SAIC's ACQUISITION TRAIL

SEPTEMBER: Talks with Bellcore advance AUGUST: Signs letter of intent to merge with Aerospace Corp. JUNE: DynCorp announces it's evaluating merger options JUNE: Buys select Synetics Corp. business operations estimated to produce nearly $25 million in annual revenue MAY: Posts annual revenue of $2.15 billion, a 12 percent jump from the prior year's revenue of $1.9 billion/B

SEPTEMBER: Talks with Bellcore advance


AUGUST: Signs letter of intent to merge with Aerospace Corp.

JUNE: DynCorp announces it's evaluating merger options

JUNE: Buys select Synetics Corp. business operations estimated to produce nearly $25 million in annual revenue

MAY: Posts annual revenue of $2.15 billion, a 12 percent jump from the prior year's revenue of $1.9 billion

May: Announces purchase of Advanced Systems Group of Horizons Technology Inc. (HTI)

November 1995: Buys an interest in Tecsi of Paris, and Danet of Darmstadt, Germany, suppliers of telecommunications systems.

May: Buys EGS to augment expansion into the nuclear power utilities service arena.

March: Buys Network Solutions Inc.

March: Posts annual revenue of $1.9 billion, a 13 percent jump from the prior year's revenue of $1.67 billion

February: Buys R. E. Wright Associates Inc., Wright Lab Services Inc. and Environmental Restoration Systems Inc.