SAIC buys Oklahoma engineering company

Science Applications International Corp. has completed the acquisition of Benham Investment Holdings LLC, an engineering and life-cycle technology firm, and its subsidiaries.

The companies did not disclose the terms of the acquisition.

Benham of Oklahoma City, Okla., offers consulting and engineering services, including expertise in energy management, alternative fuels, software development and integration and advanced visualization and communication systems.

Lance Benham, who was company president, will remain as senior vice president and will be in charge of strategic business development and shepherding the integration of his company with SAIC.

Benham has about 800 employees in Oklahoma City, Norman and Tulsa, Okla.; St. Louis; St. Paul, Minn.; and Detroit.

SAIC of San Diego ranks No. 5 on Washington Technology's 2007 Top 100 list of the largest federal government prime contractors.