SAIC Gets Robot Sub Contract

Wade Roush9/18/09

The Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, RI, has awarded a contract worth up to $19 million to San Diego-based Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAIC). Under the contract, which SAIC announced today, the company will perform training, modeling, simulation, and other support services for robot submarine research programs at the Navy’s Autonomous Undersea Vehicle Engineering Facility.

Wade Roush is Xconomy's chief correspondent and editor of Xconomy San Francisco. You can e-mail him at wroush@xconomy.com or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/wroush.