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==Separation from the Baby Bells==
In 1996, the company was provisionally acquired by [[Science Applications International Corporation]] (SAIC).<ref name=Beyster07>{{cite book |title=The SAIC Solution: How We Built an $8 Billion Employee-Owned Technology Company |author=Dr. J. Robert Beyster with Peter Economy |year=2007 |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |isbn=978-0470097526 |url=https://archive.org/details/saicsolutionhoww00beys |url-access=registration}}</ref> The sale was closed one year later, following a regulatory approval process that covered every U.S. state individually. Since the divested company no longer had any ownership connection with the [[Regional Bell Operating Company|Regional Bell Operating Companies]] (''Baby Bells''), the name was changed to '''Telcordia Technologies''' in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments/assignment-tm-1932-0381.pdf |title=State of Delaware, Office of the Secretary of State, March 17, 1999 |access-date=February 10, 2012 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402105418/http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments/assignment-tm-1932-0381.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> The headquarters was moved to [[Piscataway, New Jersey|Piscataway]], New Jersey.<ref>Tim McElligott & Jason Meyers, [https://web.archive.org/web/20160624233951/https://business.highbeam.com/137453/article-1G1-107953901/bellcore-30 BELLCORE 3.0], ''Connected Planet'', September 22, 2003 – accessed July 8, 2010</ref>

The former headquarters campus in Morristown and its offices and laboratories in Red Bank, New Jersey, are former Bell Labs locations that were transferred to Telcordia.

Equal stakes in the company were sold in March 2005 to [[Providence Equity Partners]] and [[Warburg Pincus]].<ref>{{cite web |title=SAIC Completes Sale of Telcordia to Providence Equity and Warburg Pincus |url=https://investors.leidos.com/news-and-events/news-releases/press-release-details/2005/SAIC-Completes-Sale-of-Telcordia-to-Providence-Equity-and-Warburg-Pincus/default.aspx |website=Leidos.com |access-date=April 30, 2019 |archive-date=April 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190430075611/https://investors.leidos.com/news-and-events/news-releases/press-release-details/2005/SAIC-Completes-Sale-of-Telcordia-to-Providence-Equity-and-Warburg-Pincus/default.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>