SAIC Awarded $16 M to Support Military Health System

• Company to Provide System Monitoring/Management, Engineering Support to Tri-Service Infrastructure Management Program Office

(McLean, Va. and San Diego, January 25, 2010) -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) today announced it has been awarded a task order by the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity to provide system performance management services for the Military Health System (MHS) Tri-Service Infrastructure Management Program Office (TIMPO). The follow on task order has a one year base period of performance, four one-year options and total value of more than $16 million if all options are exercised. Work will be performed primarily in Falls Church, Va., San Diego and San Antonio. The task order was awarded under the Defense Medical Information Systems/Systems Integration, Design, Development, Operations and Maintenance Services (D/SIDDOMS 3) contract.

TIMPO delivers and manages the communications and computing infrastructure necessary to support information technology systems throughout the Military Health System. Under the task order, SAIC will provide system monitoring and management services, and engineering support for TIMPO's data transportation and processing infrastructure. SAIC will provide continuous network monitoring, management, engineering, reporting, and real-time fault isolation. Other services will include status reporting, event correlation, and network engineering support.


"We look forward to continuing our work with TIMPO as they provide performance and availability monitoring and management of new MHS applications, and their associated communications and computing infrastructure," said Anthony Hess, SAIC senior vice president and business unit general manager.

Source : Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI)