Space and defense firm’s impact on Huntsville is in billions of dollars

Greg Fortier, senior vice president of the Army Business Group at SAIC, couldn’t put a price tag on the company’s economic impact on Huntsville in five decades of work with Redstone Arsenal.

But as the Rocket City’s third largest employer with more than 2,600 workers, SAIC’s impact is in the billions of dollars, Fortier estimates.