BTG Selected for $554 Million Army Program.

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 1996--BTG, Inc. (Nasdaq: BTGI) announced that it is one of two winners of the U.S. Army's PC-2 program. The award has total contract capacity of $554 million over two years. It is an IDIQ contract (indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity) for the purchase of technologically advanced personal computers (PCs) and related hardware and software.

Under the contract, the Army will acquire commercial-off-the-shelf personal computers with performance levels equivalent to either a Pentium 166 MHz or a Pentium Pro 200 MHz. BTG will provide warranty service world wide on the products purchased. BTG is also offering a wide variety of operating systems, hard disk drives, color monitors, software, and other related items on the Army PC-2 contract.

The award is the company's first IDIQ program with the Army and is the latest of several major IDIQ programs won by BTG in the last ten months. Others include the Air Force Integration for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (IC4I) program; the Navy's New Technologies for Office and Portable Systems (NTOPS); the Department of Transportation's Information Technology Omnibus Procurement (ITOP) program; and the ImageWorld contract with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The company is also a subcontractor on the Unisys team for NIH's Chief Information Officers Solutions and Partners (CIOSP) contract. The company's contract backlog increased from $788 million at the end of its fiscal year in March to over one billion in October.

BTG Senior Vice President Tom Nixon said the company is pleased to have an opportunity to extend its IDIQ expertise to the U.S. Army. "We have taken the lead in finding new ways to serve our government customers with online catalogs, electronic order processing and checking, customer support, and electronic software distribution," Nixon said.

BTG provides information technology services and products to government and commercial clients. The company specializes in systems engineering, integration and network systems, Internet/intranet access and services, custom computer manufacturing, and the value-added reselling of hardware, software and services.

Additional information on BTG is available on the Internet at http://www.btg.com/, by e-mail at [e-mail], or by calling 703-556-6518. Investors contact: John Graham, 703-761-6675, or by e-mail: [e-mail]. Editors contact: Theda Parrish, 703-761-6581 (office), 703-573-8135 (home), or by e-mail: [e-mail].

CONTACT: BTG, Inc., Vienna

John Graham, 703/761-6675, [e-mail] or

Theda Parrish, 703/761-6581, [e-mail]