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"Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. Acquires Intelligent Solutions, Inc". PR Newswire. Cision. April 1, 1997. Archived from the original on December 10, 2015 – via The Free Dictionary.

NPOV/Rewrite

I know the body text is taken directly from the webpage, but due to that it sounds like an advertisement. Definitely not consistent with NPOV.

The content that mentions Lockheed Martin dealings is incorrect. The 2003 sale of ACS' federal business to Lockheed Martin and Lockheed Martin's contemporaneous sale to ACS of its commercial business is in no way related to the benefits processing deal. This contract, which renewed in 2006, was assumed by ACS in its May 2005 purchase of Mellon's HR business.

There should be some mention of ACS's grave security flaws and failures. http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4594402 Cytocon 17:22, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cytocon,

These are not "grave issues." The VA debacle was a grave issue.68.152.95.130 18:35, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Number of employees contradiction

I changed the figure in the body of the article and the box to 58,000, because they previously contradicted each other (at 62,000 and 55,000 respectively). The figure of 58,000 is from their own About ACS page, which is not proper source material, but I used it to remove the contradiction. If someone has a reliable source for either of the other figures, please add it. Leebo86 20:00, 4 January 2007 (UTC

This article is entirely too short for such a large company. With this many employees, although many would be reluctant to post for fear of reprisal, at least some should post some more. Their markets, critical players, ties with other institutions, etc. I think it's very important for more to be known about this company. I myself am one of those who fear reprisal. - Joe Kemp

ACS bought by Xerox

Hey, I received an email from ACS CEO, Lynn Blodget (company-wide email) saying that ACS got bought by Xerox. I SUCK at writing, think someone could write something better than "We got bought"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by D14852001 (talk • contribs)

There's not much else to say besides what's in the article now, is there? Powers ^T 15:42, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies; apparently the information had been removed when you looked. I have restored the article to the last known good version. Powers ^T 15:45, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Lines of Businesses

I have removed this unreferenced section which has been copied and pasted from the company website by an employee. Please rewrite with references if you wish to re-add the content. Teapotgeorge^Talk 16:59, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Student Loans

They now are the sole contractor in the administering of all student Direct Loans that predate July 1, 2010. Four other private for-profit companies, mostly loan companies, administer newer DLs. The student loan reform, while it was promoted by people as being a major change, puts all federal student loans under the control of private companies like this one. While they no longer keep portions of interest and fees, there are no truly "direct" loans anymore without third-party servicer involvement. People do not realize that the legislation was probably co-written by this industry, and while it reduces the per-account profits, massively increases the number of accounts these companies have and eliminates their competitors outside of this group of five. -Reticuli 64.93.132.79 (talk) 22:00, 20 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Fate of the former headquarters building

The company has been back in the headlines due to the failed implosion of the old headquarters building. This probably needs to be addressed. 2600:1004:B168:AC72:F44C:A0F:D8C8:8A44 (talk) 11:43, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It took the deconstruction company a few more days than initially expected to take down a solid concrete tower. I'm not entirely sure this information is in the scope of Wikipedia / not just a news story. What do you think? --Tec Tom (talk) 18:29, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Source

I'm trying to add some sources to the history and found and link to referenceforbusiness . com /history2/30/Affiliated-Computer-Services-Inc.html, which seems to be a good compilation of information. When I try to add it to the text it gets blocked. Anyone know why this isn't accepted? Thanks --Tec Tom (talk) 15:27, 11 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever the reason, I now added the book as source for the whole history (which is also cited in the above mentioned source). --Tec Tom (talk) 18:22, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]