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"There were an average of 1.3 changes every day from the FBI, for a total of 399 changes during the period," Punaro said.<ref>{{cite web | title=SAIC Says FBI Should Deploy its Software| work=SignOnSanDiego.com| url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20050203-1653-cnssaiccrx.html| accessdate=September 18, 2008 }}</ref>
"There were an average of 1.3 changes every day from the FBI, for a total of 399 changes during the period," Punaro said.<ref>{{cite web | title=SAIC Says FBI Should Deploy its Software| work=SignOnSanDiego.com| url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20050203-1653-cnssaiccrx.html| accessdate=September 18, 2008 }}</ref>

== 2013 Split into two companies ==
[[File:Leidos logo 2013.svg|thumb|Logo of Leidos - new name of the larger part of the company.]]
In August 2012 SAIC, months after retired Air Force General [[John P. Jumper]] was appointed its fourth chief executive, SAIC announced that it
plans to split into two publicly traded companies.<ref>{{cite news|last=Censer|first=Marjorie|title=
SAIC to split into two public companies|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/saic-to-split-into-two-public-companies/2012/08/30/c880f140-f2e5-11e1-a612-3cfc842a6d89_story.html|accessdate=March 4, 2013|newspaper=Washington Post|date=August 30, 2012}}</ref> In November 2012, SAIC announced more details of the split, which will occur on September 27, 2013<ref>{{cite news|title=SAIC, Inc. (SAI) to Spin Off Services Business|url=http://www.streetinsider.com/Hot+Corp.+News/SAIC,+Inc.+%28SAI%29+to+Spin+Off+Services+Business/8671506.html|accessdate=9 September 2013|newspaper=streetinsider.com|date=9 September 2013}}</ref> . The company will [[Corporate spin-off|spin-off]] about a third of its business, forming an approximately $4 billion-per-year service company focused on government services, including systems engineering, technical assistance, financial analysis, and program office support. The remaining part will become a $7 billion-per-year IT company specializing in technology for the national security, health, and engineering sectors. The smaller company will be led by [[Tony Moraco]], who heads SAIC’s ''Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance'' group, and the bigger one will be led by [[John P. Jumper]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Censer|first=Marjorie|title=When SAIC splits, Jumper and Moraco will head companies|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-business/post/when-saic-splits-jumper-and-moraco-will-head-companies/2012/11/05/83880944-2750-11e2-9972-71bf64ea091c_blog.html|accessdate=March 4, 2013|newspaper=Washington Post|date=November 5, 2012}}</ref> The split will allow both companies to pursue more business, which it could not pursue as a single company due to [[conflict of interest|conflicts of interest]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Censer|first=Marjorie|title=SAIC to name technology business Leidos|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/saic-to-name-technology-business-leidos/2013/03/01/e1be6b20-7d3b-11e2-82e8-61a46c2cde3d_story.html|accessdate=March 4, 2013 |newspaper=Washington Post|date=March 3, 2013}}</ref> In February 2013, it was announced that the smaller spun-off company will get the name "Science Applications International Corp." and will stay in the current headquarters, while the larger company will change its name to ''Leidos''.,<ref>{{cite news|last=Censer|first=Marjorie|title=SAIC to name solutions business Leidos|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-business/post/saic-to-name-solutions-business-leidos/2013/02/25/a0a2d9ba-755b-11e2-8f84-3e4b513b1a13_blog.html|accessdate=March 4, 2013|newspaper=Washington Post|date=February 25, 2013}}</ref> (created by clipping the word ''ka'''leidos'''cope'') and will move its headquarters to [[Reston, Virginia|Reston]].<ref>{{cite web|last=SAIC|title=Leidos Headquarters To Be In Reston, VA|url=http://investors.saic.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=193857&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1846803&highlight=|accessdate=15 August 2013}}</ref> yipitie doodah


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 18:18, 16 September 2013

For the Chinese company, see SAIC Motor.
Science Applications International Corporation
SAIC, Inc.
Company typePublic
NYSE: SAI[1]
S&P 500 Component
IndustryAerospace, Defense
Founded1969; 55 years ago (1969)
FounderJohn Robert Beyster
HeadquartersReston, Virginia, U.S.
(near Tysons Corner, Virginia)
Key people
John P. Jumper (CEO)
RevenueIncrease US$ 11.17 billion (2013)[2]
US$ 734 million (2013)[2]
US$ 525 million (2013)[2]
Number of employees
Decrease39,600 (2013)[2]
WebsiteSAIC.com
File:SAIC headquarters at McLean - 2009 .jpg
SAIC's headquarters in McLean, Virginia
SAIC's former headquarters in La Jolla, San Diego

Science Applications International Corporation or SAIC, Inc.,[2] also known as SAIC, is an American defense company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia that provides scientific, engineering, systems integration, and technical services and solutions. SAIC 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. As of 2013, SAIC employed 39,600 employees and reported $11.17 billion in revenue and $525 million net income for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2013,[2] making it number 240[3] on the Fortune 500 list.

History

SAIC was founded by J. Robert "Bob" Beyster in 1969 in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, as Science Applications Incorporated.[4]

SAIC conducted an initial public offering of common stock on October 17, 2006.[5] 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.[5]

In September 2009 SAIC relocated its corporate headquarters to their existing facilities in Tysons Corner in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, near McLean.[6]

In 2012 the company announced its intention to split into two publicly owned companies in 2013. The two new companies would consist of a services company earning approximately $4 billion a year and an IT company earning approximately $7 billion a year.[7]

Management

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 third CEO was Walter P. Havenstein, who pushed for tighter integration of the company's historically autonomous divisions. The strategy led to lower profit and revenue, and was reversed by the current (fourth) CEO, retired Air Force general John P. Jumper, appointed in 2012.[7]

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 2012, 26 out of 35 SAIC Inc lobbyists have previously held government jobs.,[8] also known as revolving door (politics).

Operations

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[9] and from 2001 to 2005, SAIC was the primary contractor for the FBI's unsuccessful Virtual Case File project.[10]

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) transitioned a Remote Viewing Program to SAIC in 1991 and it was renamed Stargate Project.

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 was 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 participated in the concept definition phase of Trailblazer, beginning March 2001.[11] According to science news site PhysOrg.com, Trailblazer was a continuation of the earlier ThinThread program.[12] 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.[13]

Campaign contributions

SAIC is among the 8 top contributors to federal candidates, parties, and outside groups with $1,209,611 during the 2011-2012 election cycle according to information from the Federal Election Commission. The top candidate recipient was Barack Obama.[14]

Subsidiaries

  • bd Systems
  • Bechtel SAIC Company, LLC, a joint venture between SAIC and Bechtel
  • Beck Disaster Recovery BDR
  • Benham, a subsidiary of SAIC and its subsidiaries
  • Calnais
  • 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, Inc.[15]
  • 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
  • maxIT Healthcare

Former subsidiaries

AMSEC LLC, a business partnership between SAIC and Northrop Grumman subsidiary Newport News Shipbuilding divested on July 13, 2007.[citation needed] Network Solutions was acquired by SAIC in 1995,[16] and subsequently was acquired by VeriSign, Inc. for $21 billion.[17]

Anthrax report

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.[18]

FBI allegations

In June 2001 the Federal Bureau of Investigation (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."[This quote needs a citation]

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. He stated that during 15 months that SAIC worked on the program, 19 different government managers were involved and 36 contract modifications were ordered.[citation needed]

"There were an average of 1.3 changes every day from the FBI, for a total of 399 changes during the period," Punaro said.[19]

See also

References

  1. ^ NASDAQ. "SAIC Inc Stock Quote & Summary Data". Retrieved 9 August 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Science Applications International Corporation. "Fiscal Year 2013 annual report on Form 10-K" (PDF). Retrieved 9 August 2013.
  3. ^ SAIC. "Industry Rankings". Retrieved 9 August 2013.
  4. ^ Dr. J. Robert Beyster with Peter Economy, The SAIC Solution: How We Built an $8 Billion Employee-Owned Technology Company, John Wiley & Sons (2007) p.xiii
  5. ^ a b SAIC - News & Media - SAIC, Inc. Announces Closing of Initial Public Offering. Investors.saic.com. Retrieved on 2013-08-17.
  6. ^ SAIC Moves Corporate Headquarters to McLean, Virginia
  7. ^ a b Censer, Marjorie (August 30, 2012). "SAIC to split into two public companies". The Washington Post. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  8. ^ The Center for Responsive Politics. http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000369a. Accessed 6/9/13.
  9. ^ "After Olympics contractors leave behind IT legacy". Washington Technology. Archived from the original on May 6, 2006. Retrieved August 13, 2006.
  10. ^ Eggen, Dan; Witte, Griff (August 18, 2006). "The FBI's Upgrade That Wasn't". Washington Post. Retrieved February 8, 2007.
  11. ^ Patience Wait (October 21, 2002). "SAIC team gets demonstration phase of Trailblazer". Washington Technology.
  12. ^ "NSA datamining pushes tech envelope". PhysOrg.com. May 25, 2006.
  13. ^ Martin Sieff (August 18, 2005). "NSA's New Boss Puts Faith In Hi Tech Fixes". Space War.
  14. ^ The Center for Responsive politics. http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000369a. Accessed 6/9/13.
  15. ^ "R. W. Beck Is Now SAIC Energy, Environment & Infrastructure, LLC". Retrieved 2013-03-25.
  16. ^ "Science Applications International Corporation vs. Comptroller of the Treasury" (PDF). txcrt.state.md.us. Retrieved 2008-04-17.
  17. ^ "Company History". networksolutions.com. Retrieved 2008-03-29.
  18. ^ William J Broad, "Terror Anthrax Linked to Type Made by U.S.", New York Times, 3 December 2001; Barbara Hatch Rosenberg (director of the Federation of American Scientists' biochem weapons working group), "Analysis of the Anthrax Attacks" (copy); Guy Gugliotta and Dan Eggen, "Biological Warfare Experts Questioned in Anthrax Probe", Washington Post, June 28, 2002 (UCLA copy); Brian Ross, "Blueprint for Anthrax Attack", ABC News online, 27 June 2002; Marilyn W Thompson, "The Pursuit of Steven Hatfill", Washington Post, 14 September 2003, p.W06.)
  19. ^ "SAIC Says FBI Should Deploy its Software". SignOnSanDiego.com. Retrieved September 18, 2008.

Further reading

  • The SAIC Solution: How We Built an $8 Billion Employee-Owned Technology Company (ISBN 978-0470097526)
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