CSC India
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| Public | |
| Traded as | NYSE: CSC |
| Industry | IT services, IT consulting |
| Founded | April 1959 |
| Founder |
Roy Nutt Fletcher R. Jones |
| Headquarters | Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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John Michael Lawrie, (Chairman, President and CEO) |
| Services | IT, business consulting and outsourcing services |
| Revenue |
 US$7.1 billion (2016) |
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US$95 million (2016) |
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US$251 million (2016) |
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| Total assets |
US$7.7 billion (2016) |
| Total equity |
US$2.0 billion (2016) |
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Number of employees
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59,000 (2017) |
| Subsidiaries | CSC India, Computer Sciences Raytheon, Xchanging |
| Website | www |
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) was an American multinational corporation that provided information technology (IT) services and professional services. On April 3, 2017, it merged with HPE Enterprise Services to create DXC Technology.
CSC was founded in April 1959 in Los Angeles, California, by Roy Nutt and Fletcher Jones. CSC initially provided programming tools such as compiler and assembling software.
In the 1960s, CSC provided software writing services to major computer manufacturers like IBM and Honeywell and secured their first contracts for the U.S. public sector with NASA (among others).
By 1963, CSC became the largest software company in the United States and the first software company to be listed on the . By the end of 1968, CSC was listed on the and had operations in Canada, India, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, Brazil, and the Netherlands.
In the 1970s and 1980s, CSC expanded globally winning large contracts for the finance and defense industries and through acquisitions in Europe and Australia.
Since its beginnings in 1959, company headquarters had been in California. On March 29, 2008, the corporate headquarters of the company were relocated from El Segundo, California, to Annandale, Virginia. CSC has been a Fortune 500 Company since 1995, coming in at 162 in the 2012 rankings.
In May 2015, CSC announced plans to split the public sector business from its commercial and international business. In August, it was announced that CSC's Government Service business would merge with SRA International to form a new company -- CSRA—at the end of November 2015.
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