SAIC Team Awarded Knowledge Management System Development Task Order

Business Wire, Oct 17, 2002

Business Editors

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 17, 2002

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) today announced a task order award from the General Services Administration (GSA) National Capital Region, to develop a knowledge management (KM) system for the Air Force Studies and Analyses Agency (AFSAA).

AFSAA is the premier analytical organization supporting the U.S. Air Force.

The time and materials task order was awarded under the GSA IT schedule, and has a potential value of $18.9 million over a five-year period. Under the terms of this contract, SAIC will lead the development of a KM system to include requirements, design options, implementation, resource management, study research, and analysis support.

SAIC team members include Teledyne Brown Engineering based in Huntsville, Ala., and Adroit Systems, Inc., based in Alexandria, Va.

"This contract award expands our current support base to AFSAA," said Fred Schobert, SAIC Decision Support Systems Division manager. "We will combine our team's history of successful analytical support to the Air Force with our proven corporate KM practice to develop an analyst-centric KM solution for AFSAA. This state-of-the-practice solution will be usable throughout the Air Force analytical community, as well as to other military services and government agencies."

SAIC is the nation's largest employee-owned research and engineering company, providing information technology, systems integration and eSolutions to commercial and government customers. SAIC engineers and scientists work to solve complex technical problems in national and homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, health care and transportation.

With annual revenues of $6.1 billion, SAIC and its subsidiaries, including Telcordia Technologies, have more than 40,000 employees at offices in more than 150 cities worldwide. More information about SAIC can be found on the Internet at www.saic.com.

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