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SAIC Awarded $13 Million Contract to Support Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Machine Reading Program

Posted on: Tuesday, 7 July 2009, 06:50 CDT

SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, Va., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Science Applications International Corporation (NYSE: SAI) today announced it has been awarded a prime contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). SAIC will create a research framework for the development of reading system technologies and evaluate the performance of these technologies in support of DARPA's Machine Reading program. The contract has a five year period of performance and is valued at more than $13 million. Work will be performed primarily in Arlington, Va.

DARPA's Machine Reading program seeks to advance the ability of machines to understand text by bridging the gap between human textual representations and those used by machine reasoning systems. Under the contract, SAIC will design and implement a complete research framework that supports the development of Reading System technologies. This framework will support progress in the field by program participants and a broad community of researchers in the artificial intelligence and natural language processing communities. SAIC will also conduct performance evaluations of technologies developed by program participants.

"The goal of the program is to create general purpose reading systems which can ingest, understand, and make inferences from the mountains of text that collectively encode vast stores of knowledge inaccessible to current technology," said John Fratamico, SAIC senior vice president and business unit general manager. "We look forward to helping build a strong and successful program that serves as the foundation for an exciting new research area with broad applications in the defense and intelligence communities, as well as the commercial market."

About SAIC

SAIC is a FORTUNE 500(R) scientific, engineering, and technology applications company that uses its deep domain knowledge to solve problems of vital importance to the nation and the world, in national security, energy and the environment, critical infrastructure, and health. The company's approximately 45,000 employees serve customers in the U.S. Department of Defense, the intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, other U.S. Government civil agencies and selected commercial markets. SAIC had annual revenues of $10.1 billion for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2009. For more information, visit www.saic.com.

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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 SAIC's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended January 31, 2009, and other such filings that SAIC 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.

Contact: Melissa Koskovich Laura Luke (703) 676-6762 (703) 676-6533 Melissa.l.koskovich@saic.com laura.luke@saic.com

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