The development and testing processes enabled by the new software environment will be game-changing, because in the end it will allow “satellites to be upgraded in space,” SAIC’s vice president for space, David Ray, told Breaking Defense.
By Theresa Hitchens and Jaspreet GillThe company will provide a several IT modernization services to support DCSA’s One IT vision of a consolidated IT environment, company VP Vinnie DiFronzo told Breaking Defense.
By Jaspreet Gill“The purpose behind this is really to lay in the digital infrastructure to improve decision making and accelerate kill chains, kill webs…against a near peer threat,”said Vinnie DiFronzo, SAIC’s senior vice president of operations. “So it really comes down to decision superiority as an initial objective.”
By Jaspreet Gill“Money’s going into space. There’s a lot of opportunity for us to push into new areas leveraging our expertise,” said David Ray, who leads SAIC’s national security Space Business Unit.
By Theresa HitchensDigital engineering. Open software standards. Edge processing. Connectivity. Autonomy. DevSecOps. The buzzwords are flying as defense contractors jockey to tout their respective capabilities as DoD’s plans for Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) begin to manifest — and new business opportunities.
By Theresa HitchensAuto giant General Motors is the outsider in a competition against two teams of companies with decades of defense experience: Oshkosh-Flyer and Polaris-SAIC.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Building physical things is not SAIC’s, well, thing. But physically building stuff has become less important and less profitable than integrating all the complex high-tech components and making sure they work together.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The initial contract announced today was just $198 million for the first 30 vehicles, to be delivered by next fall, but Marines want to replace approximately 870 existing AAVs with better-protected, more mobile ACVs “as rapidly as we can,” which will take into “the mid to late ’20s.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.WASHINGTON: Over the next few weeks, US Army leaders will make major decisions about the Futures Command they’re standing up this summer. The new organization will be the biggest departure in how the Army buys weapons in 40 years. Important as it is, however, it’s also just one of many changes the Army must make…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.If the stars align for defense contractor SAIC, the US Army and Marine Corps will soon be buying hundreds of armored vehicles designed in Singapore. Yesterday, six months after joining forces for the first time on the Marines’ Amphibious Combat Vehicle competition – and just four days before the massive Association of the US Army…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.UPDATED: Adds GAO rebuttal WASHINGTON: The latest GAO report on the Amphibious Combat Vehicle may reveal more problems with GAO’s approach than with the Marine Corps program. While the Government Accountability Office does its usual solid work on the numbers, when it recommends delaying production by four months to do additional testing, it’s acting from an excess…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.An upstart odd couple has challenged armored vehicle giant BAE for the right to build the Marine Corps’ swimming tank. One is Singapore’s ST Kinetics, maker of the Singapore Armed Forces‘ amphibious Terrex vehicle. The other is McLean, Va.-based SAIC, best known as a service contractor, which is working with the Singaporeans to build a…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.