Former SAIC Cybersecurity Employee Advances Retaliation Claim

A former cybersecurity professional with Science Applications International Corp. can continue to assert that the defense contractor violated the False Claims Act by firing him for calling attention to alleged security lapses, a federal district court said.

Marselles Jefferson, who worked for SAIC at a US base in Germany, adequately alleged that SAIC knew when it fired him that he thought the company had billed the government under a US Air Force contract while failing to satisfy cybersecurity requirements, Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said in a Tuesday opinion.

The court ...