May 4, 2009 (FinancialWire) — Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAI) has been awarded a prime contract worth as much as $96 million by U.S. Marine Corps to provide chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear and incident response program support.

The single award, prime contract, has a one year base period of performance, four one-year options and a total contract value of $96 million if all options are exercised.

Under the contract, SAIC will provide support services and equipment procurement for the incident response systems section of the Marine Corps’ systems command. The unit provides leading edge consequence management and technologies to incident response and operating forces from Federal agencies including the Department of Defense, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the U.S. Marine Corps.

San Diego-based Science Applications International is a scientific, engineering, and technology applications company whose roughly 45,000 employees serve customers in the U.S. Department of Defense, the intelligence community, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, other U.S. Government civil agencies and various commercial markets.

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