This award is based on a wide range of efforts by SAIC to assist in the planning and development of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including the recent Enterprise Architecture contract award to act as a roadmap for information sharing and IT integration in the new department. The award also recognizes private funding for the Public Safety Integration Center (PSIC) to demonstrate integrated security solutions among multiple vendors and across multiple homeland security/defense-related agencies.

SAIC was awarded an initial five-month, $1.2 million contract for the development of DHS' enterprise architecture with the possibility of up to $20 million over the next five years. Enterprise architectures provide a high-level conceptual blueprint that will define DHS' day-to-day operations, the various data streams involved, and the technology required to collect that data. The program will guide the organization and mission areas of each agency within DHS.

“The development of the DHS enterprise architecture was extremely challenging, due to the complexity and cultural diversity of the DHS organization, the size of the enterprise, and the short timeframe for completion,” said Wally Kaine, SAIC senior vice president. “SAIC worked closely with the customer, and our team members' efforts resulted in high quality products that raised the bar for the development time and quality of enterprise architectures for other federal agencies.”

SAIC's previous experience includes creating enterprise architectures for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, now part of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate, and another enterprise architecture development program with the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which now is part of the Border and Transportation Security Directorate and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service.

The PSIC is an example of a public-private collaboration that holds benefits both for DHS and for SAIC. In bringing together more than 30 technology vendors across all tiers of federal contractors including prime contractors, large telecommunications providers and independent contractors, SAIC has created a working laboratory where federal officials can see how integrated systems work together today to meet a specific application, and how they might be improved.

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