Tuesday morning, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), an information technologies services company, said that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force Space Command to provide technical services at the Air Force's Eastern Range, headquartered at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. The company estimates the value of the deal, which has a 10-month base period and nine one-year options, to be $820 million if all options are exercised.The El Segundo, Calif. headquartered Computer Sciences said that Computer Sciences Raytheon (CSR), a joint venture between CSC's Applied Technology Division and Raytheon Technical Services Company, will perform the contract work.CSR provides range technical services to all manned and unmanned launches from Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Station. Under the terms of the agreement, CSR will continue providing operation and maintenance services for instrumentation, communications and information systems across the Air Force Space Command's Eastern Range. Systems include radar, optical and GPS-based tracking, telemetry, range safety data processing, command destruct, meteorological systems and associated computer, communications and timing systems. In addition, the joint venture will provide mission planning, systems analysis and remote base operations and maintenance.With about 87 thousand employees CSC reported revenue of $14.9 billion for the 12 months ended March 30, 2007.CSC closed Friday's regular trading session at $55.95.
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