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  • Leidos' Roger Krone Calls on CEOs to Support Fight Against Opioid Abuse - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos’ Roger Krone Calls on CEOs to Support Fight Against Opioid Abuse

    Leidos CEO Roger Krone has called on other chief executives to help combat opioid addiction during the two-day COMMIT!Forum event for corporate responsibility practitioners that kicked off on Wednesday in Maryland, TriplePundit reported Friday. The science and technology company partnered with the Chris Atwood Foundation and other nonprofit organizations in August to help counter opioid abuse. Leidos also […] More

  • Leidos’ Roger Krone Wins CR Magazine's 'Responsible CEO of the Year' Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos’ Roger Krone Wins CR Magazine’s ‘Responsible CEO of the Year’ Award

    Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, has received the “2017 Responsible CEO of the Year” award from the CR Magazine in recognition of leadership and commitment to employee outreach, charitable efforts and other corporate responsibility programs. The magazine presented the award to Krone at its annual COMMIT!Forum held Thursday at MGM National Harbor in […] More

  • Leidos to Sponsor Army-Navy Soccer Cup; Gerry Fasano Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Sponsor Army-Navy Soccer Cup; Gerry Fasano Comments

    Leidos has entered a three-year agreement with Keystone Sports and Entertainment, owner of soccer club The Philadelphia Union, to become a local presenting sponsor of an annual soccer competition between the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy. The Army-Navy Cup VI is scheduled to take place on Oct. 15 at the Talen Energy Stadium in Pennsylvania, Leidos said Monday. Gerry […] More

  • Leidos to Develop Electro-Optical Imaging Tech Prototypes for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Develop Electro-Optical Imaging Tech Prototypes for Air Force

    Leidos has won a potential $47.6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to research and develop integrated electro-optical imaging technology prototypes. The Defense Department said Thursday the project aims to evolve and increase the capacity of emerging high-resolution and hyperspectral imaging; infrared search and track; and sense and avoid technologies. The Air Force Research […] More

  • Leidos Team Deploys New DoD EHR Platform at Naval Hospital Bremerton; Jerry Hogge Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Team Deploys New DoD EHR Platform at Naval Hospital Bremerton; Jerry Hogge Comments

    The team of Leidos, Cerner and Accenture has installed a new electronic health records platform at Naval Hospital Bremerton in Washington as part of the Defense Department‘s efforts to modernize the Military Health System. Leidos said Monday the deployment of the MHS GENESIS platform in Bremerton is part of the initial operational capability rollout of the EHR system […] More

  • Leidos Gets DIA Contract to Develop Data Discovery Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Gets DIA Contract to Develop Data Discovery Platform

    Leidos has received a potential $47 million contract the Defense Intelligence Agency to develop a technology platform for U.S. intelligence agencies to retrieve information from documents and media sources. The company said Tuesday it will use a microservice architecture that employs free and open source software in efforts to build the Document Exploitation Data Discovery Platform platform for DIA’s National Media […] More

  • Roger Krone to Discuss Leidos' Opioid Awareness Campaign at COMMIT!Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Roger Krone to Discuss Leidos’ Opioid Awareness Campaign at COMMIT!Forum

    Leidos CEO Roger Krone will discuss the company’s efforts to help address opioid abuse at the COMMIT!Forum, an event for corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioners scheduled to take place from Oct. 10 to 12 at MGM National Harbor in Maryland. Clay Stamp, an adviser to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, will join Krone in the discussion and […] More

  • Leidos’ Roger Krone to Headline NVTC Titans Series Event - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos’ Roger Krone to Headline NVTC Titans Series Event

    Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, will serve as a keynote speaker at the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s Titans Series event to be held on Oct. 13 at The Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner, Virginia. He will discuss his views on government market trends and the company’s innovation culture in his keynote address, NVTC said […] More

  • Lockheed, Leidos, Northrop Named Top Federal IT Vendors in IDC Report - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Leidos, Northrop Named Top Federal IT Vendors in IDC Report

    A business unit of International Data Corp. has ranked companies with the highest revenues from the sale of information technology products and services to federal government customers in 2017. IDC Government Insights said Wednesday its 2017 Federal IT Rankings are based on federal IT providers’ calendar year revenues for IT hardware, software and services instead of potential earnings […] More

  • Navy Looks to Buy 2nd Leidos-Built Ship Drone as DARPA Hands Over ACTUV Program Control - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Looks to Buy 2nd Leidos-Built Ship Drone as DARPA Hands Over ACTUV Program Control

    The U.S. Navy is expected to buy a second autonomous vessel built by a Leidos-led team as the service prepares to take over control of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, USNI News reported Friday. Timothy Barton, maritime chief engineer at Leidos, said DARPA has begun […] More

  • Leidos Secures Air Force Threat Warning System R&D Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Secures Air Force Threat Warning System R&D Contract

    Leidos has won a potential five-year, $23.5 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop integrated threat warning systems. The Defense Department said Friday Leidos will research, build and demonstrate integrated threat warning platform prototypes as well as advance electro-optical test and developmental risk reduction measures. Work will occur at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio through Sept. […] More

  • Leidos to Help Falkland Islands Gov't Implement Legislation Database System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Help Falkland Islands Gov’t Implement Legislation Database System

    Leidos‘ Australian subsidiary has secured an export deal with the government of Falkland Islands to provide a set of technology products designed to support legislation content drafting and publishing processes. The company said Friday it will deploy the TeraText product suite to make Falkland Island laws available for public access. TeraText technology was originally developed at RMIT […] More