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Andy Strampach serves as vice president of business development for the global services group at Leidos, where he oversees the organization’s business pursuits, growth strategy and capture activities in the U.S. defense and intelligence markets. He joined the company in May 2015 after more than three years of work as a division vice president of BD and strategy at Parsons‘ […] More
A Leidos-integrated and Xsight Systems-developed automated runway management system has been deployed at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to detect foreign objects and debris at the airport’s new center runway. Leidos said Thursday the Port of Seattle selected RunWize to help bolster safety and efficiency in the runway’s daily operations through continuous video monitoring. The system, which includes FODetect and the […] More
James Reagan, chief financial officer at Leidos, has said the Reston, Virginia-based company plans to submit a bid for a contract to provide logistics support to the U.S. Special Operations Command, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday. James Bach writes the potential contract could be part of what an analyst at Credit Suisse’s recent Industrials Conference described […] More
John Thomas, formerly executive vice president and chief strategy officer at Leidos, has joined SOS International’s board of advisers. He most recently oversaw Leidos’ corporate strategy, communications, mergers and acquisitions and government and legislative affairs, SOS International said Monday. Julian Setian, president and CEO of SOS International, said Thomas’ U.S. intelligence community background “will help […] More
Thales has received a subcontract from Leidos to help validate NATO’s ballistic missile defense system. Thales will design and test interfaces with NATO’s sensors and weapons, provide integration services and evaluate the BMD system on the integrated test bed under the subcontract, Thales said Friday. The work is part of a potential $77 million contract […] More
Leidos and the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering’s Information Sciences Institute have partnered for two research projects that seek to advance high-performance computing and network analysis. Leidos said Monday it will fund both projects through a five-year, $500,000 grant under the Strategic University Alliances Program. The program seeks to support science, technology, engineering and math education […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has received a Raytheon-built sonar system for integration with the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program. Raytheon said Wednesday it handed the Modular Scalable Sonar System to DARPA as part of a subcontract it won from Leidos. MS3 is an open architecture-based platform designed to perform torpedo warning, search-and-tracking and small-object […] More
Leidos has received an award from Victory Media for the company’s program to hire veterans, soldiers that end their service and military spouses. Victory Media presented the 2016 Military Friendly Employer and Top 100 Employer recognition to Leidos for its Operation MVP military veteran outreach program, Leidos said Wednesday. “We recognize the immense character, work ethic […] More
Michael Niggel and his partners started Advanced Concepts and Technologies International — or ACT I — in 1998 with an initial division dedicated to foreign military sales. The Arlington, Virginia-based government services contractor now has five divisions that provide acquisition and program management support services to U.S and international defense agencies for programs such as the F-35 Joint […] More
Leidos has partnered with Federated Wireless to build a technology for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to facilitate expansion of commercial wireless-radar spectrum sharing. DARPA awarded Leidos a potential one-year, $7.9 million contract under phase two of the agency’s Shared Spectrum Access for Radar and Communications program. Federated Wireless said Tuesday it aims to demonstrate the company’s Spectrum Access Service platform in conjunction […] More
Robert Zitz, senior vice president and chief systems architect at Leidos, is scheduled to speak today as one of the panelists in an Eisenhower Institute-hosted discussion on national security threats to energy infrastructures. Zitz’s speech at the Domestic and International Energy Policy panel discussion will focus on protection strategies and cyber and physical risks facing critical infrastructures, […] More
The U.S. Navy has awarded Leidos a potential five-year, $26 million contract to design a medical and simulation research model for the Navy’s scientific data analysis efforts. Leidos said Thursday it will aid in the Naval Health Research Center’s work to collect identify, analyze and report data. The company will perform work in San Diego under the follow-on contract for a […] More
