SAIC wins warfighting center systems engineering deal

Science Applications International Corp. won a three-year, $7.4 million contract to provide management and engineering support services to the U.S. Joint Warfighting Center.

The Joint Warfighting Center is a nexus for joint warfare doctrine and development and joint training exercises. It is part of the U.S. Joint Forces Command?one of nine combatant commands in the Defense Department?based in Norfolk, Va.

Under the contract, SAIC specifically will provide system, software, database and telecommunications engineering as well as system administration and Web site support services.

During the past eight years, the company has worked with the command and the center to provide systems engineering support for the Joint Digital Library System, Joint Training Information System, Joint Events Scheduling System and Joint National Training Capability.

SAIC of San Diego has more than 43,000 workers and had revenue of almost $7.2 billion for fiscal 2005. The company is No. 3 on Washington Technology's 2005 Top 100 list of federal prime contractors.