Reply #5: What losses from "war"? [View All]

[LunaC]

Perhaps your division has lost a paltry $3 million over the past two years but overall SAIC is profiting substantially because of it, including Homeland Security.

November 2001 - A task order from the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare System Command (SPAWAR) to provide SPAWAR with systems engineering and integration technical support. The task order has a potential ceiling value of more than $596 million.

Dec 2001 - An award from the Defense Information Systems Agency to support the Defense Information System Network Global
Solution. The maximum cumulative value is approximately $3 billion.

http://www.saic.com/about/timeline/2002.html


Revenues for the Fiscal Year ended January 31, 2002 (Fiscal 2003) were $5.9 billion, reflecting growth over the prior year of 2 percent

February 2002 - A contract from the Department of Interior's GovWorks Federal Acquisition Center for the Gateway/Defense Message System, the secure messaging system that will replace the Department of Defense's (DoD) legacy Automatic Digital Network. The five-year contract has a potential ceiling value of $1 billion.

June 2002 - A contract award from the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to perform next generation engineering services for federal and DoD agencies worldwide. This multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract will have a seven-year lifecycle and a total, overall contract ceiling value of $1 billion.

An award from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to support arms control, nonproliferation, and homeland security initiatives by supplying research and development services for DTRA programs to reduce the threats from weapons of mass destruction. This is a 10-year contract with a total ceiling value of $690 million.

October 2002 - An award from the National Guard Bureau to provide environmental engineering, scientific, and remediation support services for the Air National Guard and Army National Guard. This multiple, IDIQ contract has a ceiling value of $598 million with one base and nine option years.

October 2002 - A contract from the National Security Agency (NSA) to provide the technology demonstration platform phase of the TRAILBLAZER program. This phase of the program currently is estimated at $280 million and will be performed over a period of 26 months.

For the energy industry, new contracts included providing consolidated information technology (IT) infrastructure and managed services for BP (British Petroleum, a participant in Cheney's Energy Task Force and recent recipient of a lucrative Iraqi oil contract), IT services for Calpine Corporation, (electric infrastructure - develops, builds, and operates modern natural gas-fired energy centers) and IT integration and software management for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company (oil again.)

http://www.saic.com/about/timeline/2003.html

It was truly amazing for you to go to such extraordinarily lengths in defense of a company that provides substantial assistance in supporting the Bush Admin agenda of war and oil.