COLUMBIA, Md., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Essex Corporation (Nasdaq: KEYW) announces the expansion of its Information Assurance (IA) Sector into its own facility in Millersville, MD. The IA Sector is one of the original Annapolis-based Divisions of The Windermere Group acquired by Essex in 2005, providing a full-spectrum of information security solutions for both government and commercial customers. The continued growth of the Essex Annapolis operations requires additional space. The Millersville location was selected because of its proximity to customers and its convenient location between Annapolis and Essex Corporate Headquarters in Columbia. Occupancy is planned to occur in the 2nd quarter of 2007. The Millersville facility is a newly constructed 34,200 sq ft three-story Class A professional office building.
"Information assurance is a vital element in the wide range of technologies and capabilities Essex offers to the intelligence technology marketplace," commented Leonard Moodispaw, CEO and President of Essex Corporation. "The expansion of our IA Sector into this facility is an important positioning to meet the needs of existing and new customers in this rapidly growing market area."
Essex/Windermere currently has over 100 professionals engaged in information security engineering, including development and application of advanced cyber-security technologies to a wide range of customer requirements. Projects include designing, implementing, testing and operating information system security architectures. Capabilities include software engineering, system integration, security testing. Facilities include data centers, network infrastructures, software development environments with a full compliment of modern information assurance technologies and products. Examples of current research capabilities include the new Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), virtualization, wireless architectures, among others.
About Essex: Essex provides advanced signal, image, information processing, information assurance and cyber-security solutions, for U.S. Government intelligence and defense customers as well as for select commercial customers. We create our solutions by combining our services and expertise with hardware, software, and proprietary and patented technology to meet our customers' requirements. For more information contact Essex Corporation, 6708 Alexander Bell Drive, Columbia MD 21046-2100; Phone 301.939.7000; Fax 301.953.7880; E-mail info@essexcorp.com, or on the Web at www.essexcorp.com.
This press release may contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on management's current expectations and are subject to risks, uncertainty and changes in circumstances, which may cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from anticipated results, performance or achievements. All statements contained herein that are not clearly historical in nature are forward looking. Economic, business, competitive and/or regulatory factors affecting Essex's businesses are examples of factors, among others, that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are also expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements included in Essex's SEC filings, including its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and its annual report on Form 10-K. Essex is under no obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update or alter its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
