Intelligence Solutions
SAIC combines decades of intelligence and national security experience with fresh ideas to help tackle some of the toughest challenges facing the intelligence community, such as sharing critical information.
New Directions in Information Sharing
In response to an Executive Order from the president, our systems integration experts helped prepare a plan for an information-sharing environment to strengthen the intelligence community's ability to find, track and stop terrorists. The efforts of our employees garnered letters of appreciation from President Bush.
Information Processing and Analysis
We also strengthened our own capabilities in this critical area with the acquisition of Object Sciences Corporation. OSC provides key technical support to the Information Dominance Center, the premier intelligence test bed for new technologies and concepts developed for the U.S. Army's Intelligence and Security Command. The Information Dominance Center has helped reshape how intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) information is processed and analyzed, and has provided critical assistance to the warfighter in the overall global war on terrorism.
SAIC also offers the Pathfinder data mining and visualization tool suite. Pathfinder helps analysts quickly extract and interpret intelligence data.
Focused Intelligence Collection
In the heat of battle, focused intelligence collection is also needed - and needed quickly. Our Web-based PRISM application allows theater users, in various functional roles and at different echelons, to synchronize ISR requirements and support with current military operations and priorities. Originally prototyped and fielded for the U.S. European Command, PRISM is now being used in other theaters such as Iraq.
Central Management, Regional Delivery
To improve information sharing and IT support to regional combatant commands, services and agencies, SAIC is playing a key role in transforming the intelligence IT infrastructure. We are helping transform the DoD Intelligence Information System architecture to a centrally managed and regionally delivered IT infrastructure. Regional service centers will provide common mission support capabilities to intelligence users at all levels of command. The benefits of this approach include better access to emerging technologies and tested business practices, and better use of limited resources.
Better Access to Geospatial Intelligence
SAIC staff were part of a team that received a prestigious honor: a Meritorious Unit Citation from the Intelligence Community. They were among key personnel recognized for "extraordinary effort and exceptional teamwork" on an important National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency project. Their work made Predator, U-2, and Global Hawk imagery available to a wide range of defense and intelligence users.
Special recognition also came from another source last year - the Vipers attack helicopter battalion in Iraq. The digitized raster maps of Baghdad used for Viper missions had a potentially lethal omission. They didn't show power lines. A special high-resolution product created by our geospatial imagery experts - a digital overlay map of power lines - "greatly enhanced the combat effectiveness of our Attack Battalion," according to the Viper Tactical Operations Officer.
Not content to rest on its laurels, SAIC expanded its geospatial offerings by acquiring IMAPS, a leading developer of geospatial technologies and navigational software products.
New Synergies for Operational Intelligence
A new tool on the front line in Iraq - biometrics - has helped military personnel identify builders of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), potentially saving the lives of civilians and soldiers alike. SAIC played a key role in developing the portable Biometric Automated Toolset (BAT), used by soldiers on patrol and base security personnel to access fingerprint, iris and facial scans. SAIC provided operational support for the system, which is now deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Our efforts also helped the U.S. Coast Guard target and track multiple networks of suspected terrorists and smugglers. For the Coast Guard Intelligence Coordination Center, an SAIC team developed a new "holistic" approach to analyzing disparate intelligence information. Those efforts provided actionable intelligence that led to a number of arrests and deportations.
