CSC India - Timeline

Timeline

  • April 16, 1959: Roy Nutt and Fletcher Jones found Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC).
  • 1959: Honeywell hires CSC (the first client) to develop a business-language compiler, called FACT.
  • May 1961: Signs its first government contract, with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  • June 1962: Opens its first service bureau, with the purchase of a $3.5 million computer — ranked as one of the largest and fastest at the time — offering ‘computing time’ over phone lines.
  • 1963: As the first publicly traded software company, CSC is active on the Pacific and American stock exchanges. Also designs and implements software suite for UNIVAC 1107, one of the largest computers at that time.
  • May 1963: Opens an office in El Segundo, California. The CSC headquarters remained in El Segundo for 45 years.
  • July 1964: Launches Computax offering, a computerized tax return service.
  • September 1964: Opens a new office in Washington, D.C.
  • January 1965: Two divisions of ITT are acquired, making CSC the largest IT services company in the United States.
  • 1965: CSC unseats General Electric to win a contract with the U.S. Atomic Commission.
  • 1966: Computer Sciences Canada, CSC’s first subsidiary, is formed to extend batch computing services into Canada.
  • May 1966: Based in Brussels, Computer Sciences International is formed to manage international growth. This is now known as CSC Europe.
  • June 1966: Wins a five-year contract for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
  • September 1966: Develops a payroll system for banks, selling payroll services to their business customers.
  • December 1966: Announces Computicket, the first computer-based system for sports and entertainment ticket sales and management.
  • 1968: Becomes the first independent IT firm listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
  • March 1968: Computer Sciences Institute is created, providing business professionals with education and learning about how computers and technology can modernize business operations.
  • May 1968: Acquires advanced communications technology capabilities from Western Union Telegraph Co.
  • 1969: Infonet is created to operate CSC’s timesharing business.
  • 1969: Teamed with RCA, CSC wins a contract to develop the U.S. Navy’s Aegis weapons system, the most advanced combat system in the world.
  • March 1969: CSC Systems Group - the precursor to today’s North American Public Sector organization — is formed by consolidating units.
  • April 1969: With 4,000 employees and $65 million in revenue, CSC celebrates its 10-year anniversary.
  • August 1969: Begins a long-term partnership with AT&T, starting with the Trunks Integrated Record Keeping System (TIRKS), a circuit provisioning system that kept track of telephone equipment and facilities. Beginning in 1985, CSC began managing and implementing all software changes to this vast application system, which ran on IBM 3090 mainframes and comprised 100 databases, 24,000 modules and 6 million lines of code.
  • April 1970: Annual revenues exceed $100 million.
  • July 1970: Acquires Commonwealth Services Inc., a provider of computer technology solutions for the transportation, distribution and utilities markets.
  • October 1970: CSC formally enters Australia and South Africa markets.
  • 1971: Creates the first computerized air cargo system at London’s Heathrow Airport.
  • May 1971: Computer Sciences International opens new offices in France, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and West Germany.
  • July 1971: Builds the first airport ground traffic system’s model and simulation for New York City’s JFK airport, to be used nationwide and globally.
  • September 1971: Builds the first automated traffic control system for the Panama Canal.
  • 1972: Awarded its first contract with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.
  • March 1972: CSC Infonet is awarded a five-year, $43 million contract from the General Services Administration, to provide timeshare services to every U.S. government agency.
  • November 7, 1972: Fletcher Jones, the company’s co-founder, dies in an airplane crash near Santa Barbara, California.
  • November 10, 1972: Bill Hoover is elected CEO and Chairman.
  • August 1973: Wins a significant contract with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
  • September 1973: Wins a landmark facilities management contract for Orange County, California, the first local government FM contract ever awarded, laying the foundation for other local governments.
  • October 1973: CSC enters financial services sector - facilities management business, landing clients within the mortgage, banking and insurance industries.
  • May 1975: Wins contract to manage and operate the County of Pierce, Washington’s computer center.
  • November 1975: Enters into an agreement to provide automated air traffic control system for West Germany.
  • March 1977: Begins providing computer services to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), supporting its mission to protect human health and preserve the quality of the environment.
  • June 1977: Wins contracts to support Washington, DC and Atlanta, Georgia Metro transportation systems.
  • 1978: PAID Prescriptions acquisition is the first of many targeted at new commercial markets and expands claims processing capabilities within the health sector.
  • October 1978: Wins landmark California Medi-Cal (Medicaid) business, further strengthening the company’s claims processing reputation.
  • March 1979: Wins its largest contract to date — a $221 million, six-year project to supply a nationwide computer information system to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  • May 1979: Strengthens offerings for transportation, distribution and logistics markets through CMS Industries acquisition.
  • September 1980: Acquires business services division of Itel Corporation, providing accounting and HR services to small businesses.
  • March 1981: Develops software for the successful launch of the Hubble Space Telescope; continues to support Hubble’s day-to-day operations for the next three decades.
  • September 1982: Awarded contracts to support the emerging U.S. Space Shuttle program at Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston and John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.
  • 1982: Enters credit reporting market with Associated Credit Services acquisition.
  • March 1983: Becomes the claims processing agent for the U.S. federal government’s National Flood Insurance Program.
  • 1985: Broadening its role in the manufacturing systems market, CSC acquires Compufact.
  • May 1985: Begins processing health claims of coal miners for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Black Lung Program, furthering its claims processing experience.
  • January 1986: Wins Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) contract for State of New York.
  • August 1986: Computer Partners acquisition expands CSC’s presence in IT consulting and professional services market.
  • March 1987: First $1 billion contract signed, with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
  • 1988: Associated Credit Services subsidiary changes its name to CSC Credit Services.
  • 1988: Introduces a new corporate identity program and redesigns the company logo.
  • April 1988: Annual revenues hit $1 billion.
  • September 1988: Purchase of the Index Group expands CSC’s management consulting business, as well as its executive education and corporate-sponsored business research programs.
  • January 1989: Creates the Leading Edge Forum to drive global leadership in Innovation, CSC's Centers of Excellence, and recognition of great achievements through the Chairman's Award for Excellence.
  • June 1989: Strengthens its market position and doubles its revenue in Europe, with the purchase of CIG-Intersys Group, Belgium’s leading IT company.
  • June 14, 1990: CSC co-founder Roy Nutt dies at age 59.
  • December 1990: CSC employee/astronaut Ron Parise flies on Space Shuttle Columbia Astro-1 mission.
  • January 1991: Acquires Analytics Inc, adding services in logistics, communications and information security, mainly to the intelligence community, where CSC has numerous clients.
  • November 1991: A $3 billion agreement with General Dynamics establishes CSC as a technology outsourcing leader.
  • 1992: Following the Iraq invasion, CSC rebuilds war-ravaged Kuwait’s technology lifeline.
  • 1993: CSC executive James Champy co-authors the groundbreaking bestseller, Reengineering the Corporation, with Michael Hammer.
  • April 1994: Signs a 10-year, $1.5 billion IT outsourcing contract in the UK with BAE Systems, one of the largest commercial IT outsourcing contracts ever awarded to a single supplier in Europe.
  • May 1994: Signs a $1.1 billion contract to provide comprehensive information systems support at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The contract is known as Program Information Systems Mission Services (PrISMS).
  • December 1994: European operations expand with acquisition of Ploenzke, AG, Germany’s largest computer services company.
  • March 1995: CSC astronaut Ron Parise flies aboard Space Shuttle Endeavor Astro-2 mission.
  • 1996: Selected to head The Pinnacle Alliance, a consortium of vendors created with J.P. Morgan to implement and operate a multibillion-dollar outsourcing agreement.
  • April 1996: The Continuum Company acquisition increases CSC’s global financial services software and business process outsourcing portfolio.
  • December 1996: Signs a $4 billion long-term outsourcing agreement with DuPont, one of the largest and most innovative technology agreements in history.
  • September 1998: Successfully fights off a hostile takeover bid by Computer Associates International.
  • December 1998: The IRS selects CSC to modernize the U.S. tax system.
  • February 1999: CSA Holdings Ltd. acquisition expands CSC’s presence in Asia.
  • March 1999: UTC outsourced its IT operations to CSC in a 10-year outsourcing agreement valued at over $2 billion.
  • September 1999: Nichols Research Corp. merges with CSC.
  • December 1999: Wins a 10-year Army Logistics Modernization contract, which leads to the world’s largest ERP installation.
  • 2000: Wins award to support claims processing system for the state of New York’s Medicaid program (eMedNY), the largest in the nation.
  • December 2000: Mynd Corporation acquisition strengthens CSC’s portfolio of insurance industry solutions.
  • 2001: Signs a cycling team sponsorship agreement with Riis Cycling, managed by 1996 Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis.
  • April 2001: Annual revenues exceed $10 billion.
  • February 2003: LOGMOD, the CSC-led revamp of the world’s largest supply chain for the U.S. Army Materiel Command, goes live as the first U.S. government outsourcing of the entire modernization and operation of a major IT system.
  • March 2003: Acquires DynCorp, adding 26,000 employees and extending government services capabilities.
  • May 2003: CSC-lead Prism Alliance is awarded an outsourcing contract (valued at $2.4 billion) with the UK's Royal Mail Group.
  • December 2003: Swiss Re awards CSC one of the largest insurance BPO contracts.
  • July 2004: Wins the largest applications outsourcing contract in the insurance industry, from Zurich Financial Services.
  • August 2004: The IRS receives the first release of a modernized system supported by CSC.
  • May 2005: Wins a contract to provide shared services to NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center.
  • December 2006: Datatrac acquisition increases CSC’s federal government capabilities.
  • April 2007: Covansys acquisition adds 8,400 employees in India.
  • May 2007: CSC Project Accelerate initiative is launched to deliver improved growth.
  • October 2007: First Consulting Group purchase bolsters presence in India and Vietnam.
  • May 2008: Annual revenues surpass $15 billion.
  • August 2008: Corporate headquarters move to Falls Church, Virginia.
  • May 2008: New CSC logo unveiled as part of global branding campaign. Gotham becomes the new corporate font for CSC.
  • July 2008: Team CSC’s Carlos Sastre wins Tour de France, capping a successful seven-year pro cycling sponsorship.
  • October 2008: IT services center opens in China.
  • November 2008: Wins contract extension to support eMedNY, which annually processes more than 350 million Medicaid claims and generates payments in excess of $40 billion. CSC also manages the Web site, data center operations and telecommunications network.
  • January 2009: Announces new contract to process Medicaid claims for the state of North Carolina.
  • February 2009: Announces cloud computing initiative.
  • April 2009: Celebrates 50-year anniversary.
  • November 2009: Wins $2.9 bn 10.5-year infrastructure sourcing contract with Zurich Insurance Group.
  • July 2011: Finalizes iSOFT Acquisition.
  • September 2011: Announces AppLabs acquisition.
  • May 2011: Obtaines a contract to deliver logistics and other services to the US Postal Service under a seven-year deal with an estimated total value of $41.74 million.
  • February 2012: Upon Mike Laphen's Retirement, Mike Lawrie is appointed as new President and Chief Executive Officer of CSC.

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