Boeing Announces SAIC to Purchase Boeing Information Services.VIENNA Vienna, city and province, Austria Vienna (vēĕn`ə), Ger. Wien, city and province (1991 pop. 1,539,848), 160 sq mi (414 sq km), capital and largest city of Austria and administrative seat of Lower Austria, NE Austria, on , Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 1999-- The Boeing (language) BOEING - An early system on the IBM 1130. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959]. Company today announced it will sell Boeing Information Services See Information Systems. (Boeing IS) to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC SAIC - http://saic.com. ). Boeing IS, a subsidiary which provides the federal government with information and systems integration services, employs approximately 1,200 people throughout the U.S. and overseas. It is headquartered in Vienna, Va. The transaction is a stock sale in which SAIC will purchase all of the stock of the corporation known as Boeing Information Services which includes its contracts, workforce, real estate and facilities. The acquisition is expected to close in approximately one month at which time Boeing IS will become a sector of SAIC managed by its current president, William J. Delany. "This sale supports the Boeing strategic vision to focus company resources on core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
v. a·ligned, a·lign·ing, a·ligns v.tr. 1. To arrange in a line or so as to be parallel: align the tops of a row of pictures; aligned the car with the curb. Boeing Information Services with a company in its industry will benefit Boeing Information Services customers and employees as well as its new owner. This new relationship will allow Boeing Information Services to provide valuable career growth opportunities for its highly skilled workforce," said Boeing Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Phil Condit. Boeing is the world's largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft, and serves as NASA's largest contractor. The company employs about 214,000 people worldwide. Its headquarters is located in Seattle, Wash. |
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