Actually the company was started by Dr Robert Byster. Actually a nice guy. But yes, they hire mostly ex-military. Its called the "good ol boys club". Thats how they get these contracts. Sorta like, "this will happen to you when you retire" club. The pork just comes rolling down. I wonder what patents they own. They don't really create things, but they do services like Booz-Allen. It could be a nice job if you got hired into a good group. But I have never seen one. Its not a good job to start in and most of thier project managers can't really manager. My old manager was probably pulling 90K and didn't even have a degree. Nice picture ehh? --Jonathan
On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 14:39 -0800, Neil Schneider wrote: > Michael J McCafferty said: > > > Now, cut through the FUD and look at the actual Board of Directors. > > Not > > nearly as many Military as your comments would suggest. Certainly not > > "all". > > http://www.saic.com/corporategovernance/bod.html > > Well their board has changed considerably since the last time I > looked, maybe they got tired of being accused of being a front for the > CIA. :-) > The last time I held an annual report in my hands the entire board was > made up of ex-military officers. Wasn't it originally founded by such > officers? The taxpayers are not well served when there exists a > revolving door between those who contract with and those who contract > for services provided by SAIC. And they have a long history of > providing IT services for the government that fail, like the recent > FBI software fiasco. There's plenty to be suspicious of and dislike > about SAIC. > > > > > At 07:28 AM 2/15/2005 -0800, you wrote: > >>On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:50:32 -0800 (PST), Neil Schneider > >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > >> > It's not a coincedence that the whole board of directors is all > >> > retired high-ranking military officers, however. > >> > >>Good point. Very well put. > >> > >>You don't have to be paranoid to recognize that SAIC holds a position > >>with the federal government that few other companies do. A position > >>beyond simple "contractor". > >> > >>-todd > >>-- > >>[email protected] > >>http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > > > > -- > > [email protected] > > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > > > > > -- > Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net > http://www.paccomp.com > Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D > > "All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies." > -- Dr. John Arbuthnot (1667-1735) > > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
