From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed Feb 1 23:43:11 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:43:11 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] NASA Selects SAIC for Goddard Space Flight Center Support Message-ID: <20060201184224.E652-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 1 February 2006 ; NASA NASA Selects SAIC for Goddard Space Flight Center Support http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/feb/HQ_C06006_GSFC_atmospheres.html --- CONTRACT RELEASE: C06-006 NASA SELECTS SAIC FOR GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER SUPPORT NASA has selected Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Beltsville, Md., to provide support to the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center, Laboratory for Atmospheres, Greenbelt, Md. The contractor will also provide support for the Hydrological Sciences Branch in Goddard's Laboratory for Hydrospheric and Biospheric Processes. Both laboratories are located within Goddard's Sun-Earth Exploration Division. The maximum value of the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, cost plus award fee, five year period of performance is $19 million. The principal work will be performed at Goddard. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed Feb 1 23:46:11 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:46:11 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] SAIC Announces Retirement of Chief Operating Officer Message-ID: <20060201184332.A652-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 1 February 2006 ; PR Newswire SAIC Announces Retirement of Chief Operating Officer http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-01-2006/0004272615 --- SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today the retirement of Duane P. Andrews, executive vice president and chief operating officer. Andrews will remain chief operating officer until February 24, 2006, and will retire on April 15, 2006. Kenneth C. Dahlberg, chairman, president and chief executive officer, said a search has begun for a successor. "During his 13 years of service, Duane compiled a strong record in growing our federal business and then operating large portions of it prior to becoming chief operating officer -- the position he is vacating on February 24, 2006," Dahlberg said. "We all owe him our appreciation for his efforts on SAIC's behalf and I personally want to thank Duane for the help and support he gave me when I became SAIC's CEO." Copies of Dahlberg's and Andrews' statements to SAIC employees follow. January 31, 2006 To: All Employees From: Ken Dahlberg Chairman, CEO and President Consistent with my commitment to communicate with you directly on important matters, I need to tell you about a change to our senior management team. Duane Andrews has submitted his letter of retirement from SAIC which I have approved. During his 13 years of service, Duane compiled a strong record in growing our federal business and then operating large portions of it prior to becoming Chief Operating Officer -- the position he is vacating on February 24, 2006. We all owe him our appreciation for his efforts on SAIC's behalf and I personally want to thank Duane for the help and support he gave me when I became SAIC's CEO. As we move forward, be assured that we have a strong management team in place to achieve the company's goals, including our planned IPO. We are well positioned to take advantage of opportunities in the marketplace. I have initiated a search for a Washington-based senior executive to take on the COO role. This executive will focus on expanding our current business, hiring and retaining talent, and working important issues with our customers, including contract performance. As for me, I will continue to work closely with our teams in Washington and the rest of the country as we execute our FY'07 plan. As we start our new fiscal year we must stay focused on delivering on our commitments to our customers, our shareholders and our fellow employees. January 31, 2006 Statement of Duane Andrews, Chief Operating Officer, on Decision to Retire from SAIC After 39 years of service in government and industry, I have decided the time is right for me to retire from SAIC and focus more on my family and other interests. I leave at a time when SAIC's future is extremely bright, with dedicated and professional employees, with strong experienced leaders, with growing markets and with loyal and satisfied customers. I have discussed my plans with Ken Dahlberg and we have agreed I will remain Chief Operating Officer until February 24, 2006 and will retire on April 15th. This timing will allow me to complete the year-end close out and ensure a strong start to our new fiscal year as we prepare for an Initial Public Offering. It has been an honor to be part of the SAIC team for 13 years and to play a leadership role in bringing SAIC into the top tier of government contractors. I look back with considerable pride in the accomplishments of all those I have worked with to grow government revenues from $1.3 billion in fiscal year 1993 when I started to an estimated $7 billion as we end fiscal year 2006. I feel privileged to have been a member of the exceptional company that Dr. Beyster built and to have helped in the transition to our new structure under Ken Dahlberg. It has been a pleasure to work closely with Ken over the last two years. I have full confidence his continuing leadership will keep SAIC focused on increasing shareholder value and solving the nation's most difficult problems as it has done throughout the company's 37 years. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed Feb 1 23:48:32 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:48:32 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] SAIC's Andrews steps down Message-ID: <20060201184626.K652-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 1 February 2006 ; Washington Technology SAIC's Andrews steps down http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/27893-1.html --- By Roseanne Gerin Staff Writer Duane Andrews is stepping down as executive vice president and chief operating executive officer of Science Applications International Corp., the company announced today. The 13-year SAIC veteran will remain COO until Feb. 24, and retire on April 15. The company has not named a replacement, said Constance Custer, SAIC vice president of communications in McLean, Va. Chairman, chief executive officer and president Kenneth Dahlberg has started a search for a Washington-based senior executive to take the COO role. The announcement comes as SAIC prepares to hold an initial public offering later this year on a yet to be determined date. Proceeds from IPO will be used to pay a special dividend to SAIC's stockholders, mostly comprising employees. The funds also will help fuel organic growth and acquisitions. SAIC cancelled a special shareholders meeting on Dec. 16 to discuss the IPO. It will be held after SAIC files in April its annual audited financial statement for fiscal 2006 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The delay of the IPO also depends on how long it takes for an independent review of the company's performance on a contract it held for the Greek Olympics. SAIC lost a $115 million on the contract, Dahlberg wrote in a letter to investors on Dec. 9. The contract could be a significant issue for new investors who are trying to understand SAIC prior to the IPO, Dahlberg said in a Dec. 16 letter to shareholders, in which he explained the decision to cancel the special shareholders' meeting. SAIC said it will provide additional details concerning the new timing of the IPO at a later time. Andrews' departure also comes after a year in which SAIC has been criticized for problems with FBI and National Security Agency contracts. The FBI cancelled SAIC's contract to build the Virtual Case File system, after spending $170 million, because the agency said it wouldn't work. A recent Baltimore Sun article recently outlined problems, including cost overruns and a lack of deliverables, on the NSA's $1.2 billion Trailblazer project. When asked if the company's problems with the Trailblazer and Virtual Case File prompted Andrews to leave the company, Custer said his reasons for retiring were stated in his letter included in SAIC's statement about his resignation. In the letter, Andrews said he wanted to focus more on his family and other interests after working 39 years in government and industry. His retirement date in April will allow him to complete the company's fiscal year close out and ensure a strong start to the new fiscal year as the company prepares for the IPO, he said. Custer also said that no further announcements of other key executives stepping down were in the works. Andrews was promoted to COO in late January 2005 from his previous position of corporate executive vice president. Prior to that, he served as president and COO of the company's federal business. Andrews increased the company's revenue from $1.3 billion in fiscal 1993, when he began working for SAIC, to an estimated $7 billion for fiscal 2006, which ended Jan. 31. Before joining the San Diego-based company, he was assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence. He also served on various national security advisory groups and commissions and was a staff member with the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. SAIC is an employee-owned research and engineering company with more than 43,000 workers. The company ranks No. 3 [1] on Washington Technology's 2005 Top 100 [2] list of federal prime contractors. --- [1] http://www.washingtontechnology.com/top-100/2005/3.html [2] http://www.washingtontechnology.com/top-100/2005 From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Fri Feb 3 03:03:57 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:03:57 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] No. 2 executive at SAIC resigns after 13 years Message-ID: <20060202220146.M652-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 2 February 2006 ; San Diego Union Tribune No. 2 executive at SAIC resigns after 13 years http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20060202-9999-1b2saic.html --- By Bruce V. Bigelow UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER San Diego-based SAIC said yesterday that Duane P. Andrews, the company's second-highest ranking executive, is leaving after 13 years. Andrews, 61, will remain as SAIC's chief operating officer until Feb. 24, when the defense contractor closes the books on its fiscal year that ended in January. He plans to retire April 15, the company said. Andrews resigned from SAIC's board on Jan. 27, according to a filing with government regulators. He has served as a director since 1996. Andrews served in the No. 2 position for barely a year. He was promoted to the job in January 2005 by Kenneth C. Dahlberg, SAIC's chairman and chief executive. "We all owe him our appreciation for his efforts on SAIC's behalf, and I personally want to thank Duane for the help and support he gave me when I became SAIC's CEO," Dahlberg said in the company's statement. Dahlberg, a former General Dynamics executive, replaced SAIC founder J. Robert Beyster as chief executive in 2003. The company also known as Science Applications International Corp., ranks as the nation's largest employee-owned research and engineering conglomerate, with more than 43,000 employees. In a memo e-mailed to employees yesterday, Dahlberg said he has initiated a search "for a Washington-based senior executive to take on the COO role." Dahlberg also assured workers that "we have a strong management team in place to achieve the company's goals, including our planned IPO." SAIC's initial public stock offering was expected to take place in the first three months of 2006. But the company postponed the IPO in December, citing unexpected costs and other troubles with a 2003 contract with the Greek government to install a command-and-control security system for the 2004 Olympic Games. The Greek government has refused to make certain payments to SAIC for the system, citing numerous "omissions and deviations" with software developed for the system and other aspects of the network. SAIC said in December that it has lost $115 million on the $305 million contract. The company also disclosed that it has launched an internal investigation of the Greek Olympics contract, including "ethical issues" raised by an unidentified employee. Whether Andrews' departure was related to those troubles was unclear. A company spokesman could not be reached for comment late yesterday by telephone or by e-mail. In a statement released by the company, Andrews said, "After 39 years of service in government and industry, I have decided the time is right for me to retire from SAIC and focus more on my family and other interests." After joining the company in 1993, Andrews gained increasing responsibility overseeing SAIC's federal business. He had previously served four years as a top Pentagon official in the administration of President George H.W. Bush. From 1989 to 1993, when Vice President Dick Cheney was secretary of defense, Andrews served as the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications and intelligence. Andrews moved into a similar role at SAIC, overseeing much of the company's work on secret projects with defense and national security agencies that involved sophisticated computer, communications and surveillance networks. In his statement to SAIC employees, Andrews said, "I look back with considerable pride in the accomplishments of all those I have worked with to grow government revenue from $1.3 billion in fiscal year 1993 when I started to an estimated $7 billion as we end fiscal year 2006." SAIC came under harsh criticism in Congress last year for its work on Trilogy, a program that was intended to overhaul the FBI's outdated computer system. FBI Director Rober Mueller said custom software developed by the company for the system was unusable. On Sunday, The Baltimore Sun outlined cost overruns and other problems involving Trailblazer, a classified $1.2 billion project for the National Security Agency. The program was intended to serve as a state-of-the art system for sifting through the flood of modern-day digital communications. The newspaper reported that SAIC, the lead contractor on Trailblazer, did not provide enough people with the technical or management skills to produce the sophisticated system. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Sat Feb 4 14:13:28 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 09:13:28 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] Pentagon investment of $200m in Iraq media wasted: Expert Message-ID: <20060204091245.P652-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 4 February 2006 ; The Peninsula Pentagon investment of $200m in Iraq media wasted: Expert http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Local_News&subsection=Qatar+News&month=February2006&file=Local_News200602047043.xml --- DOHA: Pentagon's investment of nearly $200m in developing a free Iraqi media was a sheer waste with the radio, TV stations and a daily newspaper it funded remaining shunned by the majority of Iraqi people, a prominent London-based Iraqi journalist and author, said here Thursday. Modern-day newspapers that sprang up in Iraq after Saddam Hussein's ouster in 2003 are nothing but mouthpieces of major political parties in that country, she added. In an interview with The Peninsula, Iraqi authoress Haifa Zangana said, the Pentagon had paid one of its contractors, SAIC, to set up a radio and TV station for the people of Iraq before the US-led coalition attacked the Saddam Hussein regime. SAIC, she said, was paid over $115m for this by the Pentagon. The radio station funded thus started broadcasts for Iraqis from Bahrain and initially received a tremendous response from the besieged citizens who were fed up with propaganda spewed by Baghdad's state-owned media. Later, a TV station was also set up with these funds. However, with Saddam's regime being dismantled, the radio station, Iraqiya Radio and Iraqiya TV station, remained nothing more than a US mouthpiece and soon became unpopular among the people who were at the receiving end of coalition weapons. Assaha, an Arabic daily funded by the Pentagon through SAIC also lost its appeal among Iraqi readers, she added. The author, who has penned some seven books and several articles about Iraq said, some sort of an Iraqi media did emerge in the aftermath of the war in the form of local dailies and periodicals. However, with the democratic process in Iraq imminent and gaining ground due to the US, such media willingly fell into the hands of local political parties that now flourish in the war-ravaged country." They have all become partisan and mouthpieces of some political party or the other and hence, no independent media exist now. She said, the Iraqi people were desperately awaiting a free and independent media to develop in their country, especially after the fall of Saddam Hussein but sadly, that had not occurred. Harassment of Iraqi journalists in their own country such as kidnapping, death threats to their families and killings of those who toed different lines had also hindered the development of free press. However, the future of the free media in Iraq was not bleak, she said. .The resilience of the Iraqi people is well known across the world and a day will soon come when a truly free and independent Iraqi press will be born and prevail. The Iraqis are considered as one of the most academic and avid newspaper readers and media are also a big business in the country," she said. It would be difficult though, to predict when such a free media would come to the forefront in Iraq, especially due to the prevailing circumstances. Iraq, she said, had no shortage of intellectuals and journalists and this massive force will greatly help in the formation of a truly free Iraqi media that would neither bow to US and foreign pressure or internal politics, she said. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue Feb 7 03:34:25 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:34:25 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] SAIC Added to Defense Research and Engineering Network Message-ID: <20060206223332.K652-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 6 February 2006 ; SAIC SAIC Added to Defense Research and Engineering Network http://www.saic.com/news/2006/feb/06.html --- (SUFFOLK, VA) - Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today that its Suffolk-based laboratory has been added to the Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN). The DREN is the Department of Defense's research and engineering network that provides connectivity among 120 national laboratories and research organizations of the High Performance Computing Modernization Program. Over the last six years, SAIC has worked with the Joint Futures Lab and Joint Warfighting Center to provide systems engineers and analysts in support of the Joint Experimentation and Joint Training programs as part of U.S. Joint Forces Command's (USJFCOM) transformation missions. Currently, SAIC has more than 180 supporting staff members in Suffolk and more than 3,500 employees total in the Hampton Roads area. "SAIC's lab brings not only local resources to USJFCOM, but resources from across the country as a node on a distributed network of labs," said Dave Robinson, SAIC technical director. "SAIC's Enterprise Services Integration & Interoperability Lab (ESIIL) labs across the country provide a distributed, vendor-neutral environment to develop community of interest solutions to include architectures based upon distributed Web services or service- oriented architectures." SAIC's DREN connection is located in Suffolk in the Joint Systems of Systems Collaborative Environment Laboratory, one of six nodes on the ESIIL network of labs. SAIC's lab facilitates concept and concept-based requirements development and is capable of conducting advanced concept technology demonstrations. It serves as a portal to a distributed collaborative network of live, virtual and constructive simulations applicable to experimentation, testing and training. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue Feb 7 03:36:01 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:36:01 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] SAIC Names Paul W. Sullivan Director of Corporate Business Development Message-ID: <20060206223437.B652-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 6 February 2006 ; SAIC SAIC Names Paul W. Sullivan Director of Corporate Business Development http://www.saic.com/news/2006/feb/06a.html --- (Photo of Paul Sullivan)[1] (SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, VA) - Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today that Paul W. Sullivan has been selected as senior vice president and director of corporate business development. In this position Sullivan will be responsible for SAIC's business development and business development infrastructure to include trade shows and proposal support services. "Paul takes over leadership of business development at SAIC at an important time in the company's history," said Ken Dahlberg, SAIC president, chairman and chief executive officer. "As we focus on increasing our existing base of business, Paul's experience facilitating collaboration across business units will be key to pursuing larger contracts and sustaining organic growth." Sullivan was senior vice president of business development of L-3 Communications prior to coming to SAIC and had primary responsibility for identification, development and acquisition of global business opportunities. Sullivan was named to this position in 2004, following L-3 Communications' acquisition of Titan, where he also worked as the business development lead. >From 1999 to April 2002, Sullivan was senior vice president of business development for BTG, Inc., which Titan acquired in November 2001. Before joining BTG, Inc., Sullivan had been the director of business development for Raytheon's Strategic Systems Business Unit since June of 1993. Prior to joining industry, Sullivan spent 23 years in the U.S. Navy as a cryptologic officer. A graduate of the University of Maryland, Sullivan has a degree in Information Systems Management and a second degree in Computer Electronics. --- [1] http://www.saic.com/news/images/sullivan2.jpg From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue Feb 7 03:37:35 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:37:35 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] U.S. Army to boost procurement, research spending Message-ID: <20060206223616.Y652-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 6 February 2006 ; San Diego Union-Tribune U.S. Army to boost procurement, research spending http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20060206-1032-bush-budget-army.html --- By Andrea Shalal-Esa REUTERS WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration's proposed 2007 budget would sharply boost procurement and research spending by the U.S. Army, earmarking $3.74 billion for Boeing Co.'s Future Combat Systems program and another $3.6 billion to replace worn-out helicopters. A senior defense official said the Army was asking Congress for $27.7 billion to buy new weapons and develop others in fiscal year 2007, which begins Oct. 1. That is an increase of nearly 29 percent from $21.5 billion in fiscal 2006. Critics have called for tough scrutiny of the Army's $125 billion Future Combat System modernization program, given its huge scope, and some analysts predicted last fall that the program could be scaled back. But it appears to have escaped this year's budget cuts unscathed. The proposal budgets $3.3 billion for FCS and $435 million for the non-line-of sight cannons being developed under that program, the official said. Chicago-based Boeing is the main FCS contractor, along with employee-owned Science Applications International Inc. SAIC has made moves toward an initial public offering of common stock that could come early this year. The Army budget also calls for the purchase of 28 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters built by Sikorsky Aircraft, a unit of United Technologies Corp. , and 39 light utility helicopters as part of a competition that is due to be decided this spring, according to the official. Four industry teams, including one led by French-German European defense company EADS , are vying to build 320 light utility helicopters to help the Army start replacing hundreds of the Army's Vietnam-era UH-1s and Kiowas. AgustaWestland, a unit of Italy's Finmeccanica SpA , is teamed with L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. to bid for the contract. Textron Inc.'s Bell Helicopter unit and MD Helicopters Inc., a small company owned by private investment firm Patriarch Partners LLC, are also competing. Richard Aboulafia, defense analyst with the Virginia-based Teal Group, said the Army's plans to begin to replace aircraft that are being worn out at a faster rate due to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were long overdue. "That's $3.6 billion in down payments. They need to do that and more," he said, noting that the spending plans spelled good news for aircraft manufacturers and suppliers. The budget would also fund 100 more Stryker wheeled combat vehicles, and 23 M1A2 Abrams tanks, both built by General Dynamics Corp. , based in Falls Church, Virginia. In addition, it earmarks $583 million for armored Humvees and $1.4 billion for heavy and medium tactical vehicles. Jacksonville, Florida-based Armor Holdings Inc. is the leading maker of protective armor for soldiers and Humvees. The plan also includes $832 million for a restructured Joint Tactical Radio System, a huge program to link U.S. troops using software-based radios that had run into trouble last year. The president sent his budget proposal for $2.77 trillion in fiscal 2007 federal spending to Congress, which will spend the coming months debating and finalizing a spending plan. Bush proposed a record $439.3 billion defense budget for 2007 aimed at fighting unconventional terrorism and any major international conflict. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue Feb 7 13:35:19 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 08:35:19 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] From saving jobs to saving lives Message-ID: <20060207083245.W652-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 7 February 2006 ; Metro West Daily News >From saving jobs to saving lives http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=121309 --- By Andrew J. Manuse Daily News Staff The group responsible for keeping Natick Labs and Hanscom Air Force Base open will now focus on building a Massachusetts-dominated defense-technology industry. The Massachusetts Defense Technology Initiative, established in 2003 by the Waltham-based Massachusetts High Technology Council, was part of an event yesterday highlighting the U.S. Army.s Future Combat Systems program and how it will benefit New England. That program is the Army.s modernization effort, which will automate much of the military.s operations and make the battlefield a safer place for U.S. soldiers, according to the council. While the initiative.s previous efforts saved 33,000 jobs at Hanscom and the Army.s Natick Soldier Center during the Pentagon.s 2005 Base Realignment and Closure round, the group now will help the state.s high-tech companies capitalize on $6.8 billion of research and development money slated for the Future Combat Systems program here. The program will be "a key economic driver" for the state.s economy, according to Christopher Anderson, president of the Waltham-based council. Future Combat Systems will involve technologies such as unmanned ground and aerial vehicles, remote-controlled artillery and equipment that connects U.S. soldiers electronically over a secure military network. Nationwide, the Future Combat Systems program will cost the Army $120 billion over 30 years, and will create 15 brigades, fully capable of operating anywhere in the world, even if uninvited, according to Lt. Gen. Dan Zanini, deputy program manager for Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC. The technologies will be rolled out for use in battle in phases, but testing on some of them has already begun, Zanini said. SAIC and Boeing, the contractors hired by the Army, will have hired 700 companies nationwide by the end of this year to work on several aspects of the program, according to Zanini. Ranch Kimball, the state.s secretary of economic development, said the general defense industry in Massachusetts already supports an estimated 65,000 to 85,000 jobs, which can be compared with the 17,000 to 30,000 jobs supported by the biotech industry here. Kimball, who also spoke yesterday, said the defense industry is an "incredibly important part" of the state.s technology economy. The Future Combat System, which will support only part of that defense industry base, currently involves 26 Massachusetts companies, such as ron Systems Corp., where yesterday.s event was held in Wilmington, iRobot Corp. in Burlington, Netegrity Inc. in Waltham, EComp in Ashland and Systinet Corp. in Natick. ron Systems is working on technologies such as disposable sensors that soldiers involved in urban warfare can leave behind them when raiding a building to "watch their back." iRobot, the company commonly known for its "artificially intelligent" vacuum cleaner, has deployed 300 of its PackBots in Iraq and Afghanistan. The remote-controlled robots are used in urban warfare and caves to sense biological and chemical weapons as well as enemy personnel hiding behind corners. While these robots come back to Massachusetts in pieces from time to time, they have prevented soldiers from returning in body bags, according to Thomas Ryden, director of government sales and marketing for iRobot. The Natick Soldier Center, which works with several companies in and out of Massachusetts, is building components for U.S. soldiers so they will literally sit within the Future Combat System platform, according to Jean-Louis "Dutch" DeGay, an equipment specialist for the center. Soldiers will personally be equipped with infrared, thermal, global positioning and radio sensors, as well as "IFF" sensors that will identify other U.S. Army soldiers to prevent friendly fire. "We are transforming the soldier into a secure laptop connected to a secure Internet to push and pull data," said DeGay. "They.re part of the collective; a soldier has the ability to see what everybody sees and vice versa." Soldiers, who already control PackBots, will have access to unmanned air vehicles, which can support them by locating and firing on the enemy from above. The Massachusetts companies involved with the Future Combat System currently support 200 cutting-edge science and engineering jobs, according to U.S. Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Lowell, a House Armed Services Committee member who spoke at the event. "Our military superiority has resulted from weapons quality and technology advancements enabled by a robust foundation of basic research," said Meehan. "To keep our edge, we must continue investing in R&D." Meehan said the Future Combat System program will thrive in Massachusetts, "where technology and innovation have long been a cornerstone of our economy." He said the state would also need to invest in science, technology, engineering and math education to ensure there are highly skilled workers to fill future jobs in the growing Massachusetts industry. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Thu Feb 9 15:44:25 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:44:25 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] The future of the fight: automation Message-ID: <20060209104006.M652-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 9 February 2006 ; Wilmington Advocate The future of the fight: automation http://www2.townonline.com/wilmington/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=425711 --- By Andrew J. Manuse / Daily News Staff If you'd want a glimpse of the future of warfare, Wilmington was the place to be Monday. The Massachusetts Defense Technology Initiative, established in 2003 by the Waltham-based Massachusetts High Technology Council, sponsored the event at Textron Systems Corp. on Lowell Street highlighting the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems program and how it will benefit New England That program is the Army's modernization effort, which will automate much of the military's operations and make the battlefield a safer place for U.S. soldiers, according to the council. While the initiative's previous efforts saved 33,000 jobs at Hanscom and the Army's Natick Soldier Center during the Pentagon's 2005 Base Realignment and Closure round, the group now will help the state's high-tech companies capitalize on $6.8 billion of research and development money slated for the Future Combat Systems program here. The program will be "a key economic driver" for the state's economy, according to Christopher Anderson, president of the Waltham-based council. Future Combat Systems will involve technologies such as unmanned ground and aerial vehicles, remote-controlled artillery and equipment that connects U.S. soldiers electronically over a secure military network. Nationwide, the Future Combat Systems program will cost the Army $120 billion over 30 years, and will create 15 brigades, fully capable of operating anywhere in the world, even if uninvited, according to Lt. Gen. Dan Zanini, deputy program manager for Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC. The technologies will be rolled out for use in battle in phases, but testing on some of them has already begun, Zanini said. SAIC and Boeing, the contractors hired by the Army, will have hired 700 companies nationwide by the end of this year to work on several aspects of the program, according to Zanini. Ranch Kimball, the state's secretary of economic development, said the general defense industry in Massachusetts already supports an estimated 65,000 to 85,000 jobs, which can be compared with the 17,000 to 30,000 jobs supported by the biotech industry here. Kimball, who also spoke yesterday, said the defense industry is an "incredibly important part" of the state's technology economy. The Future Combat System, which will support only part of that defense industry base, currently involves 26 Massachusetts companies, such as Wilmington's Textron Systems Corp., iRobot Corp. in Burlington, Waltham's Netegrity Inc., EComp in Ashland and Systinet Corp. in Natick. Textron Systems is working on technologies such as disposable sensors that soldiers involved in urban warfare can leave behind them when raiding a building to "watch their back." iRobot, the company commonly known for its "artificially intelligent" vacuum cleaner, has deployed 300 of its PackBots in Iraq and Afghanistan. The remote-controlled robots are used in urban warfare and caves to sense biological and chemical weapons as well as enemy personnel hiding behind corners. While these robots come back to Massachusetts in pieces from time to time, they have prevented soldiers from returning in body bags, according to Thomas Ryden, director of government sales and marketing for iRobot. The Natick Soldier Center, which works with several companies in and out of Massachusetts, is building components for U.S. soldiers so they will literally sit within the Future Combat System platform, according to Jean-Louis "Dutch" DeGay, an equipment specialist for the center. Soldiers will personally be equipped with infrared, thermal, global positioning and radio sensors, as well as "IFF" sensors that will identify other U.S. Army soldiers to prevent friendly fire. "We are transforming the soldier into a secure laptop connected to a secure Internet to push and pull data," said DeGay. "They're part of the collective; a soldier has the ability to see what everybody sees and vice versa." Soldiers, who already control PackBots, will have access to unmanned air vehicles, which can support them by locating and firing on the enemy from above. The Massachusetts companies involved with the Future Combat System currently support 200 cutting-edge science and engineering jobs, according to U.S. Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Lowell, a House Armed Services Committee member who spoke at the event. "Our military superiority has resulted from weapons quality and technology advancements enabled by a robust foundation of basic research," said Meehan. "To keep our edge, we must continue investing in R&D." Meehan said the Future Combat System program will thrive in Massachusetts, "where technology and innovation have long been a cornerstone of our economy." He said the state would also need to invest in science, technology, engineering and math education to ensure there are highly skilled workers to fill future jobs in the growing Massachusetts industry. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue Feb 14 03:01:09 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:01:09 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] SAIC Awarded Army Simulation Contract Message-ID: <20060213215925.O608-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 13 February 2006 ; SAIC SAIC Awarded Army Simulation Contract http://www.saic.com/news/2006/feb/13.html --- (ORLANDO) February 13, 2006 - Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today that it has been awarded a four-year cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide product improvement for the One Semi-Automated Forces (OneSAF) Object System (OOS) program, a simulation application for semi-automated forces. The base-year value of the award is $5,789,744, with option years valued at $3,979,837, $4,383,422, and $4,785,138 for a total of $18,938,141. As the OneSAF architecture and integration contractor, SAIC has been retained to design, develop, test, integrate, and release block upgrades to the baseline system, which intends to satisfy user-defined operational requirements. SAIC has developed similar semi-automated force applications including the Close Combat Tactical Trainer and maintained and improved Modular Semi-Automated Forces under the Army's Advanced Distributed Simulation Technology II contract, as well as developing the OneSAF baseline. "This approach to simulation is designed to offer great cost savings for the Army, and provides training, analysis and research capabilities that are flexible and easy to use over a wide range of applications," said Beverly Seay, SAIC manager of the Strategies, Simulation and Training Business Unit. "The SAIC employees on our OneSAF team will build software applications, working side by side with our government customers at PEO STRI, with both parties aiming towards the ultimate goal of improved combat readiness." When fielded, the OneSAF Objective System will enable properly trained users to compose tailored simulation environments, on the desktop, throughout the Army. The program is designed to enable Army trainers, force developers, engineers, and research scientists to take the tools and components provided in the system's toolkit and compose a virtually limitless variety of simulation capabilities involving entities, units, behaviors, synthetic natural environments and other factors they choose to include. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue Feb 14 03:03:10 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:03:10 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] SAIC takes on training program Message-ID: <20060213220111.P608-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 13 February 2006 ; Washington Technology SAIC takes on training program http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/1_1/daily_news/27989-1.html --- By Roseanne Gerin Staff Writer Science Applications International Corp. won a four-year, $18.9 million contract for product improvements to a software simulation application for semi-automated Army forces. Under the contract, which is for one year with three one-year options, SAIC will design, develop, test, integrate and release block upgrades to the baseline system for the One Semi-Automated Forces Object System. The program will let users construct tailored simulated environments on desktops throughout the Army. It is designed to let Army trainers, force developers, engineers and research scientists use the system's tools to create a variety of simulations capabilities with units, behaviors, synthetic environments and other factors. SAIC has developed similar semi-automated force applications, including the Close Combat Tactical Trainer. The company also has maintained and improved the modular Semi-Automatic Forces under the Army's Advanced Distributed Simulation Technology II contract. Headquartered in San Diego, SAIC is an employee-owned research and engineering company. It employs more than 43,000 workers and had revenue of almost $7.2 billion for the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 2005. The company is No. 3 [1] on Washington Technology.s 2005 Top 100 [2] list of federal prime contractors. --- [1] http://www.washingtontechnology.com/top-100/2005/3.html [2] http://www.washingtontechnology.com/top-100/2005 From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue Feb 14 03:06:29 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:06:29 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] Proxima Technology Expands its Ecosystem with the On Centauri Program Message-ID: <20060213220311.X608-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 13 February 2006 ; Business Wire Proxima Technology Expands its Ecosystem with the On Centauri Program http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060213005479&newsLang=en --- The Program Enables Members to Develop and Market Solutions On Centauri Faster, at Lower Cost, and with Minimal Risk DENVER -- Proxima Technology today announced the expansion of the Centauri ecosystem through its On Centauri program, a program that enables members to create solutions by leveraging the flexibility and maturity of Proxima's Centauri product. On Centauri members bring innovative solutions to market significantly faster, at lower cost, and with minimal risk. Over a dozen companies, from Fortune 100 systems integrators to small- and medium-size organizations, have already developed solutions based On Centauri and realized new revenue opportunities. Among the many companies currently leveraging the Centauri platform are Sun Microsystems, SAIC, Cybermation, TeamQuest, TechSMART, and SXC. Dave Uhlir, Senior Director, Sun Management Services Product Management, Sun Microsystems said, "The flexibility of Centauri is key for Sun Managed Operations. The ability to leverage the numerous capabilities of the Centauri platform in new ways as our business grows is extremely important, ensuring that we remain competitive and responsive to the market." "The Centauri platform is a good fit in our Integrated Services Management Center delivery model; Centauri is flexible and easily adaptable for our customers' changing business and technology requirements," affirmed Terry Hicks, Manager of SAIC's Global Information Technology Solutions Division. "This is already providing us immediate opportunities for new revenue streams, as customers increasingly demand this type of dashboard." "Proxima Technology has a long history of working closely with partners, and the On Centauri program is a significant step forward in this strategy. The program will help Proxima partners get to market faster, less expensively, and with lower risk by leveraging the maturity of the Centauri platform in reaching new markets," stated Dennis Drogseth, Vice President, Enterprise Management Associates. Proxima Technology is dedicated to helping members realize the value of the On Centauri program. Immediate benefits that members can take advantage of include: * Pricing tailored to the member's business model * Access to Proxima sales channels * On Centauri Forum: a discussion forum to get answers to business and technical questions * Proxima product and training discounts * Centauri development and demonstration license * Centauri software development kit * Proxima Partner Portal access * Inclusion in On Centauri Solutions Catalog * Sales and Marketing assistance * Access to training and accreditation programs: this allows partners and customers to achieve accreditation On Centauri based on their role. Steve Jones, Chief Executive Officer of Proxima Technology, said "Expansion of the Centauri ecosystem is possible due to the high leveragability of Centauri. Solution builders can quickly take advantage of our scalable, resilient, and flexible platform allowing them to focus on their specific domain experience and bring a solution to market quickly, at a lower cost, and in line with the key parameters of their business model." To join the On Centauri program and for more information, visit: www.oncentauri.com. About the On Centauri Program Proxima Technology has delivered open, scalable, partner-friendly software solutions to the market since 1996. The On Centauri Program continues and extends this tradition, enabling members to create solutions that leverage the power, flexibility, and maturity of the Centauri platform -- helping partners bring new products to the market significantly faster, at lower cost, and with minimal risk. Centauri is an award winning, enterprise-class architecture in use at over 150 of the largest service providers and enterprises world-wide, including EDS, Sun Microsystems, Northrop Grumman, SAIC, Carlson Companies, Mutual of Omaha, National City, Capgemini, Abbey, Qualcomm, and T-Mobile. For more information, visit: www.oncentauri.com. About Proxima Technology Proxima Technology is headquartered in Denver, Colorado with sales offices across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. For more information about Proxima Technology, please visit: www.proxima-tech.com. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue Feb 14 03:34:54 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:34:54 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] The Future of Nano-Bio Technology: Imagine the Possibilities Message-ID: <20060213222440.E608-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 13 February 2006 ; Washington Post The Future of Nano-Bio Technology: Imagine the Possibilities http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/12/AR2006021200973.html --- [...] Tuesday, Feb. 14, The Future of Nano-Bio Technology. A discussion of ground-breaking developments in nano- and biotechnology and the opportunities that these advancements create. 7:30 to 9:30 a.m., SAIC Conference Center, 1710 SAIC Dr., McLean. Sponsors: Northern Virginia Technology Council and SAIC. Cost: $35, members; $70, nonmembers; $10 extra for walk-ins. Contact: 703-904-7878, Ext. 250. Event Web site: http://www.nvtc.org [...] Moderator Note: This posting is an NVTC speaking event that was mentioned in the Post, to be held at an SAIC facility. Additional information follows that was not part of the original snippet. --- According tot he NVTC's Event Calendar [1]: Presented by NVTC's Nanotechnology & BioMedTech Committees Date: February 14, 2006 Time: 7:30 am Registration 8:00 - 9:30 am Program The Future of Nano-Bio Technology: Imagine the Possibilities The nanotechnology revolution is expected to produce new types of products and services that will significantly benefit our lives. Advancements in molecular biology and nanofabrication technologies are resulting in the potential to create hybrid organic/inorganic nanosystems and sensors, as well as solving many medical problems. Come hear about ground-breaking developments in nano and biotechnology and explore the opportunities that these advancements create for the future. Speakers: Ivan Amato, Senior Editor, Chemical & Engineering News Dr. Stephen Keith, CEO, NanoVec (invited) Dr. Margaret E. Kosal, Chemical and Biological Technologies Directorate, DTRA Dr. Linda Molnar, Senior Scientist, SAIC (invited) James L. Tatum, MD, Advisor to Associate Director, National Cancer Institute (NCI) [...] Location: SAIC Conference Center 1710 SAIC Drive, McLean, VA Directions to SAIC Conference Center [2] [...] Pre-registration for this event has closed. Walk-ins will be accepted, on a space available basis. --- [1] http://online.nvtc.org/calendar/geteventinfo.cfm?event=NANO-6 [2] http://www.nvtc.org/calendar/saic.htm From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue Feb 14 20:48:30 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:48:30 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] Illumina Awarded Genotyping Contract by SAIC-Frederick, Inc. for Cancer Genetics Marker Susceptibility (CGEMS) Study Message-ID: <20060214154720.P608-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 14 February 2006 ; Genetic Engineering News Illumina Awarded Genotyping Contract by SAIC-Frederick, Inc. for Cancer Genetics Marker Susceptibility (CGEMS) Study http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=1168678XSL_NEWSML_TO_NEWSML.xml --- Data from HumanHap300 BeadChips and Infinium(TM) Assay to Help Identify Genes and Pathways Causing Prostate Cancer and Disease Progression Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) announced today that it is has been awarded a genotyping services contract by SAIC-Frederick, Inc. under prime contract to the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to perform whole-genome SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) scans on over 2,500 prostrate case and control samples provided by the Institute. The genotyping supports the Cancer Genetic Markers of Susceptibility (CGEMS), an NCI Strategic Initiative coordinated through the NCI's Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), the NCI Core Genotyping Facility (CGF) and the NCI Office of Cancer Genomics (OCG). The CGEMS initiative is designed to map susceptibility in prostrate and breast cancers, with the aim of understanding disease cause and progression, and then identifying strategies for prevention, earlier detection and treatment. Illumina will use its Sentrix(R) HumanHap300 BeadChip and Infinium(TM) assay to perform the genotyping. Each HumanHap300 BeadChip can query over 317,000 SNP markers composed principally of "tagSNPs" identified and validated by the International HapMap Project. The HumanHap300 offers the most comprehensive genomic coverage (see Note) and highest data quality of any genotyping product currently available. Post-genotyping data analysis will be conducted under the guidance of NCI's Advanced Technology Center Core Genotyping Facility. "We're very pleased to extend our relationship with the NCI," said Jay Flatley, Illumina President and CEO. "We're looking forward to engaging the capabilities of our world-class services organization to support the CGEMS initiative." From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue Feb 14 20:49:26 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 15:49:26 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] Secured Services Joins SAIC Public Safety Integration Center Message-ID: <20060214154831.Q608-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 14 February 2006 ; Market Wire Secured Services Joins SAIC Public Safety Integration Center http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=109672 --- SecuredMobile Strongly Focused on First Responders RESTON, VA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 02/14/2006 -- Secured Services Inc. (OTC: SSVC), a leader in identity management and secure network access software and services, today announced that it has completed installation of SecuredMobile 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, test bed, and prototype demonstration facility that is used to illustrate the successful 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. SecuredMobile is a software solution that provides privacy, security, and enhanced mobility to those using and managing wireless networks. It is designed to meet the specific needs of first responders, including the ability to prioritize network bandwidth to specific groups in the case of an emergency. SecuredMobile installs quickly and without interference on any TCP/IP network, ensuring interoperability across the many different wireless network technologies and compatibility with future network upgrades. "We welcome Secured Services' 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. "Security and enhanced mobility across wireless communications networks are certainly critical functions to our customers involved in Homeland Security and public safety." "We are pleased to be part of SAIC's PSIC, and we look forward to fully integrating and demonstrating our capabilities to PSIC visitors and potential customers," said Dale Quick, chief operating officer of Secured Services. "Public safety is a critical customer group for Secured Services and our SecuredMobile solution is designed to maximize uptime and speed of communications for the mobile worker, while maintaining the highest level of security." About SAIC: SAIC is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States, with more than 43,000 employees in over 150 cities worldwide. For the fiscal year ended January 31, 2005, the company reported annual revenues of $7.2 billion. SAIC engineers and scientists solve complex technical problems in national security, homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, health care, and logistics. SAIC: FROM SCIENCE TO SOLUTIONS(tm) About Secured Services: Secured Services delivers Secured User Management software for identity-based management of enterprise IT security, operations, and regulatory compliance. Deploying rapidly and without disruption to any infrastructure, Identiprise. is a comprehensive identity and network access management solution for complete administration, security, and audit of a user's application and network access privileges, both wired and wireless. Secure the User. Secure the Connection. Everywhere. Learn more at www.secured-services.com. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Thu Feb 16 03:24:38 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:24:38 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] PolarLake's Integration Suite Deployed at SAIC Public Safety Integration Center Message-ID: <20060215222309.W608-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 15 February 2006 ; ebizQ PolarLake's Integration Suite Deployed at SAIC Public Safety Integration Center http://www.ebizq.net/news/6734.html --- PolarLake, a specialist in application and data integration, today announced that it has completed the installation of its Integration Suite at Science Applications International Corporation's (SAIC) Public Safety Integration Center (PSIC). PolarLake provided the following details. Located in the Washington, D.C. suburb of McLean, Va., the SAIC's PSIC is a laboratory, test bed and prototype demonstration facility that is used to illustrate integrated and collaborative systems to potential customers. Presented with scenarios tailored to PSIC visitors' requirements in the areas of homeland security, homeland defense and national security, PSIC staff demonstrate various integrated solutions in areas that include policy, enterprise architecture, systems engineering, information technology, training and prevention. Using the PolarLake Integration Suite, SAIC's PSIC can demonstrate a full set of capabilities supporting the rapid delivery of multi-agency, standards-based systems for emergency management and response. The Integration Suite delivers a powerful integration platform that supports all commonly used data formats and transport protocols, and automates even complex processes and data integration challenges - eliminating the need for writing complex integration code. "We welcome PolarLake 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 delighted to be part of SAIC's PSIC and we look forward to demonstrating the significant value of the PolarLake offering to PSIC visitors and potential customers," said Warren Buckley, CTO of PolarLake. "Our product is already used in a number of significant Government projects and we are confident that as part of the PSIC program PolarLake can continue to expand its presence in this area." From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Mon Feb 20 01:22:00 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:22:00 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] Lucrative target: North of Boston companies gear up for new Army program Message-ID: <20060219201943.S608-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 18 February 2006 ; Eagle-Tribune Lucrative target: North of Boston companies gear up for new Army program http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/15/etstory.pl?-sec-Biz+fn-fn-futurecombat.0219-20060219-fn --- by Dave Price Staff Writer [1] Image, Caption: Tom Ryden, Director, Sales and Marketing Government & Industrial Robotics demostrates one of the small robots duringTextron Systems press conference, where they demostrated some of the militaries latest technology deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Offer up a piece of a $150 billion payday and the world will beat a path to your door. Companies large and small from North of Boston and beyond are lining up to share in what could be one of the largest military spending projects ever, the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program, a high-tech overhaul of nearly every aspect of the gear soldiers take into battle. Once fully deployed, soldiers would be linked through sophisticated networks with a vast array of sensors, weapon systems and one another, creating a multipronged unit with the singular goal of taking out the bad guys. Proponents -- and there are a lot of them -- say FCS could boost the fighting ability of individual soldiers by a factor of 10, and even more importantly, improve the chances for survival of the average GI in battle by an equal magnitude. Critics, on the other hand, contend FCS is seeking to rely on immature and complex technologies that are being pushed out on an extremely aggressive schedule, significantly increasing the risk of mistakes and false starts as the project is fully deployed over the next decade. Then there's the cost. The White House earlier this month proposed spending about $3.7 billion on FCS development during the next federal fiscal year that begins in October. Overall, initial design and development work is expected to total about $25 billion by 2014, a relatively small fraction of the U.S. defense budget expected over that span, although that amount does not include the additional $108 billion in 2004 dollars the Army estimated it would take to actually equip about one-third of its troops in the field with FCS technologies. But business leaders here and elsewhere say they are more than up for the challenge -- technological or otherwise -- of outfitting tomorrow's soldiers on time and on budget. Already, there are 26 companies from Massachusetts and another four based in New Hampshire working with FCS lead contractors Boeing Corp. and Science Applications International Corp. Dozens of others are similarly angling for a piece of the action as more contracts are let. "There's not much of an appetite in the Congress or the Army to slow this down," said Jim Regan, chief executive at Dynamics Research Corp. in Andover, a Tier One contractor providing FCS training services throughout its initial development and testing phase. "There's not much debate whether this is the direction they want to go." System of systems >From an engineering standpoint, in both its complexity and accelerated schedule, FCS often has been compared with the Apollo manned missions to the Moon 40 years ago. For the Army, which formally began work on the program in 2003, it is a "system of systems" -- a network connecting 18 components ranging from unmanned aerial and ground-based vehicles used for surveillance and weapons launches to manned vehicles also performing those duties in addition to medical treatment and command operations. All those systems are then tied in through a wireless computer and communications system carried by each soldier, providing them with instantaneous updates on battle conditions and the ability to quickly call up the right tools to identify and eliminate threats. Officials at Boeing have estimated it would take about 30 million lines of computer code to make everything function properly. That fact helped encourage local software firms such as I-Logix to dispatch executives from its offices in Andover to a daylong event in Wilmington two weeks ago to connect with project managers from SAIC and Boeing and explore ways to further the company's involvement with FCS. I-Logix develops embedded tools, allowing engineers to quickly evaluate computer systems and fix defects while they still being built, making it a natural fit to tackle the complicated software being created for FCS, according to Jack Low, vice president for emerging technologies at I-Logix. The company in November announced it signed a $1 million contract with "one of the world's largest aerospace and defense manufacturers." At the time, it did not identify the contractor by name, although I-Logix officials said the customer also extended use of the I-Logix Rhapsody system to other major projects including tactical systems, radar and unmanned vehicles. Long reach Ultimately, FCS is predicted to pump about $6.9 billion over the course of the program into New England companies, according to state and federal officials. That alone attracted scores of firms to the Feb. 6 briefings hosted by Textron Systems in Wilmington, although the event was also intended to showcase the prominent role defense-related work plays in the regional economy. Ranch Kimball, Massachusetts secretary of economic development, estimates that between 65,000 to 85,000 jobs in the state are tied to military spending. That not only counts well-known contractors such as Raytheon, which is building portable land-based missile launchers for the FCS program, but also includes "hundreds" of precision machining companies and other smaller firms supplying parts and technology to specific military programs, he said. Perhaps taking a page from Apollo, Boeing, SAIC and its supporters in Congress and at the Pentagon have been careful to spread FCS work throughout the country in a bid to cast the widest net possible for public support. At last count, about 360 U.S. companies in 35 states -- and even more critically, 158 Congressional districts -- had a stake in the program's continued survival. Given its substantial price tag, FCS has drawn its share of critics. Many observers also believe that a newly cost-conscious Congress could soon begin to scrutinize program spending even more carefully, especially with the ongoing costs of keeping troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. In an e-mail reply to questions last week, Massachusetts Congressman Marty Meehan -- a member on the House Armed Services Committee -- said lawmakers obviously face tough choices when judging the expected benefits of a particular military program against its projected costs and the potential impact on jobs back in their home districts. "Our troops are our most important weapon and when evaluating the Army's budget, we must strike a careful balance between our hardware needs and the needs of our soldiers," he said. But FCS, he continued, "has tremendous potential to bring a large number of research and development and high-tech jobs to Massachusetts. This potential for economic development and the benefits to our national defense must be weighed against the cost of the program and it should be carefully monitored as FCS moves forward." 'Bet the farm' As for the Army, the important decisions about FCS already have been made, according to Dan Zanini, deputy program manager at SAIC and a retired Army lieutenant general. "They're pretty much betting the farm on this," Zanini said during the recent Textron gathering, explaining that the Army's top brass is cutting back or even eliminating other procurement programs to ensure FCS stays on track. Other branches of the U.S. military are also monitoring the mega-project and are likely to incorporate portions of the developing technology into their upgrades, said Larry O'Brien, director of business solutions at Dynamics Research of Andover. The company is in the early stages of a $27 million contract running through 2014 to develop FCS training and evaluation procedures, including preliminary test exercises scheduled this summer. As part of that training, soldiers will use the same vehicles used in combat, responding to simulated situations programmed into the vehicles' computer hardware. "It's like getting in your car and taking a vacation without ever leaving your driveway," Regan said. Regan and O'Brien also said Dynamic Research expects to soon bid on other FCS-related projects, taking what they are learning from the company's initial work to develop additional training scenarios. "We know it's coming, and we're getting ready," O'Brien said. "We're leveraging this project to prepare getting into other training opportunities down the road." From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Thu Feb 23 13:39:13 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:39:13 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] Teledyne Technologies Elects Ken Dahlberg to Board of Directors Message-ID: <20060223083804.S608-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 22 February 2006 ; Business Wire Teledyne Technologies Elects Ken Dahlberg to Board of Directors http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060222005473&newsLang=en --- LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 2006--Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) announced today that Kenneth C. Dahlberg, chairman of the board, CEO and president of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), joined Teledyne Technologies' board of directors. The addition of Dahlberg raises the number of board members to nine. Prior to joining SAIC in November 2003, Dahlberg served as executive vice president of General Dynamics where he was responsible for the company's Information Systems and Technology Group. Dahlberg began his career with Hughes Aircraft in June 1967. He held various engineering, program management and leadership positions with Hughes. At Hughes, he served as president of the division that produced air traffic control hardware, systems and radar; then was president of the division that produced weapons systems, naval systems and tank systems, and later was president of the Sensors and Communications division. When Raytheon acquired Hughes Aircraft in 1997, he became president and chief operating officer of Raytheon Systems Company and oversaw operations of the defense business units. Three years later, he assumed the duties of executive vice president for business development and president of Raytheon International. "I am very pleased that Ken has agreed to join our Board," said Robert Mehrabian, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated. "His background is an excellent fit for Teledyne and we look forward to his contributions." Teledyne Technologies is a leading provider of sophisticated electronics components, instruments and communication products, systems engineering solutions, and aerospace products and components and on-site gas and power generation systems. Teledyne Technologies has operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Mexico. For more information, visit Teledyne Technologies' website at www.teledyne.com From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Fri Feb 24 03:40:16 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:40:16 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] SAIC set to expand in research park, consolidate offices Message-ID: <20060223223933.K608-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 23 February 2006 ; The Huntsville Times SAIC set to expand in research park, consolidate offices http://www.al.com/business/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/business/1140689928140560.xml&coll=1 --- By BRIAN LAWSON Times Business Writer brianl at htimes.com Work starts today on new building beside local HQ SAIC plans to expand its presence in Cummings Research Park and combine a number of its Huntsville offices into a central-campus-style location, eventually bringing together some 2,000 local workers. The employee-owned research and engineering company, which employs 43,000 around the world, will break ground for the new building at 9 a.m. today, hosting an event that will include the company's board of directors. SAIC employs about 2,000 workers here and is looking forward to growth continuing in its systems, communications defense and space business, said Bill Gurley, a senior vice president and general manager of SAIC's Huntsville's business unit. "This is a very people-oriented business, and we want to consolidate our people in one location," Gurley said. The expansion's first phase will include construction on the 18-acre campus of a four-story, 100,000-square-foot building next to the company's main Huntsville office. That building is used by some 400 employees, and the company has nine other Huntsville offices. The facility is also close to the Bridge Street development, which will feature a large hotel a short walk from the SAIC campus. Construction is expected to begin in May and the work completed in June 2007. SAIC hopes to move people from five of its Huntsville offices to the campus. The company also plans to add a third building on the campus. Gurley said SAIC is preparing for continued growth. He cited the company's work on Future Combat Systems, aimed at modernizing warfighting; continued collaboration with Marshall Space Flight Center; work with the Army's Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center; and the business opportunities arising from the Army Materiel Command's planned relocation to Redstone Arsenal, the result of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission process. SAIC was founded in San Diego in 1969 and opened its Huntsville office, the company's third-largest today, in 1972. Gurley said the establishment of Cummings was the fulfillment of an "extraordinary concept." He said SAIC's proximity and relationships with other companies in the park are attractive selling points to customers. "Huntsville is the place for growth," he said. "People are going to see huge growth here in the next five to 10 years, and we are positioning ourselves for that. We're not building here just because we predict growth; we've been here more than 32 years and are glad to part of this community." From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Sat Feb 25 14:32:33 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:32:33 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] NTP Asks Judge for $126 Million in BlackBerry Case Message-ID: <20060225093101.M608-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 24 February 2006 ; ECommerce Times NTP Asks Judge for $126 Million in BlackBerry Case http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Lgc4UlIiybZWTq/NTP-Asks-Judge-for-126-Million-in-BlackBerry-Case.xhtml --- By Stephanie Stoughton - AP "NTP apparently is laboring under the mistaken belief that such an injunction enforced against SAIC would not involve national defense, national security, homeland security or public interest concerns," research and engineering firm Science Applications International wrote. "These assumptions are flat wrong." Patent-holding company NTP on Friday asked a judge to award it US$126 million in damages and issue an injunction against the maker of the popular BlackBerry Latest News about BlackBerry wireless e-mail service for violating its patents. The damages would be in addition to royalties NTP is seeking from Canadian company Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) Latest News about Research In Motion, maker of the BlackBerry. NTP completed its presentation before U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer and was to be followed by attorneys for RIM. It was not clear whether Spencer would rule Friday. Patents Rejected RIM has argued against the injunction, noting that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is poised to reject all of NTP's patents. The agency this week rejected the first of five patents closely tied to the court case. Spencer previously had said he was unwilling to delay his proceedings while awaiting final word from the agency. However, the speedier moves from the patent office have some attorneys wondering whether Spencer will be swayed. "I really feel it's too close to call," said Stephen Maebius, a Washington patent attorney not involved in the case. "I can really see it going both ways." First, some critical news for BlackBerry fans: Those screens aren't expected to go dark. Analysts have said that Waterloo, Ont.-based RIM could still settle at the last minute for as much as $1 billion. In addition, under the threat of an injunction on U.S. BlackBerry sales and service, RIM has said it would introduce new software that would not violate NTP's patents. How well that software works is another question. Because RIM has released few details, analysts and some companies are concerned. Ongoing Battle NTP, based in Arlington, Va., sued in 2001, and a year later, a federal jury agreed that RIM had infringed on the smaller firm's patents. The jury awarded NTP 5.7 percent of U.S. BlackBerry sales -- a rate that Spencer later boosted to 8.55 percent. Spencer first issued an injunction in 2003 but held off on its enforcement during RIM's appeals. After those efforts largely failed, the case returned to Spencer. It is unclear whether he will rule from the bench Friday. On Thursday, there were several court filings from businesses concerned about any injunction. Ascension Health, which owns dozens of hospitals, said it was worried about the potential health consequences. Its physicians and administrator rely heavily on BlackBerry devices, the St. Louis nonprofit said. National Security Issues Science Applications International, a research and engineering firm based in San Diego, said there would be national security implications if communications between the company and its government customers were impacted. "NTP apparently is laboring under the mistaken belief that such an injunction enforced against SAIC would not involve national defense, national security, homeland security or public interest concerns," the company wrote. "These assumptions are flat wrong." NTP has asked Spencer for a permanent injunction. The company has previously noted that RIM users have plenty of alternatives, and that exemptions would be granted to government and emergency workers. The Justice Department, however, is expected to appear in court to express its concerns. In a recent court filing, NTP said the injunction would end widespread infringement of its patents by RIM and its corporate customers. "RIM must simply turn those accounts off in the same fashion as when a customer fails to pay its bill," it said. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Sat Feb 25 22:46:30 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:46:30 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] BRAC leads to company expansion Message-ID: <20060225174423.F608-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 23 February 2006 ; WAFF 48 News BRAC leads to company expansion http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=4544420 --- [Video] SAIC officials break ground on research park expansion The valley is already seeing some financial windfall from BRAC. Thursday, officials from SAIC broke ground on a big expansion of their facility in Cummings Research Park. SAIC is one of Huntsville's leading employers. Company leaders unveiled plans for a new 100000-square-foot building. The 4-story building will consolidate five other buildings. U.S. Representative Bud Cramer says this is a reflection of what's happening in North Alabama because of BRAC, "SAIC is a unique company, they're employee owned, they've got locations all around the country by the third largest location they have. That number of employees that they have here has grown as our missions here have grown with different rounds of BRAC." The new facilities will also provide offices for an additional 500 employees, along with the 43-thousand employees currently with SAIC. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Sun Feb 26 13:46:20 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 08:46:20 -0500 (EST) Subject: [saic] TIA Lives On Message-ID: <20060226084135.F608-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 23 February 2006 ; The National Journal TIA Lives On http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/0223nj1.htm --- By Shane Harris, National Journal A controversial counter-terrorism program, which lawmakers halted more than two years ago amid outcries from privacy advocates, was stopped in name only and has quietly continued within the intelligence agency now fending off charges that it has violated the privacy of U.S. citizens. Research under the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness program -- which developed technologies to predict terrorist attacks by mining government databases and the personal records of people in the United States -- was moved from the Pentagon's research-and-development agency to another group, which builds technologies primarily for the National Security Agency, according to documents obtained by National Journal and to intelligence sources familiar with the move. The names of key projects were changed, apparently to conceal their identities, but their funding remained intact, often under the same contracts. It is no secret that some parts of TIA lived on behind the veil of the classified intelligence budget. However, the projects that moved, their new code names, and the agencies that took them over haven't previously been disclosed. Sources aware of the transfers declined to speak on the record for this story because, they said, the identities of the specific programs are classified. Two of the most important components of the TIA program were moved to the Advanced Research and Development Activity, housed at NSA headquarters in Fort Meade, Md., documents and sources confirm. One piece was the Information Awareness Prototype System, the core architecture that tied together numerous information extraction, analysis, and dissemination tools developed under TIA. The prototype system included privacy-protection technologies that may have been discontinued or scaled back following the move to ARDA. A $19 million contract to build the prototype system was awarded in late 2002 to Hicks & Associates, a consulting firm in Arlington, Va., that is run by former Defense and military officials. Congress's decision to pull TIA's funding in late 2003 "caused a significant amount of uncertainty for all of us about the future of our work," Hicks executive Brian Sharkey wrote in an e-mail to subcontractors at the time. "Fortunately," Sharkey continued, "a new sponsor has come forward that will enable us to continue much of our previous work." Sources confirm that this new sponsor was ARDA. Along with the new sponsor came a new name. "We will be describing this new effort as 'Basketball,' " Sharkey wrote, apparently giving no explanation of the name's significance. Another e-mail from a Hicks employee, Marc Swedenburg, reminded the company's staff that "TIA has been terminated and should be referenced in that fashion." Sharkey played a key role in TIA's birth, when he and a close friend, retired Navy Vice Adm. John Poindexter, President Reagan's national security adviser, brought the idea to Defense officials shortly after the 9/11 attacks. The men had teamed earlier on intelligence-technology programs for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which agreed to host TIA and hired Poindexter to run it in 2002. In August 2003, Poindexter was forced to resign [1] as TIA chief amid howls that his central role in the Iran-Contra scandal of the mid-1980s made him unfit to run a sensitive intelligence program. It's unclear whether work on Basketball continues. Sharkey didn't respond to an interview request, and Poindexter said he had no comment about former TIA programs. But a publicly available Defense Department document, detailing various "cooperative agreements and other transactions" conducted in fiscal 2004, shows that Basketball was fully funded at least until the end of that year (September 2004). The document shows that the system was being tested at a research center jointly run by ARDA and SAIC Corp., a major defense and intelligence contractor that is the sole owner of Hicks & Associates. The document describes Basketball as a "closed-loop, end-to-end prototype system for early warning and decision-making," exactly the same language used in contract documents for the TIA prototype system when it was awarded to Hicks in 2002. An SAIC spokesman declined to comment for this story. Another key TIA project that moved to ARDA was Genoa II, which focused on building information technologies to help analysts and policy makers anticipate and pre-empt terrorist attacks. Genoa II was renamed Topsail when it moved to ARDA, intelligence sources confirmed. (The name continues the program's nautical nomenclature; "genoa" is a synonym for the headsail of a ship.) As recently as October 2005, SAIC was awarded a $3.7 million contract under Topsail. According to a government-issued press release announcing the award, "The objective of Topsail is to develop decision-support aids for teams of intelligence analysts and policy personnel to assist in anticipating and pre-empting terrorist threats to U.S. interests." That language repeats almost verbatim the boilerplate descriptions of Genoa II contained in contract documents, Pentagon budget sheets, and speeches by the Genoa II program's former managers. As early as February 2003, the Pentagon planned to use Genoa II technologies at the Army's Information Awareness Center at Fort Belvoir, Va., according to an unclassified Defense budget document. The awareness center was an early tester of various TIA tools, according to former employees. A 2003 Pentagon report to Congress shows that the Army center was part of an expansive network of intelligence agencies, including the NSA, that experimented with the tools. The center was also home to the Army's Able Danger program, which has come under scrutiny after some of its members said they used data-analysis tools to discover the name and photograph of 9/11 ringleader Mohamed Atta more than a year before the attacks. Devices developed under Genoa II's predecessor -- which Sharkey also managed when he worked for the Defense Department -- were used during the invasion of Afghanistan and as part of "the continuing war on terrorism," according to an unclassified Defense budget document. Today, however, the future of Topsail is in question. A spokesman for the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y., which administers the program's contracts, said it's "in the process of being canceled due to lack of funds." It is unclear when funding for Topsail was terminated. But earlier this month, at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing [2], one of TIA's strongest critics questioned whether intelligence officials knew that some of its programs had been moved to other agencies. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte and FBI Director Robert Mueller whether it was "correct that when [TIA] was closed, that several ... projects were moved to various intelligence agencies.... I and others on this panel led the effort to close [TIA]; we want to know if Mr. Poindexter's programs are going on somewhere else." Negroponte and Mueller said they didn't know. But Negroponte's deputy, Gen. Michael V. Hayden, who until recently was director of the NSA, said, "I'd like to answer in closed session." Asked for comment, Wyden's spokeswoman referred to his hearing statements. The NSA is now at the center of a political firestorm over President Bush's program to eavesdrop on the phone calls and e-mails of people in the United States who the agency believes are connected to terrorists abroad. While the documents on the TIA programs don't show that their tools are used in the domestic eavesdropping, and knowledgeable sources wouldn't discuss the matter, the TIA programs were designed specifically to develop the kind of "early-warning system" that the president said the NSA is running. Documents detailing TIA, Genoa II, Basketball, and Topsail use the phrase "early-warning system" repeatedly to describe the programs' ultimate aims. In speeches, Poindexter has described TIA as an early-warning and decision-making system. He conceived of TIA in part because of frustration over the lack of such tools when he was national security chief for Reagan. Tom Armour, the Genoa II program manager, declined to comment for this story. But in a previous interview, he said that ARDA -- which absorbed the TIA programs -- has pursued technologies that would be useful for analyzing large amounts of phone and e-mail traffic. "That's, in fact, what the interest is," Armour said. When TIA was still funded, its program managers and researchers had "good coordination" with their counterparts at ARDA and discussed their projects on a regular basis, Armour said. The former No. 2 official in Poindexter's office, Robert Popp, averred that the NSA didn't use TIA tools in domestic eavesdropping as part of his research. But asked whether the agency could have used the tools apart from TIA, Popp replied, "I can't speak to that." Asked to comment on TIA projects that moved to ARDA, Don Weber, an NSA spokesman said, "As I'm sure you understand, we can neither confirm nor deny actual or alleged projects or operational capabilities; therefore, we have no information to provide." ARDA now is undergoing some changes of its own. The outfit is being taken out of the NSA, placed under the control of Negroponte's office, and given a new name. It will be called the "Disruptive Technology Office," a reference to a term of art describing any new invention that suddenly, and often dramatically, replaces established procedures. Officials with the intelligence director's office did not respond to multiple requests for comment on this story. --- [1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51578-2003Aug12 [2] http://intelligence.senate.gov/0602hrg/060202/witness.htm