{"id":59883,"date":"2020-04-21T22:19:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/saic-wins-655m-space-force-ground-systems-contract\/"},"modified":"2020-04-21T22:19:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T14:19:33","slug":"saic-wins-655m-space-force-ground-systems-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/saic-wins-655m-space-force-ground-systems-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"SAIC Wins $655M Space Force\u00a0Ground Systems Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Engility Services, LLC.<\/b>, a subsidiary of <b>Science Applications International Corp.<\/b> (SAIC) was awarded a $655 million contract to modernize satellite ground systems for the <strong>U.S. Space Force<\/strong> (USSF).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The contract is for the <strong>U.S. Air Force<\/strong> Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Innovation and Prototyping Directorate through the Engineering, Development, Integration, and Sustainment (EDIS) contract. Engility Services is contracted to conduct systems engineering, planning, and system modifications; build and modify data centers; integrate mission unique software and applications from various stakeholders to produce operational satellite ground systems; sustain ground systems; and perform system administration and cybersecurity functions. The single-award Indefinite-Delivery, Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract has a five-year base period of performance and a two-year option period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSAIC is dedicated to achieving resiliency and ensuring performance of critical U.S. national security and civil space enterprises. This contract expands our relationship with the Air Force, which we have proudly supported since 1972, and the new United States Space Force,\u201d said Michael LaRouche, executive vice president and general manager of SAIC\u2019s National Security Group. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engility Services, LLC., a subsidiary of Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) was awarded a $655 million contract to modernize satellite ground systems for the U.S. Space Force (USSF).&nbsp; The contract is for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Innovation and Prototyping Directorate through the Engineering, Development, Integration, and Sustainment (EDIS) contract. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}