Laura Kennedy

Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer

Laura Kennedy is senior vice president of Ethics and Compliance at SAIC, reporting to the CEO. Prior to joining SAIC in 2005, she was vice president for Global Compliance at Honeywell International Inc., where she reported to the general counsel and was responsible for the company’s compliance with all government contracts and international trade laws, including the FAR, FCPA, ITAR, EAR, and OFAC, among other things.

Prior to joining Honeywell in August 2000, Kennedy spent 21 years in private practice, primarily at Jenner & Block and Seyfarth, Shaw, 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.

At SAIC, Kennedy reports on a quarterly basis to the ethics and corporate responsibility committee of the board of directors and with the full board of directors on an annual basis. She currently revises and updates the Code of Business Conduct, designs and develops ethics and compliance training programs, drafts corporate compliance policies and procedures, manages and supervises investigations and implements disciplinary and corrective actions, advises businesses on compliance matters and Code of Business Conduct issues, analyzes a database of cases to identify trends and conduct risk assessments, works with Internal Audit to audit risk areas and develop corrective action plans, conducts quarterly meetings with executive leaders and board members to analyze trends, develops process improvements and new tools to strengthen controls in key risk areas, investigates alleged violations and helps resolve voluntary disclosures at defense, justice and state departments, develops procedures and manages processes for conducting due diligence reviews for acquisitions, and benchmarks policies and practices with peer contractors to identify and implement best practices.

Kennedy 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.