Tuesday, April 29, 2003
SAIC's Technology Includes iPAQs
Posted by Janak Parekh in "ARTICLE" @ 06:03 AM
This article is an interesting overview of SAIC, the Science Applications International Corp.
"Most people have never heard of either Beyster or SAIC -- and that's fine with Beyster, the company's reclusive founder and CEO. Privately held SAIC makes much of the supersecret technology that's at the core of the sleuthing done by the National Security Agency, CIA, and other spook services...About a third of SAIC's business is systems integration for other companies, such as Pfizer and BP, but its heart and soul is spy tech. Intelligence agencies don't list or rank their contractors. Intelligence sources, however, say SAIC was the NSA's top supplier last year and in the top five at the CIA."
Check out this picture as an example of what they're doing:
Yes, those are iPaqs sitting in their cradles. We'll probably never find out exactly what these devices do, but they're presumably some sort of surveillance tool. bdegroodt, who submitted this, thinks they look like Pocket PC-powered BattleBots :lol: What's your guess?
"Most people have never heard of either Beyster or SAIC -- and that's fine with Beyster, the company's reclusive founder and CEO. Privately held SAIC makes much of the supersecret technology that's at the core of the sleuthing done by the National Security Agency, CIA, and other spook services...About a third of SAIC's business is systems integration for other companies, such as Pfizer and BP, but its heart and soul is spy tech. Intelligence agencies don't list or rank their contractors. Intelligence sources, however, say SAIC was the NSA's top supplier last year and in the top five at the CIA."
Check out this picture as an example of what they're doing:
Yes, those are iPaqs sitting in their cradles. We'll probably never find out exactly what these devices do, but they're presumably some sort of surveillance tool. bdegroodt, who submitted this, thinks they look like Pocket PC-powered BattleBots :lol: What's your guess?
