Security agency awards tech contract

The National Security Agency (NSA) has selected Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC) and three other companies to provide systems administration, security engineering and other information technology services under a five-year blanket purchase agreement worth $450 million, CSC announced Monday.

CSC, based in El Segundo, Calif., has estimated that its share of the award will be about $300 million, according to CSC spokesman James Sullivan.

The three other companies selected by NSA are Arlington, Va.-based CACI International, Lanham, Md.-based QSS Group and EER Systems, a Chantilly, Va.-based subsidiary of L3 Communications.

The purchase agreement will support NSA's Information Technology Infrastructure Services program. The work will be done at NSA's Washington offices and at other NSA sites throughout the world, according to CSC.