Seeking Alpha Seeking Alpha Portfolio App for iPad  At SAIC's
(SAI) annual meeting of shareholders, one attendee raised the
issue of the company being in a similar state to Rockwell --
offering a diverse product line that was hard to identify, and
ultimately deciding to break itself up and sell its components
-- and whether this figured into management's plans. A. Thomas
Young, a member of the board, replied that "there's no question
that the definition of the strategic direction for the future is
important. And that's our responsibility, and that we are
focusing on that."  That meeting was held on June 15 and less
then three months later, along with the announcement of the
company's results on Aug. 30, it was revealed that SAIC would
break itself into two separate companies and sell off a small
portion. The major reason provided for this move was to remove
organizational conflicts of interest (OCI) and also allow the
two new public traded companies "be more differentiated and more
competitive in their own sp