Working on Energy and the Environment for More Than Three Decades
Since its founding in 1969, SAIC has supported a wide range of important energy and environmental missions. Here are a few examples.
1972
1972Helped the Atomic Energy Commission perform first full-scale probabilistic risk assessment of a nuclear power plant.
1975
1975Sampled 770 sites up to 6,000 feet deep as part of a major environmental effort to predict the effects of oil and gas exploration off the Southern California coast.
1978
1978Helped the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) develop effluent guideline regulations and drinking water standards for the nation’s waterways.
1979
1979Responded when the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania was damaged. Industry and government officials brought in SAIC’s mobile radiochemistry laboratory to analyze and monitor radioactive releases.
1987
1987Began evaluating innovative technologies for treating hazardous wastes at Superfund sites for the EPA.
1989
1989Deployed during the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska to assess how the oil would weather and biodegrade in the sub-arctic environment of Prince William Sound. SAIC’s study of oil-water interactions helped estimate the area’s recovery time.
1991
1991Provided long, vertical acoustic sensor arrays to digitally record underwater signals propagated from Heard Island in the southern Antarctic Ocean. From the data on signal travel times, scientists calculated ocean temperatures and predicted the environmental effects of greenhouse gases on a global scale.
1994
1994Helped EPA integrate a variety of legacy systems into one uniform multimedia system that simultaneously manages air, water and hazardous waste data. The EPA presented this system to President Clinton as one of the agency’s key achievements for 1994.
1998
1998Developed technical criteria to track and support the sale of "green" generation products to consumers for the National Association of Utility Regulatory Commissioners.
2004
2004Helped NASA process, display and analyze data gathered by satellites to better understand oceanic factors in global climate change.
2005
2005Helped the U.S. Geological Survey process and deliver nearly 22 terabytes of imagery to aid emergency workers and assess environmental damage from Hurricane Katrina.
2008
2008Managed the program that created the first residential solar energy community in North America.
Inside Science to Solutions Magazine
The following articles are featured in Science to Solutions Magazine, volume 1, number 1.
- Preparing for a Carbon-Constrained Future
- SAIC's SmartSite: Greener, Cheaper, Safer—and Smarter
- Moving Toward a Hydrogen Economy
- SAIC Builds a Green "Techno- logical Marvel" for Boral Bricks
- Working on Energy and the Environment for More Than Three Decades
- Extreme Substitutes: Finding the Moon and Mars on Earth
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