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.

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

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.

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

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.

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