SAIC Awarded $13 Million Contract to Support Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's...

SAIC Awarded $13 Million Contract to Support Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency's Machine Reading Program
Company to Help Bridge Gap Between Human Textual Representations and Those
Used By Machines

SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, Va., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Science
Applications International Corporation (NYSE: SAI) today announced it has been
awarded a prime contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA) and the U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). SAIC will create
a research framework for the development of reading system technologies and
evaluate the performance of these technologies in support of DARPA's Machine
Reading program. The contract has a five year period of performance and is
valued at more than $13 million. Work will be performed primarily in
Arlington, Va.

DARPA's Machine Reading program seeks to advance the ability of machines to
understand text by bridging the gap between human textual representations and
those used by machine reasoning systems. Under the contract, SAIC will design
and implement a complete research framework that supports the development of
Reading System technologies. This framework will support progress in the field
by program participants and a broad community of researchers in the artificial
intelligence and natural language processing communities. SAIC will also
conduct performance evaluations of technologies developed by program
participants.

"The goal of the program is to create general purpose reading systems which
can ingest, understand, and make inferences from the mountains of text that
collectively encode vast stores of knowledge inaccessible to current
technology," said John Fratamico, SAIC senior vice president and business unit
general manager. "We look forward to helping build a strong and successful
program that serves as the foundation for an exciting new research area with
broad applications in the defense and intelligence communities, as well as the
commercial market."

About SAIC
SAIC is a FORTUNE 500(R) scientific, engineering, and technology applications
company that uses its deep domain knowledge to solve problems of vital
importance to the nation and the world, in national security, energy and the
environment, critical infrastructure, and health. The company's approximately
45,000 employees serve customers in the U.S. Department of Defense, the
intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, other U.S.
Government civil agencies and selected commercial markets. SAIC had annual
revenues of $10.1 billion for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2009. For
more information, visit www.saic.com.
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constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. A
number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements,
or industry results to be very different from the results, performance, or
achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Some of
these factors include, but are not limited to, the risk factors set forth in
SAIC's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended January 31, 2009, and
other such filings that SAIC makes with the SEC from time to time. Due to such
uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on
such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.

Contact: Melissa Koskovich Laura Luke
(703) 676-6762 (703) 676-6533
Melissa.l.koskovich@saic.com laura.luke@saic.com

SOURCE SAIC

Melissa Koskovich, +1-703-676-6762, Melissa.l.koskovich@saic.com, or Laura
Luke, +1-703-676-6533, laura.luke@saic.com, both of SAIC