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 AMSEC LLC, a business partnership between SAIC and [[Northrop Grumman]] subsidiary [[Northrop Grumman Newport News|Newport News Shipbuilding]] divested on July 13, 2007.{{Citation needed|date=May 2008}} [[Network Solutions]] was acquired by SAIC in 1995,<ref>{{cite web|title=Science Applications International Corporation vs. Comptroller of the Treasury|url=http://www.txcrt.state.md.us/decisions/pdf/saic.pdf|publisher=txcrt.state.md.us|access-date=April 17, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528103010/http://www.txcrt.state.md.us/decisions/pdf/saic.pdf|archive-date=May 28, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> and subsequently was acquired by [[VeriSign]], Inc. for $21 billion.<ref name="NetsolHis">{{cite web|title=Company History |url=http://about-networksolutions.com/corporate-history.php |publisher=networksolutions.com |access-date=March 29, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312130145/http://about-networksolutions.com/corporate-history.php |archive-date=March 12, 2016 }}</ref>''Leidos Cyber, Inc.'', formerly Lockheed Martin Industrial Defender, acquired by merging with Lockheed Martin IS&GS, was sold to Capgemini in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2019/02/21/leidos-cyber-sale-closed.aspx|title=Leidos closes sale of commercial cyber business -|last=Wilkers|first=Ross|website=Washington Technology|date=February 21, 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-20}}</ref>
-== Controversies ==
-=== As SAIC ===
-Then-SAIC had as part of its management and on its board of directors, many well-known ex-government personnel including [[Melvin Laird]], Secretary of Defense in the [[Presidency of Richard Nixon | Nixon administration]]; [[William J. Perry|William Perry]], Secretary of Defense for Bill Clinton; [[John M. Deutch]], [[Director of Central Intelligence]] under President Clinton; Admiral [[Bobby Ray Inman]] who served in various capacities in the [[National Security Agency]] (NSA) and [[Central Intelligence Agency]] (CIA) for the Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations; and [[David Kay]] who led the search for weapons of mass destruction after the 1991 [[Gulf War]] and served under the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|Bush administration]] after the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]]. In 2022, 30 out of 38 Leidos Inc. lobbyists previously held government jobs.{{r|OpenSecrets_Summary}}<ref name="OpenSecrets_Lobbying">{{cite web | url = https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/lobbyists?cycle=2022&id=D000000369 | title = Client Profile: Leidos Inc. | date = 2022-04-22 | department = Influence & Lobbying / Lobbying / Clients | website = [[OpenSecrets]] | language = en-us | access-date = 2022-06-02 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220602184822/https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/lobbyists?cycle=2022&id=D000000369 | archive-date = 2022-06-02 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>
-In June 2001, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) paid SAIC {{US$|122}}{{nbsp}}million to create a [[Virtual Case File]] (VCF) software system to speed up the sharing of information among agents. But the FBI abandoned VCF when it failed to function adequately. [[Robert Mueller]], FBI Director, testified to a congressional committee, "When SAIC delivered the first product in December 2003 we immediately identified a number of deficiencies – 17 at the outset. That soon cascaded to 50 or more and ultimately to 400 problems with that software ... We were indeed disappointed."<ref>{{cite web|title=FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION'S INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MODERNIZATION PROGRAM, TRILOGY|url= https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-109shrg20668/html/CHRG-109shrg20668.htm|access-date=2019-02-14}}</ref>
-In 2005, then-SAIC executive vice president [[Arnold L. Punaro]] claimed that the company had "fully conformed to the contract we have and gave the taxpayers real value for their money." He blamed the FBI for the initial problems, saying the agency had a parade of program managers and demanded too many design changes. He stated that during 15 months that SAIC worked on the program, 19 different government managers were involved and 36 contract modifications were ordered.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.fbi.gov/news/testimony/fbis-virtual-case-file-system|title= Robert S. Mueller, III, Director of FBI Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and the Judicial|website= [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] |date=2005-02-03|access-date=2014-02-22}}</ref> "There were an average of 1.3 changes every day from the FBI, for a total of 399 changes during the period," Punaro said.<ref name="Cantlupe_2005">{{cite news | last1 = Cantlupe | first1 = Joe | date = 2005-02-03 | title = SAIC Says FBI Should Deploy its Software | work = [[The San Diego Union-Tribune]] | url = http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20050203-1653-cnssaiccrx.html | access-date = 2022-06-02 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050308190518/http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20050203-1653-cnssaiccrx.html | archive-date = 2005-03-08 | issn = 1063-102X | df = dmy-all }}</ref>
-In 2011–2012, then-SAIC was among the 8 top contributors to federal candidates, parties, and outside groups with {{US$|1209611|2012}} during the 2011–2012 election cycle according to information from the Federal Election Commission. The top candidate recipient was Barack Obama.<ref name="OpenSecrets_Summary">{{cite web | url = https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary?id=D000000369 | title = Summary: Leidos Inc | date = 2022-06-02 | department = Organizations / Summary | website = [[OpenSecrets]] | language = en-us | access-date = 2022-06-02 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220122071242/https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary?id=D000000369 | archive-date = 2022-01-22 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>
-=== As Leidos ===
-In a heavily redacted report dated January 3, 2018, the [[Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense|Inspector General for the Department of Defense]] determined that a supervisor at Leidos made “inappropriate sexual and racial comments to” a female contractor, and that when she complained of a [[hostile work environment]], Leidos retaliated by excluding her from further work on an additional contract.<ref name="Capaccio2018">{{cite news |last1=Capaccio |first1=Anthony |title=Leidos's Treatment of Female Whistle-Blower Gets Pentagon Review |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/leidos-s-treatment-of-female-whistle-blower-gets-pentagon-review |access-date=17 June 2018 |work=[[Bloomberg News]] |date=2 May 2018}}</ref> The report found that Leidos's claim that the contract employee “exhibited poor performance throughout her employment" lacked supporting evidence. It recommended that [[U.S. Secretary of Defense]] [[Jim Mattis]] “consider appropriate action against Leidos” such as “compensatory damages, including back pay, employee benefits and other terms and conditions of employment” that the contractor would have received under the additional contract.
-In 2018, Leidos donated to the Senate campaign of [[Cindy Hyde-Smith]]. However, after a video was released showing Hyde-Smith speaking fondly of participating in "public hangings", Leidos said the company would never have made the donation if it had known about the comment. During Hyde-Smith's 2020 re-election bid, Leidos again donated to her.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-10-31|title=Company that denounced Hyde-Smith's 'public hanging' comment writes her last-minute check|url=https://mississippitoday.org/2020/10/31/company-that-denounced-hyde-smiths-public-hanging-comment-writes-her-a-last-minute-check/|access-date=2020-11-03|website=Mississippi Today|language=en-US}}</ref>
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