From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue May 2 02:14:23 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 22:14:23 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] SAIC Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2006 Message-ID: <20060501221250.O8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 1 May 2006 ; PR Newswire SAIC Announces Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2006 http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060501/dcm064.html?.v=29 --- * Revenue: $2.0 Billion for Fiscal Fourth Quarter, $7.8 Billion for Fiscal Year 2006 * Net Income: $154 Million for Fiscal Fourth Quarter, $927 Million for Fiscal Year 2006 * Diluted EPS: $0.87 for Fiscal Fourth Quarter, $5.15 for Fiscal Year 2006 SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, Va., May 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a leading provider of research, engineering, and technology services and solutions, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2006, which ended January 31, 2006. Revenue for the quarter increased 5 percent from $1.9 billion in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005 to $2.0 billion. Revenue for the year increased 8 percent from $7.2 billion in fiscal year 2005 to $7.8 billion. Operating income for the quarter increased 7 percent from $124 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005 to $133 million. Operating income margin was 6.8 percent for the quarter. Full-year operating income increased 2 percent from $488 million in fiscal year 2005 to $497 million. Operating income margin was 6.4 percent for the full fiscal year. Operating income was hampered by the $83 million in contract loss recognized during the year on a firm-fixed-price contract with the Greek government. Net income for the quarter increased 7 percent from $144 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005 to $154 million. Net income for the year increased 127 percent from $409 million in fiscal year 2005 to $927 million. Diluted earnings per share for the quarter increased 12 percent from $0.78 in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005 to $0.87. Diluted earnings per share for the year increased 136 percent from $2.18 in fiscal year 2005 to $5.15. The earnings for the fiscal year include $582 million of income from discontinued operations, driven primarily by the pre-tax gain of $871 million from the sale of Telcordia in March 2005. Considering only continuing operations, net income and diluted earnings per share rose 27 percent and 32 percent, respectively, compared to fiscal year 2005. "The company completed another strong year, despite the challenges of the Greek Olympics contract," said Ken Dahlberg, SAIC chairman and chief executive officer. "Thanks to the dedication, discipline, and hard work of our 43,000 employees, we are entering fiscal year 2007 with solid fundamentals. We have taken steps to strengthen the management team and improve our operating efficiency. We see a healthy pipeline of new opportunities and look forward to accelerating growth in the coming year." Chief Financial Officer Mark Sopp added, "In fiscal year 2006, our core business showed improved profitability and excellent cash flow. Looking forward, we are focused on internal growth initiatives, continued operating margin expansion, and strong cash flow management." From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue May 2 02:17:01 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 22:17:01 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] U.S. Launches Helicopter Upgrade For Egypt Message-ID: <20060501221426.H8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 1 May 2006 ; Middle East Newsline U.S. Launches Helicopter Upgrade For Egypt http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2006/may/05_02_4.html --- WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States has launched a program to upgrade Egypt's helicopter fleet. The Defense Department has approved a project to upgrade the AH-64A attack helicopters and Gazelle helicopters. The program includes both procurement as well as training. The Egyptian Defense Ministry, in a move financed by the United States, has awarded a portion of the Egyptian project to Science Applications International Corp. Under the award, SAIC would help the Egyptian military's training authority implement the modernization project. SAIC said its contract would include two elements. One was the upgrade itself and the other was the enhancement of two combat training centers. The company did not report the value of the contract. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue May 2 12:41:07 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 08:41:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Olympics contract at center of dispute Message-ID: <20060502082608.P8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 2 May 2006 ; San Diego Union-Tribune Olympics contract at center of dispute http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20060502-9999-1b2saic.html --- By Bruce V. Bigelow San Diego's SAIC said yesterday that it has sought arbitration proceedings to resolve its tangled problems over a Greek Olympics contract. Continuing troubles with a contract to install a "command and control" security network for the 2004 Summer Games prompted SAIC in December to take an unexpected loss and postpone a planned initial public stock offering. The company incurred $83 million in losses from the contract in fiscal 2006 and $34 million in fiscal 2005, chief financial officer Mark Sopp said. SAIC said in March its planned IPO would be postponed until sometime this fall. While the Greek government took over the system for use during the Summer Games in 2004, it never formally accepted the system under terms of the contract and has refused to make certain payments to the consortium led by SAIC. SAIC said in December it was negotiating with the Greek government to resolve outstanding issues arising from the Olympics contract. But with no resolution after five months of negotiations, SAIC moved for arbitration proceedings before the International Chamber of Commerce. "We have been negotiating with the Greeks with great patience for a long time now," Sopp said in an interview. "We have made progress. But for various reasons, we have not reached that milestone of getting that contract modification executed." Even after initiating arbitration proceedings, Sopp said, SAIC will continue direct negotiations with the Greek government "on a parallel track." The disclosure, made in a year-end financial statement filed with government regulators, sounded one of the few dis consonant notes in the company's generally improving operations. The defense contractor, also known as Science Applications International Corp., said losses stemming from the Olympics contract eroded its operating income for the 2006 fiscal year that ended Jan. 31. "We had reasonably good profitability (of 7.4 percent) in fiscal '06, when you extract Athens," Sopp said. SAIC reported operating income of $133 million for the fourth quarter, a 7 percent gain over the same quarter last year. The company said revenue increased 5 percent in the quarter, to $2 billion. The effect of the Greek Olympics imbroglio was more apparent in SAIC's results for the full year. The company posted annual operating income of $497 million, a 2 percent gain over operating income of $497 million in the previous year. SAIC reported full-year revenue of $7.8 billion, an 8 percent rise over fiscal 2005. In its annual financial statement, SAIC also said an internal review of problems associated with the Greek Olympics contract has been completed and the results were reported to the board of directors. After evaluating those findings, management concluded there were .no implications. for SAIC's financial reporting and disclosure controls, and no material weaknesses in its internal controls with respect to the contract. SAIC said its net income of $927 million in fiscal 2006 reflected a $582 million boost from the sale of Telcordia Technologies in March 2005. The total represented a 127 percent gain over 2005, when the company reported $409 million in net income. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed May 3 01:28:37 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 21:28:37 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Former SAIC Senior Vice President Joins CACI's Executive Leadership Team Message-ID: <20060502212732.W8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 2 May 2006 ; PR Newswire Former SAIC Senior Vice President Joins CACI's Executive Leadership Team http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060502/dctu058.html?.v=44 --- CACI Appoints Steven H. Weiss Executive Vice President of Government Business Operations ARLINGTON, Va., May 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CACI International Inc (NYSE: CAI - News) announced today the appointment of Steven H. Weiss as Executive Vice President of Government Business Operations for the company, reporting directly to Dr. J.P. (Jack) London, CACI Chairman, President, and CEO. Mr. Weiss brings 24 years of senior-level contracting experience, including more than 18 years with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). With CACI, Mr. Weiss will be responsible for the management and strategic planning of all corporate contracts, subcontracts, and procurement functions. At SAIC, Mr. Weiss was Senior Vice President and Associate Director of Corporate Contacts. He was highly valued for the expertise he contributed to creative management and relationship-building involving highly visible programs with the U.S. Air Force and Army, the Defense Information Systems Agency, the intelligence community, and the City of New York, as well as other international and commercial clients. He also was a member of SAIC's mergers & acquisitions team and played a key role in that company's acquisition of the $250 million Boeing Information Services organization in 1999. Upon joining CACI, Mr. Weiss said, "I am pleased to be a part of CACI as it continues its outstanding pattern of growth and success. I look forward to supporting the company in delivering high-value solutions that serve our government's highest priorities in national defense and homeland security." According to Paul Cofoni, President of U.S. Operations, "Steve Weiss has a superb track record of effectively managing large contracting organizations in the federal information technology arena. As CACI continues its growth as a leading prime federal contractor, we are confident that Steve will provide exceptional vision and direction for our expanding contracts activities." Dr. J.P. (Jack) London, CACI Chairman, President, and CEO, said, "CACI's leadership team has helped guide our company to ever-higher levels of competition and performance. Steve Weiss will be a valuable addition to that team in support of our financial management strategies, including our aggressive pursuit of task order business on CACI's large, multibillion-dollar contract vehicles, as well as the continuation of our robust mergers and acquisitions program." From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed May 3 12:41:33 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 08:41:33 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Big IT service providers losing share to smaller shops Message-ID: <20060503084027.S8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 3 May 2006 ; iTNews Big IT service providers losing share to smaller shops http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=32158 --- By Antone Gonsalves, TechWeb The world's 50 largest IT services vendors increased revenues last year at a slower rate than the overall market, indicating that small players have managed to steal some of their business, a market researcher said Tuesday. The top vendors had combined revenue in 2005 of US$262 billion, a 1.9 percent increase from the previous year, but well below the eight percent boost in the overall market, Datamonitor said. The top 50 ranged from IBM Global Services with sales of US$47 billion to Patni Computer Systems with US$450 million. "The game has changed for many of the traditional powerhouses in the IT services market," Datamonitor analyst Nick Mayes said in a statement. "Pricing pressure is sweeping through infrastructure and applications services, and clients are opting for smaller outsourcing engagements rather than mega-deals. Bigger suppliers are becoming increasingly reliant on merger and acquisition activity to improve their top line growth." There was no change in the top four vendors, starting with IBM and followed by EDS, Fujitsu and Accenture. However, BT Global Services overtook its German peer T-Systems to take the eighth spot, and India's five largest players all made significant moves up the top-50 ladder, growing their combined sales by 35 percent to US$9.3 billion. The 10 fastest-growing IT services vendors in the top 50 rankings last year were either specialists in low-cost offshore delivery, such as Cognizant, Satyam, Patni, TCS, Infosys, HCL and Wipro; or focused on the lucrative US central government and defense sector, such as SRA, CACI and SAIC. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Fri May 5 03:05:19 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 23:05:19 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Islamists using US video games in youth appeal Message-ID: <20060504230251.R8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 4 May 2006 ; Reuters UK Islamists using US video games in youth appeal http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/NewsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-05-04T214913Z_01_N04305973_RTRIDST_0_TECH-SECURITY-VIDEOGAMES-DC.XML --- By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The makers of combat video games have unwittingly become part of a global propaganda campaign by Islamic militants to exhort Muslim youths to take up arms against the United States, officials said on Thursday. Tech-savvy militants from al Qaeda and other groups have modified video war games so that U.S. troops play the role of bad guys in running gunfights against heavily armed Islamic radical heroes, Defense Department official and contractors told Congress. The games appear on militant Web sites, where youths as young as 7 can play at being troop-killing urban guerillas after registering with the site's sponsors. "What we have seen is that any video game that comes out ... they'll modify it and change the game for their needs," said Dan Devlin, a Defense Department public diplomacy specialist. Devlin spoke before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, at which contractors from San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC, gave lawmakers a presentation that focused on Iraq as an engine for Islamic militant propaganda from Indonesia to Turkey and Chechnya. SAIC has a $7 million Defense Department contract to monitor 1,500 militant Web sites that provide al Qaeda and other militant organizations with a main venue for communications, fund-raising, recruitment and training. The sites use a variety of emotionally charged content, from images of real U.S. soldiers being hit by snipers in Iraq to video-recordings of American televangelists including Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell making disparaging remarks about Islam. 'INFIDELS CAME TO MY VILLAGE' The underlying propaganda message, officials say, is that the United States is waging a crusade against Islam in order to control Middle Eastern oil, and that Muslims should fight to protect Islam from humiliation. One of the latest video games modified by militants is the popular "Battlefield 2" from leading video game publisher, Electronic Arts Inc of Redwood City, California. Jeff Brown, a spokesman for Electronic Arts, said enthuisasts often write software modifications, known as "mods," to video games. "Millions of people create mods on games around the world," he said. "We have absolutely no control over them. It's like drawing a mustache on a picture." "Battlefield 2" ordinarily shows U.S. troops engaging forces from China or a united Middle East coalition. But in a modified video trailer posted on Islamic Web sites and shown to lawmakers, the game depicts a man in Arab headdress carrying an automatic weapon into combat with U.S. invaders. "I was just a boy when the infidels came to my village in Blackhawk helicopters," a narrator's voice said as the screen flashed between images of street-level gunfights, explosions and helicopter assaults. Then came a recording of President George W. Bush's September 16, 2001, statement: "This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while." It was edited to repeat the word "crusade," which Muslims often define as an attack on Islam by Christianity. Two militant videos were also pointed out to lawmakers including one called "Lion of Falluja," the city in Iraqi's violent Anbar province that has long been seen as a symbol of militant resistance. Critics of the U.S. video game industry have long blamed the products for violence among American teenagers in civilian society, including high-profile shootings at public schools. SAIC executive Eric Michael said researchers suspect Islamic militants are using video games to train recruits and condition youth to attack U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq. (Additional reporting by Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles) From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Mon May 8 01:20:02 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 21:20:02 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] RMIT baby leaves home Message-ID: <20060507211607.I8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 8 May 2006 ; The Age (Melbourne) RMIT baby leaves home http://www.theage.com.au/news/education-news/third-degree/2006/05/05/1146335914078.html --- Third degree By Adam Morton RMIT baby leaves home RMIT and the CIA have more in common than being acronyms. US intelligence organisations such as the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are using software created by researchers from the Victorian university to track information on terrorists. The TeraText software was dreamt up by InQuirion, an RMIT company that was last month sold for a motser to US giant Science Applications International Corporation - one of America's largest 500 public companies, according to Fortune magazine. TeraText is sophisticated software that allows fast and complex processing of slabs of material. In Australia it is used by the national library, tax office, defence department and federal police. InQuirion has been sold offshore after more than 20 years as a Melbourne company. [...] From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue May 9 01:53:13 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 21:53:13 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] For Sound Energy Policy, Don't Look to Congress Message-ID: <20060508215149.D8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 7 May 2006 ; Washington Post For Sound Energy Policy, Don't Look to Congress http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/05/AR2006050500974.html --- By Warren Brown Congress thinks we're stupid. Maybe we are. We, most of us, refuse to accept that we are living in a world of rapidly increasing demand for declining fossil fuel resources. We believe more oil is to be found around the corner, in the next country, beneath the ocean, under or in the next rock. Maybe it is. But people who have spent much of their professional lives looking at this issue say it really does not matter that more oil is waiting to be found somewhere. They believe there will never be enough of the stuff to fuel, feed, clothe, house and move a constantly growing global population. Those people include Vice President Cheney, White House energy adviser Matthew Simmons and, believe it or not, President Bush. For some time now, Cheney and Simmons, an energy investment banker, have been telling Bush that oil as we know it is about to go away. Their advice largely is why the president in his State of the Union address in January warned that America has become "addicted to oil." That is why the president, a scion of the Texas oil patch, uncharacteristically chided his fellow Republicans in Congress for offering yet another tax break for the nation's oil companies, this one facilitating quick write-offs of the costs of resource exploration. "Record oil prices and large cash flows also mean that Congress has got to understand that these energy companies don't need unnecessary tax breaks like the write-offs of certain geological and geophysical expenditures," the president told the White House media corps. That does not mean Bush is no longer a bosom buddy of Big Oil. It does mean, at least on this issue, that he is significantly smarter than Congress. People enjoy poking fun at Bush, portraying him as something of an errant fraternity boy. But this president is nobody's dummy. He fully understands the concept of "peak oil," the high point of the bell curve at which 50 percent of the provable reserves in any oil field have been recovered. Oil is plentiful on the upside of the curve. It is less available, substantially more difficult and enormously more expensive to retrieve on the downside. Experts contend that peak oil production in North America actually was reached as far back as 1970, forcing the United States, for one, to rely more heavily on foreign sources of crude, a decidedly dangerous and extremely costly way of fueling our economy. One of those experts is Robert L. Hirsch, senior energy program adviser at San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), which conducts a variety of scientific studies for governments and global corporations. Hirsch and his colleagues last March completed a study for the Department of Energy. Maybe it was too difficult for Congress to read. Certainly the title was forbidding: "Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation and Risk Management." Had Congress read Hirsch's report, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) might not have proffered the silly idea of giving Americans a $500 tax rebate to help cover the cost of rising gasoline prices, and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) might not have come up with the equally goofy idea of giving Americans a $100 gas rebate. Both proposals, now thankfully dead, constituted the most wrongheaded kind of political pandering, the kind that supports the notion that American consumers have a God-given right to cheap gasoline in a world where hundreds of millions of people already are paying considerably more for that fuel. Congress was trying to play Robin Hood without portfolio, sticking a windfall profit tax on companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp., which raked in $8.4 billion in profits in the first quarter of 2006, and passing a part of the proceeds on to grumbling citizens. I have no doubt that Exxon Mobil and the rest of oildom are engaging in a bit of profiteering, taking advantage of a very real energy crisis. But the Stabenow and Frist proposals, along with the advocates of increased federally mandated corporate fuel economy without any increases whatsoever in gasoline taxes, completely miss the point. Hirsch and his colleagues put it clearly in their report to the Department of Energy: We eventually will not have enough oil to fuel our enormously wasteful American way of life. Global oil production is peaking. "Optimistic oil production forecasts deserve to be viewed with considerable skepticism," the Hirsch report said. "World oil peaking represents a problem like none other. The political, economic and social stakes are enormous," the report said. In plain English, that means America's cheap-oil ride is over. Ill-thought consumer tax rebates will not help. Ill-thought tax breaks for oil companies that are bumping up prices now in anticipation of oil's future decline will not help. We need more political wisdom and the guts to do the right thing. That starts with political leaders telling the American people the truth, as Bush did in his "addicted to oil" comments. It means mandated increased vehicle fuel economy accompanied by increased taxes on gasoline, engine displacement and vehicle size. It means getting over our social and racial biases, which still keep certain people out of certain neighborhoods, and coming up with a truly efficient, democratic mass transportation system. "Waiting until world conventional oil production peaks before initiating crash program mitigation leaves the world with a significant liquid fuel deficit for two decades or longer," the Hirsch report said. Wake up, Congress. Wake up, America. We are a part of that world. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue May 9 01:54:58 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 21:54:58 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Sacks-Davis Wins Award for Recognized Work in Text Databases Message-ID: <20060508215410.A8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 8 May 2006 ; PR Newswire Sacks-Davis Wins Award for Recognized Work in Text Databases http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060508/dcm047.html?.v=45 --- SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, Va., May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Ronald Sacks-Davis, a Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) scientist in Melbourne, Australia, has been given one of Australia's most prestigious awards for technological achievement. Sacks-Davis received the Australian Academy of Technical Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) Clunies Ross Award on April 26, 2006. The Clunies Ross Award recognizes technology innovation and the application of that technology for the economic, social or environmental benefit of Australia. Sacks-Davis was among the first computer scientists to receive this award, which recognized his contributions during a career on the cutting edge of database theory and design. Sacks-Davis manages a division within SAIC's Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Group and SAIC markets his ground-breaking information management approach as TeraText. A specialist in text database design, Sacks-Davis began work in the early 1980s on techniques that could store and retrieve text from staggeringly large databases. During this time he assembled a team of researchers that worked to extend his ideas into practical implementations that solve globally significant problems. After developing the world's first large-scale text database product, known as Structured Information Manager (SIM), Sacks-Davis' efforts quickly garnered industry attention worldwide, including notice from SAIC and the United States Intelligence Community. "We were told by our customer that his work in the area of very large text collections was cutting-edge," said Steve Rizzi, SAIC vice president of Operations in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Group. "After doing some research and benchmarking on our own we figured out that SIM was significantly faster than the state of the art at that time." SAIC became a reseller of SIM technology in 1999, and eventually acquired Sacks-Davis's company, InQuirion, in October of 2005, rebranding SIM as TeraText. TeraText has proven to be a powerful product for SAIC clients and is currently the enabling technology behind some of the Australian defense and intelligence community's largest text collections. The product also manages the data in other high-profile Australian government communities, such as national law enforcement, homeland security and the national libraries. In the United States, TeraText has played a key role on projects undertaken by the intelligence community, directly supporting the war on terror by providing processing of extremely large text collections. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue May 9 01:57:34 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 21:57:34 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Contracts for May 8, 2006 Message-ID: <20060508215622.C8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 8 May 2006 ; Department of Defense Contracts for May 8, 2006 http://defenselink.mil/contracts/2006/ct20060508-12985.html --- CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense No. 408-06 FOR RELEASE AT May 08, 2006 Media Contact: (703)697-5131 Public/Industry(703)428-0711 CONTRACTS NAVY Science Applications International Corp., Research and Development Division, San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a $51,824,610 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for the research, design, fabrication, and demonstration of wideband communication system (WCS) prototypes, configured for a variety of platforms to meet DoD and non-DoD U.S Government needs. The WCS, at its baseline, will be a communication system that networks multiple sensor nodes and sub-networks at data rates up to 70 Mbps over ranges up to 70 miles. The WCS will shorten the sensor-to-command post and command post-to-shooter timeline and allow firing units to fire on the move, a currently non-existent capability. The WCS will provide the warfighter with substantial reach-back capability not tied to congested satellite channels and enable multiple disparate sub-networks, in common network, to link. Work will be performed in St. Petersburg, Fla. (74 percent); San Diego, Calif. (13 percent); California, Md. (5 percent); Newport News, Va. (2 percent); and Johnstown, Pa. (2 percent) and is expected to be completed May 2011. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Contract was not competitively procured. The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division, Dahlgren, Va., is the contracting activity (N00178-06-D-3001). From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue May 9 12:37:52 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 08:37:52 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Honour for Melbourne computer scientist Message-ID: <20060509083735.J8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 9 May 2006 ; Australian Jewish News Honour for Melbourne computer scientist http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=530 --- By Peter Kohn MELBOURNE -- computer scientist Dr Ron Sacks-Davis has become the first technologist to win a prestigious Clunies Ross Award from the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. Named in memory of Australian science visionary Sir Ian Clunies Ross, the awards honour major breakthroughs in science. In the 1990s, Dr Sacks-Davis and his team at the Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute, a joint research body of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University and the University of Melbourne, created Structured Information Manager, a highly specialised text-database system. His company InQuirion was acquired by US-based Science Applications International Corporation last year and the system, rebranded as TeraText, for its ability to comb through terabytes (equal to approximately 1000 gigabytes) of text, is now in use by various government agencies, including US intelligence agencies in the pursuit of terrorists. "It's a great honour to win the award and hopefully it will be good for Australian computer science," said Dr Sacks-Davis, 55, of Caulfield North, who is a father of two and a member of B'nai B'rith. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue May 9 12:39:21 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 08:39:21 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] SAIC board boosts share price Message-ID: <20060509083820.R8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 9 May 2006 ; San Diego Union Tribune SAIC board boosts share price http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20060509-9999-1b9calbrfs.html --- [...] The board of SAIC has set the price of the company's stock at $48.06 per share, up more than 9 percent from the $43.92 set in January. The government contractor sets the price of the class A common stock under a valuation process that uses a formula and comparable valuations provided by an independent appraisal firm. The research and engineering conglomerate, based in San Diego, is one of the few U.S. companies to internally control the price of its own stock. The company's board adjusts the price after SAIC reports quarterly financial results. [...] From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue May 9 12:41:03 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 08:41:03 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] AMSEC LLC Wins Contract Supporting U.S. Navy Space and Warfare Systems Center, Charleston Message-ID: <20060509084007.O8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 9 May 2006 ; PR Newswire AMSEC LLC Wins Contract Supporting U.S. Navy Space and Warfare Systems Center, Charleston http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060509/dctu005.html?.v=56 --- VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., May 9 /PRNewswire/ -- AMSEC LLC announced today that it has been awarded a five-year contract to provide support to the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center in Charleston, S.C. The contract has a base period of one year with an estimated value of $58.9 million and a total value of $318 million if all options are exercised. Work will be conducted primarily out of AMSEC's San Diego office, but also includes supporting SPAWAR Systems Center tasking in Norfolk, Va.; Jacksonville, Fla.; Bremerton, Wash.; and Hawaii. Services performed under the contract include installation of Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems on ships, submarines and shore sites. "This contract enables AMSEC's continued support of Navy sailors, ships and systems as they respond to world-wide challenges, including the global war on terror," said Jim Taylor, AMSEC LLC business area manager for Maintenance, Modernization and Technical Services - West. "We will install the new technology systems required to help meet the demands of the 21st century on ships, submarines and shore stations." Under this contract, AMSEC LLC will continue its current efforts to implement a wide variety of new technologies and systems. AMSEC LLC has been supporting SPAWAR Systems Centers in Charleston and San Diego since 2000. AMSEC is a limited liability company jointly owned by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and Northrop Grumman Newport News. With 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 May 10 13:31:56 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 09:31:56 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] SAIC's Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Group Hires Product Development Executive Message-ID: <20060510093108.B8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 10 May 2006 ; PR Newswire SAIC's Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Group Hires Product Development Executive http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060510/dcw002.html?.v=54 --- SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, Va., May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) today announced that Julius "JC" Caesar has joined the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Group as senior vice president for product development. Caesar has more than 20 years of corporate experience, most recently as a sector vice president of professional and engineering services at EDO Corporation, where he used organic growth and acquisitions to significantly build the business of a defense products and services operating unit. Prior to his time at EDO, Caesar worked as an engineer for TRW, Inc. and Booz Allen Hamilton, primarily in strategic integrated underwater surveillance systems. He earned his MBA at the College of William and Mary, did graduate studies at the Naval War College and holds his B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy. Caesar also has held a variety of assignments in the Navy Reserve. He currently serves as Rear Admiral and is assigned as Reserve Deputy, Commander Navy Installations Command. "In his role in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Group, JC will be responsible for establishing product development strategy as a significant path for growth for SAIC," said Trey Smith, president of the RDT&E Group. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Fri May 12 12:02:10 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 08:02:10 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Boeing Future Combat System Demonstrates Progress and Technology Maturity in Joint Experiment Message-ID: <20060512080059.L8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 12 May 2006 ; noticas.info Boeing Future Combat System Demonstrates Progress and Technology Maturity in Joint Experiment http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=177387&src=0 --- /noticias.info/ The U.S. Army's Future Combat System (FCS) program, managed by the Lead Systems Integrator (LSI) team of The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and partner Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), successfully demonstrated networking and systems capabilities in the first of two major field experiments scheduled for 2006. FCS represented the U.S. Army's main effort in the Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment 2006 (JEFX '06), conducted last month at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The U.S. Air Force-led exercise involved elements from all services and several allied nations in a joint environment. JEFX '06 is intended to accelerate the research, development and fielding of new combat systems. It provided one of the first opportunities to test the functionality and applicability of FCS technologies designated for the first "spin out" of capabilities to the current force in 2008, as well as network systems maturity, in a realistic environment. "JEFX '06 provided an ideal opportunity to demonstrate and assess technology maturity and program progress in real terrain in a real operational venue," said Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing vice president-general manager and FCS program manager. "It also provided a first look at the network-centric capabilities FCS can bring to the warfighter and joint operations." FCS, a cornerstone of Army modernization, is designed to link soldiers to a wide range of weapons, sensors and information systems through a mobile network that will enable unprecedented levels of joint interoperability, shared situational awareness and the ability to execute highly synchronized operations. FCS technologies demonstrated at JEFX '06 included prototypes of Tactical-Unattended Ground Sensors and seven stretch High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, or HMMWVs, operating as FCS command and control vehicle surrogates. These HMMWVs, each with three operator workstations, featured the latest versions of System of Systems Common Operating Environment (SOSCOE), Sensor Data Management, Level One Fusion and Battle Command/Mission Execution software. During the experiment, Tactical -- Unattended Ground Sensors, equipped with seismic and acoustic capabilities, detected enemy, or "red," threats and relayed the information to the surrogate command and control vehicles where the data was fused with other intelligence from soldiers on the ground, including locations of friendly, or "blue," forces. The command and control vehicles then relayed threat and high priority target information to the Combined Air & Space Operations Center, which fed the information to strike aircraft. Simultaneously, information from the Combined Air & Space Operations Center collected from joint air assets, such as threat images, location of friendly aircraft and weather data, passed through the FCS command and control vehicles to soldiers in the field. The team demonstrated real operational value when, for the first time, the network provided near real-time threat data, with shared situational awareness between ground and air assets. A concurrent modeling and simulation exercise at Ft. Monmouth, N.J., added more FCS systems to the mix, including the Intelligent Munitions System and Non-Line-of-Sight Launch System. The data and information obtained during JEFX '06 will form the groundwork for the FCS program's Experiment 1.1 -- a three-phase risk mitigation exercise beginning in late summer 2006. This experiment also will provide early hands-on feedback from soldiers as the program continues on pace to deliver the first FCS capabilities to current force soldiers in 2008. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Sun May 14 14:44:26 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 10:44:26 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] No. 3: SAIC prepares for public debut Message-ID: <20060514104056.M8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 15 May 2006 ; Washington Technology No. 3: SAIC prepares for public debut http://www.washingtontechnology.com/news/21_T100/special-report/28536-1.html --- By Heather B. Hayes Officials predict more growth for firm when IPO comes about later this year Science Applications International Corp. began a seismic shift in 2005 when it moved from its status as an employee-owned company to a publicly traded one. When the initial public offering finally hits the streets, an event expected to occur this fall, it will have a huge impact on the company's federal business, said Herb Strauss, a research analyst for Gartner Inc. Whether that impact will be positive or negative will depend on how well the company's leaders handle the transition, he said. "They have to do a lot of things right," Strauss said. "An IPO is a difficult thing." SAIC officials, now in a quiet period and thus circumspect in their statements, have estimated that the IPO, the largest for a defense contractor in several years, will raise $1.7 billion in cash that will fund organic growth and strategic acquisitions. The intangible benefit that comes from being a public company is the visibility it will give SAIC, Strauss said. "I think they will end up stronger in the U.S. government marketplace," he said. But also, he said, the financial and operational transparency that comes with being a public company could afford SAIC greater foreign government opportunities as well. Under its new business model, SAIC will have to operate differently internally and set corporatewide methodologies. The company has a reputation for allowing acquisitions to continue to operate autonomously, but now "that's really going to be in their [past]," Strauss said. "They have to integrate and perform like a single company." SAIC did much of the internal integration work in 2005, reorganizing its business groups and putting a strong leader in charge of each. "That's pretty painful stuff, but they've been doing it in a very disciplined, effective way, as you would expect a high-achieving company such as SAIC to do," Strauss said. When SAIC announced the IPO, officials expected it would occur in early 2006. But the company decided that continued inquiry into its performance on its 2004 Athens Summer Olympics contract could be a concern for potential investors, so it held back. SAIC had won a contract from the Greek government to provide components of the security infrastructure. "Given our strong financial position, we have the luxury of deciding the most appropriate time to proceed with an IPO," SAIC Chairman and CEO Ken Dahlberg wrote in a Dec. 16, 2005, memo to employees and stockholders. SAIC is coming off a strong year in 2005; its federal business is holding it steady at No. 3 on the Top 100 list, with $3.3 billion in prime contracting revenue. The company captured several strategically significant contracts from its defense customers in 2005, including an opportunity to provide lifecycle software support for 35 aerospace systems through the Army Materiel Command Software Engineering Directorate, said Arnold Punaro, executive vice president and general manager of Washington Operations for SAIC, in response to e-mailed questions. The contract "will position us well for the expansion of support to the Army Materiel Command as it moves to Huntsville, Ala., which is also an SAIC business hub," Punaro wrote. SAIC also won an award to support the Air Force Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass. The company will design, develop, integrate, test and deliver joint mission planning capabilities and converge multiple mission planning systems into a common environment. "Through this contract, we'll be the non-platform-centric systems integrator for major Defense Department command and control systems," Punaro said. The company spent 2005 "on the leading edge of the important field of weather forecasting and warning," he said. SAIC provided support for the National Data Buoy Center and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Marine Observation Network, and Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunami Systems at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi near the Gulf Coast. SAIC was especially proud of its employees on those contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Punaro said. Faced with the possibility of losing their homes, "they still came in to do their jobs and get the NBDC systems up and running in record time." In 2005, SAIC also made a string of strategic acquisitions, including Geo-Centers Inc., an engineering and professional services company that provides research and development for chemical and biological detection, life-science research and other services for the Homeland Security and Defense departments and first responders. The company will help SAIC go after new chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives projects, Punaro said. SAIC in 2005 furthered its already strong presence in that market when it won a $98 million contract to offer chemical and biological testing and evaluation expertise to Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center personnel at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. Other key acquisitions in 2005 were Imaps LLC, which offers geographic information systems and marine navigation, aviation flight planning and navigation software to government and commercial customers, and IT solutions provider Object Sciences Corp. Both acquisitions will improve SAIC's ability to support the national security and intelligence communities, Punaro said. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Sun May 14 14:46:18 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 10:46:18 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Murphy to address U of S breakfast Message-ID: <20060514104512.K8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 14 May 2006 ; The Times-Tribune (Scranton) Murphy to address U of S breakfast http://thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16636655&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=416046&rfi=6 --- Justin B. Murphy, vice president and U.S. Department of Justice account executive for Science Application International Corp., will be the featured speaker at the University of Scranton.s annual President.s Breakfast on Tuesday. The President.s Breakfast will take place in the McShane Executive Center of Brennan Hall on campus beginning at 8 a.m. His topic will be .Information Sharing in a Post 9/11 World,. which will focus on the Justice Department.s strategic initiatives and their impact on America. Mr. Murphy is a 1976 graduate of the University of Scranton and has spent the past 30 years in law enforcement and private industry supporting law enforcement. In his current position, he is responsible for understanding the strategic direction of the Department of Justice and how it relates to the department.s mission. He is responsible for establishing and maintaining executive relationships with department decision makers. Mr. Murphy is also responsible for mergers and acquisitions for the integrated security solutions business units of SAIC, an $8 billion systems integration firm specializing in providing solutions to problems of national importance in the areas of public safety and homeland security. Mr. Murphy began his career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and, in 1978, joined the Fairfax County Police Department, the largest municipal department in Virginia. During his tenure, he held command positions in every bureau in the department and retired as a major after 20 years of service. Prior to joining SAIC, Mr. Murphy held several positions, including director of business development with Computer Sciences Corporation, Federal Sector, Falls Church, Va., and senior project manager for Litton PRC (now Northrop Grumman), where he was responsible for the design and implementation of the Emergency 911 Centers for Philadelphia and Boston. Mr. Murphy received an executive master.s degree in 1993 from the University of Maryland and is a graduate of the University of Louisville, Southern Police Institute and the FBI National Academy. He has lectured at international conferences for the Association of Public Safety Communicators and the International Association of Chiefs of Police on information technology, project management and leadership. The president.s breakfast is a lecture series that brings together members of the civic and business community to hear guest speakers address topics of regional, national and international interest. PNC Bank is the corporate sponsor. For information, contact Margaret McNulty, director of corporate and foundation relations at the University of Scranton, at 941-7661. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue May 16 02:26:02 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 22:26:02 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Contracts for May 15, 2006 Message-ID: <20060515222421.O8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 15 May 2006 ; Department of Defense Contracts for May 15, 2006 http://defenselink.mil/contracts/2006/ct20060515-13036.html --- CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense No. 437-06 FOR RELEASE AT May 15, 2006 Media Contact: (703)697-5131 Public/Industry(703)428-0711 CONTRACTS DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY [...] Science Applications International Corp., (DBA SAIC), Fairfield, N.J., * is being awarded a maximum $27,000,000 fixed price with economic price adjustment for maintenance, repair, and operations supplies contract for Southwest Region, Zone 1. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and federal civilian agencies. Proposals were Web-solicited and seven responded. This is an indefinite delivery/quantity contract exercising option year 1. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Date of performance completion is May 18, 2007. Contracting activity is DSCP, Philadelphia, Pa (SP0500-04-D-BP08). [...] From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue May 16 23:12:18 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 19:12:18 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] SAIC to Exhibit Defense Training and Simulation Capabilities at ITEC 2006 Message-ID: <20060516191135.U8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 16 May 2006 ; Yahoo (PR Newswire) SAIC to Exhibit Defense Training and Simulation Capabilities at ITEC 2006 http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060516/cltu515.html?.v=36 --- MCLEAN, Va., May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) will showcase several of the company's defense training and simulation capabilities at the ITEC 2006 conference between May 16th and 18th in the United Kingdom. Among the technologies on display will be the One Semi-Automated Forces (OneSAF) Objective System (OOS), a next-generation computer-generated force. The OOS represents a full range of operations, systems and control processes, from the individual combatant and platform level to BlueForce battalion level and Opposing Force brigade level. A platform-independent system, the OOS has levels of fidelity to support most modeling and simulation domains and represents specific activities of communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. It uses appropriate representations of the physical environment and determines that environment's effects on simulated activities and behaviors. To demonstrate the power of complete integrated training, SAIC is also teaming with Saab Training Systems at ITEC to demonstrate an end-to-end, networked, live- training solution on the exhibit floor. SAIC is a leader in systems integration and live, virtual and constructive (LVC) simulation, while Saab Training Systems is at the forefront of live-range instrumentation and weapon simulation. At ITEC, OOS will interface with the SAAB electronic target system, to demonstrate the potential of LVC interoperability. SAIC will also demonstrate its Automated Exercise and Evaluation System (AEES) at ITEC. AEES is a PC-based simulation that provides a training and exercise environment for incident managers at all levels. This scalable system allows the players to interact with dynamic models in validated scenarios and operates in a mobile or distributed mode. AEES records all actions and gives participants continuous feedback throughout the exercise. The system is already used in both the U.S. and in the U.K., providing localities and incident management organizations the means to efficiently and effectively conduct emergency training and exercises. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed May 17 00:32:41 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 20:32:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] SAIC Opens Quantico Facility to Support Marine Corps Customer Message-ID: <20060516203212.S8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 16 May 2006 ; SAIC News SAIC Opens Quantico Facility to Support Marine Corps Customer http://www.saic.com/news/2006/may/16a.html --- (MCLEAN, VA) - Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) recently announced the opening of a new facility in Dumfries, Va., outside the Marine Corps Base, Quantico. The 17,000 square-foot facility, which includes large conference rooms and laboratories, will support SAIC's Marine Corps customers in the area. In celebration of the opening, Tom Baybrook, SAIC senior vice president and general manager of the Naval and Maritime Solutions Business Unit, led a ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception on the morning of May 15, 2006. Chairman Sean Connaughton represented the Prince William County Board of Supervisors at the event. "This facility is evidence of our long-term commitment to the United States Marine Corps and its commands located in Northern Virginia," said Baybrook. Operations at the new facility will include technical support services for the company.s growing customer base at Quantico, which includes Marine Corps System Command, Marine Corps Combat Development Command and the Office of Naval Research. Employees at the new site will also support the Marine Recruiting Command (MRC) Training and Education Command, Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, the Marine Corps Military Working Dogs Program and Marine Corps Operational Test and Evaluation Activity. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed May 17 12:42:36 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:42:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] SAIC/EAI to Initiate Government Funded Influenza Screening Program with CombiMatrix Technology Message-ID: <20060517084125.T8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 17 May 2006 ; Genetic Engineering News SAIC/EAI to Initiate Government Funded Influenza Screening Program with CombiMatrix Technology http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=1630025 --- BIOWIRE Acacia Research Corporation (Nasdaq:CBMX)(Nasdaq:ACTG) announced today that its CombiMatrix group will collaborate with EAI Corporation, a subsidiary of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), for field deployment of CombiMatrix's influenza-screening technology for the identification of all versions of influenza A, including the highly pathogenic Eurasian (H5:N1) strain. Funding for this program will be provided by the Center for Innovative Technology/Institute for Defense and Homeland Security through its Partnership Intermediary Agreement with the Department of Defense. Additional partners in this project include the San Francisco Bay Estuary Field Station of the US Geological Survey/Western Ecological Research Center and the Prince William Sound Science Center of Cordova, Alaska. "The US government continues to be justifiably concerned about the entrance of highly pathogenic avian influenza into North America, and CombiMatrix continues to demonstrate the power of its technology in this realm," stated Dr. Amit Kumar, President and CEO of CombiMatrix. "This collaboration with EAI gets our technology into the field and into the hands of people and groups standing watch on US soil. This program is in addition to our participation in the US Government's National Early Detection System." "We are pleased that the Institute for Defense and Homeland Security has agreed to fund this combined effort with CombiMatrix," said Dr. Joe Dudley, Chief Scientist at EAI. "We believe that the CombiMatrix system is a powerful, versatile, and portable system for influenza monitoring. We believe that this approach, combined with EAI's mobile-laboratory products and expertise, will provide a very powerful tool for monitoring and preparedness in the event of a pandemic." ABOUT ACACIA RESEARCH CORPORATION Acacia Research Corporation comprises two operating groups, Acacia Technologies group and CombiMatrix group. The CombiMatrix group is developing a platform technology to rapidly produce customizable arrays, which are semiconductor-based tools for use in identifying and determining the roles of genes, gene mutations and proteins. The CombiMatrix's group's technology has a wide range of potential applications in the areas of genomics, proteomics, biosensors, drug discovery, drug development, diagnostics, combinatorial chemistry, material sciences and nanotechnology. The Acacia Technologies group develops, acquires, and licenses patented technologies. Acacia controls 43 patent portfolios, which include over 160 U.S. patents, and certain foreign counterparts, covering technologies used in a wide variety of industries including audio/video enhancement & synchronization, broadcast data retrieval, computer memory cache coherency, credit card fraud protection, database management, data encryption & product activation, digital media transmission (DMT(R)), digital video production, dynamic manufacturing modeling, enhanced Internet navigation, hearing aid ECS, image resolution enhancement, interactive data sharing, interactive television, laptop docking station connectivity, microprocessor enhancement, multi-dimensional bar codes, network data storage, resource scheduling, rotational video imaging, spreadsheet automation, user activated Internet advertising and web conferencing & collaboration software. Acacia Research-Acacia Technologies (Nasdaq:ACTG) and Acacia Research-CombiMatrix (Nasdaq:CBMX) are both classes of common stock issued by Acacia Research Corporation and are intended to reflect the performance of the respective operating groups and are not issued by the operating groups. Information about the Acacia Technologies group and the CombiMatrix group is available at www.acaciaresearch.com. 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, 2006, the company reported annual revenues of $7.8 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). Additional information about SAIC is available at www.saic.com. Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based upon our current expectations and speak only as of the date hereof. Our actual results may differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statements as a result of various factors and uncertainties, including the economic slowdown affecting technology companies, our ability to successfully develop products, rapid technological change in our markets, changes in demand for our future products, legislative, regulatory and competitive developments and general economic conditions. Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, recent and forthcoming Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, recent Current Reports on Forms 8-K and 8-K/A, and other SEC filings discuss some of the important risk factors that may affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Thu May 18 13:43:20 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 09:43:20 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] High-tech ideas for border Message-ID: <20060518093830.W8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 18 May 2006 ; San Diego Union Tribune High-tech ideas for border http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20060518-9999-1b18border.html --- U.S. is asking private companies for help in stopping illegal traffic By Bruce V. Bigelow UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER After years of fitful attempts, the Bush administration appears to be getting serious about improving security along America's famously porous borders. The Department of Homeland Security is asking private industry for ideas for a comprehensive strategy to upgrade the technology used to detect and prevent illegal traffic across U.S. borders. [Image: http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060518/images/border280.jpg ] Caption: The secure border initiative calls for extending high-tech "fences" in urban corridors, such as these surveillance cameras mounted atop towers just east of the San Ysidro Port of Entry. The request for proposals, which was issued by the department earlier this year, is part of the broader Secure Border Initiative that President Bush outlined in his address to the nation Monday evening. The goal for the program, known as SBInet, is extraordinarily ambitious. It calls for using computer networks, ground sensors, robotic aircraft, satellite imaging and other technologies to link together the hodgepodge of federal, state and local entities that operate with varying authority along the borders with Mexico and Canada. The idea is to create a "virtual fence" that can detect border intrusions, enable different agencies to share information, and provide a command-and-control ability to interdict illegal crossings. "It requires the right mix of personnel, technology and rapid response capability to secure our border," said Michael Friel, a spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of companies have been asked to submit their proposals by May 30. The Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, plans to award its first contracts by Sept. 30, Friel said. "We are looking at technology to be a force multiplier, whether that's in surveillance or sensors or whatever," Friel said. [Image: http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060518/images/border2.jpg ] Caption: The Department of Homeland Security wants to use the Predator B surveillance aircraft, which is made in San Diego by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems. Once the DHS has awarded the umbrella contract for a comprehensive systems integrator, it's likely that smaller companies will flock to bid on a range of surveillance and sensor technologies. In San Diego, that list could include companies such as Crossflo Systems, which specializes in data-sharing technologies; Airsis, which is marketing its wireless intruder detection systems; Kriegman-Belhumeur Vision Technologies, which is developing next-generation facial recognition systems; and Trex Enterprises, which is developing a thermal imaging camera for detecting contraband. But the DHS is not interested in simply buying "gizmos," Deputy Director Michael Jackson said at an industry conference in January. "This is not about bleeding-edge technology," Jackson said. "Time is short. Demand is big. The problem is large. We're impatient, and we're going to get on with this. We're putting a priority on things that work -- with proven methods, techniques and technologies." DHS officials have said the Secure Border Initiative represents the government's latest bid in a series of efforts to gain operational control over U.S. borders. A paramount concern since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has focused on the implications of widespread illegal immigration and drug trafficking. In fiscal 2005, the Border Patrol says, it arrested 1.2 million people for entering the United States illegally. The agency also seized 12,300 pounds of cocaine and 1.2 million pounds of marijuana. While past efforts achieved limited success at best, Jackson said the DHS has taken a different approach this time. "This is an unusual invitation," Jackson told contractors at the industry briefing. "We're asking you to come back and tell us how to do our business." Yet Jackson is clearly hoping to capitalize on tactics and technologies that defense officials adopted in U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He even emulated the phrasing of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld by describing the program as a "truly transformational opportunity." One key element in the agency's plans appears to be the Predator B, a robotic surveillance plane made in San Diego by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems. In a $14.1 million contract awarded in September, DHS acquired its first Predator B to fly surveillance missions along the border with Mexico. The plane crashed in Arizona on April 25, about 10 miles north of Nogales. The cause of the crash remains under investigation, Friel said, but the department is eager to replace the aircraft as soon as possible. Yet the DHS has not described the SBInet in much detail, and the kind of sensors and systems that would be used along the border remain largely undefined. Likewise, Friel said DHS has not estimated the costs. That approach hasn't won strong support in Congress "Unless the department can show us exactly what we're buying, we won't fund it," Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky., said recently. Nevertheless, the program has triggered high expectations in the defense industry, said Matthew Farr, a homeland security analyst with consultant Frost & Sullivan in San Antonio. He thinks the umbrella contract is worth many billions of dollars. "All the big defense contractors have been jumping on board," said Farr. The list includes companies known for their capabilities as systems integrators, including Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing and SAIC, the San Diego contractor also known as Science Applications International Corp. SAIC declined to discuss its plans for SBInet. It represents the sort of massive contract that Chief Executive Kenneth Dahlberg alluded to when he consolidated the company's decentralized business units in 2004 so SAIC could "act big" when it needs to. But SAIC's efforts to win such a big systems integration contract may be clouded by its much-publicized snafus developing a new computerized case management system for the FBI. The Baltimore Sun reported earlier this year that SAIC met a similar dead end as the lead contractor for Trailblazer, a $1.2 billion computerized intelligence system. Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and L-3 Communications may be more likely contenders for the comprehensive integration contract, according to Howard Rubel, an aerospace industry analyst with Jeffries & Co. in New York. "Both Lockheed Martin and Raytheon already conduct a meaningful amount of business for DHS," Rubel wrote in a research note yesterday. "L-3 also has a portfolio of products designed for specific needs." While the defense industry is excited about the prospects of the SBInet contract, Farr said many companies have also grown wary due to past missteps by the DHS. "They thought after 9/11 that homeland security was going to be a gold mine," Farr said. Many companies made big commitments to develop technologies for an Integrated Surveillance Intelligence System under a program called America's Shield Initiative that DHS announced in 2004. Farr said inadequate funding and a series of procurement missteps forced DHS to kill the program. "America's Shield Initiative is dead," DHS' Jackson acknowledged in January. "But the spirit that animated the necessity for that initiative has been strengthened, magnified and renewed in what we're talking to you about today." The New York Times News Service contributed to this report. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Fri May 19 01:02:43 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 21:02:43 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] AudioCodes Buys Nuera Communications For $85M Message-ID: <20060518210210.X8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 18 May 2006 ; Socal Tech News AudioCodes Buys Nuera Communications For $85M http://www.socaltech.com/story/0004040.html --- San Diego-based Nuera Communications has been acquired for $85M in cash, according to AudioCodes, an Israeli Voice-over-IP firm. Nuera was developing Voice over IP gateways, soft switches, and management systems, and was backed by Comcast Interactive Capital, Cox Communications, Sandler Capital Management, Argo Global Capital, HarbourVest Partners, Bay Partners, Gleacher & Co., Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank Capital Partners, SAIC Venture Capital, and J.F. Shea. AudioCodes said that the move would give it a stronger position in North America and Asia. Nuera will become a wholly owned subsidiary of AudioCodes. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Fri May 19 20:15:18 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 16:15:18 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] ASPRS Announces 2006 SAIC/Estes Memorial Teaching Award Winner Message-ID: <20060519161306.T8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 19 May 2006 ; GISuser.com ASPRS Announces 2006 SAIC/Estes Memorial Teaching Award Winner http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/8984/ --- Dr. Roy A. Welch was named the 2006 SAIC/Estes Memorial Teaching Award recipient for his many years of excellence in teaching techniques, skills, concepts and theory of air photo interpretation, remote sensing of the environment, photogrammetry, geographic information systems, field surveying and Global Positioning Systems. The SAIC Estes Memorial Teaching Award was inaugurated in 2003 and is named in honor of Professor John E. ('Jack') Estes, teacher, mentor, scientist, and friend of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. This award is designed to recognize individual achievement in the promotion of remote sensing and GIS technology, and applications through educational efforts. Award recipients are chosen based on documented excellence in education, teaching, mentoring and, training. The Award was presented this month at the 2006 Annual ASPRS Conference in Reno, Nevada with funding provided by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and consists of a presentation plaque and a cash award of $2,000. Welch began his career in his home town of Waukesha, Wisconsin with a degree in geography and biology from Carroll College in 1961. He went on to obtain a master's degree in geography from the University of Oklahoma and a PhD in 1968 from the University of Glasgow in photogrammetry and cartography. He held various posts with Itek Corporation, and the National Academy of Sciences in the late 60s and early 70s. In 1971, Welch became an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia and later promoted to full professor. The Laboratory for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science was founded by him in 1980. Welch has over 170 articles published in refereed journals and his numerous awards include the ASPRS Fairchild Photogrammetric Award in 1981, the ASPRS Alan Gordan Memorial Award in 1993 and Inventor of the Year in 1996 given by the University of Georgia Research Foundation. He was elected ASPRS President in 1984 and named an ASPRS Fellow in 1995. He served as President of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Commission IV 'Mapping Geographic Information Systems' from 1992-1996. Following his retirement from the University of Georgia in 2003, Welch has remained active in the advisement of graduate students. Founded in 1934, ASPRS is an international professional organization of 6,500 geospatial data professionals. ASPRS is devoted to advancing knowledge and improving understanding of the mapping sciences to promote responsible application of photogrammetry, remote sensing, geographic information systems and supporting technologies. Founded in 1979, The ASPRS Foundation, Inc. is an independent 501 (c) 3 organization established to provide grants, scholarships, loans and other forms of aid to individuals or organizations pursuing knowledge of imaging and geospatial information science and technology, and their applications across the scientific, governmental, and commercial sectors. The Foundation is the primary funding source for all non-sponsored awards and scholarships recognized by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Fri May 19 20:16:24 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 16:16:24 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] SAIC opens facility near Quantico base Message-ID: <20060519161520.E8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 19 May 2006 ; Washington Business Journal SAIC opens facility near Quantico base http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2006/05/15/daily31.html --- Science Applications International Corp., a research and engineering firm that employs thousands of people in the Washington area, has opened a new 17,000-square-foot facility to support the company's Marine Corps customers in the area. The new facility, which features laboratories and large conference rooms, is in Dumfries outside the Marine Corps Base in Quantico. Operations at the facility will include technical support services for SAIC's growing customer base at Quantico, which includes Marine Corps System Command, Marine Corps Combat Development Command and the Office of Naval Research. Employees at the site will also support other programs. "This facility is evidence of our long-term commitment to the United States Marine Corps and its commands located in Northern Virginia," says Tom Baybrook, SAIC senior vice president and general manager of the company's naval and maritime solutions unit. SAIC, which is based in San Diego and has a regional headquarters in McLean, employs about 43,000 people in more than 150 cities worldwide. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Tue May 23 21:15:52 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 17:15:52 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] SAIC's Chel Stromgren Receives NASA Award Message-ID: <20060523171504.L8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 23 May 2006 ; Yahoo (PR Newswire) SAIC's Chel Stromgren Receives NASA Award http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060523/dctu016.html?.v=55 --- SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, Va., May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) today announced that Chel Stromgren, a chief scientist in the Research, Development, Test & Evaluation Group, has received the Exceptional Achievement in Engineering Medal from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). During the awards ceremony held May 4, at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., Stromgren was cited for his "extraordinary contributions in structuring an integrated analysis capability allowing NASA to better characterize the expected behavior of the Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) as a system, and aid in assessment of the benefits associated with investments in alternate transportation systems to support the ISS throughout its operational lifetime," as stated in the award citation. Stromgren, who specializes in strategic analysis of complicated business, operational and social systems, was tasked to analyze the strategic integration of NASA's three major human space flight programs: the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station and the nascent Exploration Initiative and find a way to roll them all into a single model, then add in budgetary constraints and the uncertainty that things both large and small could go wrong or change along the way. "Stromgren's strategic modeling technique for NASA exemplifies SAIC's Science to Solutions ethos," said Mike Molino, SAIC division manager. "He has taken hard data and developed probabilistic models that can assist NASA in its efforts to zero in on their true risks for space missions and make well- thought-out investments to assist in future mission success." From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed May 24 22:16:53 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 18:16:53 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Boeing and SAIC Award Honeywell Contract to Develop Future Combat System Class I Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Message-ID: <20060524181607.I8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 24 May 2006 ; WebWire Boeing and SAIC Award Honeywell Contract to Develop Future Combat System Class I Unmanned Aerial Vehicles http://webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?SESSIONID=&aId=14476 --- ST. LOUIS, -- The Boeing Company [NYSE:BA] and partner Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), functioning as the Lead Systems Integrator for the U.S. Army.s Future Combat System (FCS) program, today awarded a contract, valued at approximately $61 million, to Honeywell Defense & Space Electronic Systems to develop the Class I Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System (UAVS). The Class I UAVS, a platoon-level asset and the smallest of four FCS unmanned aerial vehicle classes, will provide dismounted soldiers with unprecedented reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition capabilities on the battlefield. "We have evaluated Honeywell.s engineering design approach and success in the area of micro air vehicle technology, and we are confident that their design solution for the FCS Class I UAVS is a superior fit that will meet both current and future warfighter requirements," said Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing vice president, general manager and FCS program manager. "We are excited to have Honeywell as a key partner on the FCS best-of-industry team and look forward to maintaining our critical path forward on FCS UAV development." The FCS program will leverage Honeywell.s work on the Micro Air Vehicle (MAV), a prototype vehicle developed under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration. Recently used by the Army.s 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii for soldier testing and experimentation, the MAV has successfully demonstrated ducted fan technology, a key to meeting FCS Class I UAV requirements for a small, back-packable UAV that provides "hover and stare" capability. In addition to the MAV activity with DARPA, Honeywell has been working under an FCS systems engineering contract, including gap analysis and early risk mitigation, to ensure MAV technology will meet the full set of FCS Class I requirements. The team recently completed a system functional review verifying that the technology is on track and, following an update to the design to meet all FCS requirements, will be ready to be integrated into the FCS networked system-of-systems to provide reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition capability. Class I is one of four UAV systems organic to platoon, company, battalion and brigade echelons that form the aerial component of the FCS networked system-of-systems, providing protection and information to soldiers on the ground. Weighing about 35 pounds, each system includes two air vehicles, a control unit and ancillary equipment. The Class I UAVS can operate in complex urban and jungle terrains with vertical takeoff and landing capability, and can be operated autonomously or controlled by dismounted soldiers. First prototype deliveries and flight tests are scheduled for December 2008. The current acquisition plan calls for all four classes of FCS UAV systems to be deployed with the first fully-equipped FCS Brigade Combat Team in 2014. However, the technologies will be developed according to a timeline that will allow for earlier fielding to the current force at the Army.s discretion. In the interim, the Army and industry will continue to build on real-world lessons learned in Iraq and the global war on terrorism to integrate leading-edge technologies into the Class I UAVS solution. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Thu May 25 01:07:37 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 21:07:37 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Pre-9/11 records help flag suspicious calling Message-ID: <20060524210352.S8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 23 May 2006 ; USA Today Pre-9/11 records help flag suspicious calling http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20060523/a_nsa23.art.htm --- NSA computers employ template to identify possible terror activity By John Diamond and Leslie Cauley USA TODAY WASHINGTON -- Armed with details of billions of telephone calls, the National Security Agency used phone records linked to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to create a template of how phone activity among terrorists looks, say current and former intelligence officials who were briefed about the program. The template, the officials say, was created from a secret database of phone call records collected by the spy agency. It has been used since 9/11 to identify calling patterns that indicate possible terrorist activity. Among the patterns examined: flurries of calls to U.S. numbers placed immediately after the domestic caller received a call from Pakistan or Afghanistan, the sources say. USA TODAY disclosed this month that the NSA secretly collected call records of tens of millions of Americans with the help of three companies: AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth. The call records include information on calls made before the Sept. 11 attacks. Verizon and BellSouth released statements last week denying they had contracts with the NSA to provide the call information. A Verizon spokesman said the company's statement did not include MCI, the long-distance company that Verizon acquired in January. The "call detail records" are the electronic information that is logged automatically each time a call is initiated. For more than 20 years, local and long-distance companies have used call detail records to figure out how much to charge each other for handling calls and to determine problems with equipment. In addition to the number from which a call is made, the detail records are packed with information. Also included: the number called; the route a call took to reach its final destination; the time, date and place where a call started and ended; and the duration of the call. The records also note whether the call was placed from a cellphone or from a traditional "land line." "They see everything," says Sergio Nirenberg, director of systems engineering at Science Applications International Corp., a Fortune 500 research and engineering company that works with the federal government. Nirenberg said he does not have direct knowledge of the NSA database. The disclosure of the call record database has raised concerns among lawmakers, such as Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., that the records give the government access to information about innocent Americans. President Bush has insisted that intelligence efforts are only "focused on links to al-Qaeda and their known affiliates." The intelligence officials offered new insight into one way the database of calls is used to track terrorism suspects. The officials, two current U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the program and two former U.S. intelligence officials, agreed to talk on condition of anonymity. The White House and the NSA refused to discuss the template or the program. Using computer programs, the NSA searches through the database looking for suspicious calling patterns, the officials say. Because of the size of the database, virtually all the analysis is done by computer. Calls coming into the country from Pakistan, Afghanistan or the Middle East, for example, are flagged by NSA computers if they are followed by a flood of calls from the number that received the call to other U.S. numbers. The spy agency then checks the numbers against databases of phone numbers linked to terrorism, the officials say. Those include numbers found during searches of computers or cellphones that belonged to terrorists. It is not clear how much terrorist activity, if any, the data collection has helped to find. Not every call record contains the same level of detail. Depending upon how a business has its phone system set up, the call detail records might not register complete information on an outgoing call, Nirenberg says. The records might note only the general number of the business, not the desk extension or, in the case of a hotel, the room extension. Incoming calls that don't go through the switchboard and are dialed directly would have complete call detail records, Nirenberg says. Not all local calls generate a call detail record, Nirenberg says. But that's not to say that phone companies can't create a record for local calls. "It's just a matter of whether they enable that function" that allows that to happen, he says. Cellphone calls, on the other hand, create call detail records in almost every case. Toll calls -- meaning those that aren't technically long-distance but still cost extra -- also generate call detail records, he says. "If they charge you separately for it, they have a call detail record," Nirenberg says. The current and former intelligence officials say that the point of the database is to create leads. The database enables intelligence analysts to focus on a manageable number of suspicious calling patterns, they say. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Thu May 25 12:35:32 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 08:35:32 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] AMSEC founder retiring but will stay on as chairman Message-ID: <20060525083132.J8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 25 May 2006 ; Virginian Pilot AMSEC founder retiring but will stay on as chairman http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=104955&ran=174628 --- [Image: http://media.hamptonroads.com/images/business/albero440x308.jpg Credit: Steve Earley/The Virginian-Pilot] Caption: Carl Albero, right, founder of AMSEC, talks with Ken Dahlberg, CEO and president of SAIC, before Albero's retirement ceremony in Virginia Beach on Wednesday. By GREGORY RICHARDS, The Virginian-Pilot VIRGINIA BEACH -- As he steps into retirement -- sort of -- Carl M. Albero's colleagues honored him Wednesday for having a successful business career. Albero was praised for being a shrewd, focused, passionate businessman, one who was able to turn the defense contracting company he founded in 1981 with four engineers and two clerks into AMSEC LLC. Today, AMSEC has annual revenues of $500 million and 4,600 employees worldwide, 2,000 of which are in Hampton Roads. All that was after retiring as a Navy captain with 20 years of service. Albero's softer side was also showcased before about 80 attendees at the ceremony behind AMSEC's headquarters off Lynnhaven Parkway. One of the 11 speakers, Tom Baybrook, said he called Albero this past New Year's Eve and asked him what he was doing to celebrate. "Nothing," Baybrook recalled Albero saying, "I'm too old to party." But then Albero mentioned he was renting a limousine to take his 8-year-old granddaughter and her friends out for a ride that night. They were going to see the Garden of Lights at the Norfolk Botan ical Garden and to get Slurpees. "Can you imagine this titan of industry taking his granddaughter and six of her friends out on the town on New Year's Eve?" said Baybrook, the manager of Navy and maritime solutions for Science Applications International Corp., which now owns part of AMSEC. In 1987, SAIC, a San Diego-based research and engineering company, acquired AMSEC, which provides various types of engineering and logistical services to the Navy and the commercial maritime industry. Albero stayed on AMSEC's president and chief executive officer. Since 2004, Albero has served as president of SAIC's 7,000-person naval engineering and technical solutions group, which includes AMSEC. In 1999, Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles acquired a minority stake in AMSEC. Albero retired from his role as group president in February, said Jack Greenhalgh, Albero's assistant. He said Wednesday's ceremony was held because Ken Dahlberg, SAIC's president and chief executive officer, was in town. A larger event is planned for September. Speaking to the crowd, Greenhalgh, who worked at AMSEC since its beginning, praised Albero's business acumen. "I can remember so many times Carl pulling a cost estimate or price out of the vapor," he said. "After then spending hours crunching multiple spreadsheets, we would only confirm that the number would work." Albero, who declined to say his age but who graduated from college in 1957, told the crowd that, in fact, he was not retiring. "I have a million dollar real estate project coming out of the ground in June on the Eastern Shore and much more for me to accomplish in my lifetime." His next chapter also includes working part-time as SAIC's Hampton Roads general manager, helping to coordinate operations between its 13 local business units, and remaining chairman of AMSEC's board of directors. Additionally, he has started a consulting company, CMA Enterprises LLC, to work with small military contractors. "What we have accomplished at AMSEC in the last 25 years is unique," Albero said. "When I get out of my car each morning, I take 30 seconds to look at the full parking lot, the campus atmosphere, the AMSEC flag flying ... and think, 'I had a little something to do with this.'" From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Fri May 26 22:43:13 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 18:43:13 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] GSE Systems Inks Master Marketing Deal With SAIC Message-ID: <20060526184204.M8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 26 May 2006 ; Trading Markets GSE Systems Inks Master Marketing Deal With SAIC http://www.tradingmarkets.com/tm.site/news/BREAKING%20NEWS/265707/ --- To Club SAIC's RELAP5-R/T Engineering Code With GSE's Simulation Products (RTTNews) - GSE Systems, Inc. (GVP) signed a master marketing agreement with Science Applications International Corp., or SAIC, whereby both parties would jointly pursue opportunities in the nuclear plant simulation market for high fidelity thermohydraulic, neutronics, and Balance of Plant modeling solutions. Under this agreement, the parties intend to integrate SAIC's RELAP5-R/T engineering code with GSE's simulation products. RELAP5-R/T is the simulation version of the same RELAP code used by many nuclear utilities worldwide for safety analysis. The parties expect that this combination would set a new standard for the simulation industry. John Moran, CEO for GSE said, "The level of realism that the combination of GSE and SAIC technologies offer the industry is significant and compliments GSE's strategy of providing the best plant models in the industry." From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Mon May 29 17:04:14 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 13:04:14 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] GSE and SAIC Sign Master Marketing Agreement to Integrate RELAP5-R/T Code For Application In Nuclear Industry Message-ID: <20060529125751.K8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 26 May 2006 ; Business Wire GSE and SAIC Sign Master Marketing Agreement to Integrate RELAP5-R/T Code For Application In Nuclear Industry http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060526005208&newsLang=en --- BALTIMORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 26, 2006--GSE Systems, Inc. (GSE) (Amex:GVP), a leading global provider of high fidelity, real time simulation and training solutions to the power, process, manufacturing and Government sectors, announced that it has signed a master marketing agreement with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) whereby GSE and SAIC will jointly pursue opportunities in the nuclear plant simulation market for high fidelity thermohydraulic, neutronics, and Balance of Plant modeling solutions. Under this agreement, the parties intend to integrate SAIC's RELAP5-R/T engineering code with GSE's simulation products. RELAP5-R/T is the simulation version of the same RELAP code used by many nuclear utilities worldwide for safety analysis. Using RELAP5-R/T in real-time simulators adds another level of fidelity and realism for operator training. The parties expect that this combination would set a new standard for the simulation industry. John V. Moran, chief executive officer for GSE said, "The use of engineering grade models is now possible as computing power enables these sophisticated programs to be run in real time. The level of realism that the combination of GSE and SAIC technologies offer the industry is significant and compliments GSE's strategy of providing the best plant models in the industry." 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, 2006, the company reported annual revenues of $7.8 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 GSE Systems, Inc. GSE Systems, Inc. provides training simulators and educational solutions. The company has over three decades of experience, over 265 installations, and 100 customers in more than 25 countries. Our software, hardware and integrated training solutions leverage proven technologies to deliver real-world business advantages to the energy, process, manufacturing and Government sectors worldwide. GSE Systems is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Our global locations include offices in St. Mary's, Georgia, Sweden, and China. Information about GSE Systems is available via the Internet at http://www.gses.com. From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed May 31 22:31:12 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 18:31:12 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] USJFCOM signs cooperative research and development agreement with SAIC Message-ID: <20060531183009.J8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 31 May 2006 ; U.S. Joint Forces Command USJFCOM signs cooperative research and development agreement with SAIC http://www.jfcom.mil/newslink/storyarchive/2006/pa053006.htm --- U.S. Joint Forces Command signed a cooperative research and development agreement with Science Applications International Corporation to take on some of the challenges joint warfighters face in the urban environment. By Robert Pursell USJFCOM Public Affairs (NORFOLK, Va. -- May 30, 2006) - U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) [1] with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) today to take on some of the difficult and emerging challenges joint warfighters face in the urban environment. A CRADA represents a non-Federal Acquisition Regulation legal agreement between USJFCOM and one or more non-government parties, such as private industry and academia. CRADAs offer both parties an opportunity to use each other's resources when conducting mutually beneficial research and development (R&D). USJFCOM Deputy Commander Army Lt. Gen. John R. "Bob" Wood [2] said the agreement shows how important it is to work closely with industry. "I think it's an important step in our expanding relationship with industry and partnering with them to solve the joint problems that we face." The CRADA between USJFCOM and SAIC is a three-year cooperative agreement, with two one-year options, focused on the research and development of employing entity-based modeling and simulation (M&S) tools as a standing concept assessment capability and will address the full spectrum of emerging challenges that face the joint warfighter according to command officials. "What an opportunity for us to literally leverage your dollars and then as a result of doing that, the things that they are developing, they're going to get it closer to what we need because they are partnering with us. It's really a win-win situation," said Dr. Russ Richards, who heads the USJFCOM Office of Research and Technology Applications (ORTA). [3] As part of the agreement, USJFCOM and SAIC will provide each other with scientific staffing and other personnel as needed. In addition, they will offer each other experience, lessons learned, materials and equipment, including the hardware and software needed to conduct the assessments and lab space. "It helps us to be a better partner with U.S. Joint Forces Command and it allows us to collaborate closer to understand the joint requirements," said George Singley, president of SAIC's engineering, training and logistics group. The agreement with SAIC is the third USJFCOM has entered since the Office of the Secretary of Defense delegated technology transfer authority (TTA)[4] to the command last year. TTA allows the government to share costs, facilities and exchange personnel by entering into research and development agreements with private companies, academic institutions, and other non-federal agencies. This provides the government use of the intellectual property while protecting the rights of the company to guard its patents. USJFCOM uses TTA to speed the research and development process. The results from academic, industrial, national and international research laboratories can be developed into integrated capabilities for the joint warfighter quicker. TTA gives USJFCOM many of the same authorities national laboratories use to structure partnerships with industry and academia to exchange personnel and technical data, make technology assessments and collaborate on research and development efforts. In return, USJFCOM provides resources such as personnel, facilities, equipment, information, modeling and simulation tools and venues. This creates an opportunity for both USJFCOM and the industry or academic partner. --- [1] http://www.jfcom.mil/about/iie.htm#crada [2] http://www.jfcom.mil/about/wood.htm [3] http://www.jfcom.mil/about/fact_orta.htm [4] http://www.jfcom.mil/about/fact_tta.htm From saic at vision.moundalexis.com Wed May 31 22:41:58 2006 From: saic at vision.moundalexis.com (Daily SAIC News) Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 18:41:58 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [saic] Pentagon mistakes EA game for terrorist agitprop? Message-ID: <20060531183913.F8724-100000@vision.moundalexis.com> 31 May 2006 ; InfoWorld Tech Watch Pentagon mistakes EA game for terrorist agitprop? http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/006555.html --- There are reports that the Pentagon and defense contractor SAIC in early May showed footage from a standard add-on package to the Electronic Arts popular Battlefield 2 video game, claiming it was a clever al Qaeda manipulation of that game that was being used for propaganda. The bubbling controversy stems from reports [1] about testimony given to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence [2] on May 4 by Dan Devlin, described as a DoD public diplomacy specialist, and SAIC executive Eric Michael. The testimony, which is available online [3], is actually a fascinating read, with experts talking to Congress about the myriad ways that terrorist groups are using technology and the Internet to spread their message, and how woefully prepared the U.S. was and is to counter the efforts of nimble and tech savvy terrorists. As part of the talk, it appears, House members were shown video footage from terrorist propaganda films as well as a video game that allowed the player to play the part of jihadi's taking shots at U.S. troops. Not surprisingly, it was that latter aspect that the media picked up on in its coverage with headlines like "Islamists using video games in youth appeal." "Tech-savvy militants from al Qaeda and other groups have modified video war games so that U.S. troops play the role of bad guys in running gunfights against heavily armed Islamic radical heroes, Defense Department official and contractors told Congress," the Reuters article on the testimony reads, in part. Now it turns out that may not be true. According to a May 11th post on the gamepolitics blog [4], the footage shown to House members was from an official Battlefield 2 expansion pack called Special Forces [5] ($17.99). Playing rebels and insurgents isn't a dastardly mod by al Qaeda operatives, it's just a feature of the game (dude!). But wait...it gets worse. Gamepolitics readers picked up on another detail from the Reutuers story, which noted that the footage shown to House members included voice over narration about "infidels coming to my village in BlackHawk helicopters." That little bit, it turns out, may have been taken from the intro to the satirical South Park Movie Team America World Police [6] -- a hillarious send up of U.S. miliatrism. Gamepolitics tracked down the person who they claim married the Team America voice over narration to the Battlefield 2 footage and released it online -- a 25 year old Dutch Morroccan named Samir who uses the online name Sonic Jihad (he got the name from a song [7] by the rapper Paris.) Here's Samir's dark motivation for creating the video, from the Gamepolitics e-mail interview: "Yes I am Muslim. But my ethnic background and religion have nothing to do with this video. My political views are like most of the people of Europe. We think that Team America IS the WORLD police ;) I live in the west, I love the west and I do love American culture. Especially rap such as Eazy-E, NWA, Public Enemy, T-KASH and especially.... Paris! Did my views effect my choice? Nah man we were just making videos for fun. Just look at the [BF2] community, there are lots of videos made." Great. TechWatch put calls in to SAIC, the House Committee and the Pentagon. As yet, there hasn't been any response on whether House Intelligence Committee members will be updated on the true nature of the "al Qaeda" video game component of their briefing. We would hope they would. Beyond that, it seems that there are a couple sad things about this episode. First of all, it's more than a little ironic that a presentation about the U.S.'s woeful inability to keep up with the terrorists and understand what they're doing online ends up illustrating exactly how clueless the Pentagon and its private sector partners are about what are and are not online terrorist threats. I mean, could nobody at SAIC or the DoD have loaded up Battlefield 2 to see whether the footage they picked up off an "extremeist" site was evidence of al Qaeda manipulation or standard game functionality? Bin Laden has truly won a victory if even our own military and intelligence specialists are so in awe of him and his network that we uncritically ascribe anything smacking of anti-Americanism to him and his minions-- after all, they get to take credit for a lot of stuff they didn't even do! I think it's also sad that it was the video game bit (and now, maybe the gaffe over the origin of the game footage) that grabbed the headlines, not the actual content of the presentation, which was a lucid and insightful discussion of what the U.S. must do to counter the influence of jihadists online, with passages like this one: "In order for U.S. government information operations to become more effective, more specifically focused and better tailored to the variety of audiences we seek to inform and influence, we must obtain a far better understanding of our enemy and the constituencies that our adversaries have already proven effective in reaching and motivating. "If you know the enemy and know yourself," Sun Tzu famously advised centuries ago, "you need not fear the results of a hundred battles." The war on terrorism has now lasted longer than America's involvement in World War II: yet, even today we cannot claim with any credibility, much less, acuity to have fulfilled Sun Tzu's timeless admonition. --- [1] http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060504/us_nm/security_videogames_dc_4 [2] http://intelligence.house.gov/ [3] http://intelligence.house.gov/Media/PDFS/hoffman4may06.pdf [4] http://gamepolitics.livejournal.com/285129.html [5] http://www.ea.com/official/battlefield/specialforces/us/home.jsp [6] http://www.teamamerica.com/ [7] http://www.guerrillafunk.com/paris/sonic_jihad/