Exhibit 99.1

                                                              September 15, 2003

  Important Notice Concerning Your Rights Under the
  VSE Corporation Employee ESOP/401(k) Plan

  Dear VSE Employees:

  1. This notice is to inform you that the VSE Corporation Employee ESOP/401(k)
  will be changing the 401(k) Plan administrator and record keeper from Putnam
  Investments to Merrill Lynch effective November 1, 2003.

  2. As a result of these changes, you temporarily will be unable to direct or
  diversify investments in your individual accounts, obtain a loan from the
  plan, or obtain a distribution from the plan. This period, during which you
  will be unable to exercise these rights otherwise available under the plan,
  is called a "blackout period." Whether or not you are planning retirement in
  the near future, we encourage you to carefully consider how this blackout
  period may affect your retirement planning, as well as your overall financial
  plan.

  3. The blackout period for enrollments, loans, and distributions will begin on
  Friday, October 17, 2003.  This means all paperwork for these services must be
  sent to the Corporate Human Resources Department on or before Friday,
  October 17, 2003 for processing. The blackout period for investment fund
  transfers, election changes, and other website services will begin on Tuesday,
  October 28, 2003 at 3:00 pm (Eastern Time). Putnam Investments will be unable
  to process transaction requests after that time. This is referred to as the
  beginning of the "inquiry-only period."

  Although Putnam and its phone representatives will not be able to process any
  further transactions, you will be able to access your account balance on the
  Plan's Putnam Internet site or via the Voice Response Unit. The blackout
  period will end on Friday, November 21, 2003. If the conversion process is
  completed before November 21, 2003, we will advise you of the new date.

  4. During the blackout period you will be unable to direct or diversify the
  assets held in your plan account. For this reason, it is very important that
  you review and consider the appropriateness of your current investments in
  light of your inability to direct or diversify those investments during the
  blackout period. For your long-term retirement security, you should give
  careful consideration to the importance of a well-balanced and diversified
  investment portfolio, taking into account all your assets, income and
  investments. You should be aware that there is a risk to holding substantial
  portions of your assets in the securities of any one company, as individual
  securities tend to have wider price swings, up and down, in short periods of
  time, than investments in diversified funds. Stocks that have wide price
  swings might have a large loss during the blackout period, and you would not
  be able to direct the sale of such stocks from your account during the
  blackout period.

  5. Federal law generally requires that you be furnished notice of a blackout
  period at least 30 days in advance of the last date on which you could
  exercise your affected rights immediately before the commencement of any
  blackout period in order to provide you with sufficient time to consider the
  effect of the blackout period on your retirement and financial plans.

  6. If you have any questions concerning this notice, you should contact
  VSE Corporation, June James, Benefits Manager, 2550 Huntington Avenue,
  Alexandria, VA  22303, (703) 329-4215 or email at jjjames@vsecorp.com.  You
  may also contact Liz Price, Director of Human Resources at (703) 329-4233 or
  email at emprice@vsecorp.com.