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  • Mike Chagnon: Leidos to Support Air Force Research Lab's Sensor Tech R&D Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Chagnon: Leidos to Support Air Force Research Lab’s Sensor Tech R&D Program

    Leidos has received an initial task order under a potential 87-month, $47 million contract to develop sensing technology as part of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Electro-Optical Combined Hyperspectral Imaging, Infrared Search and Track, and Long Range Imaging program. The EO-CHIL program aims to counter anti-access and area denial threats environments with the use of extended-range […] More

  • Leidos to Continue Navy Signature Silencing Program Support; Mike Chagnon Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Continue Navy Signature Silencing Program Support; Mike Chagnon Comments

    Leidos has received a potential five-year, $42 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Carderock Division to continue support services for a signature silencing program at the U.S. Navy‘s Southeast Alaska Measurement Facility. The company said Tuesday it helps the service branch operate and maintain SEAFAC during acoustic trials as well as repair all facility […] 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

  • Leidos to Support Navy Acoustic Trials, Research Activities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Support Navy Acoustic Trials, Research Activities

    Leidos has received a potential nine-month, $12 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Arderock Division to support acoustic trials and research activities at the U.S. Navy‘s Southeast Alaska Acoustic Measurement Facility. The contract contains a six-month base period plus one three-month option and work will occur at various locations in Alaska, Washington and Mississippi, Leidos said Monday. Mike Chagnon, […] More

  • Leidos to Help Manage DTRA Meteorological Data Servers, Weather Prediction Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Help Manage DTRA Meteorological Data Servers, Weather Prediction Service

    Leidos has secured a potential five-year, $13 million contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to provide operations and maintenance support for DTRA’s Meteorological Data Servers and Numerical Weather Prediction services. DTRA awarded the contract, which contains one base year and four option years, through its Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction procurement vehicle, Leidos said Thursday. The company will offer targeted research-and-development […] More

  • Leidos Receives Gold Edison Award for DARPA Unmanned Vessel Devt Project Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Receives Gold Edison Award for DARPA Unmanned Vessel Devt Project Support

    Leidos has received a gold 2017 Edison Award under the tactical and industrial technology category for its support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program. The company accepted the award during the 30th annual Edison Awards ceremony held Thursday in New York City, Leidos said Friday. Mike Chagnon, president of Leidos’ […] More

  • Leidos to Continue CBRNE Threat Simulation, Modeling Support for DTRA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Continue CBRNE Threat Simulation, Modeling Support for DTRA

    Leidos has been awarded a potential three-year, $17 million task order to help the Defense Threat Reduction Agency model and simulate chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive threats. The company said Thursday it will support web-based joint assessment tools that work to facilitate collaboration among subject matter experts and help the Defense Department and other government agencies respond to CBRNE incidents. The order contains […] More

  • Leidos to Continue Support for Army Simulation, Training Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Continue Support for Army Simulation, Training Systems

    The U.S. Army has awarded Leidos a one-year, $22 million delivery order to provide terrain data and battlefield equipment to support training environments for the military branch’s simulation systems. Leidos said Wednesday it will perform work in Orlando, Florida, under the delivery order that was awarded through the Army’s Synthetic Environment Core Common Virtual Environment Management indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Mike Chagnon, […] More

  • Leidos Starts Unmanned Surface Vessel Operational Test Under DARPA Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Starts Unmanned Surface Vessel Operational Test Under DARPA Program

    Leidos has begun operational testing of an autonomous demonstration vessel the company developed through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel program. The company said Tuesday it commenced at-sea tests on Sea Hunter‘s autonomy system, sensors, mission control hardware and software off the coast of San Diego in California as a follow-on to performance trials conducted […] More

  • Leidos Announces Disruptive Tech Essay Contest Winners - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Announces Disruptive Tech Essay Contest Winners

    Leidos has awarded $10,000 in cash prizes to the winners of an essay writing contest that focused on emerging and disruptive technologies. Sean Cate and Jesse Sloman took first place in the competition, U.S. Navy Commander Timothy McGeehan and retired Commander Douglas Wahl won second place and Navy Lt. (junior grade) Michael Haydell took third place, Leidos said […] More