Science Applications International Corporation
Encyclopedia
SAIC is a FORTUNE 500 scientific, engineering and technology applications company headquartered in the United States
with numerous federal, state, and private sector clients. It works extensively with the United States Department of Defense
, the United States Department of Homeland Security
, and the United States Intelligence Community
, including the National Security Agency
, as well as other U.S. Government civil agencies and selected commercial markets.
in 1969 in La Jolla, California, as Science Applications Incorporated. As of 2009, SAIC employed 45,000 employees in 150 cities worldwide and reported $10.8 billion in revenue for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2009, making it number 285 on the Fortune 500
list.
On November 3, 2003, Kenneth C. Dahlberg
was named the CEO of SAIC, ending Beyster's 30+ years of leadership. In May 2005, under the new CEO, the company changed its external tagline from An Employee-Owned Company to From Science to Solutions, retaining the former for internal communications.
The company has had as part of its management, and on its Board of Directors, many well known ex-government personnel including Melvin Laird, Secretary of Defense in the Nixon administration; William Perry
, Secretary of Defense for Bill Clinton; John M. Deutch
, President Clinton's CIA Director; Admiral Bobby Ray Inman
who served in various capacities in the NSA and CIA for the Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations; and David Kay who led the search for weapons of mass destruction for the U.N. following the 1991 Gulf War and for the Bush Administration following the 2003 Iraq invasion.
In fiscal year 2003, SAIC did over $2.6 billion in business with the United States Department of Defense
, making it the ninth largest defense contractor in the United States. Other large contracts include their contract for information technology
for the 2004 Olympics in Greece
and from 2001 to 2005, SAIC was the primary contractor for the FBI's unsuccessful Virtual Case File
project. SAIC relocated its corporate headquarters to their existing facilities in Tysons Corner
in unincorporated
Fairfax County
, Virginia
, near McLean
, in September 2009.
of common stock
on October 17, 2006. The offering of 86,250,000 shares of common stock was priced at $15.00 per share. The underwriters, Bear Stearns
and Morgan Stanley
, exercised overallotment options, resulting in 11.25 million shares. The IPO raised US$1.245B.
On September 27, 2006, during a special meeting of stockholders, employee-owners voted by a margin of 86% to proceed with the IPO. The company also paid a special dividend to existing stockholders, upon completion of the IPO, of $1.6 billion to $2.4 billion.
(DIA) transitioned a Remote Viewing Program to SAIC in 1991 and it was renamed Stargate Project
.
In January 1999, new SAIC consultant Steven Hatfill
and his collaborator, SAIC vice president Joseph Soukup, commissioned William C. Patrick (a retired leading figure in the old U.S. bioweapons program) to report on the possibilities of terrorist anthrax mailings in the United States. (There had been a spate of hoax anthrax mailings
in the previous two years.) Barbara Hatch Rosenberg said that the report was commissioned "under a CIA contract to SAIC". However, SAIC said Hatfill and Soukup commissioned it internally—there was no outside client.
Patrick produced his 28-page report in February 1999. Some subsequently saw it as a "blueprint" for the 2001 anthrax attacks
. The report suggested the maximum amount of anthrax powder—2.5 grams—that could be put in an envelope without producing a suspicious bulge. This was just a little more than the actual amounts—2 grams each—in the letters sent to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. But the report also suggested that a terrorist might produce a spore concentration of 50 billion spores per gram. This was only one-twentieth of the actual concentration—1 trillion spores per gram—in the letters sent to the senators.
In 2002, SAIC was chosen by the NSA
to produce a technology demonstration platform for the agency's Trailblazer Project
in a contract worth $280 million. Trailblazer is a "Digital Network Intelligence" system, intended to analyze data carried on computer networks. Project participants included Boeing
, Computer Sciences Corporation
, and Booz Allen Hamilton
. SAIC had also participated in the concept definition phase of Trailblazer, beginning March 2001. According to science news site PhysOrg.com
, Trailblazer was a continuation of the earlier ThinThread
program. In 2005 NSA director Michael Hayden told a Senate hearing that the Trailblazer program was several hundred million dollars over budget and years behind schedule.
In November 2010, SAIC (company) was selected by NASA for consideration for potential contract awards for heavy lift launch vehicle
system concepts, and propulsion technologies.
Steven M. Greer MD, Director of The Disclosure Project, spoke before the National Press Club in Washington DC, in 2001, and said, "There are corporations such as SAIC, Lockheed Martin, Northrop [Grumman], and others, that deal specifically with this issue ['Black' projects] - with advanced energy and propulsion systems connected to UFOs."
Boeing
working jointly with SAIC, were the prime contractors in the U.S. Military's FCS modernization program
. The FCS program was canceled in June 2009 with all remaining systems swept into the BCT Modernization
program.
Boeing will work jointly with SAIC in the BCT Modernization
program like the FCS Program but the U.S. Army will play a greater role in creating baseline vehicles and will only contract others for accessories.
research facility located at Fort Detrick, in Frederick, Maryland (alongside an Army medical research center). About half of the 3,000 employees of NCI-Frederick are hired through the SAIC-Frederick subsidiary, paid out of a competitive $320-million contract.
The JV company, called CALANAIS, was 50 percent owned by ScottishPower and 50 percent owned by SAIC Ltd. The new company exploited the growing demand for information technology (IT) expertise in the rapidly changing global utilities sector.
While continuing to focus on providing IT services to ScottishPower, the JV sought to develop external IT service business with customers within the multi-service utility sector. CALANAIS, exploiting the combined strengths of both companies, also marketed expertise in business change and Internet-enabling strategies aimed specifically at the utility sector.
Initially based in Glasgow, Scotland and Chester, England, CALANAIS employed approximately 600 people, mainly drawn from existing ScottishPower staff who transferred to work in the new enterprise.
.
Its East Kilbride facility currently acts as a centre of excellence serving the UK utilities sector and as the call centre base responsible for handling all UK clients.
subsidiary Newport News Shipbuilding
divested on July 13, 2007. Network Solutions
was acquired by SAIC in 1995, and subsequently was acquired by VeriSign
, Inc. for $21 billion.
(FBI) paid SAIC $122 million to create a Virtual Case File
(VCF) software system to speed up the sharing of information among agents. But the FBI abandoned VCF when it failed to function adequately. Robert Mueller
, FBI Director, testified to a congressional committee, "When SAIC delivered the first product in December 2003 we immediately identified a number of deficiencies – 17 at the outset. That soon cascaded to 50 or more and ultimately to 400 problems with that software ... We were indeed disappointed."
SAIC executive vice president Arnold L. Punaro claimed that the company had "fully conformed to the contract we have and gave the taxpayers real value for their money." He blamed the FBI for the initial problems, saying the agency had a parade of program managers and demanded too many design changes. During 15 months that SAIC worked on the program, 19 different government managers were involved and 36 contract modifications were ordered, he said.
"There were an average of 1.3 changes every day from the FBI, for a total of 399 changes during the period," Punaro said.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
with numerous federal, state, and private sector clients. It works extensively with the United States Department of Defense
United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...
, the United States Department of Homeland Security
United States Department of Homeland Security
The United States Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet department of the United States federal government, created in response to the September 11 attacks, and with the primary responsibilities of protecting the territory of the United States and protectorates from and responding to...
, and the United States Intelligence Community
United States Intelligence Community
The United States Intelligence Community is a cooperative federation of 16 separate United States government agencies that work separately and together to conduct intelligence activities considered necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and the protection of the national security of the...
, including the National Security Agency
National Security Agency
The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S...
, as well as other U.S. Government civil agencies and selected commercial markets.
History
SAIC was founded by Dr. J. Robert "Bob" BeysterJohn Robert Beyster
Dr. John Robert Beyster is the founder of Science Applications International Corporation, the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States. He was Chairman of the Board until his retirement in July 2004, and also served as Chief Executive Officer until November 2003...
in 1969 in La Jolla, California, as Science Applications Incorporated. As of 2009, SAIC employed 45,000 employees in 150 cities worldwide and reported $10.8 billion in revenue for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2009, making it number 285 on the Fortune 500
Fortune 500
The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks the top 500 U.S. closely held and public corporations as ranked by their gross revenue after adjustments made by Fortune to exclude the impact of excise taxes companies collect. The list includes publicly and...
list.
On November 3, 2003, Kenneth C. Dahlberg
Kenneth C. Dahlberg
Kenneth C. Dahlberg is an American engineer and corporate executive. Dahlberg was CEO, chairman of the board, and president of Science Applications International Corporation...
was named the CEO of SAIC, ending Beyster's 30+ years of leadership. In May 2005, under the new CEO, the company changed its external tagline from An Employee-Owned Company to From Science to Solutions, retaining the former for internal communications.
The company has had as part of its management, and on its Board of Directors, many well known ex-government personnel including Melvin Laird, Secretary of Defense in the Nixon administration; William Perry
William Perry
William James Perry is an American businessman and engineer who was the United States Secretary of Defense from February 3, 1994, to January 23, 1997, under President Bill Clinton...
, Secretary of Defense for Bill Clinton; John M. Deutch
John M. Deutch
John Mark Deutch is an American chemist and civil servant. He was the United States Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1995 and Director of Central Intelligence from May 10, 1995 until December 15, 1996...
, President Clinton's CIA Director; Admiral Bobby Ray Inman
Bobby Ray Inman
Bobby Ray Inman is a retired United States admiral who held several influential positions in the U.S. Intelligence community.-Career:...
who served in various capacities in the NSA and CIA for the Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations; and David Kay who led the search for weapons of mass destruction for the U.N. following the 1991 Gulf War and for the Bush Administration following the 2003 Iraq invasion.
In fiscal year 2003, SAIC did over $2.6 billion in business with the United States Department of Defense
United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...
, making it the ninth largest defense contractor in the United States. Other large contracts include their contract for information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
for the 2004 Olympics in Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
and from 2001 to 2005, SAIC was the primary contractor for the FBI's unsuccessful Virtual Case File
Virtual Case File
Virtual Case File was a software application developed by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation between 2000 and 2005...
project. SAIC relocated its corporate headquarters to their existing facilities in Tysons Corner
Tysons Corner, Virginia
Tysons Corner is an unincorporated census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Part of the Washington Metropolitan Area located in Northern Virginia, Tysons Corner lies between the community of McLean and the town of Vienna along the Capital Beltway . The population was...
in unincorporated
Unincorporated area
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...
Fairfax County
Fairfax County, Virginia
Fairfax County is a county in Virginia, in the United States. Per the 2010 Census, the population of the county is 1,081,726, making it the most populous jurisdiction in the Commonwealth of Virginia, with 13.5% of Virginia's population...
, Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
, near McLean
McLean, Virginia
McLean is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia. The community had a total population of 48,115 as of the 2010 census....
, in September 2009.
Initial public offering
SAIC conducted an initial public offeringInitial public offering
An initial public offering or stock market launch, is the first sale of stock by a private company to the public. It can be used by either small or large companies to raise expansion capital and become publicly traded enterprises...
of common stock
Common stock
Common stock is a form of corporate equity ownership, a type of security. It is called "common" to distinguish it from preferred stock. In the event of bankruptcy, common stock investors receive their funds after preferred stock holders, bondholders, creditors, etc...
on October 17, 2006. The offering of 86,250,000 shares of common stock was priced at $15.00 per share. The underwriters, Bear Stearns
Bear Stearns
The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. based in New York City, was a global investment bank and securities trading and brokerage, until its sale to JPMorgan Chase in 2008 during the global financial crisis and recession...
and Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....
, exercised overallotment options, resulting in 11.25 million shares. The IPO raised US$1.245B.
On September 27, 2006, during a special meeting of stockholders, employee-owners voted by a margin of 86% to proceed with the IPO. The company also paid a special dividend to existing stockholders, upon completion of the IPO, of $1.6 billion to $2.4 billion.
Operations
The Defense Intelligence AgencyDefense Intelligence Agency
The Defense Intelligence Agency is a member of the Intelligence Community of the United States, and is the central producer and manager of military intelligence for the United States Department of Defense, employing over 16,500 U.S. military and civilian employees worldwide...
(DIA) transitioned a Remote Viewing Program to SAIC in 1991 and it was renamed Stargate Project
Stargate Project
The Stargate Project was the umbrella code name of one of several sub-projects established by the U.S. Federal Government to investigate claims of psychic phenomena with potential military and domestic applications, particularly "remote viewing": the purported ability to psychically "see" events,...
.
In January 1999, new SAIC consultant Steven Hatfill
Steven Hatfill
Steven Jay Hatfill is an American physician, virologist and bio-weapons expert who underwent what was considered by many to be a trial by media with great toll on his personal and professional life...
and his collaborator, SAIC vice president Joseph Soukup, commissioned William C. Patrick (a retired leading figure in the old U.S. bioweapons program) to report on the possibilities of terrorist anthrax mailings in the United States. (There had been a spate of hoax anthrax mailings
Anthrax hoaxes
Anthrax hoaxes involving the use of white powder or labels to falsely suggest the use of anthrax are frequently reported in the United States and globally. Hoaxes have increased following the 2001 anthrax attacks, after which no genuine anthrax attacks have occurred. The FBI and U.S...
in the previous two years.) Barbara Hatch Rosenberg said that the report was commissioned "under a CIA contract to SAIC". However, SAIC said Hatfill and Soukup commissioned it internally—there was no outside client.
Patrick produced his 28-page report in February 1999. Some subsequently saw it as a "blueprint" for the 2001 anthrax attacks
2001 anthrax attacks
The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, also known as Amerithrax from its Federal Bureau of Investigation case name, occurred over the course of several weeks beginning on Tuesday, September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 attacks. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to...
. The report suggested the maximum amount of anthrax powder—2.5 grams—that could be put in an envelope without producing a suspicious bulge. This was just a little more than the actual amounts—2 grams each—in the letters sent to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. But the report also suggested that a terrorist might produce a spore concentration of 50 billion spores per gram. This was only one-twentieth of the actual concentration—1 trillion spores per gram—in the letters sent to the senators.
In 2002, SAIC was chosen by the NSA
National Security Agency
The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S...
to produce a technology demonstration platform for the agency's Trailblazer Project
Trailblazer Project
Trailblazer was a United States National Security Agency program intended to analyze data carried on communications networks like the internet. It was able to track communication methods such as cell phones and e-mail...
in a contract worth $280 million. Trailblazer is a "Digital Network Intelligence" system, intended to analyze data carried on computer networks. Project participants included Boeing
Boeing
The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...
, Computer Sciences Corporation
Computer Sciences Corporation
Computer Sciences Corporation is an American information technology and business services company headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, USA...
, and Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. , or more commonly Booz Allen, is an American public consulting firm headquartered in McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, with 80 other offices throughout the United States. Ralph Shrader is its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. The firm was founded by Edwin Booz in...
. SAIC had also participated in the concept definition phase of Trailblazer, beginning March 2001. According to science news site PhysOrg.com
PhysOrg.com
PhysOrg is a popular science, research and technology news website specializing in the hard science subjects of physics, space and earth science, biology, chemistry, electronics, nanotechnology and technology in general. It is known for timely updates of scientific breakthroughs and press releases...
, Trailblazer was a continuation of the earlier ThinThread
ThinThread
ThinThread is the name of a project that the United States National Security Agency engaged in during the 1990s, according to a May 17, 2006 article in the Baltimore Sun...
program. In 2005 NSA director Michael Hayden told a Senate hearing that the Trailblazer program was several hundred million dollars over budget and years behind schedule.
In November 2010, SAIC (company) was selected by NASA for consideration for potential contract awards for heavy lift launch vehicle
Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle
A Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle, or HLLV, is a launch vehicle capable of lifting more mass into Low Earth Orbit than Medium Lift or Mid-Heavy Lift Launch Vehicles.There is no universally accepted capability requirements for heavy-lift launch vehicles....
system concepts, and propulsion technologies.
Steven M. Greer MD, Director of The Disclosure Project, spoke before the National Press Club in Washington DC, in 2001, and said, "There are corporations such as SAIC, Lockheed Martin, Northrop [Grumman], and others, that deal specifically with this issue ['Black' projects] - with advanced energy and propulsion systems connected to UFOs."
BCT/FCS Modernization
Boeing
The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...
working jointly with SAIC, were the prime contractors in the U.S. Military's FCS modernization program
Future Combat Systems
Future Combat Systems was the United States Army's principal modernization program from 2003 to early 2009. Formally launched in 2003, FCS was envisioned to create new brigades equipped with new manned and unmanned vehicles linked by an unprecedented fast and flexible battlefield network...
. The FCS program was canceled in June 2009 with all remaining systems swept into the BCT Modernization
BCT Modernization
The Brigade combat team Modernization is the United States Army's principal modernization program for Brigade combat teams from 2009 to the present...
program.
Boeing will work jointly with SAIC in the BCT Modernization
BCT Modernization
The Brigade combat team Modernization is the United States Army's principal modernization program for Brigade combat teams from 2009 to the present...
program like the FCS Program but the U.S. Army will play a greater role in creating baseline vehicles and will only contract others for accessories.
Subsidiaries
- bd Systems
- Bechtel SAIC Company, LLC, a joint venture between SAIC and BechtelBechtelBechtel Corporation is the largest engineering company in the United States, ranking as the 5th-largest privately owned company in the U.S...
- Beck Disaster Recovery BDR
- Benham, a subsidiary of SAIC and its subsidiaries
- CloudShield
- Danet
- Eagan, McAllister Associates, Inc a wholly owned subsidiary of SAIC under the C4I business unit.
- Hicks & Associates
- MEDPROTECT, LLC
- Reveal Imaging
- R.W. Beck
- SAIC-Frederick, Inc.
- SAIC International Subsidiaries
- SAIC Venture Capital Corporation
- Varec (Red)
- Applied Marine Technology Corporation, A SAIC Operation
- EAI Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary
- Vitalize Consulting Solutions
SAIC-Frederick
SAIC operates NCI-Frederick, a National Cancer InstituteNational Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute is part of the National Institutes of Health , which is one of 11 agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NCI coordinates the U.S...
research facility located at Fort Detrick, in Frederick, Maryland (alongside an Army medical research center). About half of the 3,000 employees of NCI-Frederick are hired through the SAIC-Frederick subsidiary, paid out of a competitive $320-million contract.
SAIC and ScottishPower Form Joint Venture
May 8, 2000 - Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), through its wholly owned United Kingdom subsidiary SAIC Ltd., and ScottishPower's Information Systems Division announced the formation of a joint venture (JV) between the two organizations.The JV company, called CALANAIS, was 50 percent owned by ScottishPower and 50 percent owned by SAIC Ltd. The new company exploited the growing demand for information technology (IT) expertise in the rapidly changing global utilities sector.
While continuing to focus on providing IT services to ScottishPower, the JV sought to develop external IT service business with customers within the multi-service utility sector. CALANAIS, exploiting the combined strengths of both companies, also marketed expertise in business change and Internet-enabling strategies aimed specifically at the utility sector.
Initially based in Glasgow, Scotland and Chester, England, CALANAIS employed approximately 600 people, mainly drawn from existing ScottishPower staff who transferred to work in the new enterprise.
Calanais announces brand transition to parent company SAIC
On August 29, 2002, SAIC announced that Calanais, a wholly owned subsidiary, will trade and market under the global SAIC brand. The existing Calanais brand and logo were phased out through a planned transition period. The Calanais entity became recognised as SAIC's utilities group.East Kilbride, Peel Park office
The group, now employs around 1500 people in the UK, 450 of whom are at its Scottish headquarters in East KilbrideEast Kilbride
East Kilbride is a large suburban town in the South Lanarkshire council area, in the West Central Lowlands of Scotland. Designated as Scotland's first new town in 1947, it forms part of the Greater Glasgow conurbation...
.
Its East Kilbride facility currently acts as a centre of excellence serving the UK utilities sector and as the call centre base responsible for handling all UK clients.
India presence
India’s third largest information technology services provider, Wipro Technologies, announced it would acquire Science Applications International Corporation's (SAIC) global oil and gas information technology practice for an all-cash consideration of around $150 million (Rs 675 crore).Former subsidiaries
AMSEC LLC, a business partnership between SAIC and Northrop GrummanNorthrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American global aerospace and defense technology company formed by the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company was the fourth-largest defense contractor in the world as of 2010, and the largest builder of naval vessels. Northrop Grumman employs over...
subsidiary Newport News Shipbuilding
Northrop Grumman Newport News
Newport News Shipbuilding , originally Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company , was the largest privately-owned shipyard in the United States prior to being purchased by Northrop Grumman in 2001...
divested on July 13, 2007. Network Solutions
Network Solutions
Network Solutions, LLC is a technology company founded in 1979. The domain name registration business has become the most important division of the company. As of January 2009, Network Solutions managed more than 6.6 million domain names.-History:...
was acquired by SAIC in 1995, and subsequently was acquired by VeriSign
VeriSign
Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Dulles, Virginia that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc and .tv country-code...
, Inc. for $21 billion.
FBI allegations
In June 2001 the Federal Bureau of InvestigationFederal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...
(FBI) paid SAIC $122 million to create a Virtual Case File
Virtual Case File
Virtual Case File was a software application developed by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation between 2000 and 2005...
(VCF) software system to speed up the sharing of information among agents. But the FBI abandoned VCF when it failed to function adequately. Robert Mueller
Robert Mueller
Robert Swan Mueller III is the 6th and current Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation .-Early life:...
, FBI Director, testified to a congressional committee, "When SAIC delivered the first product in December 2003 we immediately identified a number of deficiencies – 17 at the outset. That soon cascaded to 50 or more and ultimately to 400 problems with that software ... We were indeed disappointed."
SAIC executive vice president Arnold L. Punaro claimed that the company had "fully conformed to the contract we have and gave the taxpayers real value for their money." He blamed the FBI for the initial problems, saying the agency had a parade of program managers and demanded too many design changes. During 15 months that SAIC worked on the program, 19 different government managers were involved and 36 contract modifications were ordered, he said.
"There were an average of 1.3 changes every day from the FBI, for a total of 399 changes during the period," Punaro said.
External links
- Official website
- SAIC India
- IPO Information
- Dr. J. Robert Beyster's blog
- Foundation for Enterprise Development
- The SAIC Solution: How We Built an $8 Billion Employee-Owned Technology Company (ISBN 978-0470097526)
- Remote Viewing Operation
- IPO Approval Press Release
- SAIC's SEC filings
- National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)
- Project for Government Oversight Report on SAIC Lobbying records and lists of ex-government SAIC employees.
- Coverage of SAIC Iraq Single-source contracts
- SourceWatch article
- Washington's $8 Billion Shadow (Vanity Fair Magazine, March 2007Vanity Fair (magazine)Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...
) - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/expose/expose_2007/episode204/index.htmlPBS 10/07/2007 episode of Exposé: America's Investigative ReportsEXPOSÉ: America's Investigative ReportsExposé: America's Investigative Reports is a half-hour PBS documentary series that details some of the most revealing investigative journalism in America. Tentatively titled Airtime during development, Thirteen/WNET and the Center for Investigative Reporting launched AIR: America's Investigative...
on SAIC]