provider of information technology (IT) services and solutions to federal government organizations, announced today that it has been awarded a competitive contract by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to provide comprehensive IT engineering services. The Firebird Infrastructure Technology Services (FITS) performance-based contract, awarded under the General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule, has an estimated value of $46.8 million over five years if all options are exercised. Under this contract, SRA will be the single systems integrator providing enterprise-wide engineering services to help DEA sustain and modernize its IT infrastructure. The objective of FITS is to quickly, efficiently, effectively, and economically provide the standard IT office automation platform and infrastructure to support DEA employees in meeting DEA's mission. The core DEA local-area network/wide-area network supports over 15,000 users at domestic sites and 76 foreign locations. DEA personnel use this infrastructure to access mission-critical business applications and information. SRA services will include program management, systems engineering and integration, and analysis and implementation of emerging technologies. The SRA team includes Sabre Systems, Inc.; Subsystem Technologies, Inc.; and McDonald Bradley, Inc. "DEA has a critical mission in the law enforcement community," said Max Hall, SRA Vice President and Director, Security and Systems Engineering Services. "The SRA team brings an understanding of business and project requirements and a technical team with the skills necessary to support DEA's mission through the advancement of technology. We will focus on customer satisfaction and sustaining and improving the reliability and availability of DEA systems and the entire infrastructure." About SRA International, Inc. SRA is a leading provider of information technology services and solutions -- including strategic consulting; systems design, development, and integration; and outsourcing and operations management -- to clients in national security, civil government, and health care and public health markets. The Company also delivers business solutions for text and data mining, contingency and disaster response planning, information assurance, environmental strategies, conflict management and dispute resolution, enterprise systems management, and wireless integration. FORTUNE(R) magazine has chosen SRA as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For" for five consecutive years. The Company's 3,500 employees serve clients from its headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia, and offices across the country. For additional information on SRA, please visit http://www.sra.com/. Any statements in this press release about future expectations, plans, and prospects for SRA, including statements about the estimated value of the contract and work to be performed, and other statements containing the words "estimates," "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "will," and similar expressions, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, including: our dependence on our contracts with federal government agencies, particularly within the U.S. Department of Defense, for substantially all of our revenue, our dependence on our GSA schedule contracts and our position as a prime contractor on government-wide acquisition contracts to grow our business, and other factors discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on September 13, 2004. In addition, the forward-looking statements included in this press release represent our views as of October 18, 2004. We anticipate that subsequent events and developments will cause our views to change. However, while we may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we specifically disclaim any obligation to do so. These forward- looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any date subsequent to October 18, 2004. http://www.dea.gov DATASOURCE: SRA International, Inc. CONTACT: Laura Luke of SRA, +1-703-803-1856, or Web site: http://www.sra.com/

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