CSC Receives $50 Million Air Force Contract to Provide Information Technology Support Services
August 12 2009 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
FALLS CHURCH, Va., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CSC (NYSE:CSC)
announced today that the U.S. Air Force's Air Mobility Command
(AMC) has awarded the company a contract to provide applications
infrastructure and systems support services. The contract has a
one-year base period and three one-year options, bringing the
estimated total four-year value to $50 million. This contract was
awarded to CSC during the company's fourth quarter fiscal 2009 and
the value was included in the May 20, 2009, earnings results
announcement for the company's fourth quarter fiscal 2009. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090422/CSCLOGO) Under the
terms of the new agreement, CSC will provide technical and support
services, including information assurance, development testing,
configuration management and training for AMC's command and control
system. Systems and programs within the command and control system
include the Advanced Computer Flight Plan, Airlift Service
Industrial Fund Integrated Computer System, Commercial Operations
Integrated System, Consolidated Air Mobility Planning System,
Global Air Transportation Execution System, Worldwide Port System,
Global Command and Control System and Global Decision Support
System. "CSC is proud to provide systems and technical support to
enable the AMC to fulfill its global mission to deliver maximum
war-fighting and humanitarian efforts for America through rapid and
precise global air mobility," said Austin Yerks, president of CSC's
North American Public Sector Defense Group. "Our team, which is
unsurpassed in its breadth and depth of experience, offers an
innovative and disciplined engineering approach with the
flexibility to address the unique requirements, schedules,
architecture and processes of each mission system." CSC has
supported AMC's command and control system for more than 20 years.
Teaming with CSC is Harris Corporation, of Melbourne, Fla.;
Northrop Grumman, of Los Angeles, Calif.; and TRI-COR Industries
Inc., of Lanham, Md. About CSC CSC is a global leader in providing
technology-enabled solutions and services through three primary
lines of business. These include Business Solutions and Services,
the Managed Services Sector and the North American Public Sector.
CSC's advanced capabilities include systems design and integration,
information technology and business process outsourcing,
applications software development, Web and application hosting,
mission support and management consulting. Headquartered in Falls
Church, Va., CSC has approximately 92,000 employees and reported
revenue of $16.2 billion for the 12 months ended July 3, 2009. For
more information, visit the company's Web site at
http://www.csc.com/.
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