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SAIC To Consolidate Business Groups

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, September 21st, 2020

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SAIC To Consolidate Business Groups

Jim Scanlon, executive vice president of SAIC's Defense Systems Group, will retire in Jan. 2021. Photo: SAIC

Science Applications International Corp. [SAIC] plans to realign its operating group structure, consolidating its defense and civilian sectors while renaming its National Security Group, the company said last week. SAIC also said that Jim Scanlon, executive vice president of the Defense Systems Group, will retire at the end of the company’s fiscal year 2021 next January. “For more than three decades, Jim has been an important leader in shaping the SAIC that we all know today,” Nazzic Keene, SAIC’s CEO,…

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