May 6, 2009 (FinancialWire) — Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAI) said it has been awarded a task order by the U.S. Department of Defense’s health information management system to provide sustainment support. The task order has a six month base period of performance, two one-year options and a total value of more than $158 million if all options are exercised.

Work under the order will be performed in Falls Church, Virginia, San Diego, California, and at more than 135 military treatment facilities worldwide.

Under the task order, SAIC will maintain the military’s hospital information system, which helps capture, manage and share health data across the DoD enterprise by connecting medical departments, hospital wards, outlying clinics, laboratories, and pharmacies.

The systems enable the military health system to track clinical care and exposures of deployed units, monitor demand-management effectiveness, better understand disease prevalence and prevention, and study both clinical and management outcomes.

Under the task order, SAIC will continue to provide engineering, logistics and sustainment support for the system, which serves 9.4 million beneficiaries of the military health system TRICARE Program.

San Diego-based Science Applications International is a scientific, engineering, and technology applications company whose roughly 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 various commercial markets.

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