Company History
Founded in 1987, Computer Systems Center Incorporated (CSCI) was co–founded by current CEO Linda LaRoche
and current President, Joseph Link
to provide systems engineering and information technology development to the Department of Defense (DoD) and the federal sector. By 1995, our small technology firm grew to 18 employees in offices in Arlington and Alexandria. In 1996, CSCI moved to its current office space at 6225 Brandon Ave., in Springfield, Va. and today is made up of almost 100 employees.
CSCI began as a unique, small technology company raising the bar and setting a new way of conducting business as government contractors, mainly working in the DoD to provide their IT and systems engineering services. Today, the company works in both commercial and private industry, not only selling its valued services, but its products as well. CSCI provides technical counsel to its clients in a wide range of disciplines applying operations analysis, modeling and simulation, architecture development, systems engineering, and Information Technology development and design in the area of emerging technology.
Historical Timeline
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2008
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Introduces the Cardinal Collaborate™, Cardinal Environment™ and Cardinal ID™
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CSCI is recognized by the U.S. Chamber for the Strong Corporate Stewardship
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CSCI's General Counsel Brett Coffee was named a WMACCA Finalists for 2008 Corporate Counsel Awards
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CSCI's General Counsel Brett Coffee was honored as a finalist in the 2008 Top Washington Lawyers Award presented by Washington Business Journal
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CSCI's design team won the 2008 American Inhouse Design Awards for design of the 2007 SemperComm Gala Save–the–Date, Invitation, and Program and for the 2007 SemperComm Golf Classic Program.
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CSCI's General Counsel Brett Coffee was honored with the Volunteer Fairfax Award for the Springfield District Community Champion for 2008.
2007
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Introduces the Cardinal Suite™
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CSCI's CEO Linda LaRoche was honored as BRAVO Washington Smart CEO
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CSCI's CEO Linda LaRoche was honored by Women in Technology and the March of Dimes with the Heroines in Technology Awards
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CSCI reached another new milestone this year surpassing $25 million in annual revenue
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CSCI was recognized by Training Magazine as one of 2007 Training Top companies
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CSCI's CTO Peter Anderson was honored by Washington Technology with the Government Channel Leadership Award
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CSCI's design team won the 2007 American Inhouse Design Awards for a Certificate of Excellence for the design of the 2007 SemperComm Lounge Invitation
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CSCI's design team was recognized for the 2007 SemperComm Gala: For Them web–marketing microsite
2006
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CSCI's General Counsel Brett Coffee was honored as a finalist in the 2006 Top Washington Lawyers Award presented by Washington Business Journal
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CSCI Marketing and Communications team was recognized as a Silver Inkwell Award from the International Association of Business Communicators, Washington Chapter
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CSCI's Vice President of Marketing and Communications Lara Coffee was recognized for being one of the "Best Executives" for 2006 by the Stevie Awards for Women in Business
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CSCI's Technical Writing team earned the 2006 Award of Excellence for its DaVE™ software user's guide from the Society of Technical Communication.
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CSCI's design team won the 2006 MARCOM Creative Award for the design of the 2006 SemperComm Gala invitation
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CSCI's technical writing team won the 2006 MARCOM Creative Award for the CSCI Case Studies
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CSCI won the 2006 W3 Award for the structure and navigation design of the CSCI website
2005
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CSCI expands again adding another 13,765 sq. ft.
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CSCI releases DaVE™—a new analytical and visualization tool.
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SemperComm Inaugural Gala and Silent Auction.
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CSCI is a March of Dimes Record Setter.
2004
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Computer Systems Center Incorporated Signs $13,281,518 Contract with DARPA.
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Sponsored industry trade show, GOVSEC 2004.
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CSCI receives the "2004 Corporate Citizen" Award from the Springfield Chamber of Commerce.
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CSCI receives United States Coast Guard "Patriot Award".
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CSCI creates first CBT.
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SemperComm Kick–Off.
2003
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With the release of its flagship product, TII, CSCI initiated a new image and rebranding of the company starting with a new logo.
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CSCI's expansion is driving the acquisition of additional space.
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CSCI is one of the sponsors of the 2nd Annual Washington Capital's Military Night, "Salute to the Troops."
2001
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The RCIS Team takes on the development of the SIAP Financial Database™ (FDB™).
2000
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Special Access Required Management Information System™ (SARMIS™), a product to facilitate the security management functions associated with oversight of Special Access Programs (SAPs) was developed.
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CONTRAX™, a centralized discussion area for corporate officials, project managers and contracting personnel, was developed.
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CSCI's newsletter, "The DOers," went from a quarterly to a bi–monthly publication.
1998
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CSCI opened its Patuxent River, Maryland Office.
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The Springfield Office continues to expand now occupying 56,000 sq. ft.
1997
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CSCI closed the Arlington Office relocating its Arlington–based employees to its current location in Springfield.
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CSCI's quarterly newsletter, "The DOers," began production.
1996
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CSCI expanded again, closing its Old Town Office, and relocating to a 13,600 sq. ft. facility at the junction of Interstate 95/395/495 in Springfield, Virginia.
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Development began on CSCI's flagship product, Trusted Information Infrastructure™ (TII™), an environment that allows for the secure transfer of information between secure networks and methods to effectively manage network enterprises.
Joe Link signing another 10-year lease
1995
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At 18 employees strong, expansion continued with the opening of an additional 2,800 sq. ft. office in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia.
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CSCI's San Diego Office opened.
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CSCI's San Diego Office increased its staff to 5 personnel.
1991
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With only three employees, CSCI opened a 1,534 sq. ft. office in Arlington, Virginia.
1987
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Computer Systems Center Incorporated (CSCI) was established in Springfield, Virginia.