SAIC secures $928M Air Force contract

Reston-based Fortune 500 federal contractor Science Applications International Corp. announced on Wednesday it has been awarded a $928 million, five-year contract to support the U.S. Air Force‘s Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (AF TENCAP).

AF TENCAP is a congressionally mandated rapid acquisition organization that leverages existing air, space, cyber, national and global intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems to accelerate the delivery of secure warfighting capabilities across Air Force and joint military missions for the Department of Defense.

Through the contract, SAIC will provide research, development, test and evaluation mission engineering services to help AF TENCAP create tech prototypes that enhance warfighting capabilities and enable the Air Force to make faster and more effective decisions.

“To deter conflict and win wars in today’s data-centric battlefield, warfighters must have integrated actionable data including the full power of intelligence community capabilities,” Vincent DiFronzo, SAIC executive vice president of the Air Force and Combatant Commands business group, said in a statement. “Using our proven expertise in rapid mission integration, SAIC leverages advanced commercial technologies to keep the DoD on the cutting edge of all-domain warfighting capabilities.”

SAIC will use sensor and data fusion, improve command and control decisions in complex environments, integrate new materials and manufacturing processes, fuse data to ensure accurate status of threat and friendly forces, support unique requirements of Special Operations Forces, enhance battlespace awareness, increase air superiority and interoperability and develop innovative cyberspace capabilities.

“SAIC is proud to be a partner of choice to accelerate next-gen warfighting concepts into operational reality,” said DiFronzo. “We’re excited to help Air Force TENCAP achieve evolutionary and revolutionary warfighting improvements in capability, performance and cost savings.”

SAIC has about 24,000 employees and reported annual revenues of $7.48 billion for fiscal 2025.