SAIC Donates $750,000 to Virginia Tech's Hume Center for National Security and Technology
Over the next five years, company will support the Hume Center's Education Program and Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence
MCLEAN, Va., Nov. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) today announced it will donate $750,000 to Virginia Tech's Hume Center for National Security and Technology over the next five years. SAIC's donation will specifically support the Hume Center's Education Program and Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence. As part of SAIC's National Security Education Program (NSEP), this contribution reflects SAIC's commitment to support educational programs that advance and develop the innovative workforce of the 21st century.
The Hume Center leads Virginia Tech's research, education, and outreach programs focused on the communication and computation challenges of the national security community. Education programs provide mentorship, internships, scholarships, and seek to address key challenges in qualified US citizens entering federal service. Advanced research programs focus on signals intelligence, electronic warfare, cybersecurity and analytics, and aerospace systems.
"With this donation, SAIC will have opportunities to help mentor and assist young adults who are entering America's workforce. SAIC supported initiatives will reach students in many ways, like scholarships, research programs, curriculum development, guest speakers, and internships," said SAIC Sector President Doug Wagoner. "These students are the future of national security and we look forward to giving them the support needed to understand emerging national security technology challenges."
"The Hume Center at Virginia Tech is very grateful to have SAIC as our anchor educational partner," said Hume Center Director Dr. Charles Clancy. "Their support will enable us to educate the next generation of national security leaders and technologists, and we look forward to an ongoing partnership between our two organizations that will promote academic achievement for years to come."
About SAIC
SAIC is a leading technology integrator providing full life-cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC's deep domain knowledge and customer relationships enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex government and commercial projects. SAIC's approximately 13,000 employees serve customers in the U.S. federal government, state/local, and global commercial markets, specializing in providing a broad range of higher-end, differentiated technical capabilities. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of about $4 billion. For more information, visit http://www.saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.
About Virginia Tech
Dedicated to its motto, Ut Prosim (That I May Serve), Virginia Tech takes a hands-on, engaging approach to education, preparing scholars to be leaders in their fields and communities. As the commonwealth's most comprehensive university and its leading research institution, Virginia Tech offers 225 undergraduate and graduate degree programs to more than 31,000 students and manages a research portfolio of $494 million. The university fulfills its land-grant mission of transforming knowledge to practice through technological leadership and by fueling economic growth and job creation locally, regionally, and across Virginia. www.vt.edu
Certain statements in this announcement constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements involve risks and uncertainties and a number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements, or industry results to be very different from the results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Some of these factors include, but are not limited to, the risk factors set forth in SAIC's Annual Report or Form 10-K other such filings that SAIC makes with the SEC from time to time. Due to such uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.
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