CSC wins $500m US Army missile systems deal

CSC has signed a deal with the US Army worth $500m if the full 10-year options are exercised.

Under the blanket purchase agreement CSC will act as team leader providing technical domain advisory and assistance services to the US Army Aviation & Missile Command (AMCOM).

CSC will provide systems engineering and analysis to AMCOM for the design, development, testing, prototyping and integration of missile and aviation systems and the 200 CSC engineers, scientists and technicians will primarily be based in Huntsville, Alabama.

CSC is also still in the running for the UK Ministry of Defence's (MoD) lucrative £4bn Defence Information Infrastructure IT outsourcing project. It is heading up the Radii consortium with BT, Capgemini and Thales, which is going head-to-head with the EDS-led Atlas consortium with Fujitsu, Cogent, General Dynamics and LogicaCMG.

Final bids were submitted before Christmas and the MoD is expected to announce the winner in the first quarter of 2005.