SAIC Awarded Union Pacific Railroad Contract

(SAN DIEGO) - Science Applications International Corporation’s (SAIC) Security and Transportation Technology business unit announced today that it has been awarded a contract by Union Pacific Railroad (UP) to supply and install one of its integrated intermodal solutions, an automated gate system, to enhance productivity and security at UP’s new intermodal terminal in Dallas. SAIC has installed similar systems at five other UP facilities.

SAIC’s integrated intermodal solutions streamline the processing of equipment and personnel at ports, railyards and other intermodal facilities. Combining optical character recognition (OCR), biometrics and other technologies, the automated gate system in Dallas will enable UP to automatically identify and process containers, trucks, chassis and drivers at the entry and exit gates. UP will use the data from the system for traffic-routing, security, record-keeping and other functions.

“This project is a continuation of our strong relationship with UP in support of its intermodal operations,” said William J. Kelly, senior vice president and general manager of SAIC’s Security and Transportation Technology Business Unit. “We worked closely with UP to provide an innovative and cost-effective gate system for the new Dallas terminal. Our expertise in systems integration and experience at other intermodal facilities helped us define a system tailored to the needs of this terminal.”

At the gates, OCR portals will read equipment numbers and capture high-resolution images of containers for online damage inspection. In the gate lanes, kiosks will perform driver transactions automatically, using innovative ultrasonic fingerprint-scanning to identify drivers. SAIC’s central server will integrate the information for each truck and send it to the terminal operating system in near real time.