SAIC Awarded Risk Management Agency Task Order

Aug 21, 2006 - (SAN DIEGO, CA and MCLEAN, VA) - Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today that it was awarded a Millennia task order with a maximum value of $120 million to assist the Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) in the maintenance of legacy systems, including the re-engineering of the agency’s current information technology application environment. Awarded by the GSA Federal Systems Integration and Management Center, the cost-plus-award-fee task order, which has a base performance period of one-year plus four one-year options, will be performed in Kansas City, Mo., with support from workers in the Washington, D.C. area.

Under this System Integration Support Services task order, SAIC will operate and maintain the RMA’s hardware and software infrastructure. SAIC will help to transform the crop insurance program into a broad-based safety net for producers, and these producers will work to ensure that American agriculture remains solid, solvent and globally competitive in the 21st Century.

“SAIC is extremely pleased to continue our successful business relationship with the GSA Federal Systems Integration and Management Center and the RMA,” said K. Stuart Shea, SAIC senior vice president and general manager of the Space and Geospatial Intelligence Business Unit. “We look forward to providing our expertise with regard to RMA’s Emerging Information Technology Architecture project, as well as the management and administration of RMA’s infrastructure. Our team will continue to strive to meet this customer’s vital mission.”

The Geospatial Technologies Operation, based in Chantilly, Va., is responsible for program execution. GTO has been providing support to the RMA for six years.

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