Reply #75: Let the 'Massive Parellel Browsing' begin!

[ParanoidPat]

More on SAIC lawsuites....
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/2001/0323/Story5.html

Judge delays decision on engineer's lawsuit

This story was published 3/23/2001 in the Tri-City Herald
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U.S. District Judge Fred Van Sickle heard arguments Thursday from attorneys of the former employee, G. Thomas Clark of Spokane, and of Science Applications International Corp., an engineering firm that does extensive subcontracting work at Hanford.
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Clark joined SAIC's Richland office in 1988. In 1993, SAIC asked him to be its "corporate engineer" -- being the company's official licensed engineer responsible for SAIC complying with Washington's engineering regulations.

His lawsuit alleges that Clark told his superiors that nonengineers were doing work that licensed engineers should be doing, and that no licensed engineers were on staff at SAIC's Olympia and Bothell offices in 1993 as legally required. His lawsuit alleges that SAIC downplayed his concerns, harassed him and pressured him to ignore the state's engineering regulations.

Clark's lawsuit alleges the harassment consisted of threats of being laid off because of a lack of work; being left out of new engineering work, which "effectively dried up (his) billable time;" and being criticized for taking his job too seriously.
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Re: A fourth lawsuit against NSI by a domain name owner to try to keep from losing a domain name
http://www.cctec.com/maillists/nanog/historical/9606/msg00167.html
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There is now a fourth case in which NSI wrote to a domain name owner
saying that their domain name would get cut off in 30 days, and in
which the domain name owner says it wasn't infringing anybody's
trademarks (which is of course no defense under the present NSI
policy), and finds itself suing NSI to avert loss of the domain name.

roadrunner.com
dci.com
ty.com
clue.com
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Let's look at SAIC, the parent company of NSI. As you may know, their
domain name is saic.com. Well, there is some company in Italy with a
trademark registration of "saic". They make meat, I seem to recall. This Italian company could simply spend the cost of a postage stamp and send a copy of their trademark to NSI, and NSI would have to commence a dispute proceeding with its own parent company. If SAIC failed to provide the precious trademark certificate within 30 days, NSI would have to cut off the domain name of its own parent company. Or if SAIC did manage to provide a trademark certificate within the required 30 days, NSI would have to ask SAIC to sign the well-known "indemnification agreement" and perhaps ask it
to post a bond. If SAIC failed to sign the indemnification agreement within 14 days, then NSI would have to cut off the domain name of its own parent company. Of course, SAIC might feel that it was unreasonable to have to sign the "indemnification agreement", in which case SAIC would presumably have to sue NSI for a court order to restrain NSI from cutting off the saic.com domain name.
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NEW CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT SEEKS $1.7 BILLION FROM NETWORK
http://www.aira.org/legal/000314.html

In 1995, Science Applications International Corporation ("SAIC") purchased NSI.

END OF AN ERA SAIC purchase formalizes Bellcore's new charter
BY DAN O'SHEA, Technology Editor and JASON MEYERS, Wireless Networks Editor Telephony, Nov 25, 1996
http://telephonyonline.com/ar/telecom_end_era_saic/
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The proposed sale of Bellcore to Science Applications International Corp. breaks the last formal tie that has kept the Bell companies brethren for the past 12 years, and it officially re-christens Bellcore as an independent software and professional services vendor.
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Likewise, most of SAIC's revenue comes from defense contracts. But as defense spending has dropped, the company has begun to pursue more systems integration outsourcing contracts and has broadened its work in the cable TV and Internet industries.
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Pointing out Bellcore's growth as a software company, he said the agency has an installed base of more than 80 million lines of code worldwide, putting it in the same league with Microsoft and Lucent Technologies.

The combined SAIC/Bellcore braintrust is likely to paint itself as an open market competitive powerhouse. But the fact remains that neither company has a long history of savvy marketing skills.
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The Pentagon's best kept open secret -- July 18, 2003
SanDiegoSource
http://www.sddt.com/Search/SearchResults.cfm?Expression=SAIC
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Beyster's company, Science Applications International Corp. may be the most influential company most people have never heard of. The federal government, its main customer, often doesn't want the public to know what SAIC is doing and, as one of the nation's largest employee-owned companies, it escapes investor scrutiny. Beyster started SAIC in 1969 with a handful of employees, feeling stifled as a researcher in Gulf Oil's nuclear accelerator lab.

SAIC to train new 'non-political' Iraqi army -- July 03, 2003
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San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp. was named on Thursday to the team of defense companies that will train a new Iraqi military. The entire contract, for one-year at $48 million, was awarded by the U.S. Army late last month to a division of bellwether defense company Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE: NOC). SAIC, currently the biggest defense company in San Diego with annual revenues of $5.9 billion and a Fortune 500 company last year, declined to comment on the award...

Local Scene -- SAIC wins $19 million contract -- June 05, 2003
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San Diego-based SAIC won a $19 million contract from the U.S. Navy for engineering support related to upgrades of ultra high frequency military satellite communications systems. The three-year contract includes a pair of one-year options, which if exercised, would bring the contract value to $27 million. Work will be performed in San Diego and is expected to be completed by June 2006.

Local Scene -- SAIC wins $28.8 million contract -- May 27, 2003
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Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego won a $28.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for the design and development of advanced infrared countermeasures and tools to thwart up-graded infrared missiles and sensors. Contract work is to be complete in September 2008. SAIC wins $28.8 million contract

Lots more too come! :evilgrin: