The SAIC Lifestyle

We offer advantages you'll like. We know your pay and benefits are important factors in your career decision. That's why we put much care and thought into building our total compensation packages.

• Your benefits start immediately upon hire for all plans. There is no waiting period.
• There are no pre-existing conditions/exclusions for our medical plans.
• Your dependents, including domestic partners, can be covered by our plans.

We invite you to lean more about our salary policy; medical, dental, vision and insurance plans; and the perks and extras we offer.

• Compensation
• Insurance
• Leave/Holidays

• Retirement
• Additional Benefits

Please note that all benefit programs may not apply to all organizations within SAIC.

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Compensation

We structure our pay program to be market competitive. As appropriate, we include pay for locality, market conditions, hardship, and hazards. We also:

• Reward your skills and growth
  Our people are rewarded for their contribution to the company and our customers' mission.
• Recognize your contribution
  SAIC has programs for recognizing and rewarding notable contributions to your profession, the company, and your customers.
• Ensure fairness
  SAIC's compensation programs comply with applicable federal and state laws and meet standards dictated by applicable audit entities.

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Insurance

Benefits should provide peace of mind, support you and your family, and help you successfully navigate life events. We took all these elements into account when we developed our health and welfare benefit offerings.

Medical Plans

Comprehensive coverage for you and your family, including domestic partners, through several national preferred provider organization (PPO) and regional health maintenance organization (HMO) plans.

Dental Plans

Choose among different dental plan options, which include a national PPO plan and regional dental health maintenance organization (DHMO) plans.

Vision Plan

Choose to participate in a national Vision Service Plan.

Health Care Flexible Spending Account

Make pre-tax contributions to the account and obtain reimbursement for eligible medical, dental, vision, mental health, and pharmacy expenses.

Dependent Day Care Flexible Spending Account

Make pre-tax contributions to the account and obtain reimbursement for eligible day care expenses.

Company Provided Basic Term Life Insurance

Employee coverage is provided at 2 times your base annual salary up to a $500,000 maximum. Dependent coverage is provided at $2,000 per eligible dependent.

Supplemental Term Life Insurance

Employee coverage is available in amounts equal to ½, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 times your base annual salary up to a $1,500,000 maximum. Spouse or registered domestic partner coverage is available at $10,000, $25,000 or $50,000. Child coverage is available at $5,000 and $10,000.

Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance

Employee coverage is provided equal to your base annual salary up to $250,000. Also, Business Travel Accident Insurance is company provided with coverage up to 3 times your base salary up to $300,000. Several levels of Voluntary (employee paid) AD&D coverage are also available.

Disability Insurance Program

Your Disability Insurance Plan offers various components including: Disability Sick Leave (DSL), Voluntary Short Term Disability Insurance Plan (VSDI), SAIC Private California Disability (CAVPDI), Basic Long Term Disability Insurance (LTD), and Supplemental Long Term Disability Insurance.

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Leave/Holidays

Time off is important to your well-being and essential to your personal pursuits. We offer several types of leave programs that add up to the time you need to live your life outside of your career.

Comprehensive Leave

As an eligible employee, you will be able to accrue comprehensive leave to use as paid time off for vacation, personal business, and short-term illness. You may also borrow up to 40 hours of comprehensive leave in advance of your accrual, with your manager's approval, or elect to cash-out up to 80 hours of accrued leave annually through our comprehensive leave cash payout program.

Holidays

Most SAIC employees are eligible for nine standard holidays during the year. This includes seven fixed holidays as well as two alternative holidays to be used at your discretion within certain limitations. Fixed holidays include:

• New Year's Day
• Martin Luther King Day
• Memorial Day
• Independence Day

• Labor Day
• Thanksgiving Day
• Christmas Day

Please note that holidays may vary based on contractual requirements.

Military Leave

You will have paid time off for annual reserve training, up to two weeks (10 working days) during each U.S. Government fiscal year (October to September). This leave policy also takes into consideration the difference in pay between your SAIC base salary and annual service pay.

Active Duty Reservist

We value our diverse background, and have the highest respect for those providing mission-critical expertise while serving the nation's armed forces. As an active duty reservist, we support your efforts in making the nation, and the world, a safer place to live and offer a balanced schedule to continue that mission. We provide military reservists with paid time off work and/or differential pay in order to meet service and training obligations. Whether called for a national emergency or requested for active duty, SAIC provides flexibility to serve where you are needed the most.

Jury Duty

When you are summoned for and serve jury duty, you will receive your full pay from SAIC.

Bereavement Leave

If you need to attend the funeral of an immediate family member, you will receive up to three days, fully paid, to do so.

Disability Sick Leave

80 hours (10 days) of Disability Sick Leave will be credited on the date of your hire, and on each anniversary date you will be credited with 80 hours (10 days) of available Disability Sick Leave up to a maximum accrual of 1,560 hours (195 days). Your Disability Sick Leave is integrated and paid in conjunction with disability programs for the first 26 weeks (180 days) of disability.

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Retirement

The SAIC Retirement Plan can help make your journey to retirement a little easier. SAIC will match 100 percent of your contributions to the retirement plan up to 6 percent of your eligible compensation. Vesting of SAIC's company matching contributions made over five years of service.

More information, including match eligibility, is available on the SAIC Online Retirement Guide. The SAIC Retirement Plan features:

• Attractive company matching contribution
• Pre-tax and/or Roth 401(k) contributions
• Immediate eligibility for employee contributions and company matching contributions
• Both passive and active investment options from a wide selection of fund choices
• Investment advice services through Vanguard and Financial Engines

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Additional Benefits

When it comes to offering programs that make your life easier — more is better. Consider these additional benefits and extras.

myWellness Program

myWellness is a free health and wellness program for SAIC's U.S. employees. It is designed to help you reach your goals through personally tailored health information and behavior change support. Services include an online, confidential health assessment; personal health coaching; and our comprehensive myWellness site with tools and trackers to help you reach your wellness goals. You can benefit from our myWellness healthy living programs in:

• Nutrition/diet
• Weight loss
• Fitness
• Stress relief
• Healthy aging

• Diabetes management
• Cancer management
• Healthy heart
• Smoking cessation

Health and Wellness

Some of our locations offer full-service wellness centers dedicated to enhancing your health. They feature a variety of cardiovascular and strength training equipment, as well as aerobics and group exercise. In addition, we facilitate discounts for gym memberships, health programs, and services.

Back-up Childcare

Back-up childcare is available at our McLean, Va., and San Diego, Calif., locations. The service is provided by Bright Horizons, and is for children ages 3 months to 13 years. Back-up childcare is in place for you when you have to work and your regular childcare is not available. You may use this benefit up to 20 days per child, per calendar year.

Employee Assistance Plan

We offer a confidential assessment and referral program designed to help you and your family deal with personal issues that may affect health, family life, or job performance. Assistance is available 24 hours per day.

Tuition Reimbursement

We offer tuition assistance to you as an eligible full-time employee through our Tuition Reimbursement Program. It's all part of how we encourage your development through formal education that enables you to improve or maintain job-related skills and enhance your ability to pursue other opportunities within the company. Approval of tuition reimbursement is dependent on business conditions and availability of discretionary funds within your SAIC organization.

Long-term Care

Employees are able to enroll in a group long-term care plan. This plan covers a variety of services needed by people who are unable to perform the activities of daily living. This includes care in a nursing home, an alternative care facility, an adult daycare center and/or care that is delivered in your own home. Benefits can be provided to you or your eligible family members.

SAIC employees are dedicated to delivering quality services and solutions based on innovative applications of science and technology. We believe how we achieve our mission is as important as the mission itself.

Our credo emphasizes a commitment to contribute to the security and well-being of our communities throughout the world, and our belief that high ethical standards are essential to the achievement of our individual and company goals.

Your Work — Challenging and Important

We are smart people solving the world's hardest problems. To do this requires insight and ingenuity. Areas where we help our customers' most complex challenges include:

National Security

Apply your skills and talents to work that not only contributes to the safety of the United States, but to the safety of the world. You may be involved in:

• Enhancing night-vision technologies
• Training troops globally through the Internet
• Achieving seamless, secure multimedia connectivity for ship-and-shore communications
• Aiding anti-terrorism efforts
• Helping military and civilian agencies combat cybercrime and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
• Pursuing other projects of key national and international importance

Health

Solve some of the most significant challenges facing federal, state, and local health entities as well as the commercial health industry. Sample projects include:

• Pioneering research and medical technologies for the prevention and treatment of cancer and HIV/AIDS
• Databases that redefine electronic health record keeping
• Enterprise architectures that advance the secure exchange of biomedical data
• Training systems for first responders
• Next-generation bioinformatics services that enhance global information sharing
• Developing new systems that contribute to improving human health

Critical Infrastructure

Advance society's greater well-being by helping governments and companies plan, manage, and protect their public infrastructures in order to provide people with improved quality of life. You may:

• Enable public health officials to more effectively share critical information
• Advance public key infrastructure (PKI) and other cryptographic solutions for commercial, government, and military customers
• Develop overarching transportation security solutions
• Assist agencies and companies that are essential to homeland security, defense, law enforcement, transportation, electricity generation, water, public health, finance, agriculture, and beyond

Environment

Restore our environment and remediate environmental threats by enabling people, business, and government to better embrace sustainable solutions and infrastructures. Contribute your skills and energy to:

• Studying and planning to protect and restore natural resources
• Helping customers comply with environmental laws and regulations
• Managing and remediating contaminated sites
• Decreasing greenhouse gas emissions
• Conducting environmental studies for marine, coastal, and estuarine environments
• Developing techniques that improve weather, hydrological, and oceanographic forecasting
• Providing environmental decision tools to designers of global ocean and meteorological observing systems
• Innovating new ways to protect our planet's resources

Energy

Be a part of the team that fuels the world's expanding cultural, industrial, educational, governmental, and technological growth. Your dedication to making a real-world difference may translate to:

• Designing and building LEED™ certified and "green" facilities
• Assisting refineries, utility companies, and alternative fuel producers
• Supporting federal agencies that assess global climate change
• Helping government and private customers develop clean fossil and carbon capture technologies
• Helping customers develop and deploy alternative energy sources and technologies
• Using satellite technologies to find oil and gas
• Redefining current approaches toward energy conservation and generation

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Exceptional Work — Exceptional People

Junior Analyst, Chelsea Johnson, Widens Her World View

As part of her early career professional development, Junior Policy Analyst Chelsea Johnson was chosen to attend an SAIC-sponsored event called the Atlantic Youth Forum.

During the week-long forum in Wilton Park in rural West Sussex, England, young people from around the world, ages 18 to 24 years old, listened to and interacted with speakers on topics that covered political, security, cultural, economic, and social issues. Speakers came from various public, private, and nonprofit organizations such as the U.S. Department of State, NATO, Columbia University Law School, the Asian Foundation for Philanthropy, and the British American Security Information Council.

The group also visited and interacted with officials at the Houses of Parliament, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the United States Embassy.

"It was the experience of a lifetime," says Chelsea. "It has affected me both personally and professionally. I have an expanded understanding of the global community and a renewed sense of the work I do for SAIC and my customer."

Chelsea adds, "I was honored to be chosen to attend the forum. There are so few conferences that engage the upcoming generation in issues relating to security, defense, and international relations. The company's support of this forum clearly shows that management is committed to the development of junior employees."

Balancing your work time and personal time is essential. We recognize that, and make it easy for you to find the balance you need through a variety of programs, including:

Commuter Benefits

We have earned the "Best Workplace for Commuters™" designation from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Transportation. This designation recognizes companies that offer outstanding commuter benefits, such as free or low cost bus passes, strong telework resources and programs, and vanpooling.

Telework Benefits

SAIC values its employees, no matter where they are located. With a balanced life being one of the keys to your success, we work with our employees to support and offer flexible work arrangements which could include telework. From home or the office, you can stay connected with your team, manager, and clients with support from managers and our Information Technology Solutions organization.

Employee Networks

We currently have multiple networking programs for employees to share ideas and best practices, as well as mentor each other and network. Our programs are varied and serve many different employee populations. Examples of two of our company-wide programs include our Women's Network and Multicultural Network. Each is a forum for learning and understanding, and they enrich from the collective knowledge, perspective, skill, and experience of all participants through internal and external programs and activities.

Our People — Keeping Balance

When Thomas Kaye wanted to further educate his team while helping them develop essential leadership skills, he decided to get back to nature. Literally. Thomas, a project manager, organized an expedition to Glacier National Park in Montana.

"Because a large majority of the work we do involves photo interpretation, I thought what better way to educate our team than to visit the same ecosystems and talk to the experts that manage these environments?" says Thomas.

To gain a deeper understanding of glacial terrain, the team — a diverse group of geospatial specialists, imagery analysts, and cartographers — hiked, climbed, and trekked over the beautiful terrain so they would be able to better identify and depict it on hard and soft copy maps.

The group also spent hours talking with other glacial, geologic, and park system experts.

The education paid off immediately. "We discovered that with this training we could immediately introduce an even greater level of accuracy to our products," Thomas says.

In the near future, the team will meet to determine other geographical locations that could provide educational value. The discussion will include arid regions, jungle environments, and even nautical locations.

You have interests outside the office. Pursuits that may, in fact, reflect your work in some way, and other interests that are completely different. Perhaps rollerblading is your thing, or perhaps applying your professional skills to community outreach programs sparks your interest. Whatever they may be, your interests and passions help define you.

Senior Analyst Engineer, Bobby Page, Combines Photography and Skydiving In Record-setting Fashion

Outside of work, Bobby Page is a veteran skydiver, with 5,200 jumps under his belt. He is also an experienced aerial photographer. Bobby recently captured on camera a record-setting freefall jump in Virginia — all while plummeting backwards toward the earth at 120 miles per hour.

"If you can imagine yourself lying back in a recliner with your arms spread out to your sides — that's how it looks and feels," explains Bobby. "Except that you're falling backwards at an extremely high speed with nothing to support you but the pillow of air you're riding on."

The jump, held near Richmond, Va., involved 100 skydivers hooked together holding a formation long enough to capture one video frame. After four attempts, the group settled for a formation of 88 skydivers clinging to one another for 14 seconds; just one person over the previous record that stood for 11 years.

"Everyone on the ground said they could hear all of us screaming under our parachutes, knowing that we had set a new record," he said.

Freddy Becomes A Man Of Iron

Alfredo (Freddy) Saucedo, a Senior Systems Engineer, achieved a lifetime goal: to compete in an Ironman race comprised of a 2.4-mile ocean swim, a 112-mile bike ride, and a 26.2-mile run.

After training six to eight hours a day before and after his regular work hours, Freddy finally put himself to the test, competing in the grueling Ford Ironman race in Panama City. He placed 205th out of 233 men in his age group (30-34) and 1,963rd out of 2,276 competitors overall.

Freddy battled hoards of swimmers in the ocean, stomach cramps during the bike race, and severe cramps during the run. But he got through it, using his mantra "Just deal with it" to push through the pain. At the finish line he heard the race announcer say, 'Freddy Saucedo, you are an Ironman.'

"I was so happy, I was literally jumping for joy. In that brief moment I experienced every emotion possible. Then it hit me — I am an Ironman!"

Freddy says he learned a lot about himself by competing in the race. "Through the entire day, the thought of quitting never crossed my mind. I leave this experience knowing that my pain threshold is way higher than I'd ever known. I also know firsthand that through hard work and dedication, anything is possible."

Learn how some of our employees are helping improve the lives of others, participating in charitable events, and impacting their communities.

To view more stories of our employees outside of the office, visit our Corporate Responsibility section.

Awards and Recognition

If you're considering SAIC as a potential employer you should know what the experts are saying about us. Here is a look at how we rank as a top government contractor and a value-added provider to the commercial world.