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SAIC Subsidiary bd Systems, Inc. to Continue Support of Bay Area's 511 Regional Transit Information System

SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, VA, October 30, 2006 -- Science Applications International Corporation [NYSE: SAI] announced today that bd Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of SAIC, has won a contract with the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to continue development, operations and maintenance of the San Francisco Bay Area’s 511 Regional Transit Information System (RTIS). MTC is the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area’s transportation planning, coordinating and financing agency.

The time and materials contract, valued at more than $11 million over the next four years, will allow bd Systems to continue its vital activities to MTC that have been provided over the last nine years. In addition, bd Systems and its four teammates on the project will provide evaluation advice and development expertise to deliver an expanded and enhanced RTIS to support the growing base of users in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.

“The RTIS project will allow MTC to continue providing a reliable Web-based trip planner, while developing and delivering a state-of-the-art, next-generation trip planner to meet the anticipated growth in usage in the region,” said Tom Spiekerman, project manager for MTC. The RTIS project consolidates information for over 30 Bay Area transit service providers on the 511 Transit Web site at transit.511.org.

“bd Systems is proud to continue its long association with MTC in support of this important project,” said J. Micheal Smith, SAIC vice president and president of bd Systems. “In addition, we are pleased to be able to play an important role in the development, fielding and operation of the next generation RTIS, a service that can enable MTC to remain at the technological forefront supplying transit trip planning solutions for the traveling public for years to come.”

bd Systems, a subsidiary of SAIC, is a world-class provider of technology solutions, with over 24 years of experience supporting the aerospace engineering and information technology needs of a range of government and commercial clients.

SAIC is a leading provider of scientific, engineering, systems integration and technical services and solutions to all branches of the U.S. military, agencies of the Department of Defense, the intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other U.S. government civil agencies, as well as to customers in selected commercial markets. With more than 43,000 employees in over 150 cities worldwide, SAIC engineers and scientists solve complex technical challenges requiring innovative solutions for customers’ mission-critical functions. SAIC had annual revenues of $7.8 billion for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2006.

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                        Melissa Koskovich, McLean     703-676-6762



   
 

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