SAIC sees opportunity in feds’ ‘offensive cyber’ efforts

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) sees the White House’s increased willingness to embrace “offensive cyber” tactics as good for business.

While it was just this past February that U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter acknowledged for the first time that the U.S. Cyber Command was fighting the Islamic State in cyberspace— disrupting communications and overloading the terrorist group’s networks — Charles Onstott, SAIC’s senior vice president of cloud, cyber and data science, said the company wants to play a role on this new battlefield. McLean-based SAIC will help the Pentagon with this fight on two fronts. The first of those will be planning which, according to Onstott, are “all the functions around helping the [Department of Defense] plan what the operation is trying to accomplish, who they’re trying to accomplish it with — that sort of thing.” For the full article click here

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