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CSC Wins Contract for Air Force Technical Support
FALLS CHURCH, Va., July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC - news) today announced that it is one of three companies that have been awarded a contract by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to provide technical and management support to the Developmental Planning Directorate in El Segundo, Calif. The total value of the indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to all three firms is $495 million if all options are exercised over a five-year period.
CSC, along with other members of the Engineering, Analysis, Design and Development (EADD-II) team, will provide an array of services to the SMC including developmental engineering, systems engineering, systems integration, modeling, simulation and analysis, and acquisition security.
``We look forward to continuing to support the Air Force mission in acquiring superior, integrated systems to help manage and utilize mission-critical air and space programs,'' said Tom Robinson, president of CSC's Defense Group.
Work will be performed by CSC's Aerospace Information Technologies business unit (part of CSC's Federal Sector business unit), and will involve approximately 150 engineers and programmers in support of the contract in El Segundo; Newport Beach, Calif.; Colorado Springs, Colo.; Albuquerque, N.M. and in the Washington, D.C., area.
The CSC team includes 14 teammates providing state-of-the-art expertise and experience as well as a diverse cadre of 16 associate teammates to satisfy niche needs. The teammates are AUTOMETRIC, Springfield, Va.; The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA - news), Seal Beach, Calif.; BTG, Inc. (Nasdaq: BTGI - news), Fairfax, Va.; Coleman Research Corporation (NYSE: TMO - news), Orlando, Fla.; Emergent Information Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: EITI - news), Newport Beach, Calif.; Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS - news), Melbourne, Fla.; Litton/TASC (NYSE: LIT - news), Chantilly, Va.; Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT - news), Bethesda, Md.; Logicon, A Northrop Grumman Company (NYSE: NOC - news), Herndon, Va.; Mission Research Corporation, Santa Barbara, Calif.; Tecolote Research, Inc., Santa Barbara; Toffler Associates, Manchester, Mass.; TRW, Inc. (NYSE: TRW - news), Redondo Beach, Calif.; Veridian, Arlington, Va.
The Air Force Space and Missile Center is responsible for long range planning of space system research, development and acquisition across all space mission areas, and analyzing and translating user needs into a range of viable concept options. |
