HANOVER, Md., Aug. 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The KeyW Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: KEYW ) today announced that the General Services Administration awarded the company a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) under the Professional Support Services Schedule to support the Department of Defense and Defense agencies. The multiple award BPA has an estimated value of $135 million over five years.

Under the contract, KeyW will provide professional engineering services across the Remote Sensing, Command Control Communications and Computer (RS&C4) mission areas to develop, evaluate and operate innovative capabilities for Joint Service needs. KeyW’s Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development Kirk Herdman commented, “This new award is important to growing and aligning KeyW’s IDIQ portfolio with our core competencies.” KeyW’s strategic areas of focus line up particularly well with the scope of this contract—manned and unmanned aerial systems engineering; forensics, cyber technologies, data, control; and computer research, operations and assessments.

“We’re excited to bring KeyW’s strong intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities to this mission. This work helps support near- and long-term warfighter requirements and aligns with KeyW’s core strengths in operational cyber, identity intelligence, advanced sensing and computer forensic capabilities,” added Herdman.

About KeyW KeyW is a pure-play national security solutions provider for the Intelligence, Cyber and Counterterrorism Communities' toughest challenges. We support the collection, processing, analysis and dissemination of information across the full spectrum of their missions. We employ and challenge nearly 2,000 of the most talented professionals in the industry with solving such complex problems as preventing cyber threats, transforming data into intelligence and combating global terrorism. For more information, please visit www.KeyWCorp.com or follow KeyW on Twitter @KeyWCorp .

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Contact: Mark Zindler Vice President, Investor Relations and Treasury 703.880.9379 investors@keywcorp.com