SAIC Awarded Contract From Office of the Secretary of Defense
(SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, VA) Oct 19, 2005 - Science Applications International Corporation's (SAIC) Engineering, Test and Analysis Business Unit announced today that it has been awarded a contract to provide scientific, engineering, technical and administrative support to the Office of the Director, Systems Engineering, Office of the Secretary of Defense.
The cost-plus-award-fee systems engineering contract is for one year with four additional option years, which has a total contract value of $39 million if all option years are exercised. Work will be performed primarily in Washington, D.C., and Arlington, Va.
“This is a key customer and this win is extremely important to our strategic business plan,” said Chuck Zang, SAIC senior vice president and a general manager in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Group. “SAIC is pleased to have the opportunity to support the systems engineering director in his mission to apply sound systems engineering development, test and evaluation and related technical disciplines to the department's acquisition programs.”
The director of systems engineering promotes the technical approaches across the department's acquisition community. This office raises awareness of the importance of effective systems engineering and drives the state-of-the-practice into technical planning and execution. The office establishes systems engineering policy, guidance, best practices, education and training through collaboration across academia, industry and government communities. It also provides technical insight to Department of Defense leadership to support decision-making.
SAIC teammates and subcontractors include Northrop Grumman Corp., based in Los Angeles, Calif.; Quadelta, Inc., based in Alexandria, Va.; DDL OMNI Engineering LLC., based in McLean, Va.; Innovative Management Concepts, Inc., based in Dulles, Va.; Suh'dutsing Technologies, LLC, based in Cedar City, Utah; Simulation Strategies Inc., based in Washington, D.C.; John H. Northrop & Associates, LLC, based in Burke, Va.; and SAM, Inc, based in Silver Spring, Md.
SAIC is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States, with annual revenues of $7.2 billion and more than 43,000 employees in over 150 cities worldwide. SAIC engineers and scientists solve complex technical problems in national security, homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, health care, and logistics. SAIC: FROM SCIENCE TO SOLUTIONS™
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