MCLEAN, Va., Jan. 18, 2012 — (PRNewswire) — Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) (NYSE: SAI) announced today it has become a Platinum Tier member within the Esri Partner Network, a worldwide community of companies developing and delivering geospatial solutions and services based on Esri, Inc. technology. 

"We are excited to continue our 25+ year working relationship with SAIC and welcome them as a Platinum Tier Partner," said Jack Dangermond, president of Esri. "Esri and SAIC built a strong formal foundation of technical collaboration starting in 2006 under our Authorized System Integrator (ASI) program and we look forward to continuing our mutual successes in this expanded Platinum Tier relationship - to help deliver results and satisfy our mutual clients' needs."

Platinum Tier partners of the Esri Partner Network are typically select multinational firms providing industry-leading geographic information system (GIS) solutions and services on the Esri ArcGIS® software platform. Additionally, SAIC will receive from Esri greater access to detailed product information and premium technical collaboration to support the delivery of robust mission-critical GIS and geospatial-intelligence (GEOINT) solutions to SAIC customers.

SAIC provides geospatial products, services, and solutions for a range of industries including national security, agriculture, energy, forestry, health, and water management. SAIC's systems and services include geospatial data production, satellite imagery and image processing, database development and analysis, visualization, application development, and GIS enterprise architecture integration.  This new business relationship with Esri will enable SAIC geospatial practitioners to share knowledge and lessons learned, solve important location-based technical problems for customers, and continue to foster an environment of technical excellence.

"We're excited to continue our business relationship with Esri as a Platinum Tier Partner," said Stu Shea, SAIC's Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Group President. "The technical advisory, collaboration, and prioritized premium technical support we receive through this network will allow us to better support our customers' mission objectives." To learn more about SAIC's GIS and geospatial-intelligence offerings, visit: www.saic.com/geospatial

About SAIC
SAIC is a FORTUNE 500^® scientific, engineering, and technology applications company that uses its deep domain knowledge to solve problems of vital importance to the nation and the world, in national security, energy & environment, health, and cybersecurity.  The company's approximately 41,000 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 selected commercial markets.  Headquartered in McLean, Va., SAIC had annual revenues of approximately $11 billion for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2011.  For more information, visit www.saic.com.  SAIC:  From Science to Solutions^®

About Esri
Since 1969, Esri has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, Esri software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. Esri applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. Esri is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at www.esri.com/news.

Statements in this announcement, other than historical data and information, constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements, or industry results to be very different from the results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Some of these factors include, but are not limited to, the risk factors set forth in SAIC's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended January 31, 2011, and other such filings that SAIC makes with the SEC from time to time. Due to such uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.

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