Leidos workspace

The Reston-based defense prime beat out CACI and Booz Allen for a five-year deal to modernize identity and access management across U.S. Air Force commands.

Quarterly revenue rose 7.8% year-over-year on strength in defense and intelligence. CEO Tom Bell highlighted record contract backlog of $42 billion.

The Joint All-Domain Command and Control program continues to lean on legacy primes; the award is the largest single task order Leidos has captured under the contract this fiscal year.

The Government Accountability Office sided with Booz Allen on procedural grounds, sending the $440M Veterans Affairs electronic health record contract back for re-evaluation.

The 28,000-square-foot facility will house ~120 ML engineers focused on edge inference for defense applications. Recruitment is already underway.

The blanket purchase agreement consolidates incident response, hunt-forward operations, and supply-chain risk work that had been spread across four smaller contracts.

The $215M divestiture of Dynetics Aviation Training trims a non-core business as Leidos sharpens focus on AI, cyber, and digital modernization.

A new TIGTA report flags missed delivery dates on the Customer Account Data Engine 2 program, with Leidos and Accenture each facing fee-at-risk reductions.

The deal expands Leidos Health into commercial healthcare IT, an area the company has long targeted for diversification away from VA dependence.

In the annual Bloomberg Government BGOV200 ranking, Booz Allen moved to #2 by federal contract obligations; Leidos held #3.

The pilot covers six gateway airports and runs for 30 months. Civil-liberties groups have already filed FOIA requests for the technical approach.

An internal memo obtained by FedScoop shows engineering staff pushing back on a four-day-in-office requirement, citing 18-month-old hiring commitments to remote work.

A long-form profile examines the surprising partnership between a legacy services prime and a Silicon Valley defense upstart on the Pentagon's flagship networking program.

The Navy will down-select to two primes by Q3. Leidos, GDIT, and ManTech all submitted; SAIC was eliminated at the past-performance gate.

A Bloomberg report citing internal Pentagon analysis suggests the prime's share of JADC2 sensor fusion is running 18% over budget, sending shares lower in early trading.

The London office is the company's second European footprint and signals a renewed push into UK Ministry of Defence opportunities.

Sources say company government-affairs staff have been pressing the House Oversight Committee to include cloud-authorization reciprocity language in the upcoming federal IT reform package.

A teaming arrangement around large-model fine-tuning for classified workloads is reportedly in early discussions, though both companies declined to confirm.

In an investor-day presentation, the company's CFO laid out a three-year plan emphasizing AI-modernization wins and selective M&A in the health portfolio.

The Naval Computer and Telecommunications Master Repair award is now subject to two protests; the Navy expects to issue a corrective action statement within 14 days.

Industry veteran Jenna Park, formerly of Booz Allen, takes over the company's intelligence community business, reporting to Group President Roy Stevens.

Industry analysts warn that delays in FY27 appropriations could push Leidos, Booz Allen, and SAIC to revise revenue guidance, with award timing increasingly compressed.

The post-quantum cryptography migration pilot for classified-network applications has achieved interim KPIs ahead of schedule.

The competition is shaping up as a referendum on each company's approach to GenAI in federal contact-center work.

The five-year contract supports the agency's Worldview platform and adds AI-driven anomaly detection capabilities.