Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) has been awarded a $156 million contract with four one-year options to provide technology services to the US Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency.
The contract, which starts February 1, will help provide employment for up to 150 people in Kansas City.
Previously, SAIC won a similar contract with four options from the USDA in 2011.
The USDA operates and manages the Federal Crop Insurance Corp., an organization that provides crop insurance to farmers and ranchers to protect their investments in crops and livestock.
Through the contract, SAIC will offer its IT services to the USDA to support the creation and delivery of new crop insurance products, as well as to develop and maintain IT systems and design, and deploy and maintain the underlying infrastructure for the USDA’s IT systems.
Heath Starr, senior director of USDA programs in Kansas City, said that the IT solutions created by SAIC will benefit not just the USDA, but ultimately the entire community.
