SAIC hires new PR chief

SAIC announced today it has hired Kara Gerhardt Ross to serve as the company's chief public relations executive.

Ross joins the company from UPS, where she was president of international, executive and policy communications.

On the government side, Ross has also worked at the White House as a spokesperson for the president, at the Transportation Department as well as the General Services Administration, where she handled media relations and crisis communication in the aftermath of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.