Leidos aka Saic means to Leer in Spanish has Oakland CA asking questions aka no comment from Leidos on city's surveillance project becoming City Time NSA like.
akland entered into a a contract with the Science Applications International Corporation, or SAIC, to build its system. (In late September, that company was renamed Leidos Holdings.)
"The company’s contract to help modernize the New York City payroll system, using new technology like biometric readers, resulted in reports of kickbacks. Last year, the company paid the city $500 million to avoid a federal prosecution. The amount was believed to be the largest ever paid to settle accusations of government contract fraud. A representative of SAIC, now Leidos, declined to comment."
We can be happy for small things SAIC is banned from NY State and City contracts so they won't be working on spying and drones....read on....
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/10/14/technology/privacy-fears-as-surveillance-grows-in-cities.html?client=ms-rim&hl=en&channel=browser&tbm=nws&oq=leidos%20criticism&gs_l=mobile-heirloom-serp.12...46519.58523.0.72755.20.17.0.3.3.0.444.5256.2-1j10j3.14.0....0...1c.1.24.mobile-heirloom-serp..12.8.2236.uuwz9nWF53s&
http://mayorbloombergkingofnewyork.blogspot.com/2011/12/saic-connected-to-wrong-air-strike_31.html
SAIC may have robbed us of mega bucks in my opinion close to a billion dollars and it began in my opinion pretty much from the get go....pre Denault...
but an SAIC employee involved in "accidentally killing innocent Afganistan civilians....
"Reporting from Washington — After a U.S. airstrike mistakenly killed at least 15 Afghans in 2010, the Army officer investigating the accident was surprised to discover that an American civilian had played a central role: analyzing video feeds from a Predator drone keeping watch from above.
The contractor had overseen other analysts at Air Force Special Operations Command at Hurlburt Field in Florida as the drone tracked suspected insurgents near a small unit of U.S. soldiers in rugged hills of central Afghanistan. Based partly on her analysis, an Army captain ordered an airstrike on a convoy that turned out to be carrying innocent men, women and children."
"What company do you work for?" Maj. Gen. Timothy McHale demanded of the contractor after he learned that she was not in the military, according to a transcript obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
"SAIC," she answered. Her employer, SAIC Inc., is a publicly traded Virginia-based corporation with a multiyear $49-million contract to help the Air Force analyze drone video and other intelligence from Afghanistan.
America's growing drone operations rely on hundreds of civilian contractors, including some — such as the SAIC employee — who work in the so-called kill chain before Hellfire missiles are launched, according to current and former military officers, company employees and internal government documents.
