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The Largest Government Contractor You've Never Heard Of

Thursday, February 15, 2007

In “Washington's $8 Billion Shadow”, Pulitzer Prize-winning Vanity Fair contributing editors Don Barlett and Jim Steele take us behind the scenes of SAIC (the Science Applications International Corporation), which has been awarded more individual government contracts than any other private company in America. They explain that although you’ve probably never heard of SAIC, it’s bigger than the departments of Labor, Energy, and Housing and Urban Development combined, and has a huge impact on all our lives.


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