CSC Receives $172 Million U.S. Navy Task Order to Provide Operations, Maintenance...
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CSC Receives $172 Million U.S. Navy Task Order to Provide Operations,
Maintenance and Logistical Support Services
FALLS CHURCH, Va., Oct. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CSC (NYSE: CSC)
announced today that the U.S. Navy has awarded the company a task order
extension to continue providing operation, maintenance and logistical support
services for the Southern California Offshore Range (SCORE). The contract has
a one-year base period and four one-year options, bringing the estimated total
five-year contract value to $172 million. The task order was awarded under the
Naval Sea Systems Command SEAPORT-Enhanced contract vehicle, originally
awarded to CSC in 2004. This contract was awarded to CSC during the company's
second quarter fiscal year 2009.
Under the terms of the agreement, CSC will provide comprehensive services
to SCORE, the Navy's premier live-fire, multi-warfare training complex.
Services include maintaining the entire range complex, including tracking
instrumentation and target resources, as well as planning, briefing,
conducting, analyzing and debriefing for more than 1,800 training events per
year. CSC's technical services will support the SCORE mission to improve the
combat readiness of Pacific Fleet air, surface and submarine units in all
warfare areas.
"The SCORE range is critical to the combat readiness of the Navy's Pacific
Fleet, and CSC's full range of operational, maintenance and logistical
training services keeps range systems in a total state of readiness," said
James W. Sheaffer, president of CSC's North American Public Sector line of
business. "We are proud to continue our 23-year strategic partnership with the
Navy by integrating high-technology applications and operations support to
ensure combat readiness."
The Range Operations Center is located in San Diego, Calif., at the Fleet
Area Control and Surveillance Facility, Naval Air Station, North Island. The
range covers 100,000 square miles off the coast of San Diego, centering on San
Clemente Island (Adversary Island).
About CSC
CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled solutions and
services through three primary lines of business. These include Business
Solutions & Services, Global Outsourcing Services 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 90,000 employees and reported revenue of $17.1 billion for the
12 months ended July 4, 2008. For more information, visit the company's Web
site at http://www.csc.com.
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Sector, +1-703-205-6130, clonganecker@csc.com, or Mike Dickerson, Director,
Media Relations, Corporate, +1-310-615-1647, mdickers@csc.com, or Bill Lackey,
Director, Investor Relations, Corporate, +1-310-615-1700, blackey3@csc.com,
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