From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue Aug 2 12:19:32 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 08:19:32 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] VC, federal sales lure disaster software firm to D.C. Message-ID: <20050802081651.S2686-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 31 July 2005 VC, federal sales lure disaster software firm to D.C. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8783328/ --- By Ben Hammer Washington Business Journal Updated: 8:00 p.m. ET July 31, 2005 Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Paladin Capital Group are investing $5 million in Ramsafe Technologies and moving the software company's headquarters from Tennessee to Washington, where it's already made some key sales. Investors say the first round of financing could close by the end of July. The local office will open as soon as a new management team is hired. Ramsafe believes it's important to be close to federal officials and other companies in the sector, says interim CEO Babs Sachdeva. "If you're serious about making an impact in the homeland security market, you should be plugged into what's going on in that area." The business makes software that analyzes the impact of disasters such as terrorist attacks and hurricanes. Its customers use it to prepare for emergencies and respond appropriately. Ramsafe (www.ramsafe.com) licensed its technology to Montgomery County's emergency operations center in March 2004, and the Washington Hospital Center signed on in May of this year. The company was created in 2002 by licensing technology developed to protect against bioterror attacks at the U.S. Energy Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The software was tested at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City as part of a subcontract with Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC). The federal government is the biggest player in this market -- buying the software itself or funding purchases by state and local agencies. Reston research firm Input is tracking $19 billion in technology-related grants from 71 programs run by the Department of Homeland Security. The 2005 budget of the department's Federal Emergency Management Agency includes a $255 million grant program for emergency planning and response projects. Ramsafe is looking for subcontracts with systems integrators in the region that work with DHS such as SAIC, Northrop Grumman, Computer Sciences Corp. and Accenture. Other area companies are also cashing in on the demand. Falls Church-based Defense Group sells software that first responders use to access key information during a chemical or biological disaster. McLean-based Alion Science and Technology recently bought the rights to license software made by VectorCommand of the United Kingdom for emergency planning, training, management and simulation. Venture capitalists are watching. In November, Paladin Capital closed a $235 million fund focused on homeland security, and Arlington-based GlobeSecNine is raising $250 million in a similar effort. Ramsafe Technologies won about $420,000 in federal contracts in 2002 and 2003 and, according to Dun & Bradstreet, generated $2.1 million in sales in 2004. The company will use the venture capital to expand its staff to 20 employees by the end of the year. Almost all of Ramsafe's 12 employees hold research and development positions and will remain in Oak Ridge when the headquarters moves here. Alf Andreassen, a principal with D.C.-based Paladin Capital Group (www.paladincapgroup.com), will join Ramsafe's board. "We're bringing money in to build a management team and build a sales and marketing strategy because they've certainly created a lot of buzz on their own," says Roger Novak of Bethesda-based Novak Biddle (www.noviddle.com). From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed Aug 3 03:12:52 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 23:12:52 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Deborah Alderson Joins SAIC as Deputy Group President for the System and Network Solutions Group Message-ID: <20050802231218.F2686-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> August 02, 2005 Deborah Alderson Joins SAIC as Deputy Group President for the System and Network Solutions Group http://www.saic.com/news/2005/aug/02.html --- (SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, VA) - Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today that Deborah Alderson has accepted the position of senior vice president and deputy group president for the System and Network Solutions Group. She began this assignment on August 1, 2005. "I'm very excited that Deb Alderson has joined SAIC and the System and Network Solutions Group,. said Mark Hughes, SAIC group president. .She brings a solid track record of outstanding performance in several of our key government markets and has an excellent reputation in our industry." Alderson joins SAIC with 23 years of experience in program and engineering management, most recently as group president for the Systems Engineering Group at Anteon Corporation. While at Anteon, she led a staff of professionals in providing information technology and engineering support to a wide range of government and industry clients, including the Army, Navy, Air Force, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and NASA. Alderson joined Anteon as a result of the acquisition of Techmatics in 1998, where she had served as senior vice president and managed over 90 percent of the company.s total annual revenue. While at Techmatics she was instrumental in transitioning the company from a small business classification to a large business and also served as a member of the Board of Directors. Prior to joining Techmatics, Alderson served in program management on assignments for Scientific Management Associates and Advanced Technology. Alderson entered the defense industry after earning her bachelor.s and master.s of science degrees from Virginia Polytechnic University. In her new role at SAIC as senior vice president and deputy group president, Alderson will provide leadership to a diverse operating unit composed of more than 4,300 employees located both in the U.S. and overseas. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Thu Aug 4 10:31:52 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 06:31:52 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Land acquisition would grow apartment project Message-ID: <20050804063011.O2686-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> August 3, 2005 Land acquisition would grow apartment project http://www.oakridger.com/stories/080305/new_20050803002.shtml --- The Oak Ridge Industrial Development Board held a special called meeting Tuesday to hear Mark Harvey, vice president of the Cowperwood Co. discuss the possible acquisition of approximately 4.071 acres of land from Science Applications International Corp. The acquisition would expand the current project involving the development of high-end luxury apartments on a seven-acre tract of land on Lafayette Avenue and Emory Valley Road. The Cowperwood Co. and its partner Bristol Development currently have a 50 percent tax abatement for 10 years to develop a 164-unit apartment complex. The expansion would increase the project to 208 apartments and increase the project's investment from $10 million to $14 million. Additionally, Harvey is requesting the tax abatement be expanded to include the additional four acres of property. "At the original onset of the project, SAIC was not interested in selling land so we planned to work with them to develop their portion of the land into a park and pavilion area," Harvey explained. "In recent conversations with Larry Peck, they are ready to sell the property." Harvey added, "Bristol Development feels the market can support the additional apartments. This is a great benefit because originally plans were to split a staff person between the Knoxville and Oak Ridge apartments; now the complex can support a standalone management position." Plans are in motion for Cowperwood to apply for a grating permit next month. "Our geotech survey and market surveys are complete, and we are ordering a traffic study," Harvey said. "We intend to close the deal with SAIC as soon as they know we can build. "The equipment is ready and will be in place in September." The land owned by SAIC currently has a restriction that specifies it can only be used for office buildings, so a revision for multi-family use will need to be secured. The Industrial Development Board voted unanimously to accept the Cowperwood Company's request that the board recommend to Oak Ridge City Council that the 50 percent tax abatement be extended to a 200-unit complex. With the additional apartments, the city is expected to receive $60,000 in annual taxes from the development. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Thu Aug 4 21:42:39 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:42:39 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] EDS Names Raymond Cline to Lead Global Innovation Integration Efforts Message-ID: <20050804174119.B2686-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 4 August 2005 EDS Names Raymond Cline to Lead Global Innovation Integration Efforts http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-04-2005/0004082612&EDATE= --- PLANO, Texas, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EDS (NYSE: EDS) today announced that Raymond E. Cline Jr., Ph.D., has joined the company as vice president of Innovation Integration, Portfolio Management. He will report to Executive Vice President Charlie Feld. Cline, 45, most recently served as a chief technology officer (CTO) of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a leading technology research and engineering company based in San Diego. At EDS, he will lead the functional integration and coordination of advanced innovation initiatives that will further strengthen the company's global services portfolio. He will work directly with the company's global accounts, regional CTO network, EDS Fellows and Agility Alliance members to deliver innovative solutions for clients, based on new and emerging technologies. Cline's initial focus will be driving the integration of EDS' security and privacy service offerings as the company builds out its global secure network. "Ray brings more than 20 years of proven experience to his new role," Feld said. "His track record of working across multiple organizations and applying innovative technology solutions to complex business problems will be a tremendous asset to EDS and our clients." At SAIC, Cline was responsible for developing and defining technology solutions for several FORTUNE 500 companies. Previously, he was director of information systems at the American Petroleum Institute in Washington, D.C. He also spent eight years at Sandia National Laboratories as department manager for distributed computing R&D. Additionally, he was also chairman of a multilaboratory coordinating board, overseeing a $20.5 million Gas and Oil National Information Infrastructure Program designed to develop distributed applications for the petroleum industry. Cline earned a Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Illinois and a bachelor of science degree from Kent State University. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Thu Aug 4 21:44:02 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:44:02 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] AMSEC LLC Names Robert Golden Chief Operating Officer Message-ID: <20050804174239.A2686-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 4 August 2005 AMSEC LLC Names Robert Golden Chief Operating Officer http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-04-2005/0004082674&EDATE= --- VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- AMSEC LLC has promoted its Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Robert J. Golden, to Chief Operating Officer (COO). AMSEC is a Virginia Beach-based company that provides a broad range of engineering and technical services to the Department of Defense, as well as the commercial maritime industry. "Bob Golden has done a magnificent job as our Chief Financial Officer and played a key role in AMSEC's significant growth since he joined the company in 1999," said Gary Lisota, AMSEC LLC president. "Naming Bob as Chief Operating officer recognizes his achievements, strong leadership and the vision he has for our future." Prior to joining AMSEC, Golden was founder and president of Norfolk-based Advanced Internet Marketing and head of the Propulsion and Electrical Machinery Divisions of the Navy's Fleet Technical Support Center. Golden received his engineering degree from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and M.B.A. from the College of William and Mary. AMSEC is a limited liability company jointly owned by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and Northrop Grumman Newport News. With annual revenue of approximately $470 million and 4,600 employees nationwide and overseas, AMSEC LLC is a full service supplier to the Navy and commercial maritime industry, providing naval architecture and marine engineering, combat and electronic systems engineering, naval ship systems assessments, maintenance engineering, acquisition program development, shipyard industrial engineering, and complete logistics services from technical manual development to provisioning documents, to spare parts management and training. SAIC is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States, providing information technology, systems integration and eSolutions to commercial and government customers. From science to solutions, SAIC engineers and scientists work to solve complex technical problems in national and homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, health care and logistics. More information about SAIC can be found at http://www.saic.com. Northrop Grumman Newport News, headquartered in Newport News, Virginia, is solely responsible for design, construction, and refueling nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and one of only two companies capable of designing and building nuclear-powered submarines. Northrop Grumman Newport News also provides after-market services for a wide array of naval and commercial vessels, and has the capability to design, build and maintain every class of ship in the U.S. Navy's fleet. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Thu Aug 4 21:45:36 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:45:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] SAIC Supports Maryland Award-Winning Energy Savings Strategy With Reverse Auction Message-ID: <20050804174402.C2686-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 4 August 2005 SAIC Supports Maryland Award-Winning Energy Savings Strategy With Reverse Auction http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-04-2005/0004082563&EDATE= --- MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The state of Maryland has won national recognition for energy savings by buying electricity through a "reverse energy auction" facilitated by Science Applications International Corporation's (SAIC) strategic consulting operation. Through these energy savings techniques, Maryland saved more than $5 million annually by locking in the lowest energy prices through the reverse auction conducted by SAIC and its team member World Energy. "We are enormously pleased that Maryland has been recognized for its use of the reverse auction," said Chris McCall, SAIC program manager. "All together, we estimate that this innovative technique pioneered for the public sector by SAIC and World Energy has saved government customers tens of millions of dollars over the past five years." Maryland's reverse energy auction was recognized by the National Association of State Facilities Administrators (NASFA) and the National Association of State Chief Administrators (NASCA). The awards were presented during a joint NASFA/NASCA conference held June 25-29 in Phoenix, Ariz. NASFA presented Maryland its 2005 Innovation Award, while NASCA honored the state with its 2005 Outstanding Program Award. The auction was conducted in March 2004, using an Internet-based energy specific auction platform. This technology was developed by World Energy Solutions, a key member of the SAIC team. The auction allowed the state to lock-in the lowest possible electricity costs before price caps expired in the summer of 2004 as part of the state's phased move from a regulated to a deregulated energy market. Using the auction platform, energy suppliers won an estimated $53 million in state business, representing approximately three-quarters of the state government's power needs in areas served by Baltimore Gas & Electric Company and Potomac Electric Power Company. The energy suppliers who won the reverse auction are now supplying power to the two major sports stadiums in Baltimore and to state agencies and departments including the Department of Transportation, General Services, Juvenile Services, Public Safety and Correctional Services, Natural Resources, Maryland State Police, Military, Agriculture and the District Court of Maryland. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Fri Aug 5 02:52:19 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 22:52:19 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Rocket decorators show off efforts Message-ID: <20050804225138.J2686-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 4 August 2005 Rocket decorators show off efforts http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1123147040278700.xml&coll=1 --- 'Bicentennial Blastoff' winners - and more - can be seen at Unity Day Thursday, August 04, 2005 By JOHN MYERS Times Staff Writer eintern at htimes.com More than 50 rockets were lined up Wednesday at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, but they are unlikely to journey to space. The wooden rockets were part of the Bicentennial Commission's "Bicentennial Blastoff," which encouraged local businesses, groups and individuals to purchase the six-foot-tall models and decorate them for the city's 200th birthday. All of the rockets will be on display during the Unity Day celebration Saturday at Big Spring International Park, even the ones that didn't make it to the center for the decoration contest. "There are only 24 left," said Mary Jane Caylor, executive director of the commission. Businesses and groups can still purchase rockets and display them during Unity Day and throughout Huntsville until the end of December. The rockets were screened by three judges - artist Doug Hess, Bob Labbe of SportsMed and Mikelyn Horton of WAAY-TV - who had a hard time deciding the winners of the nine categories, said Deborah Boyd of the Blastoff Committee. The winners were Monte Sano Elementary School, for best elementary school; Discovery Middle School, middle school; Butler High School, high school; Calhoun Community College, college or university; SouthBank, financial institution; CAS, small business; SAIC, large business; WHNT-TV, other business; and Huntsville Young Professionals, individual or group. SAIC came out on top as the overall winner, with its rocket featuring the face of Dr. Wernher von Braun and "a million hand-painted stars," said Mutt Suddles, one of the artists who painted it. "I'm just part of a larger graphics group for SAIC," Suddles said. "I think we're the best in the region." Austin Boyd, also of SAIC, said the company's rocket was meant to acknowledge the roots of Huntsville's space program. "The focus was the go back to the foundation with von Braun," Boyd said. "His comments about 'don't take off your dancing shoes' are very appropriate for this time." From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Sun Aug 7 23:05:41 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 19:05:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] SAIC's VACIS(R) Cargo, Vehicle and Contraband Inspection Systems to be Installed in the Sultanate of Oman Message-ID: <20050807190522.P2686-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 5 August 2005; PR Newswire SAIC's VACIS(R) Cargo, Vehicle and Contraband Inspection Systems to be Installed in the Sultanate of Oman http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-05-2005/0004083412&EDATE= --- SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today that its VACIS(R) cargo, vehicle and contraband inspection systems have been selected by Royal Oman Police Customs for operation at ports. Royal Oman Police Customs is acquiring Portal VACIS systems, and the order includes installation, on-site operator training and maintenance. SAIC's VACIS inspection systems are gamma ray-based systems designed for the non-intrusive inspection of the contents of trucks, containers and cargo. The Portal VACIS system is a fixed, high-throughput installation for vehicle checkpoints and is particularly desirable in high traffic locations where lengthy inspection processes are impractical or undesirable. Its flexible design permits integration with other controls such as weigh-in-motion scales, vehicle optical character recognition identification systems and other terminal operating systems. "We are pleased to once again be selected by Oman Customs to facilitate their efforts to improve security and productivity at high-throughput checkpoints," said Alex Preston, SAIC general manager of the Security and Transportation Technology Business Unit. "This follow-on order is evidence of the confidence in our systems to assist Oman Police Customs with their critical mission." SAIC's VACIS inspection systems, deployed and operational in 20 countries worldwide, are designed to assist customs, port, terminal and checkpoint authorities with manifest verification, tariff collection and the identification of contraband and other suspicious items. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Sun Aug 7 23:06:14 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 19:06:14 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Customs Customer for SAIC Scanner Message-ID: <20050807190541.J2686-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 5 August 2005; San Diego Business Journal Customs Customer for SAIC Scanner http://www.sdbj.com/article.asp?aID=22731373.7350125.1179412.3241795.8198009.981&aID2=90715 --- San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp., the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the country with offices in more than 150 cities worldwide, will help to protect the Middle East country of Oman. The company announced Aug. 5 that the Royal Oman Police Customs have signed on to use SAIC.s VACIS cargo, vehicle and contraband inspection systems at Oman.s ports of entry. The deal includes installation, on-site operator training and maintenance of the VACIS inspection system. The VACIS inspection system is gamma ray-based, designed for the noninvasive inspection of truck, container and cargo contents. The fixed, high-throughput installation for vehicle checkpoints is particularly desirable in high traffic locations where lengthy inspection processes are impractical or undesirable. Its flexible design permits integration with other controls such as weigh-in-motion scales, vehicle optical character recognition identification systems and other terminal operating systems. "We are pleased to once again be selected by Oman Customs to facilitate their efforts to improve security and productivity at high-throughput checkpoints," said Alex Preston, who is the general manager of SAIC.s security and transportation technology business unit. "This follow-on order is evidence of the confidence in our systems to assist Oman Police Customs with their critical mission." VACIS inspection systems are deployed and operational in 20 countries worldwide, contributing to SAIC.s annual revenues of $7.2 billion. - Jessica Long From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Sun Aug 7 23:11:14 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 19:11:14 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] The Kiss of Death: Nuclear Weapons Stealth Takeover Message-ID: <20050807190614.M2686-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 7 August 2005; Centre for Research on Globalization The Kiss of Death: Nuclear Weapons Stealth Takeover http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MOR20050807&articleId=813 --- 5 Admirals, U.C. Regents, Carlyle Group and Rand By Leuren Moret August 7, 2005 Deep Black Lies "I think some of these folks would put nuclear tips on ice cream cones if they could." U.S. Representative Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.) on efforts by Bush Administration officials to repeal a research ban on low-yield nuclear weapons. Global Security Newswire 'Quote of the Day' May 19, 2003 UC AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS: THE KISS OF DEATH The top-secret Manhattan Project was laid out by Robert Oppenheimer the night Ernest Lawrence took him to the Bohemian Club during WW II. It was a part of California's brutal rise to economic and political power, described in IMPERIAL SAN FRANCISCO: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin. In 1939, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr had argued that building an atomic bomb "can never be done unless you turn the United States into one huge factory." Years later, he told his colleague Edward Teller, "I told you it couldn't be done without turning the whole country into a factory. You have done just that." That was after Edward Teller had stuck the knife in Oppenheimer's back, and pulled his clearance. Teller (also known as 'Dr. Strangelove'), went on to promote a grandiose US nuclear weapons program for decades at the nuclear weapons labs: Berkeley, Livermore and Los Alamos. The program remained under a no-bid University of California management contract for 61 years. In a stealth takeover by the Carlyle Group, facilitated by 5 Admirals, the management contract will be transferred next year to the University of Texas where the military and the Carlyle Group will have control. A new 'ramping up' of the nuclear weapons program is underway, with program funding at the highest level ever - even higher than during the Cold War - extending nuclear weapons into outer space, into the very atmosphere that makes life on earth possible, and with no "real" enemy in site. ESTIMATING THE COLD WAR MORTGAGE In 1995 dollars, according to the Department of Energy (DOE) the US spent approximately 300 billion dollars on nuclear weapons research, production, and testing. Today in the nuclear weapons complex there are 10,500 contaminated sites, 2.3 million acres under DOE ownership, and 120 million square feet of buildings. The 1995 high base cost, estimated by the DOE Environmental Management program, to clean up the environmental legacy is $350 billion. That excludes the Nevada Test Site, Hanford, the Savannah and Clinch rivers, and the Columbia river which are considered to be "national sacrifice zones" because the technology does not exist to clean them up. That was the cost for cleaning up the environment. The damage to the human health not only of Americans, but also to the global population, was predicted by the European Committee on Radiation Risk (ECRR), in a 2003 independent report on low level radiation for the European Parliament, to be 61,600,000 deaths by cancer, 1,600,000 infant deaths, and 1,900,000 foetal deaths. "In addition the ECRR committee predicts a 10% loss of life quality integrated over all diseases and conditions in those who were exposed over the period of global weapons fallout." The cost to the predominantly black community at Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco is much greater. Navy ships brought back to Hunter's Point shipyard for decontamination by the Navy, after the first atmospheric tests in the Pacific, led to the establishment of the secret Naval Radiological Defense Lab (NRDL) which operated at the shipyard into the 1970's. Secret experiments exposing animals, plants, soldiers, prisoners, and local residents to radiation were conducted at the NRDL, where 550 civilian scientists worked with 65 Naval officers to study the biological effects of ionizing radiation. The radioactive waste and dead animals from the lab were dumped at the shipyard, filled a back bay, and sunk off the Golden Gate bridge in a battleship and 55 gallon drums, contaminating one of the richest fisheries in the world. The community today has the highest rates of breast cancer in women under 40 in the US, as well as high rates of other radiation related diseases. A former City of San Francisco coroner found that every Hunters Point resident he had done an autopsy on, had cancer no matter what the cause of death. Even worse, the Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP), while conducting studies on infant mortality and cancer around nuclear power plants, discovered that milk contaminated with radiation has been shipped into black inner city communities - a genocidal plan which explains why blacks have the highest cancer rates, infant mortality, and asmtha (Gotham Gaz.May 2003) in the US, which has been blamed on poverty. The studies using US govt. data on radiation in milk revealed that at the time of Chernobyl the Pennsylvania Milk Board had been selectively shipping radioactive contaminated milk from dairies around the Three Mile Island and Peachbottom reactors into eastern black inner city communities (see Jay Gould, Deadly Deceit: Low Level Radiation, High Level Coverup). In an RPHP study on health improvements by race in San Francisco County, after the shutdown of the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant in 1989, health improved for all ages, diseases and races except for blacks. Black infant mortality also increased after startups and accidents, but unlike improvements for whites and Asians which decreased after the 1989 shutdown, black infant mortality reflected startups and shutdowns at other nuclear power plants in California. UC REGENTS MEETING - MAY 15, 2003: THE POINT MAN One year ago Admiral Linton Brooks, Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) under DOE, informed Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante and the UC Regents that the management contract for the nuclear weapons labs would be put up for competitive bid for the first time, with the award made in 2005. When a Regent asked if it would be for all the labs or just Los Alamos, he replied that "it would be for Los Alamos". Later another Regent questioned him again, and this time he said "it would be inconceivable for just one lab". He requested a competitive bid from UC, but the Regents were now leery of the politics involved, and Brooks was challenged by a fiery Bustamante. The Lt. Governor demanded to know why UC should waste millions of dollars preparing a bid when the University of Texas was the most favored institution to get the award, and had a member of the University of Texas on the blue ribbon panel making the award decision. Admiral Brooks also informed the Board of Regents that "we're back in the bomb business" because Los Alamos had just produced the first plutonium "pit" since Rocky Flats closed down. He indicated that they would be making "mini-nukes" only, and nuclear weapons testing would start at the Nevada Test Site in 2005. An hour later, and 45 miles away, he announced to Livermore employees that "we're back in the bomb business" and they would be making big ones, little ones, and more. By this time it seemed to me that Admiral Brooks was a slippery character and I began to wonder why an Admiral was involved. UC REGENTS MEETING - AUGUST 17, 2004: TWO ADMIRALS STAGE "THE SETUP" On August 4, 2004, UC President Dynes, a physicist and consultant to Los Alamos and former Chancellor of UC San Diego, and Gerald Parsky, Chair of the UC Regents, visited Los Alamos and met with employees over recent security and safety lapses repeated at the lab. Parsky told them: "The regents will be left with no choice about the contract competition if we do not feel confident that you understand the importance of security, procedures and safety at the lab. If we feel that you understand this and that steps are being taken to address these issues, the regents will not only endorse competing for this contract - we will compete to win." During three minutes of public comment before the Regents on August 17, I informed them that the lab contract was going to the University of Texas, it was a 'done deal'. I told them that the management contract change was a chess move the Carlyle Group was making to privatize the nuclear weapons program, and owned 70% of Lockheed Martin Marietta, and that Lockheed a year ago had bought Sandia Labs (they make the trigger for nuclear weapons). When "Carlyle" was mentioned I noticed that the Chair, Gerald Parsky and Vice Chair Richard Blum (married to Senator Diane Feinstein) started shifting around in their chairs. Body language can say a lot. They began a disruptive and loud conversation carried on through the rest of my comments. As a Livermore whistleblower, I commented that the loss of computer discs with classified information and missing keys had happened practically every day for 61 years under sloppy UC management, and that science fraud as well as health and safety violations had been just as bad. [During my week of security briefing at Livermore in 1989 we were told that a scientist taking classified material home in his briefcase did not notice it had fallen off the back of his bike. A merchant found the battered briefcase in an intersection, and several days later a horrified lab security employee found that every page of a lengthy report with "CLASSIFIED" stamped on each page had been taped in the window of the merchant's shop hoping the owner would claim his lost secret documents.] What was even more egregious I pointed out, was an article in the July 10, 2004, issue of the Daily Mirror about the murder by the Mossad of Robert Maxwell, a British publisher. It revealed that Maxwell, who was the former owner of the Daily Mirror, was a high level Mossad agent, and had sold PROMIS software to Los Alamos with a back door for the Mossad to spy on the lab. In closing, I told the Regents that no matter who got the contract award, "the University of California would forever be known as the University that poisoned the world..." As Admiral George P. Nanos, Director of the Los Alamos lab (appointed Jan. 2003), and Admiral S. Robert Foley Jr., UC vice president for laboratory management (appointed Nov. 2003), sat down at the table where the Regents waited, I began to wonder how many more Admirals were involved and why. It did not take long to find out. Admiral Foley informed the Regents about the missing CREM, computer storage devices with classified data, and acknowledged that the security lapse damaged the university's chances of retaining its Los Alamos contract. "This erodes your position, without any question at all. It's about as bad as it could be when you're trying to prepare for a re-competition". He announced that Jack Killeen had been appointed to the UC Presidents Office as special assistant for Los Alamos security: "Jack's our guy, he was with Wackenhut and he's our guy...". Among lab employees Wackenhut was better known for 'wacking' lab whistleblowers like Karen Silkwood, attempting to run people like Dr. Rosalie Bertell off the road, and has a well-deserved reputation for being a nasty outfit. President Bush and his brother, Governor Jeb Bush, are known to spend time together hanging out with cronies at the Wackenhut "country club" in Florida. Admiral Nanos continued and complained that employees would not follow the security and safety rules. When Foley chimed in that there were going to be more security incidents and lapses at the lab in the future before they got it straightened out, it began to look like a setup. Regents Blum, Parsky, Connerly and a few more leaned forward and demanded to know how it was possible, and stated it was unacceptable, that there would be more security lapses. Foley should have been fired on the spot for falling down on the job. It was obvious that Nanos and Foley were there to blame the employees, justify the management change, and discourage the Regents from competing for the contract. And justification for "cleaning house" and removing the "old guard" who would stand in the way of a takeover and for what is planned for ramping up the program. An Editorial in the Oakland Tribune the day before remarked that the NNSA was established in 1991 after the Wen Ho Lee scandal, but had failed to address real security lapses since. NNSA is in bed with the lab administrators which it supposedly is overseeing. This had been exactly my experience at Livermore in 1991 when I reported graft, fraud, corruption, contractor overcharges, and health and safety violations on the Yucca Mountain Project and Superfund Project to Richard Berta, the Western Regional Inspector in the DOE Inspector General's office for the nuclear weapons labs, Site 51, and the Nevada Test Site. After bringing two inspectors to my house and taking my testimony, he reported to Duane Sewell, the "secrets keeper" at the lab, and Bert Hefner, lab PR person. When I called a month later to talk to Berta about the outcome, he said "we found no basis to your allegations... and I got a new office with a view and new oak furniture from Sewell...". My allegations had been reported many times to the FBI by other more senior lab staff... and they were ignored as well. The Editorial concludes: "NNSA failed miserably in its policing responsibilities. It should be reorganized or axed, and Brooks and other top officials should be replaced with more independent, less-compromised leadership." The meeting ended before Dr. Walter Kohn, a physicist representing the UC Faculty opposed to UC management of nuclear weapons labs, was able to speak before the Regents. Regent Sherry Lansing, CEO of Paramount Pictures, stood up and announced in a loud voice "...oh Walter, I want to hear your presentation [at a future meeting]... but I have a plane to catch...", and crossed the room to give him a big kiss. By this time I had decided to investigate the UC Regents and their ties to the defense industry. Later that evening, a friend told me "...they ARE the Carlyle Group...". UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS STUDENTS - The FIAT PAX Website Right after the Regents meeting I contacted a group of students and a Texas State Representative Lon Burnam, opposed to the Univ. of Texas bid for the nuclear weapons management contract. A student told me about FIAT PAX, a website put together by UC Santa Cruz students listing the top 50 University recipients of defense funding for research (see below), and their ties to corporations (see below). The UC Regents with ties to the defense industry were listed with detailed bios. Parsky, the Chair, was the top fundraiser for Bush (after Ken Lay) in both Presidential election bids, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Vice Chair Blum was tied to the Carlyle Group, invested in URS Corporation (leading contractor with DOD), Korea First Bank [Carlyle is moving into Korea and taking over banks], and sits on the Board of Northwest Airlines. [A FOIA document revealed in 2001 that Northwest was the first airline to collaborate with NASA to install mind-reading technology in US airports to catch "terrorists".] Regent Lansing was a trustee of the RAND Graduate School, a branch of the RAND Corporation which had been involved in war-gaming nuclear wars between the US and the USSR, and acts as a bridge between US universities and the military. I also learned that the Carlyle Group managed large amounts of endowment funds for the University of Texas, and that CALPers, the State of California workers pension fund which is the largest in the nation owns 5.2% of Carlyle. FIAT PAX sums it up: "The University of California's system wide finances are incredibly entangled with weapons manufacturers. The UC's retirement plan portfolio is invested in dozens of military-industrial contractors through stock purchases. At least five corporations within the UC retirement portfolio conduct virtually no business other than weapons manufacturing and military subcontracting, these are: General Dynamics with a UC investment of $21,471,120, Northrop Grumman for $16,125,200, Raytheon for $16,818,200, TRW for $8,327,650, and Lockheed Martin for a staggering $33,046,370." "It is through these informal personal, formal institutional, and financial exchanges that universities serve the warfare state and its corporate allies. Personal relationships connect military, corporate, and university personnel while bridging the divide between these institutions. Formal institutional links establish cooperation and coordination across the military-industrial-academic complex. Be they research institutes, labs, and centers, or personal relationships spanning industry-university-military, the web of connections far exceeds any attempts to quantify." And then I knew that the Admirals, and vested Regents, were the kiss of death to the UC bid. ADMIRAL VISHNU BAGHWAT, FORMER CHIEF OF THE INDIAN NAVY On July 17, 2004, Admiral Vishnu Baghwat replied to my question "Why are so many Admirals involved with the nuclear weapons contract bid?": "The reason why the Navy and the Admirals are predominantly involved in the weapons is that until the Space military launch posts are ready and positioned with the minimum degree of reliability, the US Navy has more than 70 % of the first and second strike capability on its boats and hence an equivalent amount of the budget earmarked for strategic systems." His comments made the link for me between the nuclear weapons program, the Navy, NASA, and other types of directed energy weapons developed in nuclear weapons labs intended for space. Marion Fulk, a former Manhattan Project scientist and retired Livermore nuclear physical chemist told me that nuclear weapons cannot be used in space without contaminating the atmosphere, and laser weapons will not work because there is too much space trash already up there which will impede the effectiveness of the lasers. Wars in space will create more space trash until it is impossible to leave the earth, which already according to Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, is very dangerous now since a paint chip nearly took out the windshield of the space shuttle. The US plans to weaponize space are a violation of the United Nations 1967 Outer Space Treaty: Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies. The intent was "to promote international co-operation in the peaceful exploration and use of outer space" and specifically prohibited the weaponization of space with ANY weapons, including nuclear weapons. The 2001 Space Preservation Act, HR 2977 which was introduced by Congressman Dennis Kucinich, let the cat out of the bag and revealed under the "Definitions" in the bill, that directed energy weapons which can target individuals and populations from space for the purposes of psychotronics, mind control, and mood control, are clearly the new space weapons intended to establish global dominance by the New World Order. Directed energy weapons developed in the nuclear weapons labs have been used on nuclear weapons lab whistleblowers, UC students, handed over to the EPA to use on environmentalists, and to the FBI to turn over to local law enforcement. These weapons are now land, air, and sea based. Space is the last frontier. ADMIRAL BOBBY RAY INMAN - SPOOKS-R-US Tipped off by a journalist in Washington DC, my investigation of Admiral Bobby Ray Inman revealed that he was THE Admiral at the center of the spider web. A look at his social network (see Namebase.org below) helped put the 'puzzle palace' together, and I discovered he was National Security Advisor to five Presidents, Director of the NSA, Deputy Director of the CIA under William Casey, Vice Director of the DIA, Director of Naval Intelligence, President of SAIC, Chair of the 1985 Congressional 'Inman Commission' on Terrorism, affiliated with the Carlyle Group, on the advisory boards of Tufts and the University of Texas, represents SBC Communications Corporation at Cal Tech, Chairman Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, and a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. And, Admiral Bobby Ray Inman is a member of the University of Texas faculty. One could say he is a dangerous man. One job he didn't get was Secretary of Defense under Clinton: "1994: Former admiral Bobby Ray Inman, stung by press and Senate criticisms of his record, asked President Clinton to withdraw his nomination as secretary of Defense. A Clinton aide, George Stephanopoulos, later wrote that Inman had held back information during his White House background check." A look at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) reveals just exactly what kind of activities are undertaken in a spook shop where there is no accountability, and what business Inman was conducting at SAIC under his leadership. SAIC is one of the largest private employee-owned corporations, and like the Carlyle Group, escapes scrutiny (because it is privately owned) despite annual revenues of more than $5.9 billion. In 1990 it was indicted and pled guilty to ten felony counts of fraud on a Superfund site, called "one of the largest [cases] of environmental fraud..." in Los Angeles history. DOE contracted SAIC to manage and operate the Yucca Mountain Program, which I worked on as a scientist at the Livermore Lab. I became a whistleblower at Livermore in 1991 because of my knowledge of the extent of science fraud on the most important public works project in US history. SAIC's control over internet domain names, gained when they purchased Network Solutions Inc., caused a furor and identified the ties in SAIC to "the shadow ruling-class within the Pentagon". Basically SAIC is a private spook corporation, involved in voting machines (SEQUOIA etc.), controlling the internet (Network Solutions), training foreign militaries, and the contractor that set up global communications for the US military. The internet is being changed from a public resource to a lucrative operation influenced by spooks and former Pentagon officials. The internet was a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project to begin with. One of SAIC's prime clients is DARPA (DOD), which recently employed 5-time convicted felon Admiral Poindexter, an associate of Inman's going back to Iran-Contra. Poindexter was forced to resign over his involvement with PAM, a "terrorism futures market" DARPA project which predicted assassinations, terrorism and other events in the Middle East. His earlier controversial program TIPS - the Total Information Awareness Program - was set up to spy on Americans. He was also involved in creating large information databases on Americans which are now being used to track citizens. SAIC also had contracts to develop information systems for the Pentagon, FBI and IRS. Police can now legally stop a person on the street, ask their name, type it into a palm pilot and come up with detailed personal information in a few seconds. An Associated Press story on Sept. 9, 2004, "Conn. City Uses Scanners to Nab Criminals" revealed that police in New Haven, Connecticut, are now driving around in police cars with infrared scanners connected to databases which they are using on license plates to hunt for "criminals", tax delinquents, and parking ticket violators. Some of the $25,000 scanners were paid for in one month from collected revenues. A military project, the real purpose of the internet is revealing itself: "The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities." - Zbigniew Brzezinski. The association of Admiral Inman, the Bush crime syndicate, Texas oil companies, and the Carlyle Group with the University of Texas explained why an advanced 4th generation nuclear weapons research program is there. And it explained why the University of Texas is so eager to take over the nuclear weapons labs. But this takeover resembles Inmans involvement with a stealth takeover of the Mars program transferring it from JPL management and control to NASA. The NASA Deep Space Program was started at JPL to do space exploration more efficiently with lower costs. Criticism of NASA/JPL Mars mission failure problems in the Thomas Young Report released on March 28, 2000, revealed that the supposedly public space program had been hijacked into secrecy and that the military was calling the shots. NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin on March 29, 2000, revealed at JPL the day after release of the report, just who was in control and the existence of an oversight committee that nobody at JPL knew existed: "I'd also like to acknowledge Admiral Inman, head of the JPL Oversight Committee at Cal Tech. He couldn't be here today, but I talked to him by phone. His commitment to the team here is also unwavering. And I thank him for that." Goldin was there "to address beleaguered personnel, scientists and engineers of the Nation's premier unmanned center for planetary exploration, and to somehow advise them of the new political and engineering realities, while simultaneously exhorting them to continue to new heights but now under more stringent NASA management". The real question is what was Admiral Inman doing as chair of a committee in a private university overseeing all civilian unmanned exploration of the planet Mars without the knowledge of anyone at JPL? In two years Admiral Bobby Ray Inman took over the space program, and in another year from now he will have succeeded in taking over the nuclear weapons program. When Newsweek called him "a superstar in the intelligence community", it was for good reason. A Naval officer I interviewed later replied when I asked him if he knew Inman "...oh yeah... he's one of the players...". DEPOPULATION: 4th GENERATION NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND DEPLETED URANIUM The development of 4th generation nuclear weapons is now underway in the US (in first place), Germany and Japan (tied for second place), followed by Russia and other nuclear and non-nuclear States. As an expert witness on the environmental and health effects of depleted uranium (DU) weaponry for the International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan held in Japan in 2003, I discovered that there was a connection between the use of depleted uranium by the US since 1991- in the Middle East, Yugoslavia, and Central Asia - and 4th generation nuclear weapons. [Carlucci, former Chairman of the Carlyle Group (1989-2003), sat on the Board of Directors of General Dynamics (1991-97) which is one of the main manufacturers of DU weaponry in the US.] International scientists, Drs. Andre Gsponer, J.-P. Hurni, and B. Vitali, watch-dogging nuclear weapons developments globally, pointed out that DU weaponry is being used to study the radiobiological effects of the new nuclear weapons now under development: "It is shown that the radiological burden due to the battlefield use of circa 400 tons of depleted-uranium munitions in Iraq (and of about 40 tons in Yugoslavia) is comparable to that arising from the hypothetical use of more than 600 kt (respectively 60 kt) of high-explosive equivalent pure-fusion fourth-generation nuclear weapons." The use of weapons in war are most effective when the weapons do not kill, but create long-term health and environmental consequences such as lingering illnesses which slowly destroy the health of the environment and productivity of a nation and the economy. The use of Agent Orange in Vietnam is a good example of an environmental disaster with lingering and long-term health effects on a population, as well as causing trans-boundary contamination. DU is a permanent terrain contaminant with a half-life of 4.5 billion years, forms immense volumes of nano-sized particles (smaller than bacteria or viruses) which are lofted permanently as components of atmospheric dust traveling around the world until they are rained or snowed out of the air. There is no possible protective clothing, air filters, or treatment for internal exposure to this form of a poison radioactive gas. It was proposed as a military poison gas weapon in 1943 under the Manhattan Project. Even worse, uranium targets the DNA, and the Master Code (histone) which controls the expression of the DNA, and slowly destroys the genetic future of exposed populations. The US CODE, TITLE 50 > CHAPTER 40 > Sec. 2302, defines a Weapon of Mass Destruction as: The term ''weapon of mass destruction'' means any weapon or device that is intended, or has the capability, to cause death or serious bodily injury to a significant number of people through the release, dissemination, or impact of - (A) toxic or poisonous chemicals or their precursors; (B) a disease organism; or (C) radiation or radioactivity The US has staged four nuclear wars since 1991 using illegal DU dirty bombs, dirty missiles and dirty bullets as radiological weapons and released an amount of radiation into the atmosphere which is at least ten times more radiation than the equivalent of 40,000 Hiroshima bombs, released during atmospheric testing. In June 2003, the WHO predicted in a press release that cancer will increase 50% globally by the year 2020, which can only be from an environmental cause. Already medical and scientific journals are reporting mysterious increases of infant mortality in 20 regions of Europe (Lancet Jan. 2004), the UK (Guardian Aug. 2004), and the US (New Scientist Feb.2004). Infant mortality should be decreasing now as a continuing trend for more than a century because of improved education and prenatal care, instead it is increasing in the US for the first time in 45 years with no identified cause. For radiation specialists, infant mortality is the most sensitive indicator of radioactive pollution, a response researchers have identified as a result of exposure to low level radiation from atmospheric testing and nuclear power plant accidents, releases, and startups. The global pollution from thousands of tons of DU in nano-size particles traveling around the earth and being deposited in the global environment will have a devastating long-term effect. Not only will it cause illnesses and genetic mutations in the future generations of those internally exposed, but it will have a depopulating effect long proposed by the US military. DU is the perfect weapon delivering nanoparticles of poison, radiation, and nano-pollution - the real killer - directly into living cells where they cause the cells to go haywire and disfunctional: "Should humans be so stupid as to continue both technological escalation and wars between nation-states, radiological warfare might well be a far more safe and humane way to conduct extermination of large numbers of people, or the emptying out of troublesome political centres, than any of the various biological alternatives." MORE-4-US Research on population control is now being carried out secretly by biotech companies. Dr. Ignacio Chapela, a University of California microbiologist discovered that wild corn in remote parts of Mexico is contaminated with lab altered DNA. He was denied tenure at UC Berkeley when he reported this to the scientific community, despite the embarrassing discovery that the Chancellor denying him tenure was getting large cash payments from a biotech company each year. Chapela revealed that a spermicidal corn developed by a US company is now being tested in Mexico. Males who unknowingly eat the corn produce non-viable sperm. Depopulation is quite another thing. It is killing off large segments of living populations. Even Prince Philip of Britain, a member of the Bilderberg Group, is in favor of depopulation: "If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels." - Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, leader of the World Wildlife Fund - quoted in 'Are You Ready For Our New Age Future?', Insiders Report, American Policy Center, December '95) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been proposing, funding, and building BioWeapons Level 3 and Level 4 labs at many places around the US - even on university campuses and in densely populated urban locations. In a BioWeapons Level 4 facility a single bacteria or virus is lethal. For what purpose are these labs being developed, and who will make the decisions on where BioWeapons created in these facilities will be used and on whom? More than 20 world-class microbiologists have been murdered since 2001, mostly in the US and the UK - nearly all were working on developing ethnic specific BioWeapons. Citizens around the US are frantically filing lawsuits to stop these labs on campuses and in communities where they live. Despite the opposition of residents living near UC Davis, where a BioWeapons Level 4 lab was planned with the support of the town Mayor, she suddenly reversed her position after a monkey escaped from a high security primate facility. When residents claimed that if UC Davis could not keep monkeys from escaping from their cages, they certainly could not guarantee that a single virus or bacteria would not escape from a test tube. The escaped monkey killed the project. The extreme secrecy surrounding the takeover of nuclear weapons, NASA and the space program, and BioWeapons labs is a threat to civil society, especially in the hands of the military and corporations. THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS AND THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION The New World Order can be described as a network of members of the Bilderberger Group, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and the Trilateral Commission. The membership in both the CFR and the Trilateral Commission by Admiral Bobby Ray Inman is of particular interest in light of the developments surrounding control by the military of the US nuclear weapons program and the NASA space program. "The Council on Foreign Relations is the American Branch of a society which originated in England... (and)...believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one-world rule established.... "The Trilateral Commission is international...(and)...is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States." With No Apologies (1979) by former Senator Barry Goldwater "The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission - founded by Brzezinski for David Rockefeller - and the Bilderberger Group, have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against citizens." - Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl, Ph.D., former German defense ministry official and advisor to former NATO Secretary General Manfred Werner. THE MEDIA At this time in history, it is incomprehensible how a nation can enjoy the benefit of the most sophisticated communications technology in world history and remain so uninformed... or dumbed down. The policies being carried out by the US government that are destructive, both domestically and around the world, are being conducted under a veil of secrecy. The only possible way this dumbing down or control of information could occur is that it has been socially constructed. It is a conspiracy of lies, manipulation and disinformation which increasing numbers of Americans are aware of and should be calling it treason: "The Rockefeller family has always taken a lead role in the CFR. In the 1960s, while American men and women were dying in the jungles of Vietnam and while the military/industrial complex was sucking trillions of dollars out of American taxpayers' wallets, the Rockefeller dynasty was financing Vietnamese oil refineries and aluminum plants. If there had ever been a formal declaration of war, the Rockefellers could be tried for treason. Instead, they reaped dividends. These are just a few of the abuses of power which demonstrate the results of the power elite's manipulations of our destiny as a society. If you've ever wondered why you don't hear about this network of power, just take a look at the CFR's membership roster. Many of the chief executives and newspeople at CBS, NBC/RCA, ABC, the Public Broadcast Service, the Associated Press, the New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, the Washington Post, and many other key media outlets are CFR members. International power orgs depend on the masses remaining ignorant for their plans to come to fruition." David Rockefeller, a member of the Bilderberger's, thanked the media facilitators: "We are grateful to the Washington Post, the NY Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years....It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries." - David Rockefeller speaking at the Bilderberger meeting in June 1991 in Baden Baden, Germany MEDIA MEMBERSHIP: Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) Trilateral Commission (TC) WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE US NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM? "Some people say Domenici is a sucker for big science. And they may be right." -Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM), when asked at a press conference last week if his vigorous support for his state's Los Alamos National Laboratory had helped create a culture of complacency that contributed to last month's security and safety lapses. In 1991, Richard Berta, the Western Regional Inspector for the Department of Energy at the nuclear weapons labs and the Nevada Test Site, told me: "The nuclear weapons labs exist for the Pentagon... and the Pentagon exists for the oil companies..." It is inappropriate for a university to be in control of nuclear weapons research and management. University of California faculty have long opposed UC management of the labs, supported by a majority of the students. UC is now in the position of managing, developing, proliferating, investing in, and profiting from Weapons of Mass Destruction. The fact that UC investments of $33,046,370 in Lockheed Martin Marietta (70% owned by Carlyle), and $21,471,120 in General Dynamics - one of the two biggest US manufacturers of DU weaponry which has been sold to 29 countries, make UC complicit in war crimes. Students and faculty should be informed of this. The State of California employee pension fund owns 5.2% of the Carlyle Group. The military, should NEVER be in control of ANY nuclear weapons program, it should ALWAYS be in civilian hands. And the Carlyle Group, a private corporation with vested interests and ties to oil companies, has NEVER been investigated or subjected to ANY oversight whatsoever, and for that reason should not have any control or influence over US nuclear weapons policy and development. Admiral Bobby Ray Inman and his associates in the intelligence business have demonstrated their systematic abuse of the internet, voting machines, and American civil liberties. Should we give them the trigger, the nukes, the budget they want, and the cover of secrecy? I don't think so. Management and oversight of the nuclear weapons labs belongs at the National Science Foundation, a US government agency, with the resources to make rational decisions and reign in the planned unlimited proliferation of nuclear weapons on earth and in space. "There is a toxic quality to war that affects the inner life of individuals and, as a collective consequence, the society itself. 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"Rise in stillbirths prompts inquiry" by John Carvel, August 20, 2004, The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1287041,00.html "US infant deaths rise for first time in 45 years" by Shaoni Bhattacharya, Feb 12, 2003, New Scientist. http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99994675 "Three Mile Island: Health study meltdown" by Joseph Mangano, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist, September/October 2004, Volume 60, No. 5, pp. 30-35. http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2004/so04/so04mangano.html "Smart dust, roboflies, microbugs: UC is spying on you" by Leuren Moret February 26, 2003, San Francisco Bay View. http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/Berkeley-Library-Classified22feb03.htm Statement by Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh http://homepage.mac.com/kaaawa/iblog/C337802379/E1557478132/ Statement by Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl, Ph.D. http://homepage.mac.com/kaaawa/iblog/C337802379/E1557478132/ Statement on role of Rockefellers on Council of Foreign Relations http://isuisse.ifrance.com/emmaf/base/cfrnwo.html Statement by David Rockefeller at Bilderberger meeting June 1991 http://homepage.mac.com/kaaawa/iblog/C337802379/E1557478132/ MEDIA MEMBERSHIP: Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) Trilateral Commission (TC) http://www.freedomdomain.com/neworder/connections.html From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Mon Aug 8 12:20:46 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 08:20:46 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] SAIC Receives $27M for Mobile Container Scanners Message-ID: <20050808081952.H2686-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 08 August 2005; Defense Industry Daily SAIC Receives $27M for Mobile Container Scanners http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2005/08/saic-receives-27m-for-mobile-container-scanners/index.php --- Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) in San Diego, CA received a $27 million firm-fixed price indefinite-delivery/ indefinite quantity contract for maintenance and technical services, spare parts and training manuals for the Mobile Vehicle and Cargo Inspection Systems (Mobile VACIS). SAIC's VACIS is a gamma ray based inspection system designed to non-intrusively inspect the contents of trucks, containers, and cargo for contraband. The gamma source offers greater reliability and a lower cost of ownership than X-rays because it uses a constant source and shutter system rather than a complicated, high-voltage electrical system to create the radiation. There are various types of VACIS systems; Mobile VACIS is mounted on a truck, per the accompanying illustration. VACIS systems are used throughout the world - 30 units have been sold to Mexico, 15 to Canada, 10 to Central America, 10 to Europe, 14 to Asia, and 50 to the Middle East as of April 2005. There are over 160 VACIS systems in use in the U.S. Work will be performed at SAIC's facilities in San Diego, CA and in Southwest Asia with a completion date of Aug. 3, 2008. The U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command Rock Island at Rock Island, IL issued the contract (W52H09-05-D-0282). From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Mon Aug 8 22:30:14 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 18:30:14 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] SAIC, Pinkerton work to give $35K for a Habitat house Message-ID: <20050808182833.B2686-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 8 August 2005; Oak Ridge News SAIC, Pinkerton work to give $35K for a Habitat house http://www.oakridger.com/stories/080805/new_20050808015.shtml --- Science Applications International Corp. employees recently laid the foundation for a fundraising campaign for their second Habitat for Humanity home in Anderson County with a summer kickoff event. Caption: SAIC and its employees have teamed up with Pinkerton Government Services to raise $35,000 to sponsor a house for Habitat for Humanity of Anderson County. Pictured above at a fundraising kick-off event at SAIC on June 30 are Susan Burgess Parrish, from left, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Anderson; Terry Hicks, SAIC vice president; Steve Selecman, SAIC vice president for operations; Marty Strones, Pinkerton Government Services senior vice president and director of operations for Homeland Security; and Mike Arms, SAIC business development manager. In addition to receiving corporate support, SAIC and its employees have teamed up with Pinkerton Government Services to raise the money pledged for this project. Over the coming months, SAIC and PGS will contribute $35,000 to sponsor a Habitat house scheduled to be built this fall in Oak Ridge. Employees are holding bake sales, basket auctions, chili lunches, raffles, and ice cream socials to raise money and awareness for Habitat. SAIC and PGS will also provide volunteers to help construct the home. "It's thrilling when an organization participates with us again because of the rewarding experience they have had in the past," says Susan Burgess Parrish, Habitat for Humanity of Anderson County's executive director. "When you know you have made a significant impact and changed a family's life, it's empowering, and you want to do it again." Steve Selecman, SAIC vice president for operations, and Terry Hicks, SAIC vice president, are co-leaders of the SAIC/PGS Habitat fund raising campaign. Hicks, a volunteer on other Habitat construction projects, finds involvement with Habitat projects to be ". immensely rewarding. Oak Ridge is a key to SAIC business and the community has been good to us through the years. "I can think of no better way to 'give back' to the community that we live and work in than by supporting a program dedicated to helping others less fortunate become homeowners and make a place for themselves in our community." Marty Strones, PGS senior vice president and director of operations for Homeland Security, says that "PGS is honored to be involved with the Habitat for Humanity Program. Community service is an important part of our PGS culture and we are pleased to have this opportunity to collaborate with SAIC and increase our presence in and commitment to the Oak Ridge community." Mr. Strones also stated that PGS employees and he personally intend to be involved not only in fund raising activities, but with the home construction project as well. Habitat for Humanity of Anderson County builds homes in partnership with hard working, low-income families and individuals in Anderson County. Future homeowners must put in at least 350 hours of "sweat equity" labor by helping to build their own home and working on other Habitat projects. A $500 down payment is required, which can be paid in installments before construction begins. After construction is completed, houses are sold at cost to partnering homeowners, with no-interest mortgages. Monthly payments, including taxes and insurance, are repaid over time, and the payments are used to build additional Habitat houses in Anderson County. To learn more about Habitat, call (865) 482-7713 or visit www.hfhac.org. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Sat Aug 13 15:46:01 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:46:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] US Airways soon will be flying new colors Message-ID: <20050813114519.H673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 13 August 2005 ; The Charlotte Observer US Airways soon will be flying new colors http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/business/12376471.htm --- Will US Airways' repainted planes be white-ish, with a red racing stripe and navy-blue belly? That's the way they appear in an announcement distributed Friday that says the airline will uncover its new look later this month in five cities, including Charlotte. The one-page flier shows a plane behind a curtain, with a small sliver exposed. Asked if the colors in the announcement reveal a hint about the new look, an America West spokesman said: "Yeah." Because US Airways is merging with America West, planes will have a new color scheme and perhaps a new logo. A newly repainted plane will stop in Charlotte at 12:30 p.m. Aug. 23. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Mon Aug 15 22:30:42 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:30:42 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Future Combat Systems (FCS) Successfully Completes Major Program Milestone Message-ID: <20050815182824.T673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 15 August 2005 Future Combat Systems (FCS) Successfully Completes Major Program Milestone http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-15-2005/0004088114&EDATE= --- ST. LOUIS, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Boeing (NYSE: BA) and partner Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), acting as Lead Systems Integrator (LSI) for the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, today announced successful completion of the System of Systems Functional Review, the program's most important technical milestone to date. The review lasted five days and involved more than 35 briefings and dozens of demonstrations to an audience representing the Army, Department of Defense, Government Accountability Office and others assembled at 24 industry and government sites across the country. The review is the largest of more than 15 formal reviews, studies and audits of Future Combat Systems conducted so far this year. The System of Systems Functional Review is a multi-disciplined technical review to ensure the system-of-systems requirements, design and functional baseline are at levels that warrant moving forward into the preliminary design phase of the program. This functional baseline included more than 11,000 system-of-systems engineering requirements derived and allocated through a rigorous systems engineering process. The event was conducted as a series of formal presentations and question and answer sessions, demonstrating that the program understands: - The Army's requirements - The application of those requirements across the system-of-systems down into the network and 18 manned and unmanned ground and air systems - The performance of the design baseline to meet those requirements - The approach to effectively manage program risks The review included 202 specific closure criteria -- 100% of which were met. The Future Combat Systems program is 26 months into its Systems Development and Demonstration Contract, which is valued at $20.9 billion. The program is meeting the cost, performance and schedule targets. "Meeting these targets more than two years into the program is an enormous credit to the government-industry One Team comprised of more than 6,000 people across the country who have been working so hard and long to make this happen," said Dennis Muilenburg, FCS vice president and general manager. "The program is widely recognized as vital to our Army customer, and represents an entirely new way of doing business. Results of this review prove the program is on track, and we remain focused on equipping our soldiers of the 21st century with the world's best capability." Army Program Manager Brigadier General Charles Cartwright said, "This review is an important milestone for the program and the Army's initiative to achieve Department of Defense transformation goals. We feel confident that we have properly captured the warfighter's needs and established a functional baseline for Future Combat Systems. This is the Army's future and we're doing it right." The next major program milestone event will be the Initial Preliminary Design Review scheduled for 2006. With the System of Systems Functional Review complete, the program moves into Integration Phase 1 in which the platform and network teams initiate their sub-tier System Functional Reviews. As a part of Phase 1, the program will initiate its first major field experiment in 2006 and will deliver the first "spin-out" of FCS Capability to the current force in 2008. Continuing at two year intervals, these spin-outs will accelerate delivery of needed capabilities -- such as networking, unattended munitions and sensors, and robotics -- to soldiers in advance of fielding the first FCS-equipped Unit of Action in 2014. When fielded, FCS equipped Units of Action will enable soldiers with a robust network and 18 integrated manned and unmanned ground and air platforms, providing: - Full spectrum, joint operations with networked battle command - Significantly greater lethality and operational tempo - Full 360 degree survivability - Multi-modal deployability not available today - Order of magnitude improvements in reliability and maintainability - Embedded training - Reductions from 30% to 50% in logistics footprint and O&M costs "The FCS-equipped Brigade will empower the soldier with information and give him/her access to the full range of Army and Joint weapons," said FCS Deputy Program Manager Dan Zanini. "It will increase soldier lethality and survivability while dramatically reducing sustainment costs." FCS is a networked "system-of-systems" combining advanced communications and technologies to link soldiers with both manned and unmanned ground and air platforms and sensors. As the basis for the Department of Defense's visionary transformation plan, FCS will significantly increase the Army's agility and reduce logistics requirements, allowing it to go anywhere and to overcome any adversary. FCS is also designed from the ground up to enhance joint operations and coordination between U.S. and coalition forces. A unit of The Boeing Company, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems is one of the world's largest space and defense businesses. Headquartered in St. Louis, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems is a $30.5 billion business. It provides network-centric system solutions to its global military, government, and commercial customers. It is a leading provider of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems; the world's largest military aircraft manufacturer; the world's largest satellite manufacturer and a leading provider of space-based communications; the primary systems integrator for U.S. missile defense; NASA's largest contractor; and a global leader in sustainment solutions and launch services. >From science to solutions, SAIC engineers and scientists solve complex technical problems in national security, homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, health care, and logistics. With annual revenues of $7.2 billion, SAIC is the largest United States' employee-owned research and engineering company, with more than 42,000 employees at offices in more than 150 cities worldwide. More information about SAIC can be found at http://www.saic.com. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue Aug 16 22:46:25 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:46:25 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Roaming Messenger Joins SAIC's Public Safety Integration Center Message-ID: <20050816184540.R673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 16 August 2005 ; Roaming Messenger Joins SAIC's Public Safety Integration Center http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2005/aug/1173751.htm --- SANTA BARBARA, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Aug. 16, 2005 -- Roaming Messenger(R) (OTCBB:RMSG), the provider of a mobile messaging platform, today announced that it has completed installation of its Roaming Messenger RM 2.0 at Science Applications International Corporation's (SAIC) Public Safety Integration Center (PSIC). Located in the Washington, D.C. suburb of McLean, Va., SAIC's PSIC is a laboratory, testbed, and prototype demonstration facility that is used to illustrate the integration of capabilities and expertise from SAIC with vendors, service providers and the federal government to suit specific customer needs. Presented with scenarios tailored to PSIC visitors' requirements in the areas of homeland security, homeland defense and national security, PSIC staff demonstrates various integrated solutions to suit visitors' needs in areas that include policy, enterprise architecture, systems engineering, information technology, training and prevention. With Roaming Messenger's technology, SAIC's PSIC can demonstrate secure, interoperable, and fully interactive messaging and communications capabilities between the wireless and wired world. Unlike e-mail or text messaging, which is point to point communication, Roaming Messenger's patent pending technology uses software "messengers" to move around autonomously in the mobile world, interacting with users and systems, bringing back data and decisions, all in real-time. Accordingly, government agencies can mobilize enterprise applications, and design work flow processes, which capture the full benefits of the mobile world. Roaming Messenger delivers interoperable capabilities to any solution that requires real-time information to be communicated and interacted with dynamically in a highly secure manner, thereby providing unique advantages for homeland security and emergency response. "We welcome Roaming Messenger's technology to the growing list of vendors who are demonstrating their capabilities in SAIC's PSIC," said James W. Morentz, SAIC vice president for Homeland Security Technology. "We are excited to be part of SAIC's PSIC and we look forward to showcasing our interactive messaging capabilities for the wireless and wired worlds to PSIC visitors and potential customers," said Jon Lei, Roaming Messenger's CEO. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue Aug 16 22:47:29 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:47:29 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] AMSEC LLC Names Ronald Liu Chief Financial Officer Message-ID: <20050816184648.X673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 16 August 2005 ; SAIC News AMSEC LLC Names Ronald Liu Chief Financial Officer http://www.saic.com/news/2005/aug/16.html --- (Virginia Beach, VA) - Ronald Liu has been named Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of AMSEC LLC, a Virginia Beach-based company that provides a broad range of engineering and technical services to the Department of Defense, various governmental agencies and the commercial maritime industry. .Ron Liu has a terrific background in a broad spectrum of significant corporate positions. Bringing Ron aboard adds great leadership to our team. As CFO, he will play a major part in continuing the significant growth AMSEC LLC has enjoyed over the past several years,. said Gary Lisota, AMSEC LLC president. Prior to joining AMSEC LLC, Liu was director of Operations and Financial Controls at Johnson Controls Government Systems LLC where he was responsible for all financial aspects of a business unit that experienced revenue growth of more than 400 percent in a five-year period. Mr. Liu has also served in various positions for TRW (now Northrop Grumman), including director of finance for TRW.s Asia-Pacific Operations. Mr. Liu received the TRW Chairman.s Innovation Award in 1997. Mr. Liu was awarded a juris doctor degree by Northrop University School of Law and is licensed to practice law in the state of California. He is a certified public accountant and a graduate of The Anderson School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles. Mr. Liu graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a B.A. in Economics in 1974. AMSEC is a limited liability company jointly owned by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and Northrop Grumman Newport News. With annual revenue of approximately $470 million and 4,600 employees nationwide and overseas, AMSEC LLC is a full service supplier to the Navy and commercial maritime industry, providing naval architecture and marine engineering, combat and electronic systems engineering, naval ship systems assessments, maintenance engineering, acquisition program development, shipyard industrial engineering, and complete logistics services from technical manual development to provisioning documents, to spare parts management and training. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed Aug 17 23:03:31 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:03:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Monumental groundbreaking Message-ID: <20050817190321.L673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 17 August 2005 ; Oak Ridger Monumental groundbreaking http://www.oakridger.com/stories/081705/new_20050817004.shtml --- By: Ellen Rogers | Oak Ridger Staff ellen.rogers at oakridger.com It was a hot, ordinary August Tuesday afternoon, but it was one the Mitchell family will remember for the rest of their lives. The family celebrated the groundbreaking of its new home along with its builder, Habitat for Humanity of Anderson County, sponsor Science Applications International Corporation, and community officials at 101 Hampton Road in Oak Ridge. The house will be the first Habitat house since Habitat for Humanity of Anderson County lost its offices to a fire at First Christian Church in December. Work on the house will begin after Labor Day. "I just kept praying and praying for this land," said Emily Mitchell, mother of 13-year-old Wesley, 12-year-old Tyler and 9-year-old India. "I'm happy. I would like for the community to continue to pray for us." SAIC kicked off a fundraising campaign for its second Habitat for Humanity home in Anderson County on June 30. In addition to receiving corporate support, SAIC and its employees teamed up with Pinkerton Government Services to raise the money pledged for the Mitchell's Habitat home. "This is one way SAIC gives back to the community," said SAIC representative Robbie DeJarnette. "We've raised over $21,000 of the $35,000 needed." SAIC senior scientist Tom Burns said that the corporation sponsored its first Habitat house in 1999. A planning team of employees organize fundraisers and coordinate participation of builders. Burns said that different divisions of the company will be working on the house each weekend. "It's been great working with Emily," Burns said. "I agreed to be her sponsor more than two years ago. At the time, we didn't know SAIC would be building her house." Habitat for Humanity of Anderson County builds homes in partnership with hard-working, low-income families and individuals in Anderson County. Future homeowners must put at least 350 hours of "sweat equity" labor by helping to build their own home and working on other Habitat projects. A $500 down payment is required, which can be paid in installments before construction begins. After construction is completed, houses are sold to partnering homeowners with no-interest mortgages. Monthly payments, including taxes and insurance, are repaid over time, and the monthly payments are used to build additional Habitat houses in Anderson County. "For us to build houses, it's not enough for us to have deserving families," said Susan Burgess Parrish, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Anderson County. "It takes a group of people who are willing to put forth the effort to make it happen." SAIC representatives and corporate partners for the Mitchell house building project include Stephen B. Selecman, SAIC vice president for operations; Terrell Hicks, SAIC vice president and division manager; William M. Arms, SAIC business development manager; John R. Gregg and Robert Keib of Greg Protection Services; and Chuck Mannila and Martin Strones of Pinkerton Government Services. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed Aug 17 23:04:51 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:04:51 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense Message-ID: <20050817190439.N673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense No. 849-05 FOR RELEASE AT Aug 17, 2005 (703)697-5131(media) (703)428-0711(public/industry) Wednesday, August 17, 2005 - 5:00 PM Contracts, Wednesday, August 17, 2005 CONTRACTS : AIR FORCE Science Applications International Corp., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $6,110,688 cost-plus award-fee contract modification to provide for Subsurface Engineering and Logistics, which provides for comprehensive containment and systems acquisition capability for the subsurface system at both field and headquarters locations worldwide. Under Delivery Order 2405-16, Near Term Seismic Upgrade, the contractor will provide program management, site design, material procurement, production/integration, testing, packaging and shipping, installation, and documentation services at four sites (Indian Mountain, Eielson, Cambridge Bay and Burnt Mountain). The location of performance is Air Force Technical Applications Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. Total funds have been obligated. This work will be complete by December 2006. Negotiations were completed July 2005. The United States Atomic Energy Detection Systems Squadron, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., is the contracting activity (F33657-00-D-5700). From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Fri Aug 19 22:35:45 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 18:35:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] INNOVATION Announces FDRERASE; First IBM z/OS Secure Erase Disk Utility to earn Common Criteria EAL2+ Certification Message-ID: <20050819183453.H673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 19 August 2005 ; INNOVATION Announces FDRERASE; First IBM z/OS Secure Erase Disk Utility to earn Common Criteria EAL2+ Certification http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050819005049&newsLang=en --- LITTLE FALLS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 2005--INNOVATION, using the SHARE 2005 Users Group Conference in Boston as a backdrop, is announcing that its FDRERASE V5.4 L50 is the first secure erase disk utility for the IBM z/OS environment to earn a place on the Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS) Validated Products List for Sensitive Data Protection with a conformance claim of EAL2+. "FDRERASE today, is the only CC qualified solution available for securely erasing z/OS disks (DASD). We specifically set out designing FDRERASE V5.4 L50 to comply with current US Government guidelines for erasing computer disks and have just received our congratulatory notice on successful completion of a Common Criteria EAL2 Augmented Evaluation from NIAP CCEVS, the validating authority here in the US, explains Thomas J. Meehan, INNOVATION Data Processing Vice President of Advance Technology; adding, we also have concurrence that the erasure technique FDRERASE employs for Secure Erase satisfies the requirements specified in the Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD C3I) Memorandum, of June 4 2001, on Disposition of Unclassified DoD Computer Hard Drives, the definitive Department of Defense directive on the subject." According to the CCEVS evaluation description FDRERASE is an application that runs under the IBM z/OS operating system on a mainframe computer that provides two CCEVS security validated disk erasure functions: ERASE and SECUREERASE that overwrite DASD to ensure the risk of residual data remaining, if any, is appropriate with the risk of a person scavenging for that data. FDRERASE also provides a CCEVS security validated audit function enabling a user to confirm that the physical tracks of the DASD have indeed been overwritten sufficiently that no residual information remains. This is the VERIFY function. "FDRERASE, according to Meehan, has become quite popular with banks, card payment service providers, computer services providers, educational institutions, financial intuitions, government agencies, hospitals, insurance companies and telecommunication companies to securely erase data when leaving a DR site or disposing of disk storage systems. Always the fastest way to securely erase data in these circumstances, CCEVS EAL2+ certification now puts FDRERASE V54 L50 squarely in the forefront when it comes to meeting compliance requirements." "It is very clear now; commercial as well as government organizations have the same requirements to erase data when leaving a DR site and when disposing of disk storage systems, as they have to protect that data from unauthorized access while it's in their possession." Meehan went on, "you expect DoD (Department of Defense) and NSA (National Security Agency) to have strict rules, but there are also industry guide lines and federal codes, as well as national legislation in this and countries around the world requiring sensitive information be cleared from disks prior to disposal or reuse." HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), requires sensitive information be cleared from equipment and media prior to disposal or reuse. GLBA (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act) imposes criminal penalties on financial institutions for failing to preserve privacy of current or legacy client financial data. The Payment Card Industry (e.g. MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Diners Card, Discover and JCB) Data Security Standard requires banks, members, merchants and merchants' service providers to have data disposal plans, i.e. purge electronic media so cardholder data cannot be reconstructed. FDRERASE V5.4 L50 General Availability is September 30, 2005. Further information is available by calling 973-890-7300, e-mailing questions to sales at fdrinnovation.com or visiting our web site at http://www.innovationdp.fdr.com/products/fdrerase/index.cfm About FDRERASE Security Functions (ERASE, SECUREERASE and VERIFY) ERASE Disk erasures are actually performed by overwriting the stored data to make the original data unrecoverable. ERASE, by default, overwrites each track on a volume once making all data unrecoverable by any normal program running anywhere that has access through the disk control unit or direct access to the disk. SECUREERASE Overwrites each track on a volume a minimum of three times. This multiple overwrite process (optionally up to eight overwrites) renders the original data unrecoverable, even by sophisticated laboratory techniques applied to hard drives removed from the control unit. VERIFY The audit function VERIFY samples tracks on volumes to insure that they have been erased, verifying a percentage of the volume by default or the entire volume if needed. About INNOVATION Data Processing The leading independent software vendor in the world today, providing business data protection, non-disruptive business continuance and information life cycle management solutions for IBM eServer z/OS, zLinux, UNIX on zServers, OS/390 and S/390 Linux attached enterprise storage, as well as for Windows, UNIX and Linux, SAN, NAS and LAN distributed storage. CCEVS FDRERASE V54 L50 Security Evaluation Summary The evaluation was carried out in accordance with the Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS). Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) determined that the evaluation assurance level (EAL) for the product is EAL 2 augmented with ADV_SPM.1 and ALC_FLR.2 family of assurance requirements. FDRERASE V54 L50 earning the right to display the international Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement (CCRA) certification mark (interlocking CC on globe), results of the evaluation can be found in the Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme Validation Report, (report number CCEVS-VR-05-0109, dated 5 August 2005) prepared by CCEVS. About NIAP CCEVS The National Information Assurance Partnership Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (NIAP CCEVS) Validation Body, is an activity jointly managed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA). The CCEVS focus is to establish a national program for the evaluation of information technology products for conformance to the International Common Criteria for Information Technology Security. Further information on CCEVS is available at http://niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/index.html About Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)SAIC is an NIAP approved Common Criteria Testing Laboratory (CCTL) accredited to conduct IT security evaluations for conformance to the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation, International Standard ISO/IEC 15408:1999. Further information on SAIC is available at http://www.saic.com/ FDRERASE is a service mark, trademark and/or registered trademarks of Innovation Data Processing Corporation. IBM and z/OS are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Sun Aug 21 16:18:21 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 12:18:21 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] MZM scandal illuminates defense contract tactics Message-ID: <20050821121525.T673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 21 August 2005 ; San Diego Union-Tribune MZM scandal illuminates defense contract tactics http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20050821-9999-1b21contract.html --- Firm had a prime deal with the government By Dean Calbreath UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER August 21, 2005 When Diversa Corp. agreed to buy the assets of scandal-plagued MZM Inc. last week, it picked up a stable of 450 workers, about 85 percent of whom have security clearances . a lucrative asset for a defense-related firm like Diversa. But what Diversa could not buy was the $250 million "blanket purchase agreement" that helped MZM become one of the Pentagon's top 100 contractors. That agreement, which allowed MZM to do business with the government without repeatedly undergoing the rigors of competitive bidding, was suspended not long after MZM founder Mitchell Wade became embroiled in the widening scandal involving his real-estate deals and boating arrangements with Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham. At the time, the Pentagon said the suspension had nothing to do with the relationship between Wade and Cunningham, who has been accused of helping MZM gain contracts from the Defense Department. Regardless of why the agreement was suspended, the incident brought to light some of the little-known methods the Pentagon has used to dole out contracts to favored suppliers. Only about a third of the $1 trillion or so in prime contracts that the Pentagon has issued since 1997 have been awarded after full and open competition among two or more bidders, according to a study last fall by the Center for Public Integrity, or CPI, a nonpartisan group in Washington, D.C., that conducts investigative research on public policy issues. A large portion of the Pentagon's purchasing activity has involved "sole source contracts" that shield contractors from competition. In other contracts the Pentagon has relied on "blanket purchase agreements," so its contractors do not have to repeatedly undergo the rigors of a bidding process. That's despite repeated warnings from government agencies . including the Government Accountability Office, or GAO, and the Pentagon's Inspector General . that the lack of competition for military contracts may be more expensive and less efficient than open bidding. Without competition, the Inspector General warned in a report last year, the military cannot be sure "that the best contracting solution was provided, that (it) received fair and reasonable prices for the goods and services, or that the contractors performed the work the contract required." MZM, which won a $5 million sole-source project to provide translators in Iraq, even though it had no previous translation experience, was one of the companies cited in the Inspector General's report. "The lack of competition ends up costing the taxpayer in the long run," said Scott Amey, general counsel of the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan watchdog group in Washington, D.C. "When you're working without competition, contractors can set whatever prices they want to get from the government." Despite such warnings, the military continues to hand out noncompetitive contracts . often to companies with ties to congressmen or Pentagon officials . because it is easier to issue a contract without going through a time-consuming bidding process. "From the point of view of the person issuing the contract, the easiest way to do things is to give the work to someone you know and you've already done business with," said Larry Makinson, who spearheaded the CPI team investigating the contracting practices. "But the contractors understand the game pretty well, and they have different motives for what they're doing than the military does." Sole-source contracts . which are issued without standard competitive bidding . have long been a part of military contracting. George Washington essentially used sole-source contracts when he handpicked civilian teamsters to haul the Continental Army's provisions during the Revolutionary War. U.S. law allows federal agencies to issue sole-source contracts if only one source is available for the work or if the work has "such an unusual or compelling urgency that the government would be seriously injured" if competitive procedures were used. But in recent years, sole-source contracts have become increasingly common at the Pentagon. Over the past eight years, only 40 percent of military contracts were awarded under the Pentagon's definition of "full and open competition," the CPI study found. That number dropped to 36 percent after excluding contracts that attracted only one bidder. Roughly 44 percent of the contracts were issued without full and open competition, usually through sole-source contracts. Another 7 percent fell under other categories, mostly as small business set-asides. Eight percent gave no competition information. Out of the top 10 military contractors, San Diego's Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC, was the only contractor to get the majority of its work . 74 percent . through competitive contracts. The other contractors, ranging from Lockheed Martin to the Carlyle Group, received between 60 and 98 percent of their work through no-bid contracts. The lack of competition has worried lawmakers for several years. Shortly before his death in 2000, Rep. Herbert Bateman, a Virginia Republican who chaired the House subcommittee on military readiness, said he was concerned that sole-source contracts might prove costly for the military, especially if there were ever a war in which a large number of contractors were hired to supply the front-line troops. "It is difficult to control cost growth in a sole-source environment," David R. Warren, the then-director of defense management issues at the GAO, warned the subcommittee. Soon afterward came the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which led to an explosion in sole-source contracts. Sole-source contracts jumped 48 percent from $86.1 billion in 2001 to $127.4 billion in 2003, according the CPI. In comparison, competitive contracts jumped 39 percent from $58.5 billion to $81.6 billion. "The use of sole-source contracts took off like a rocket after 9/11," said Keith Ashdown, vice president for policy at Taxpayers for Common Sense, a Washington, D.C., budget watchdog group. "The feeling in the military was, 'We can't wait to do the paperwork on these projects. Let's just get the contractors out there. We'll take care of the questions later.' " Ashdown said it often made sense to issue sole-source contracts. But he added that the contracts needed more oversight. "These contracts can work if you make sure you run to the letter of the law and dot your i's and cross your t's," he said. "But the required oversight didn't take place. With sole-source contracts, supervision sometimes falls through the cracks." Critics say the contracts were often given to companies with strong ties to key politicians. Between 1998 and 2003, the military's 10 contractors donated $35.7 million to legislative campaigns, largely supporting members of the House and Senate Appropriations and Armed Services committees. As a senior member of the defense subcommittee on the House Appropriations Committee, Cunningham received a steady stream of donations. A grand jury is currently investigating whether he improperly helped companies such as MZM and San Diego's ADCS Inc. . which was raided last week . land favorable contracts with the Pentagon. Like MZM, ADCS had a lucrative blanket purchase agreement with the federal government. The military's use of sole-source contracts and blanket-purchase agreements has led to some missteps. Last fall, for instance, a Pentagon contracting official pleaded guilty to assigning sole-source contracts to Boeing to help secure jobs for herself and her daughter and son-in-law at the company. Over Boeing's objections, the Pentagon reopened most of the contracts to competitive bidding. In other cases, sole-source contracts seem to have been ill-suited to the contractors that won the work. For instance, SAIC was awarded a sole-source contract in 2003 to run Iraq's TV and radio network, even though it is largely an information technology company with no experience running a news operation. After a year of harsh criticism over its handling of the news, SAIC decided not to rebid for more work on the contract. MZM's Iraqi translation contract came under the umbrella of its $250 million blanket purchase agreement to provide information technology to the military. Blanket purchase agreements work like a line of credit, letting the government buy specific services up to the amount specified on the contract. Analysts say there are plenty of legitimate uses for blanket purchase agreements, such as buying a specific dollar amount worth of pencils from a stationery store. But they add that the agreements are often misused. "Some contracting officers feel that once they've signed a blanket purchase agreement with a contractor, their work is done and they don't need to do any more oversight and they can give the contractor whatever contracts they want," Ashdown said. The Defense Department's Inspector General found "significant weaknesses" in 22 out of 24 contracts that it randomly reviewed in Iraq in 2003. Among other things, the Inspector General found that the contracting officers had failed to monitor costs and allowed contractors to perform work that was outside the scope of the contracts, including MZM's translation work. "We understand the urgent conditions under which (the military) awarded the contracts," the Inspector General said. "However, urgency does not permit the contracting officers to abandon the rules." The glitches in the contracting process prompted Congress to step in. In 2003, Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, wrote a bill requiring that all contracts for rebuilding Iraq must be awarded through full and open competition, unless the Pentagon publicly justifies why the contract should have a sole source or limited bidding process. "If you're issuing a sole-source contract because of some sort of emergency situation, that's something I can understand," Wyden said recently. "But closed bids have gotten to be more the norm than the exception. It's hard to see a justification for that." Wyden's proposal eventually passed into law. But it only dealt with Iraq. Wyden said that attempts to write broader restrictions on contracts have been stymied by the defense industry. "Defense contractors always say the sky is going to fall and that national security is going to be threatened if more contracts are open to competition," Wyden said. "That's just a bunch of eyewash. Our argument is that for reasons of national security that we can't afford all this waste." From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed Aug 24 01:26:46 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:26:46 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] SAIC Signs Agreement to Acquire GEO-CENTERS, INC. Message-ID: <20050823212537.D673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 23 August 2005 SAIC Signs Agreement to Acquire GEO-CENTERS, INC. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050823/dctu017.html?.v=21 --- SAN DIEGO, Aug. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire GEO-CENTERS, INC. and its subsidiaries EAI Corporation and FOCIS Associates, Inc. "I believe the combination of our existing human resources, expertise and market presence blended with SAIC's breadth of resources and technical diversity will provide increased opportunities for growth of our employees and organization, while allowing us to continue focusing on problems of national significance," said Ed Marram, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of GEO-CENTERS. "This acquisition gives us the opportunity to enhance the level of services and solutions we offer our customers in the area of homeland security and defense," said Ken Dahlberg, SAIC chairman and chief executive officer. "We look forward to building on the long-standing client relationships GEO- CENTERS has established and are pleased to welcome its employees to the SAIC team." The transaction is expected to close in September 2005, subject to customary closing conditions, including expiration or termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act. Based in Newton, Mass., GEO-CENTERS is a leading engineering and professional services firm, providing research and development for chemical and biological detection, infrastructure assessment and protection, life science research, rapid response equipment and support, and sensor systems and integration. Customers include the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Defense, as well as state and local governments and agencies. The company also develops training course materials and trains first responders at the DHS Center for Domestic Preparedness and provides preparedness and response services and products to government and private industry clients. GEO-CENTERS was founded in 1975 and employs more than 1,100 people supporting clients throughout the United States. >From science to solutions(TM), SAIC engineers and scientists solve complex technical problems in national security, homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, health care, and logistics. With annual revenues of $7.2 billion, SAIC is the largest United States' employee- owned research and engineering company, with more than 43,000 employees at offices in more than 150 cities worldwide. More information about SAIC can be found at http://www.saic.com. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed Aug 24 01:27:44 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:27:44 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Geo-Centers to be acquired by West Coast company Message-ID: <20050823212646.N673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 23 August 2005 ; Boston Business Journal Geo-Centers to be acquired by West Coast company http://boston.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2005/08/22/daily21.html --- Science Applications International Corp. is acquiring Geo-Centers, which develops systems to detect weapons of mass destruction, as well as emergency-response measures. The companies did not disclose financial terms of the deal. With 43,000 employees, San Diego-headquartered SAIC is the largest employee-owned research and development company in the country. Geo-Centers Chief Executive Edward Marram founded the Newton company 30 years ago, and the firm has 1,100 employees today. Customers include the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and state and local governments. Last October, the company received a contract worth up to $45 million from the Naval Research Health Center in San Diego to study unspecified health-related issues facing Department of Defense personnel. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed Aug 24 01:28:50 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:28:50 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] SAIC Buys Homeland Security Firm Message-ID: <20050823212745.V673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 23 August 2005 ; San Diego Business Journal SAIC Buys Homeland Security Firm http://www.sdbj.com/industry_article.asp?aID=29490509.9951136.1187212.4303509.591863.143&aID2=91315 --- San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp. announced plans Aug. 23 to acquire Geo-Centers, Inc. for an undisclosed price. The deal also includes the purchase of Geo subsidiaries EAI Corp. and Focis Associates, Inc., and is expected to close next month, pending customary closing conditions. "I believe the combination of our existing human resources, expertise and market presence blended with SAIC's breadth of resources and technical diversity will provide increased opportunities for growth of our employees and organization," said Ed Marram, founder and chief executive officer of Geo, which is based in Massachusetts. Ken Dahlberg, SAIC's chairman and chief executive officer, said the acquisition will mean a higher level of service and solutions for the company's security and defense clients. Geo is an engineering and professional services firm that provides research and development for chemical and biological detection; infrastructure assessment and protection; life science research; rapid response equipment and support; and sensor systems. It employs more than 1,100 people. Like SAIC, many of Geo's current customers include the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security. SAIC is an employee-owned research and engineering company and is the largest high-tech defense contractor based in San Diego. - Jessica Long From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed Aug 24 12:27:07 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:27:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] SAIC agrees to major acquisition Message-ID: <20050824082617.U673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 24 August 2005 ; San Diego Union Tribune SAIC agrees to major acquisition http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20050824-9999-1b24saic.html --- By Bruce V. Bigelow UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER August 24, 2005 San Diego-based SAIC said yesterday it has agreed to buy Geo-Centers, a privately held engineering and professional services company with more than 1,100 employees. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Geo-Centers, based in Newton, Mass., specializes in developing ways to detect chemical and biological weapons, and in other aspects of emergency response and homeland security. "This acquisition gives us the opportunity to enhance the level of services and solutions we offer our customers in the area of homeland security and defense," said Ken Dahlberg, SAIC's chairman and chief executive. The acquisition of Geo-Centers represents one of the largest deals in recent years for the company also known as Science Applications International Corp., said Bob Kipps, an investment banker with the McLean, Va., office of Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin. Kipps advised Geo-Centers on the transaction. "They're buying Geo-Centers' past performance," Kipps said. "They're buying their technical depth. They're buying their customer relationships. And they're buying their (existing) contracts." Houlihan Lokey also has served as a longtime consultant to SAIC, helping the employee-owned company assess the value of its share price each quarter. The transaction is expected to close in September, subject to antitrust review and other conditions. SAIC said it also will acquire Geo-Centers subsidiaries EAI Corp. and FOCIS Associates. Founded in 1975, Geo-Centers also develops training-course materials and trains first responders at the Department of Homeland Security's Center for Domestic Preparedness. It also provides preparedness and response services and products to government and private industry clients. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed Aug 24 22:49:58 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:49:58 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Ezenia! Inc. Announces Strategic Agreement with SAIC Message-ID: <20050824184859.E673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 24 August 2005 ; PR Newswire Ezenia! Inc. Announces Strategic Agreement with SAIC http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050824/new010.html?.v=23 --- NASHUA, N.H., Aug. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ezenia! Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: EZEN.OB - News), a leading market provider of secure real-time collaboration solutions for government networks and eGovernment, has announced an agreement with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to promote and implement an enterprise-wide and joint offering of Ezenia!'s total network solution, InfoWorkSpace (IWS). Ezenia!'s success with global security, intelligence, and warfighting organizations will be significantly enhanced by teaming with this highly qualified global service provider; one which already has vast IWS experience, and a strong infrastructure to support the government's enterprise-wide implementations. SAIC's expertise in consulting, application development, and project services combined with Ezenia!'s award-winning collaboration tool, InfoWorkSpace, creates a capability that will uniquely provide a new generation of integrated collaborative, communications interoperability, and crisis management solutions. This agreement lays the foundation for a long- term relationship to bilaterally provide products and services to the federal government through parties' respective contract vehicles, as well as to expand their markets into other public sector arenas. The growth and expansion of the IWS franchise will allow Ezenia! and SAIC to better serve the customer base both organizations currently share. Driven by the federal government's demand for secure, robust, and scalable collaboration tools, initial activities contemplated are for the installation of IWS servers at SAIC. SAIC Vice President and Division Manager Sam Mudrak whose organization is spearheading this effort commented, "This agreement brings together two organizations that were formerly approaching their customers from different directions with the same goal. Together, by mutually supporting our common customers with experienced, motivated and technically superior talent, the future of promoting a world class collaborative information environment becomes a reality." Ezenia! Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Daniel K. Ragheb, had this to say about the agreement, "This agreement will work in powerful ways; we've only just begun to realize greater opportunities to better address the needs of the federal market space and military environment. I am confident that SAIC and Ezenia! will work hand-in-hand to contribute their expertise in support of a more net-centric environment that will incorporate new technologies and functionality. Ezenia!'s overall offering to the federal government will be enhanced and will continue to provide our customers with the most secure, reliable, and scalable enterprise-wide collaborative tool that is recognized within the government as the standard in collaborative tools." Ezenia!'s flagship product InfoWorkSpace is currently being used for crisis management and communication interoperability within the defense and intelligence communities. As one of the only truly battle tested applications, InfoWorkSpace has proven its value and is quickly becoming the tool of choice for standardization across the federal government. >From science to solutions, SAIC engineers and scientists solve complex technical problems in national and homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, healthcare, and logistics. SAIC's global presence and business relationship within the federal government will provide the strength and support of the implementation of world and enterprise-wide installations. About Ezenia! Inc. Ezenia! Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: EZEN.OB - News), founded in 1991, is a leading provider of real-time collaboration solutions, bringing new and valuable levels of interaction and collaboration to government networks and eGovernment. By integrating voice, video, and data collaboration, the company's award-winning products enable groups to interact through a natural meeting experience regardless of geographic distance. Ezenia!'s products allow dispersed groups to work together in real-time using powerful capabilities such as instant messaging, white boarding, screen sharing, and text chat. The ability to discuss projects, share information, and modify documents allows users to significantly improve team communication and accelerate the decision- making process. More information about Ezenia! Inc. and its product and service offerings can be found at the company's Web site, http://www.ezenia.com. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Thu Aug 25 02:23:25 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:23:25 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Ezenia enters into collaboration deal with SAIC Message-ID: <20050824222218.X673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 24 August 2005 ; Mass High Tech Ezenia enters into collaboration deal with SAIC http://www.masshightech.com/displayarticledetail.asp?Art_ID=69439 --- Nashua N.H.'s Ezenia Inc., has joined with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), based in San Diego, to promote and implement a joint offering of Ezenia's InfoWorkSpace (IWS) collaboration platform. Initial activities will include the installation of IWS servers at SAIC, which employs more than 43,000 people worldwide. The agreement will lay the groundwork for a long-term relationship to jointly provide products and services to the federal government and its agencies through the two parties' respective contracts. The two companies also intend to expand their reach in additional public sectors, according to company oifficials. IWS is an integrated voice, video and data collaboration platform for government networks. It has been deployed in military and intelligence organizations as part of the war on terror in both Afghanistan and Iraq. SAIC is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the country, providing information technology, system integration and other platforms to commercial and government customers. At press time, Ezenia's stock was up 24 cents, or 11.11 percent, from last night's closing price of $2.16. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Fri Aug 26 01:57:27 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:57:27 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] AMSEC LLC Names Robert Crawshaw Director of Strategic Development Message-ID: <20050825215644.V673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 25 August 2005 ; SAIC AMSEC LLC Names Robert Crawshaw Director of Strategic Development http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050825/dcth030.html?.v=22 --- VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- AMSEC LLC has promoted senior vice president Robert Crawshaw to director of strategic development. Crawshaw will be responsible for all strategic business development and proposal activities across AMSEC's five major business areas and subsidiaries. AMSEC is a Virginia Beach company that provides a broad range of engineering and technical services to the Department of Defense, as well as the commercial maritime industry. "Bob Crawshaw has been promoted over time to positions of increasing responsibility since he joined the company in 1998 and has greatly contributed to AMSEC's sustained growth," said Gary Lisota, AMSEC LLC chief executive officer and president. "Naming Bob to strategic development recognizes his achievements, strong leadership and the vision he has for our future." Prior to joining AMSEC, Crawshaw was a U.S. Navy captain with a variety of command tours and a focus on advanced combat systems. Crawshaw is a 1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. AMSEC is a limited liability company jointly owned by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and Northrop Grumman Newport News. AMSEC employs approximately 4,600 highly skilled managers, analysts and technicians nationwide and overseas. AMSEC LLC is a full service supplier to the Navy and commercial maritime industry, providing naval architecture and marine engineering, combat and electronic systems engineering, naval ship systems assessments, maintenance engineering, acquisition program development, shipyard industrial engineering, and complete logistics services from technical manual development to provisioning documents, to spare parts management and training. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue Aug 30 01:58:16 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:58:16 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] SAIC to Assist in Open Road Tolling Message-ID: <20050829215733.V673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 29 August 2005 ; Business Intelligence Network SAIC to Assist in Open Road Tolling http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/1458?jsessionid=ae4bf257052436d0bfb204fe415e7d5c --- Illinois to convert all mainline toll plazas to a barrier-free electronic toll collection system. Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) Security and Transportation Technology Business Unit recently announced that it has been awarded a $6.6 million contract by the Illinois Tollway to assist in the Tollway.s system-wide conversion to Open Road Tolling, the first in the nation to convert all mainline toll plazas to a barrier-free electronic toll collection system. The contract includes Phases I and II of the Tollway.s Toll Revenue Management and Maintenance Program. As the Tollway begins retrofitting toll plazas and adding highway speed Open Road Tolling lanes for I-PASS customers, SAIC will provide equipment to upgrade its existing violation enforcement system (VES). VES enforces payment of tolls by capturing images of vehicle license plates that drive through toll lanes without paying or without a valid I-PASS. This contract represents one of the largest single VES orders in the toll industry. SAIC's TollVision VES captures the images of license plates of vehicles traveling up to 100 mph and is installed in more than 650 toll lanes throughout the United States. Currently, the Illinois Tollway includes more than 180 lanes of VES with license plate image capture, coupled with SAIC-provided optical character recognition capability, to process more than tens of thousands of violations each day. The TollVision system uses SAIC's Exact Exposure self-adjusting multiple-image camera technology designed to ensure accurate and reliable exposure of the license plate. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue Aug 30 01:59:47 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:59:47 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] SAIC Awarded Illinois Tollway Contract to Upgrade Toll System Message-ID: <20050829215816.E673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 29 August 2005 ; SAIC SAIC Awarded Illinois Tollway Contract to Upgrade Toll System http://www.saic.com/news/2005/aug/29.html --- (SAN DIEGO AND MCLEAN, VA) - Science Applications International Corporation's (SAIC) Security and Transportation Technology Business Unit announced today that it has been awarded a $6.6 million contract by the Illinois Tollway to assist in the Tollway's system-wide conversion to Open Road Tolling, the first in the nation to convert all mainline toll plazas to a barrier-free electronic toll collection system. The contract includes Phases I and II of the Tollway's Toll Revenue Management and Maintenance Program. As the Tollway begins retrofitting toll plazas and adding highway speed Open Road Tolling lanes for I-PASS customers, SAIC will provide equipment to upgrade its existing violation enforcement system (VES). VES enforces payment of tolls by capturing images of vehicle license plates that drive through toll lanes without paying or without a valid I-PASS. This contract represents one of the largest single VES orders in the toll industry. "This project is a continuation of our strong relationship with the Illinois Tollway," said Alex J. Preston, general manager of SAIC's Security and Transportation Technology Business Unit. "We worked closely to design a VES system that has helped the Tollway collect an industry-leading $43 million in unpaid tolls and fines over the last three years." SAIC's TollVision. VES captures the images of license plates of vehicles traveling up to 100 mph and is installed in more than 650 toll lanes throughout the United States. Currently, the Illinois Tollway includes more than 180 lanes of VES with license plate image capture, coupled with SAIC-provided optical character recognition capability, to process more than tens of thousands of violations each day. The TollVision system uses SAIC's Exact Exposure self-adjusting multiple-image camera technology designed to ensure accurate and reliable exposure of the license plate. Additional Information: Visit SAIC's Transportation section to learn more about our capabilities in this area. About the Illinois Tollway The Illinois Tollway maintains and operates 274 miles of interstate tollways in 12 counties in Northern Illinois, including the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway (I-88), the North-South Tollway (I-355), the Northwest Tollway (I-90) and the Tri-State Tollway (I-94, I-294, I-80/I-294). From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue Aug 30 22:29:56 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:29:56 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] SAIC nabs highway toll system deal Message-ID: <20050830182838.J673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 30 August 2005 ; Washington Technology SAIC nabs highway toll system deal http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/26892-1.html --- By Doug Beizer Staff Writer Science Applications International Corp won a $6.6 million contract from the Illinois Tollway to assist in a systemwide conversion to a barrier-free electronic toll collection system, the company has announced. Under the contract, SAIC's Security and Transportation Technology business unit will provide equipment to upgrade the tollway's violation enforcement system. The system enforces toll fees by capturing images of car and truck license plates that drive through tolls without paying. The Illinois Tollway includes more than 180 toll lanes with license plate image capture, coupled with SAIC-provided optical character recognition capability, to process more than tens of thousands of violations each day. The company's violation enforcement system can capture images of license plates of vehicles traveling up to 100 mph and is installed in more than 650 toll lanes throughout the United States. SAIC has more than 45,000 employees and annual sales of $7.2 billion and ranks No. 3 on Washington Technology.s 2005 Top 100 list, which measures federal IT prime contracting revenue. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed Aug 31 22:35:35 2005 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:35:35 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] iSeries Security Achieves Common Criteria Certification Message-ID: <20050831183307.H673-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 31 August 2005 ; iSeries Network iSeries Security Achieves Common Criteria Certification http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/content/f3/index.cfm?fuseaction=news.viewArticle&webID=1001&newsID=5021&issueID=5391&articleID=51469 --- by Cheryl D. Ross, Senior News Editor iSeries aficionados who've long liked to boast of the security features of their favorite system now have another reason to crow. This month, the iSeries running V5R3 was certified by the National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP) on the Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme - an internationally recognized security evaluation developed by the U.S. government. This is big news, says IBM's Ian Jarman, iSeries product marketing manager. "More than ever before," he says, "companies are aware of the fact that they need to make sure that they have a secure system. The Common Criteria certification gives iSeries users another validation of the system's security, and the NIAP's report can point to any security issues they should be paying attention to." The certification can also help the platform reach out to a wider demographic than just the iSeries faithful, says John Earl, PowerTech CTO. Common Criteria Evaluation "is the standard that other platforms are measured by," Earl says. "It gives people who are not familiar with the iSeries the ability to do an apples-to-apples comparison. If you look at the iSeries and ask, 'Does it pass Common Criteria Evaluation?,' and the answer is, 'We've never even tried,' it's hard to tell how secure it is. If you don't understand the intricacies of iSeries security, something like Common Criteria Evaluation can give you a sense that it's been evaluated and that it's stood up to scrutiny." Essentially, Jarman says, the Common Criteria Evaluation reviews both the functional requirements of a system and the way security is implemented on the system. It's similar to the C2 Certification awarded by the U.S. Department of Defense. IBM prepared for the evaluation by amassing all of the platform's security documentation and providing it to the evaluation team. The security parameters were then reviewed and tested by an independent team at the Common Criteria Testing Laboratory at Science Application International Corporation (SAIC) in Columbia, Maryland. The SAIC team evaluated OS/400 on user data protection, authentication and identification, security audit mechanisms, security management, and protection of the system's security functions. V5R3 was tested on three machines: the models 520, 550, and 570, which are the most commonly sold machines and the ones that are most accessible. SAIC tested the machines' security in a specific environment. For example, SAIC assumed that physical access to the iSeries systems would be limited to those IT people who need to have it. The evaluation and validation consisted of several automated tests to address discretionary access controls, parameter validation, audits, and special functions, such as authority manipulation and domain protection. SAIC also designed and performed 19 independent tests of various security functions. However, SAIC didn't test all types of security risks, such as the machine's ability to withstand denial of service attacks. The only real security glitch the team uncovered is that one command, RUNRMTCMD, failed to obscure the plain text of the password, so batch files containing that command need to be adequately protected. You can access the report online at http://niap.nist.gov/cc-scheme/st/ST_VID4035-VR.pdf.