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SAIC Secures $4.4 Billion In New Deals To Continue Supporting Army’s Aviation & Missile Center

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, April 7th, 2021

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SAIC Secures $4.4 Billion In New Deals To Continue Supporting Army’s Aviation & Missile Center

Science Applications International Corp. [SAIC] on Wednesday announced new deals from the Army totaling around $4.4 billion to continue work supporting the service’s Combat Capabilities Development Command, Aviation & Missile Center (DEVCOM AvMC). The single-award deals include a potential eight-year, $3.6 billion contract for hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) and modeling and simulation development and a five-year $800 million contract for engineering and professional support services, with both focused on DEVCOM AvMC’s Software, Simulation, Systems Engineering and Integration (S3I) Directorate. An SAIC spokesperson…

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