CSC wins $35 million contract to operate data center for NOAA.

FALLS CHURCH, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 1996--Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC:NYSE) has been awarded a contract to operate the Central Satellite Data Processing Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Suitland, Md.

The eight-year contract has a base year valued at $4.3 million and seven one-year options, with a total value of $35 million if all options are exercised. The contract also includes the capacity to acquire an additional $35 million in incidental hardware, software, software licenses, and software development over its eight-year duration.

CSC will provide project management, system design and analysis, programming, applications and system software development and maintenance, hardware maintenance, system/software engineering support, product assurance and procurement services.

The Satellite Data Processing Center is a part of the Information Processing Division of NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service (NESDIS). The center receives and processes real-time environmental satellite data from NOAA's polar and geostationary satellites, DoD's Defense Meteorologic Satellites, the European METEOSAT and ERS-2 spacecraft and the Japanese GMS and ADEOS satellites.

An agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA's mission is to describe and predict changes in the Earth's environment, and to conserve and manage the Nation's coastal and marine resources to ensure sustainable economic opportunities. The NESDIS operates geostationary and polar-orbiting environmental satellites, including the tracking of severe weather and hurricanes, and provides direct inputs into the numerical forecast models of the National Weather Service.

The contract will be performed by about 40 specialists in meteorology, computer analysis and programming, systems programming, and local area network administration assigned to CSC's System Sciences Division, headquartered in Calverton, Md.

Teaming with CSC on this contract are Science & Technology Corp. (STC), Hampton, Va.; Alta Systems, Vienna, Va., and Westover Consulting, Silver Spring, Md., which will share at least 40 percent of the subcontracted labor costs. Other CSC teammates are Amdahl and Computer Associates.

CSC had $5 billion in revenues for the 12 months ended June 28, 1996, including revenues from the recently acquired Continuum Company, which have been combined with CSC's revenues because the acquisition is accounted for as a pooling of interests. CSC is headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., and has nearly 40,000 employees in more than 600 offices worldwide providing clients with a wide range of professional services including management consulting, business reengineering, information systems consulting and integration, and outsourcing.

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