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Despite Mixed Signals, SAIC Seeing No Major Impact To Business From Trump Efficiency Effort

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, March 17th, 2025

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SAIC CEO Toni Townes-Whitley. Photo: SAIC

The Trump administration’s government efficiency initiative has created “mixed signals” related to the federal contractor environment but impacts so far on Science Applications International Corp.’s [SAIC] business has been minimal, company officials said on Monday. Executive orders that have flowed from the White House the past two months and program terminations have had a “nominal” impact, although the company is “prepared should conditions change,” Toni Townes-Whitley, SAIC’s CEO, said during the company’s fourth quarter earnings call. Net income in the…

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