SAIC WINS U.S. ARMY SIMULATION AND TRAINING AWARD SAIC TEAM TO SUPPORT $4 BILLION STRICOM OMNIBUS CONTRACT PROGRAM.

A team led by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has announced a contract award for war games and automated simulations support from the U.S. Army Simulation, Training and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM) under the STRICOM Omnibus Contract (STOC) program.

The SAIC team's contract falls under Lot III, the constructive simulation domain of the STOC program. The contract value for Lot III was not specified but is included in the overall indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract ceiling of $4 billion over the eight year period of performance. STRICOM expects to award contracts for Lots I, II and IV by the end of the year.

"SAIC continues to build on our long-standing relationship with STRICOM as one of their key industry partners," said Beverly J. Kitaoka, SAIC group senior vice president. "We look forward to continuing to provide STRICOM and its customers around the world with the kind of high quality, cost-effective constructive simulation that is essential to maintaining combat readiness and planning for future missions across the entire spectrum of conflict."

SAIC's exclusive team members are AcuSoft, of Orlando, Fla.; Advanced Information Systems Group (AISG), of Orlando, Fla.; BTG, of Fairfax, Va.; COLSA Corporation, of Huntsville, Ala.; Cubic Applications Inc., of Lacey, Wash.; DESE Research, of Huntsville, Ala.; McDonald Research Associates, of Orlando, Fla; Mak Technologies, of Cambridge, Mass.; MATCOM, of Alexandria, Va.; Micro Analysis and Design, of Boulder, Colo.; Microsoft Federal, of Washington, D.C.; Quality Research, Inc., of Huntsville, Ala.; S-3, of Huntsville, Ala.; SRI, of Menlo Park, Calif.; TerraSim, of Pittsburgh, Penn.; and Virtual Technology Corporation, of Alexandria, Va.

Work will primarily be performed in Orlando, Fla., where SAIC has a large presence in the Central Florida Research Park, and has supported STRICOM and other customers for more than 15 years.

The STOC program allows STRICOM to acquire the full spectrum of simulation, training, modeling, test and instrumentation products and services to support warfighter needs throughout the Army and Department of Defense (DoD). The program is structured to contain four Lots for each STRICOM business domain. They are:

* Lot I -- The live domain, which is a representation of military operations using live forces and instrumented weapon systems interacting on training, test and exercise ranges which simulate experiences during actual operational conditions;

* Lot II -- The virtual domain, which is a replication of actual warfighting equipment, systems and munitions with the capability to execute individual, crew and collective training, testing, experimentation and rehearsal in a specific environment;

* Lot III -- The constructive domain, which includes war games and automated simulations, representing actions of people and systems in the simulation; and

* Lot IV -- The test-instrumentation domain, which includes the systems, subsystems, components or devices which individually or collectively test materiel, systems or weapon systems in a developmental or operational testing environment or testing exercise.

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