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MCLEAN, Va., and ORLANDO, Fla. -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) today announced that its OneSAF Testbed Baseline (OTB) program, a simulation application for Semi-Automated Forces, has been selected as one of the U.S. Government's top 5 software projects by a panel of government and industry judges. SAIC is the prime contractor for OTB, which is managed by the Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) in Orlando, Fla. The annual award is jointly sponsored by the Director of the Acquisition Resources and Analysis Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology and Logistics), and CrossTalk, the Journal of Defense Software Engineering. SAIC received the award at the annual Software Technology Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. Criteria used by the Air Force's Software Technology Support Center for selecting the 14 finalists from over 70 nominations included customer value, performance, and technical value. A panel of judges made the final selection of the top five programs. "The OneSAF program competed against 70 other nominations for the best managed software programs in all of DoD," said Lt. Col. Tom Coffman, Army product manager, OneSAF for PEO STRI. "Being selected as one of the top five managed software programs in the entire nation speaks volumes about SAIC's performance, their commitment to teamwork, and the quality of personnel working the OneSAF program." "This is a distinct honor for the SAIC engineers and scientists who are dedicated to implementing world-class software development processes and procedures to provide customers with high performance software systems," said Beverly Kitaoka, SAIC senior vice president and manager of the Applied Software Systems Engineering Technology Group, which is based in Orlando.