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SAIC Garners $25M in DHS Task Orders

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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

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Science Applications International Corp. [SAI]<E> has received two task orders worth a combined $25 million from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), one to support emergency communications and the other to support catastrophic earthquake preparedness. A potential $13 million task order from the DHS National Communications System to provide continued system engineering and program management expertise to help transition legacy communications systems to next generation network technology. The task order has a one-year base period and a one-year option. The…

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