| Computer Sciences Corp. takes flight in Northern Virginia
Virginia Business
April 2004
Computer
Sciences Corp. (CSC) last month marked the first anniversary
of its $950 million acquisition of rival DynCorp, and
it turns out that there was much cause to celebrate.
CSC has jumped from sixth to the third-largest federal
IT contractor, according to Government Executive magazine's
annual list. It also became the largest IT employer
in the Washington, D.C., region, with 14,000 employees,
about half based in Virginia.
“We're really a megaplayer now,” says
Mike Laphen, president and chief operating officer of
CSC, which has its global operational headquarters in
Fairfax. The acquisition produced no layoffs, he says.
CSC brought in $5.4 billion in federal sales revenues
last year, a 60 percent increase over 2002. It's
also been able to leverage DynCorp's strengths
in telecommunications, homeland security and Department
of Defense base and range operations to win several
key contracts. These include Flight School 21, a $1.1
billion contract to supply simulator-based flight training
at Fort Rucker and, most recently, a $1.75 billion State
Depart-ment award to provide civilian police support
in Iraq.
In 2004 CSC will pursue work in upgrading aging government
IT and telecommunications infrastructure, areas that
are expected to offer up contracts worth $23 billion
in the next 12 to 15 months, Laphen says.
CSC also recently announced that it had put together
a team that will pursue the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant
Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program contract,
a Department of Home-land Security border-entry information
management effort that will be worth $384 million in
2004. The CSC team, dubbed U.S. Freedom Alliance, will
include at least five companies based in Northern Virginia.
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