SRA International Inc.

4300 Fair Lakes Ct.

Year founded: 1978

Industry: Aerospace/defense

Post 200 Category: Top 125 Companies

Revenue: $615.80 Million

Net Income/Loss: $38.94 Million

Earnings per share: $1.42

Dividend: n/a

Stockholder equity: $339.27 Million

Auditor: Deloitte & Touche LLP

Stock: SRX

Assets: $461.89 Million

Market capitalization: $1.73 Billion

52-week high: 66.51 4/7/2005

52-week low: 34.9 5/14/2004

Chairman : Ernst Volgenau

President and CEO: Renato A. DiPentima

Employees: 3898

Local employees: 3212

Description: SRA International provides a broad array of information technology services to the Defense Department, intelligence community, Health and Human Services Department and other government agencies.

Developments: Chairman Ernst Volgenau decided to step away from the company's day-to-day business. He gave up his seat as chief executive to President Renato A. DiPentima. The change came as the company continued to record sharp growth, with large information technology contracts coming from civil, homeland security and intelligence agencies. In the fiscal year that ended last June, revenue surged 37 percent to almost $616 million. To keep pace with the new work, the number of company employees rose by 46 percent to 3,800, the vast majority in the Washington area. In September, the company won a $341 million contract to provide technology support to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. It also recently secured a $46 million information technology and engineering services contract with the Drug Enforcement Administration. In February, the Health and Human Services Department renewed a contract with SRA to provide technology support for the Parent Locator Service, a five-year deal worth $60 million. A quarter-century after SRA was founded in the basement of Volgenau's Reston home, it is thriving. Much of the company's work is classified or designed to be low-profile, and the company declines to discuss it. For example, SRA's Orion Center for Homeland Security is playing an important subcontractor role in the creation of US-VISIT, an immense visitor identification, border control and surveillance program. The Orion Center is part of SRA's command, control, communications and intelligence operation. SRA also is a major investor in Mantas Inc., a "leader in behavior detection," or data surveillance, technology used by banks, telecommunications and other financial institutions.