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....
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2013
Mayor Bloomberg CityTime 911 to Be Deposed by Gerald Shargel?
http://mayorbloombergkingofnewyork.blogspot.com/2013/10/mayor-bloomberg-allens-jelly-bean.html
SAIC Screwed NYC Tax Payers Next Spy and Screw Oakland?