The rest of your message was just crap (my opinion), but this was right on target. You're right here. SAIC does a great deal of neato stuff, correction, they BUILD a bunch of neato stuff. That, I am proud of. The fact that that stuff is USED by the government is fine with me. Sometimes projects don't go as hoped... as is true with any company.
However, Neil explicitly said there was "plenty to be suspicious about and dislike about SAIC". This I take offense to. This implied there was some malice in their actions as a company. The only thing that they do is make stuff for profit. Their biggest customer happens to be the US Government... including DoD, but also the Post Office, and USDA and other non-military non-intelligence agencies. When I started there the company derived 60% of it's revenue from commercial contracts. In a time of war, the government spends more money on the kinds of things they do and the commercial spending decreased as the tech industry waned in 2001.
I am done with this thread. Bye.
Mike
At 11:18 PM 2/16/2005 -0800, you wrote:
If, while I was employed by Ryan, someone had said they we worked on programs which could lead to both good and bad things, depending on who's hands they fell into, *I* certainly would not have been offended. I'd have said "Yeah, as far as my knowledge goes, maybe we do (aluminum coffins, Apache helo, Global Hawk, MALD, X/F-22, pilotless fighter, etc.). So what?". I was still proud to be a part of the company. I wouldn't have accused anyone who criticized my company of engaging in a ridiculous degree of paranoia and supposition. That would have made me ... well, a bit of a crackpot.
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