SAIC Wins $5.2 Billion NCI Contract

Posted on: Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 06:00 CDT Science Applications International Corp. has said that its subsidiary SAIC-Frederick Inc. has won a 10 year, $5.2 billion contract to help operate and provide technical support to the National Cancer Institute's R&D center in Frederick. Under the contract, the company will provide operations and technical support to the NCI in basic research, translational R&D, and preclinical R&D. It will support more than 300 clinical trials and manage a pilot program of community hospitals in 14 states to bring cancer care to rural, inner-city, and underserved patients. The company has been providing operations and technical support services to the R&D center in Frederick since 1995, and formed SAIC-Frederick in 2000 to continue the work. SAIC-Frederick employs more than 1,700 scientific,... [read full story]