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RESTON, Va.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--NCI, Inc. (NASDAQ:NCIT), a leading provider of information technology (IT), engineering, logistics, professional services, and solutions to U.S. Federal Government agencies, announced today that it has been awarded a competitive task order valued at approximately $5 million under its Air Force Network Centric Solutions (NETCENTS) contract to standardize and integrate the Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) Analysis and Reporting Team (DART) system across the Air Force (AF) DCGS enterprise. The project has a 24 month period of performance.

"Our innovative, mission-focused approach incorporates virtualization, advanced analytics and visualization, and methods for handling structured and unstructured data. This new task leverages our strong technical qualifications, solid partnerships with leading innovators in the ISR domain, and access to significant ISR-related market opportunities via our existing prime contract vehicles"

This effort is part of the aDART Standardization Across the Enterprisea initiative focused on standardizing a set of Multi-INT tools that are used in support of AF DCGS missions. AF DCGS is the AFas premier globally networked intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) weapon system. The DCGS weapon system produces intelligence information collected by the U-2 "Dragon Lady," RQ-4 "Global Hawk," MQ-1 "Predator" and MQ-9 "Reaper," in addition to numerous other ISR platforms. The DART analyst needs to be able to perform timely queries, to a variety of internal and external sources, correlate data, produce products, and post those products to the appropriate locations to enable the timely and effective exploitation of the ISR data. The AF DCGS program is managed by Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agencyas 480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing, headquartered at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, VA. NCI will partner with Raytheon to provide a unique solution for the DART standardization and integration requirement that not only eliminates unnecessary spending for duplicate systems, tools, and software, but also enables DCGS operators to perform DART functions smarter and faster.

aOur innovative, mission-focused approach incorporates virtualization, advanced analytics and visualization, and methods for handling structured and unstructured data. This new task leverages our strong technical qualifications, solid partnerships with leading innovators in the ISR domain, and access to significant ISR-related market opportunities via our existing prime contract vehicles,a said NCIas President, Brian J. Clark.

About NCI, Inc.:

NCI is a leading provider of information technology (IT), engineering, logistics, and professional services and solutions to U.S. Federal Government agencies. We have ISO 9001:2008 and other industry-leading and globally recognized certifications. NCIas award-winning expertise encompasses areas critical to its customersa mission objectives, including enterprise systems management; network engineering; cybersecurity and information assurance; software development and systems engineering; program management, acquisition, and lifecycle support; engineering and logistics; health IT and informatics; and training and simulation. The company is a member of the Russell 2000 and S&P Small Cap 600 indexes. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, NCI has approximately 2,600 employees at more than 100 locations worldwide. For more information, visit our website at [ www.nciinc.com ], or email [ mcrystal@nciinc.com ].

Forward-Looking Statement: Statements and assumptions made in this press release, which do not address historical facts, constitute aforward-lookinga statements that NCI, Inc. 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. Such forward-looking statements are subject to factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated results. These factors include but are not limited to: the failure of the Government to allot funds to NCI to complete performance of the task order; the risk of task order performance; government contract procurement (such as bid protest) and termination risks; competitive factors such as pricing pressures and/or competition to hire and retain employees; and material changes in laws or regulations applicable to the company's businesses. For a discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, please refer to the section titled aRisk Factorsa in the NCI, Inc. Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the period ended December 31, 2010. The forward-looking statements included in this news release are only made as of the date of this news release and NCI, Inc. undertakes no obligation to publicly update any of the forward-looking statements made herein, whether as a result of new information, subsequent events or circumstances, changes in expectations or otherwise.