CSC awarded $15 million Navy contract to support Enhanced Naval Warfare Gaming System.FALLS CHURCH Falls Church, independent city (1990 pop. 9,578), NE Va., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; inc. as a town 1875, as a city 1948. There is diverse light manufacturing, including telecommunications equipment. , Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 1996--Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CSC) has been selected to provide software and hardware enhancements in support of the Navy's Enhanced Naval Warfare naval warfare Military operations conducted on, under, or over the sea and waged against other seagoing vessels or targets on land or in the air. The earliest naval attacks were raids by the armed men of a tribe or town using fishing boats or merchant ships. Gaming System (ENWGS ENWGS Enhanced Naval Warfare Gaming System ) in San Diego. The contract has a base-year value of $4.78 million and three option years for a total potential value of $15.6 million if all options are exercised. CSC will be responsible for developing software and hardware enhancements and providing maintenance support, systems integration and implementation of the ENWGS. The contract was awarded by the Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center The Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center (NCCOSC) is the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command's (SPAWAR's) warfare center for command, control, communications, and ocean surveillance. , Research & Development, Test & Evaluation Division, with headquarters in San Diego. ENWGS is a theater-level interactive simulation of the naval warfare environment that is used to support the Navy training community. The contract will be supported by engineers and specialists assigned to CSC's Systems Engineering Division, Falls Church, which operates a System Services and Technologies Center in San Diego. The division leads the company's activities in support of the defense, intelligence and international market sectors. Working with CSC as subcontractors on the contract will be Sierra Cybernetics cybernetics [Gr.,=steersman], term coined by American mathematician Norbert Wiener to refer to the general analysis of control systems and communication systems in living organisms and machines. , Yorba Linda, Calif., and Advanced Telecommunications Inc., San Diego. CSC had $4.2 billion in revenues for the 12 months ended March 29, 1996. The company has headquarters in El Segundo, Calif., and has 34,000 employees in 575 offices worldwide providing clients with a wide range of professional services, including management consulting, business re-engineering, information-systems consulting and integration, and outsourcing. CONTACT: Computer Sciences Corp., El Segundo John F. Gulick, 703/641-2588 |
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