Australia Awards Tsunami Buoy Contract to SAIC
SAN DIEGO and McLEAN, Va., Sept. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE: SAI) announced today it has been awarded a contract for the production and delivery of Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami (DART™) systems by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology.
SAIC is scheduled to deliver the first tsunami detection buoy to the bureau in Melbourne, Australia in February 2008. SAIC will provide two DART buoy systems as a change-over and first line spare for their initial buoy systems. The buoy systems are comprised of three subsystems: a surface communications buoy, a buoy mooring and a bottom pressure recorder. These systems are expected to be eventually deployed in the Tasman and Coral Seas.
"This project is a major step forward in supporting Australia's efforts to establish their national tsunami warning system," said Robert Lawson, vice- president and director of SAIC's Tsunami Buoy Program. "SAIC has invested heavily in producing a commercially available, fully operational, tsunami detection system built to a set of published standards and subject to stringent U.S. government testing requirements. Since the devastating Sumatra tsunami in December of 2004, we have been developing and testing a dependable system that meets international requirements."
As a major support contractor to NOAA's National Data Buoy Center, SAIC has extensive experience building, deploying and maintaining the DART buoys. SAIC is licensed by NOAA to build DART. systems for the international market.
"This is another demonstration of SAIC's capabilities as a lead system engineering and integration company," said Deborah Alderson, president of SAIC's Defense Solutions Group. "This is an excellent example of our capability to fully integrate software and hardware design and build out the complete solution."
The SAIC tsunami buoy team built on this background as well as decades of experience designing and deploying ocean sensors in support of other U.S. government agencies to develop a commercial version of the DART buoy to meet the emerging requirements of the international marketplace. For almost a year, SAIC has operated the SAIC tsunami buoy (STB) on station 200 nautical miles off the coast of southern California near a NOAA DART station for the purposes of testing and analysis. Recently, the STB successfully completed independent testing and was found to meet or exceed DART. operational specifications and standards.
SAIC is a leading provider of scientific, engineering, systems integration and technical services and solutions to all branches of the U.S. military, agencies of the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other U.S. Government civil agencies, as well as to customers in selected commercial markets. With more than 44,000 employees in over 150 cities worldwide, SAIC engineers and scientists solve complex technical challenges requiring innovative solutions for customers' mission-critical functions. SAIC had annual revenues of $8.3 billion for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2007.
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SOURCE SAIC
09/27/2007
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