SAIC to Provide Systems Engineering Services to the Joint Warfighting Center (JWFC)
(SUFFOLK, VA) 01/10/06 -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today it was awarded a $7.4 million, three-year, time and materials contract to provide management and engineering support services to the Joint Warfighting Center (JWFC) at the United States Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM). This contract focuses on the functional areas of system engineering, software engineering, database engineering, telecommunications engineering, system administration and Web site support.
Over the last eight years, SAIC has worked with USJFCOM and the JWFC to provide systems engineering support of the Joint Digital Library System (JDLS), Joint Training Information System, Joint Events Scheduling System and Joint National Training Capability.
“The Joint Experimentation, Transformation, Training, and Assessments (JETTA) Division was formed in Suffolk just over a year ago to bring the best capabilities of SAIC to U.S. Joint Forces Command,” said Jim Suhr, assistant vice president and manager of the JETTA Division. “This win provides a great opportunity to offer SAIC's world-class services to USJFCOM as the command engages in critical real-world missions.”
As part of JWFC's Command Group focus, SAIC has provided Enterprise Content Management, Advanced Distance Learning, and Joint Digital Library System (JDLS) support for JWFC System Engineering. For the Joint Training and Exercise system, the JDLS provides the Web services, Web farm and corporate Oracle database that catalogs, stores, protects, searches and retrieves data, documents and legacy databases.
SAIC, which has supported USJFCOM since the command's inception, currently has more than 180 supporting staff members in the area, reflecting SAIC's growing presence in Hampton Roads.
For a list of career opportunities visit the Joint Warfighting Center career page.
SAIC is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States, with more than 43,000 employees in over 150 cities worldwide. For the fiscal year ended January 31, 2005, the company reported annual revenues of $7.2 billion. SAIC engineers and scientists solve complex technical problems in national security, homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, health care, and logistics. SAIC: FROM SCIENCE TO SOLUTIONS™
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