Computer Sciences Corp is one of four consortia selected for the design competition phase for a US Army system intended to improve dramatically the process of acquiring and maintaining weapon systems: the contract to develop and deploy the winning design for the Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistics Support system could be worth several hundred million dollars, but in the meantime, after evaluating the teams’ designs, the Army is expected, about a year from now, to request at least two of the competing teams to develop and demonstrate their systems before picking one contractor to develop and deploy the system at five sites, and in the fourth phase, it will be implemented at 50 other bases; no word on the other consortia, but the Computer Sciences team, which also includes McDonnell Douglas Corp, General Research Corp, West Coast Information Systems, and Management Systems Associates have $2.7m to spend on system design.
