Army Corps engineering support will come from SAIC

Science Applications International Corp. won a five-year, $250 million prime contract to furnish engineering services and geospatial support for the Army Corps of Engineers' Research and Development Center ? Topographic Engineering Center.

Under the Geospatial Research, Integration, Development and Support contract, SAIC will perform sensor research and development and complete demonstrations in advanced concept and joint capability technologies. It also will support operations across different areas, including topographic engineering, military intelligence, battle command and modeling and simulation.

SAIC of San Diego is a research and engineering company with more than 43,000 employees. It had an annual revenue of $7.8 billion for the fiscal year ended Jan. 31. The company ranks No. 3 on Washington Technology's 2006 Top 100 list of federal prime contractors, ranked according to their IT revenue.