Admiral Inman Announces Retirement from SAIC Board of Directors

October 9, 2003
(SAN DIEGO and MCLEAN, VA) – SAIC today announced that long-time director, Bobby R. Inman, U.S. admiral, ret. has retired from the company's Board of Directors, effective October 1, 2003.

Adm. Inman joined SAIC's Board of Directors in 1982, after his retirement from the U.S. Navy. During his tenure with the company as a director, Adm. Inman has provided counsel to SAIC on a wide variety of strategic planning issues.

“Bobby has provided invaluable expertise and unswerving dedication to the employee owners of SAIC for the past 21 years,” said J. Robert Beyster, SAIC chairman and chief executive officer. “The company and the nation owe him a debt of gratitude for all of the contributions he's made throughout his distinguished military and civilian careers. He definitely will be missed and on behalf of all of our employees, I'd like to personally thank him for the service he's provided to our company.”

“Having reached the mandatory retirement age of 72 years for outside directors, I have retired from the Board of Directors,” said Adm. Inman. “I have enormously enjoyed working with the employee owners of SAIC over the past 21 years.”

SAIC is the largest em 5A8 ployee-owned research and engineering company in the United States, providing information technology, systems integration and eSolutions to commercial and government customers. From science to solutions, SAIC engineers and scientists work to solve complex technical problems in national and homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, health care and logistics. More information about SAIC can be found at www.saic.com.

Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements or industry results to be very different from the results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Some of these factors include, but are not limited to, the risk factors set forth in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended January 31, 2003, and such other filings that the Company makes with the SEC from time to time. Due to such uncertainties and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof.

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