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CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation)

Type	Public (NYSE: CSC)
Founded	April 1959
Founder	Roy Nutt, Fletcher R. Jones
Headquarters	Falls Church, Virginia, United States
Key people	Mike Laphen, CEO[1]
Industry	Information Technology Services
Services	Consulting, Systems Integration, and Outsourcing
Revenue	▲ $17.1 billion USD (2008)
Employees	98,000 in 94 countries[2]
Website	http://www.csc.com/

CSC's branch office in El Segundo, California, USA

CSC's branch office in HITEC City, Hyderabad, India

CSC (CSC) NYSE: CSC is an information technology (IT) and business services company headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, USA. CSC predominantly provides IT personnel staffing services in the following areas: systems integration and professional services; enterprise application development and management; application software for the financial services industry; business process outsourcing; managed hosting services; and application and IT infrastructure outsourcing. CSC serves Fortune Global 1000 companies in fifteen industries and national and local governments. CSC employs about 98,000 people in 93 countries and is one of the largest players in global outsourcing.^[2]

CSC reported revenue of $17.1 billion on February 20, 2008.

CSC's subsidiary in Denmark is the main sponsor of Bjarne Riis' Team CSC road bicycle racing team.

History

CSC was founded in April 1959 by Roy Nutt, Fletcher Jones and Bob Patrick. ^[3] Their goal was to provide programming tools such as assemblers and compilers. Jones, who ran the business and its marketing, obtained a contract from Honeywell that made the business profitable and respected within the industry. Within four years of its founding, CSC became the largest software company in the United States and took the business public with an IPO listed on the American Stock Exchange. By the end of the 1960s, CSC was listed on the New York Stock Exchange and had operations in Canada, India, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, Brazil, and the Netherlands.

Since its beginnings in 1959, company headquarters had been in California. On 30 January 2008 the company announced that it would move its corporate headquarters from El Segundo to Falls Church, Virginia.^[4].

Acquisitions

• First Consulting Group (2008)^[5]
• Covansys Corporation Limited (2007)
• Datatrac Information Services Inc. (2006)
• DynCorp (2003) (some units later sold in 2005)
• PMSC/Mynd (2001)
• Nichols Research Corporation (1999)
• Ploenzke AG (1995-1999)
• Continuum (1996)
• Index Group (1988)

References

1. ^ News Release -May 21, 2007
2. ^ ^{a b} CSC: Consulting, Systems Integration and Outsourcing
3. ^ Our History
4. ^ CSC: CSC TO MOVE CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS TO FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA January 30, 2008
5. ^ CSC: CSC COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF FIRST CONSULTING GROUP January 14, 2008

External links

• CSC
• Oral history interview with Jules I. Schwartz Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota