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McLean, VA, March 16, 2015/PRNewswire/ - WidePoint Corporation (NYSE Mkt: WYY), a leading provider of Managed Mobility Services (MMS) specializing in Cybersecurity and Telecommunications Lifecycle Management (TLM) solutions, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year ended December 31, 2014.

• Received a new additional Task Order under our $600 Million Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) valued at approximately $76.5 million over four years.
• Received three new contract awards and one contract expansion from United States federal government agencies to manage telecommunications assets. One new award and one modification came under the BPA, while the other two, for full TLM, came from components of another cabinet-level agency.
• Awarded a new contract by an existing federal agency customer under the Department of Defense (DoD) for wireless Telecom Expense Management (TEM) services valued at $3.7 million over three years.
• Entered into a strategic partnership with VOSS Solutions to integrate the Soft-ex Optimiser® and VOSS UC management solutions into a unique platform offering.
• Awarded first DoD approval to issue External Certificate Authority (ECA) Personal Identity Verification Interoperable (PIV-I) credentials that comply with DoD requirements and address the needs of more than 40 million users worldwide.
• Continued to work closely with three leading device and handset manufacturers to embed Certificate-on-Device™ security offering into OEM equipment.
• Announced the utilization of Certificate-on-Device on select ruggedized smartphones from Kyocera Communications, Inc. to enable advanced mobile security features such as on-demand VPN.

• Net revenue increased 13.9% to $53.3 million from $46.8 million in 2013.
• Gross margin was 25% of revenue as compared to 26% in 2013.
• Net loss was approximately $8.4 million as compared to net loss of approximately $1.7 million in 2013. 2014 net loss included an approximately $5.0 million non-cash tax provision in the third quarter of 2014, offsetting a tax asset as a result of various financial and regulatory accounting rules and regulations.

• Net revenue increased 48.5% to $16.8 million from $11.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2013.
• Gross margin was 21% of revenue as compared to 21% in the fourth quarter of 2013.
• Net loss was approximately $0.9 million as compared to net loss of approximately $2.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2013.

"We continue to gain new task order awards under our DHS BPA, and we are creating new opportunities in the federal and commercial marketplaces, both directly and through partnerships, for our technology offerings," Steve Komar, WidePoint chief executive officer, commented. Mr. Komar further stated, "We remain excited about our Certificate-on-Device and other next-generation identity management services. Combined with our range of differentiated cross-border MMS offerings and a host of new partnerships and alliances, we believe we have set the stage to exploit a diverse range of new revenue opportunities in 2015."

James McCubbin, WidePoint CFO, added, "2014 was a year of investment in our sales and marketing resources and in our personnel and technology platforms in order to build and improve upon our operating infrastructure, which should allow us to accelerate growth and expand margins as we progress into 2015 and beyond. We believe we will deliver financial leverage and improved operating performance as we work towards adding higher-margin recurring revenue to our sales mix in 2015."

A conference call and live webcast will take place at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time, on Monday, March 16, 2015. Anyone interested in participating should call 1-888-500-6950 if calling within the United States or 1-719-325-2315 if calling internationally. There will be a playback available until March 30, 2015. To listen to the playback, please call 1-877-870-5176 if calling within the United States or 1-858-384-5517 if calling internationally. Please use PIN code 5717039 for the replay. The call will also be accompanied live by webcast over the Internet and accessible at http://public.viavid.com/index.php?id=113389.

WidePoint is a leading provider of secure, cloud-delivered, enterprise-wide information technology-based solutions that can enable enterprises and agencies to deploy fully compliant IT services in accordance with government mandated regulations and advanced system requirements. WidePoint has several major government and commercial contracts. For more information, visit www.widepoint.com.

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