In Fiscal Year 1976, another major new program was brought into the company, an environmental baseline characterization of the physical, chemical, and biological environment of the Southern California outer continental shelf region, conducted in anticipation of oil and gas exploration and production. This effort represented a major management and technical achievement because it required the cooperative involvement of more than twenty universities, with SAI being the prime contractor.
SAI became firmly established in an important new business area with the award of the Kuwait Training Programthis program provided SAI with added capabilities in the training of foreign nationals
SAI now had 45 locations in the U.S.