Omaha World Herald wrote:
SAIC's addition to add space, jobs
Science Applications International Corp. will double the space it occupies as an anchor tenant in Omaha's Scott Technology Center when an addition now being built opens March 1.
Within six months to a year of moving into the new space, SAIC expects to double the 60 to 75 people it now has working at the incubator and technology transfer center, Alfred Buckles, a vice president in charge of Omaha operations, said Wednesday. SAIC employed 20 when it moved into the center at 6825 Pine St., two years ago.
SAIC will keep the 5,000 square feet it has in the Scott Center's Phase I and will take another 5,000 in the new building, Buckles said. The lease it will sign will allow it to take more space in the Phase II addition as necessary.
"Our vision is to double ourselves every year," Buckles said, referring to the company-wide goal of the San Diego-based, employee-owned firm. It has a work force of 44,000 worldwide and annual revenue of $6.7 billion.
SAIC's biggest job in Omaha is information technology work for Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base near Bellevue. It develops concepts for StratCom operations and does systems integration work.
The company has between 100 and 150 employees in Bellevue and at Offutt, in addition to the people at the Scott Center on the old Ak-Sar-Ben property southeast of 72nd and Pacific Streets.
The company, based in San Diego, started working at Offutt for the Strategic Air Command, Stratcom's predecessor, in 1965.
The company's Scott Center staff also does IT work for commercial firms, such as ensuring database integrity for Gallup Organization of Omaha, and homeland security jobs for state and local government agencies.
One of its research projects is a biomedical study done in cooperation with the following groups: University of Nebraska Medical Center; University of Nebraska's Peter Kiewit Institute of Information Science, Technology and Engineering, also based at the Ak-Sar-Ben campus; Creighton University; and about 30 physicians.
It developed systems for long-range transmission of medical imaging and studies converting medical records to an electronic format.
Kenneth Moreano, director of the Scott Center, said other firms will be under contract to lease space in the new addition by the time it opens in March.