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MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 3, 2004. A team led by Hicks and Associates, Inc. (H&AI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Science Application International Corporation (SAIC), announced today it has been awarded a $686,148 contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
If all options are awarded, the cost plus fixed fee contract could have a total value of up to $4.7 million over 23 months. H&AI is part of SAIC's Transformation, Test, Training and Logistics Group.
The H&AI team will design and demonstrate a new low cost, low probability of intercept signaling technology. The project is a result of teaming between H&AI and Gibbons Systems Inc., the inventor and owner of the enabling technology, and is an example of H&AI's new technology incubation thrust.
The Rescue Transponder project is designed to provide advanced signaling technology that could result in a fast transition to military use by the Department of Defense. Robert Tuohy is the H&AI program manager.
Hicks and Associates, Inc. provides counsel to senior decision-makers in the national security community in the areas of defense transformation, homeland security, nuclear strategies and futures, and the future security environment. H&AI is co-located with SAIC in its McLean, Va., offices.
SAIC is the nation's largest employee-owned research and engineering company, 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, transportation and logistics. With annual revenues of $6.7 billion, SAIC and its subsidiaries, including Telcordia Technologies, have more than 44,000 employees at offices in more than 150 cities worldwide. For more information, see www.saic.com.
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