SAIC gets no-bid $2 -$17M sweetheart deal for scissors disposal!

[LunaC]

Naw, SAIC has no vested interest in making sure BBV keeps the current admin at the helm....

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sandiego-sub/index.html?ts=1066335251&classchk=pass

San Diego's Science Applications International Corp., which works on thousands of contracts for the Pentagon and CIA, has landed a contract from the federal agency responsible for airport security. SAIC is now responsible for disposal of the pocketknives, nail clippers, blowtorches, fireworks and other prohibited items forfeited by airline passengers at airport security checkpoints nationwide.

The Transportation Security Administration, which announced the contract award Wednesday, describes the petty plunder as "voluntarily abandoned property." The TSA said the SAIC contract is valued at $2 million for the first seven months, and could rise as high as $17 million if all options are exercised.

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While there was no competitive bidding for the TSA order, spokesman Jennifer Marty said the award was properly issued to SAIC under an umbrella services program overseen by the General Services Administration.

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Is it just me or is $17M a lot for sorting butane lighters from scissors and nail clippers?

(Originally posted to wrong forum - DUH!)

[demnan]

1. This is just small potatoes

for a company like SAIC.

[sirshack]

2. Does SAIC

have anything under LOGCAP?

[LunaC]

4. Not LOGCAP

but DOD contract for - get this - training a new Iraqi Army!

http://www.export.gov/iraq/contracts/

[Tempest]

3. Oh, what a wicked web they weave

Survey Group head's link to arms industry

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=450120

For at least 10 years David Kay, head of the Iraq Survey Group, has staked his professional and business reputation on the case that Iraq was a serious threat.

Until October last year, Mr Kay was the vice-president of a major San Diego-based defence contractor, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), co-ordinating its homeland security and counter-terrorism initiatives.

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Examiners reportedly removed after finding flaws in Yucca project

Date: 2003-04-27

Print version only. Sunday's Bakersfield Californian.

Las Vegas - Three examiners were removed from their audit positions after they uncovered new quality control flaws in the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project, one of the examiners said.

Their efforts resulted in the Energy Department's issuance of a "stop work" order in March to its main Yucca contractor, Bechtel SAIC, until problems are fixed.

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America's For-Profit Secret Army

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/business/yourmoney/13MILI.html

With the war on terror already a year old and the possibility of war against Iraq growing by the day, a modern version of an ancient practice - one as old as warfare itself - is reasserting itself at the Pentagon. Mercenaries, as they were once known, are thriving - only this time they are called private military contractors, and some are even subsidiaries of Fortune 500 companies.

Others have more cryptic names, like DynCorp; Vinnell, a subsidiary of TRW; SAIC; ICI of Oregon; and Logicon, a unit of Northrop Grumman.

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4801.htm

Meanwhile, the shadowy defense contractor SAIC has jumped into the vote-counting game, both directly and through spinoffs by its top brass, including Admiral Bill Owens, former military aide to Dick Cheney and Carlyle honcho Frank Carlucci, and ex-CIA chief Robert Gates. SAIC's history of fraud charges and security lapses in its electronic systems hasn't prevented it from becoming one of the largest Pentagon and CIA contractors -- and will doubtless pose little obstacle to its entrance into election engineering.

[LunaC]

5. Former Raytheon and General Dynamics hotshot now heads SAIC

Beyser stepped down and Kenneth Dahlbegr is new CEO.