Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) provides technical, engineering and enterprise information technology (IT) services primarily to the U.S. government.
The company provides services for large, complex projects with a targeted emphasis on higher-end, differentiated technology services and solutions that accelerate and transform secure and resilient digital environments through systems design, development, modernization, integration, and sustainment to drive enterprise and mis...
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) provides technical, engineering and enterprise information technology (IT) services primarily to the U.S. government.
The company provides services for large, complex projects with a targeted emphasis on higher-end, differentiated technology services and solutions that accelerate and transform secure and resilient digital environments through systems design, development, modernization, integration, and sustainment to drive enterprise and mission outcomes. The company’s end-to-end enterprise IT offerings span the entire spectrum of its customers' IT infrastructure.
The company’s business has a long and successful history of over 50 years serving all military forces (Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, and Space Force) and agencies of the Department of Defense (DoD), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), U.S. Department of State, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security and members of the Intelligence Community. The company serves its customers through approximately 1,700 active contracts and task orders.
Effective February 3, 2024, the first day of fiscal 2025, the company completed a business reorganization which replaced its previous two operating sectors with five customer facing business groups supported by the enterprise organizations, including the Innovation Factory.
Segments
The company’s two reportable segments are the Defense and Intelligence segment and the Civilian segment.
The Defense and Intelligence segment provides a diverse portfolio of national security solutions to the DoD and Intelligence Community of the United States Government.
The Civilian segment provides solutions to the civilian markets, encompassing federal, state, and local governments, in order to deliver services for citizen well-being, border security, and protecting lives. This includes integrating solutions into a spectrum of public service missions that impact travel, trade, health and the economy.
The offerings of both reportable segments entail the integration of emerging technologies into mission critical operations that modernize and enable national imperatives, including IT modernization, digital engineering, artificial intelligence (AI), mission systems support and advisory, training and simulation, and ground vehicles support. These services include end-to-end solutions spanning the design, development, integration, deployment, management and operations, sustainment and security of the customers’ entire IT infrastructure.
The company’s long-standing customer relationships have enabled it to achieve an in-depth understanding of its customers’ missions and provides differentiated service offerings to meet its customers’ most complex requirements. Through its offerings, the company provides end-to-end services spanning the design, development, integration, deployment, management and operations, sustainment and security of its customers’ entire IT infrastructure. The company’s offerings include:
IT Modernization: The company helps defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies reimagine the way they accomplish their objectives through digital transformation by providing next-generation cloud computing, cybersecurity, and software capabilities. The company modernizes enterprise IT environments for government customers and then operate and maintain them via their preferred service delivery methods.
Digital Engineering: The company’s digital engineering integrates industry-leading tools and processes for design; engineering; analytics; modeling, simulation and visualization; and manufacturing execution, all within a secure and collaborative ecosystem to ensure faster systems outcomes for its customers.
Artificial Intelligence (AI): The company deploys and integrates AI solutions for customers, including AI solutions that assist with the design, deployment, and management of AI applications and allow customers to work with their complex and sensitive data to power the most demanding analytics, data science, and AI use cases.
Weapon Systems Support: The company designs, builds, modifies, integrates, and sustains weapon systems across all branches of the U.S. military, ensuring mission readiness on land, at sea, and in the air.
Training and Simulation: The company invested in accelerating the adoption and application of immersive technologies that solve pressing human performance and operational efficiency challenges.
Ground Vehicles Support: The company integrates, modifies, upgrades, and sustains ground vehicles for its nation's armed forces, leveraging commercial products and in-house solutions to address some of the toughest challenges facing warfighters. The company’s experts in cybersecurity, enhanced surveillance, secure communications, mobility, and more apply core, as well as emerging capabilities to address evolving mission needs.
The company’s Innovation Factory supports the operating segments by developing enterprise-class solutions which are delivered to its customers as stand-alone solutions or integrated with and aligned to the company’s product offerings through the operations of the business to meet complex customer needs and accelerate digital transformation. The Innovation Factory includes designated teams focused on AI, application development, network services, platforms and cloud, engineering, and cybersecurity. It uses a highly automated, cloud-hosted tool set to rapidly build, test and deploy solutions and works with customers to enhance solutions going forward.
SAIC integrates emerging technology securely and in real-time into mission critical operations that modernize and enable national imperatives:
Undersea Dominance: The company delivers systems to ensure the U.S. maintains proactive control over every threat in the undersea domain.
Border of the Future: The supports integrated systems across all ports of entry (i.e., land, sea, air) for all U.S. travel, trade, contraband detection, and immigration functions.
Citizen Experience: The company drives commercial-quality U.S. government service delivery through scalable solutions that innovate mission outcomes of legacy systems.
All Domain Warfighting: The develops integrated conflict deterrence, combat preparedness, and data connectivity capabilities for the U.S. Military and Intelligence Community.
Next Generation Space: The integrate advanced solutions to enable the rapid deployment of future space missions.
Key Customers
In fiscal 2025, 98% of its total revenues were attributable to prime contracts with the U.S. government or to subcontracts with other contractors engaged in work for the U.S. government.
In fiscal 2025 approximately 52% of the company’s total revenues were attributable to the ‘Department of Defense’, while 46% were attributable to ‘Intelligence and other federal government agencies and the remainder attributable to ‘Commercial, state and local governments and international’ customers.
Research and Development
The company-funded independent research and development (IR&D) expense included in selling, general and administrative expenses (SG&A) and was $12 million for the year ended 2025.
Competition
The company’s principal competitors include the following:
The engineering and technical services divisions of large defense contractors that provide IT services in addition to other hardware systems and products, which include companies, such as General Dynamics Corporation, Northrop Grumman Corporation, and RTX Corporation;
contractors focused principally on technical and IT services, such as Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., CACI International, Inc., Leidos Holdings, Inc., ManTech International Corporation, and Serco Group plc; and
diversified commercial providers that also provide U.S. government IT services, such as Accenture plc and International Business Machines Corporation.
Regulation
As a government contractor, the company operates in a heavily regulated environment and are subject to various laws, regulations, and policies at the federal, state, and local levels. The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) is the primary regulation governing the procurement process for U.S. government contracts. For contracts with the DoD, the company is subject to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) which imposes additional requirements on defense contractors, including specific cybersecurity measures, contractor security clearances, and compliance with the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) and Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) audit and oversight processes.
The company’s business and operations are subject to both U.S. and non-U.S. laws, regulations, and procurement policies and practices, including regulations relating to lobbying, conflicts of interest, import-export controls, foreign investment, tariffs, taxation, exchange controls, repatriation of earnings, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anti-corruption laws.
History
The company was founded in 1969. It was incorporated in 2013. The company was formerly known as SAIC Gemini, Inc. and changed its name to Science Applications International Corporation in 2013.