New Way Now: SAIC meets government missions with data and AI innovation
8Featured in this video: Bob Ritchie, Chief Technology Officer at the SAIC
Executive summary: As a mission integrator, SAIC helps the U.S. government navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. Tapping into the power of the Google Cloud, SAIC provides federal agencies with transformative technologies to accelerate their modernization journeys while maintaining the highest levels of security and compliance. Leveraging Google Cloud’s robust infrastructure and cutting-edge AI tools like Vertex AI and Gemini, SAIC can now expand its portfolio with secure AI solutions that enhance citizen services, improve operational efficiency, and streamline workflows — including 30-50% gains in the speed of analyzing workloads for its government customers.
Challenge: To help accelerate mission integration, SAIC wanted to enable federal agencies to leverage the latest advanced cloud, data, and AI technologies even when accessing information that require the highest levels of security and compliance.
Solution: Combining Google Cloud’s robust infrastructure with its own intellectual property, SAIC created a secure architecture with data security capabilities built into its core. This data-centric architecture ensures SAIC can adhere to strict government standards for confidentiality, integrity, and availability while enabling customers to access the data they need to accomplish their missions. Building on this secure foundation, SAIC is using Vertex AI and Google’s Gemini models to develop AI solutions that assist with back-office tasks, such as accelerating document processing with gen AI-powered translation or computer vision capabilities. SAIC is also piloting experiments with Distributed Cloud to bring next-generation computing even closer to the edge as rapidly and economically as possible.
Results: The ability to integrate AI into its workflows has enabled SAIC to achieve remarkable efficiency improvements, delivering between 30 to 50% gains in workload analysis speeds. Plus, SAIC now has the full breadth and depth of Google Cloud’s ecosystem at its fingertips to pave the way for new innovations that can transform mission outcomes.
Key takeaways and highlights from our interview with Bob Ritchie, Chief Technology Officer at SAIC:
→ “When we talk about the operationalization of AI, we’re focused on how we create and extend this continuous risk management framework into the data plane. What’s been really exciting about partnering with Google Cloud is how we take attribute-based access control and some of the intellectual property at SAIC for unlocking data-centric security and partner it in terms of [leveraging] Gemini as well as solutions like Vertex AI and the Model Garden.”
→ “Google's ability to be truly differentiated in the [translation] space has a lot of really great implications. From a global standpoint, what does a marriage certificate look like from another country? What does a birth certificate look like from another? Taking advantage of computer vision [and] optical character recognition, but then [combining] it with translate capabilities — we can really speed up workflows.”
→ “Google is special in terms of how it can accelerate the ability to leverage the latest and greatest technology at those secure impact levels — whether its federal civilian looking at FedRAMP High workloads or Impact Levels 4 and 5. Making Google Cloud a secure option for the Department of Treasury is a very exciting place where we’re leaning in — whether that’s the IRS or other bureaus, we’re very excited to help them transform and modernize.”
→ “The globally resilient aspect of Google Cloud — that's something that attracts us, both in terms of how we pilot new technology, but then how we go to market for our customers as a mission integrator. The other aspect is the Distributed Cloud and how we help our mission [to] bring cloud computing and next generation capabilities to the edge in as economical and rapid a way as possible.”
Google Cloud products used: Vertex AI, Gemini, Distributed Cloud