Brenda Marie Rivers
Nazzic Keene, CEO of Science Applications International Corp., has cited its collaboration with Polaris for the U.S. Army“™s infantry squad vehicle initiative as evidence of the former“™s implementation of new approaches, Inside Defense reported Friday.
Keene, a 2019 Wash100 Award recipient, said during a call with analysts that SAIC has “elected to take a very different posture and position“ for its team-up with Polaris to develop the latter“™s DAGOR ground vehicle as part of the firms“™ joint bid for the ISV effort.
She added that SAIC“™s role is to help engineer and fortify the combat vehicle“™s command, control, communications, computer, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance features, and not to shoulder the vehicle“™s manufacturing aspect.
SAIC first announced its partnership with Polaris in August and noted that it plans to integrate communications, surveillance, cybersecurity and non-kinetic fire features into DAGOR.
