SAIC Announces Teaming Arrangement With IBM to Pursue NOAA/NWS Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System Recompete Program

SAIC Announces Teaming Arrangement With IBM to Pursue NOAA/NWS Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System Recompete Program

MCLEAN, Va., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today that it has signed a teaming agreement with IBM to pursue the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/National Weather Service (NWS) Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) contract. SAIC and IBM have been developing their AWIPS offering over the past year and are ready to present their comprehensive approach to near-term operations and maintenance (O&M) cost savings as a path to improving performance for critical weather watches and warnings, sustainable productivity improvements and sustained architecture modernization with the NWS.

"SAIC and IBM are prepared to support the National Weather Service in modernizing AWIPS," said Don Foley, president of SAIC's Research and Intelligence Group. "This effort is important to help the Weather Service make the most effective use of current and emerging data in their mission to protect the life and property of all Americans. By teaming with IBM, SAIC has matched its system engineering and integration capabilities with one of the nation's best at development and application of core information technologies."

SAIC and IBM have established a joint Technology Demonstration Center to explore the use of enterprise technology for large-scale information platforms such as AWIPS. A component of that center is being made available to the NWS at SAIC's Herndon, Va., facility.

"The SAIC/IBM team sees the upcoming due diligence phase as an opportunity to learn as much as possible about the NWS's capabilities and needs," said Steve Sieke, leader of IBM's government accounts. "We're approaching this due diligence phase from a customer and mission focused service perspective, and we intend to demonstrate to the National Weather Service our solid commitment to this job."

With 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate, IBM is the world's largest information technology company. IBM is a leading provider of e-business solutions and is dedicated to helping companies, business partners and developers leverage the potential of the Internet and network computing across a wide range of businesses and industries.

SAIC is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States, providing information technology, systems integration and eSolutions to commercial and government customers. SAIC engineers and scientists work to solve complex technical problems in national and homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, health care and logistics. With annual revenues of nearly $7 billion, SAIC and its subsidiaries, including Telcordia Technologies, have more than 44,000 employees at offices in more than 150 cities worldwide. More information about SAIC can be found at http://www.saic.com/.

Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information 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 the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended January 31, 2004, and such other filings that the Company 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.


Source: SAIC

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