Donations to American Red Cross to Be
Distributed Through Major Regional Offices
NORFOLK, Va., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Science Applications International
Corporation (SAIC) announced today it is making corporate contributions
totaling $250,000 to the American Red Cross. All funds are designated to
support tsunami relief. Major SAIC offices in Orlando, Fla., Huntsville, Ala.,
Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Norfolk, Va., are each contributing $25,000. SAIC's
McLean, Va., offices and SAIC headquarters in San Diego, Calif., are each
contributing $75,000 to the corporate total.
"Historically, our employee owners have come forward in the times of
tragedy and natural disaster, because it's important to do what we can to
help," said Gary Lisota, president and chief executive officer of AMSEC, LLC,
a unit of SAIC. "As relief aid workers erect shelters for the survivors,
distribute water and food, and dispense whatever medicine and health supplies
are available, we must not lose sight that there will be need for years to
come."
SAIC employees immediately sought ways to help with relief efforts, and to
find ways to support improved tsunami warning systems. Soon after the
disaster, SAIC employees entered the tsunami-devastated region to help support
relief-related projects, such as medical data management and communications.
SAIC employees also have been available to customers as they determine their
needs for environmental, ecological, and water resource support.
Worldwide, SAIC employees have donated to relief efforts. In SAIC's
Bangalore, India office, many employees contributed a day of wages and more to
the relief effort. Additionally, SAIC experts in seismology, underwater
acoustic signal processing, and emergency alert and response have been coming
together throughout the company to find solutions for better tsunami warning
and response.
Much of SAIC's expertise in seismology and acoustics is used to support
the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. SAIC designed and built the system and
customized electronics in sensors used for the worldwide network of
hydroacoustic stations that monitor the ocean for nuclear explosions. Also,
SAIC provided all the software that enables the treaty's International Data
Center (IDC) to receive, process and analyze hydroacoustic, infrasound, and
seismic data from global networks that monitor below ground testing as well as
testing in the oceans and the atmosphere.
SAIC conducted an analysis of IDC's processing results of the earthquake
that generated the tsunami, and the software for seismic data was used to
locate the main shock and thousands of aftershocks. Moreover, data that came
from SAIC-designed underwater sensors in Diego Garcia, 2,400 kilometers from
the epicenter, was used to make sonograms of the earthquake and resulting
tsunami. With established expertise in earthquake monitoring, underwater
signal processing, ocean deployment, and emergency notification and planning,
SAIC hopes to diminish the tragic consequences of future tsunamis.
SAIC is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the
United States, providing information technology, systems integration and
eSolutions to commercial and government customers. SAIC engineers and
scientists work to solve complex technical problems in national and homeland
security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, health care, and
logistics. With annual revenues of nearly $7 billion, SAIC has more than
45,000 employees at offices in more than 150 cities worldwide. More
information about SAIC can be found at http://www.saic.com.
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
the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended January 31,
2004, and such other filings that the Company 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.
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