Laura Kennedy

Senior Vice President and Chief Ethics Officer

Laura Kennedy is Senior Vice President of Ethics and Compliance at SAIC. She reports on a quarterly basis to the ethics and corporate responsibility committee of the board of directors and to the full board of directors on an annual basis. Laura designs and develops the corporate-wide ethics and compliance program, including the Code of Conduct, ethics and compliance training, case investigative process, and corporate compliance policies and procedures. She also manages investigations, analyzes case trends to report quarterly to the executive leadership team and board of directors, advises businesses on compliance matters, coordinates with Internal Audit to audit risk areas and develop corrective action plans, and benchmarks policies and practices with peer contractors to identify and  implement best practices.

Prior to joining SAIC in 2005, Laura was Vice President for Global Compliance at Honeywell International Inc., where she was responsible for the company’s ethics program and government contracts and international trade laws.

Laura spent more than two decades in private practice, specializing in the areas of government contracts and international trade compliance. She has broad-based experience in all aspects of government contracts, including bid protests, negotiations, claims, audits, terminations, defective pricing, and technical data, and has litigated bid protests and other disputes involving billion-dollar procurements. She has designed, implemented, and audited comprehensive corporate-wide ethics and compliance programs in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations and U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, and has worked closely with the  departments of Defense, Justice and State to resolve disputes in a wide range of areas.

Laura attended Cornell Law School, J.D., and Oberlin College, B.A., government and sociology (Phi Beta Kappa), and is a member of the Bars of the District of Columbia, Virginia and Massachusetts. She is a member of the Working Group of the Defense Industry Initiative on Business Ethics and Conduct (DII) and served as chair of the DII Group from 2008-2010.

SAIC is a leading technology integrator providing full lifecycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC’s deep domain knowledge and customer relationships enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex government and commercial projects. SAIC’s approximately 14,000 employees serve customers in the U.S. federal government, state/local, and global commercial markets, specializing in providing a broad range of higher-end, differentiated technical capabilities. Headquartered in McLean, Va., SAIC has annual revenues of about $4 billion. For more information, visit http://www.saic.com/.