CSC wins $300 million task order contract to provide information security services to DOD.

EL SEGUNDO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 19, 1995--Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE:CSC) Wednesday announced a contract to provide technical information systems security applications to the Department of Defense, along with other federal agencies and departments.

CSC is one of three vendors, including Science Applications International Corp. and Merdan Group, both of San Diego, that will compete for a total of $1.095 billion of work under the task-order contract. CSC's portion of the award, which extends for one year with four one-year options, is expected to be in excess of $300 million.

The Information Security (INFOSEC) Technical Services Contract contains 14 task areas. It will support the Defense Information Systems Agency's Center for Information Systems Security (CISS) in Arlington, Va. CISS is responsible for all INFOSEC engineering requirements across a system's life cycle, including transition support, integration, systems engineering and operational security.

Tasks include policy, product application, evaluation, certification and accreditation, technology and countermeasures, standards and protocols, training, documentation and information dissemination, technical management planning and program and project management.

"CSC has been very successful winning the majority of competitive task orders for the Defense Information Systems Agency under the existing Defense Enterprise Integration Services contract," said Van B. Honeycutt, CSC president and chief executive officer. "We are eager to apply this same proven record of performance to the INFOSEC contract."

Work will be performed by CSC's Systems Engineering Division, based in Falls Church, Va.

Members of the CSC team include AB Floyd Enterprises Inc., Alexandria, Va.; Automation Research Systems, Alexandria, Va.; Bowie State University, Bowie, Md.; Computer Associates International, Reston, Va.; Digital Equipment Corp., Greenbelt, Md.; DMR Group, Falls Church, Va.; Group Technologies Corp., Tampa, Fla.; Information Resource Engineering, Baltimore, Md.; Intermetrics Inc., Cambridge, Mass.; Metters Industries, McLean, Va.; MIS Training Institute, Framingham, Mass.; and Northrop Grumman, McLean, Va.

Additional team members are Odyssey Research Associates Corp., Ithaca, N.Y.; Oracle Federal Systems, Arlington, Va.; Rapid Systems Solutions Inc., Columbia, Md.; Space Applications Corp., Vienna, Va.; Sparta Secure Systems Engineering Division, Columbia, Md.; Spyrus, San Jose, Calif.; Systems Engineering Solutions, Dunn Loring, Va.; Systems Research & Applications Corp., Fairfax, Va.; The Analytic Sciences Corp., Reston, Va.; USATREX International Inc., McLean, Va.; and Xerox Special Information Systems, Arlington, Va.

Computer Sciences had $3.4 billion in annual revenues for the 12 months ended March 31, 1995. The company has headquarters in El Segundo, and has 33,000 employees in 575 offices worldwide. CSC provides clients with a wide range of professional services including management consulting; business reengineering; information systems consulting and integration; and outsourcing.

CONTACT: Computer Sciences Corp., El Segundo

Bruce Plowman, Mary Rhodes or Spencer Davis, 310/615-0311