Leidos

Leidos Holdings, Inc.
legal form	Corporation
ISIN	US5253271028
founding	February 1969
Seat	Reston (Virginia)
management	Roger Krone
Number of employees	22,000 (full and part time on January 31, 2014)
sales	$ 5.7 billion
Branch	Software, technology
Website	www.leidos.com
	As of January 31, 2014

Leidos Holdings , formerly known as Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and not to be confused with the company that has been operating under this name since September 27, 2013, is an American software manufacturer that provides information security , system integration and data analysis solutions in the sells three national security , health, and industrial applications markets. Among the customers of Leidos include both American and non-American police departments , intelligence services , Fusion Center , health authorities or the military. According to the company's own information, around 78% of the revenue in the 2013/14 financial year was generated by US authorities, primarily in the intelligence sector.

Business areas

health

In the health segment, Leidos works for three principal customer groups

Commercial solutions: Leidos offers solutions for electronic health records for commercial hospitals . Management consulting is also offered in this context.
US state health authorities: It offers solutions for the electronic health record for the health authorities as well as the files for the active and inactive American military.
Life sciences: With approx. 1,800 employees, government and non-government research institutes are provided with software solutions and services in this division. Contract work on genetic research , protein research , biomedical data processing, pharmaceutical development and clinical test management are offered in the company's own laboratory .

Technical applications

Technical solutions relate to civil problems where the restrictions and requirements for secrecy are not similar to those in the intelligence or health sector.

Solutions for process industries: Services for large companies, such as oil refineries and others.
Security solutions: Reading systems for license plates of trucks and cars, explosives detectors for airports and radiation detectors for border crossings and ports.
Power grid solutions: Controls for the power grid through to a smart grid solution as a service.
Applications for government agencies: Consulting and development of solutions for technical problems of the armed forces, for example environmental issues such as the assessment of environmental risks.
Consulting services for the financial industry: Advising lenders of large-scale systems with technical know-how and assessments through to project monitoring on behalf of the lenders.

Solutions for the intelligence services

Solutions in this area focus on the requirements of Defense of the United States (DoD), the individual weapons genres , the United States Department of Homeland Security , other government agencies and foreign allies of the United States .

technology: Leidos provides technical solutions for military and secret service purposes.
Intelligence services: Leidos supplies technology and software for cloud solutions for the military, analysis of large volumes of data from structured or unstructured data and developments for the prompt solution of on-site problems of the client. A typical product is, for example, the XKeyscore program .
Data security solutions

history

It was founded in February 1969 by John Robert Beyster, a nuclear physicist previously in the service of General Atomics . Beyster founded his company in La Jolla ( California ) and drew up a business plan , according to the experts developed ideas and had to sell these ideas to government agencies. In 1970 the SAIC office opened in Washington, DC , which soon had more employees than any other location. At the same time, Beyster recruited high-ranking military personnel, diplomats, spies and members of the cabinet to shape the leadership of SAIC. This team ensured constant contact with the government agencies to which the experts' ideas were to be sold. Among the staff there are the later US Defense Secretary Robert Gates , former Secretary of Defense John M. Deutch , the project manager in the development of Polaris submarines, Rear Admiral William Raborn , the NSA - and CIA boss Bobby Ray Inman , Melvin R. Laird and William Perry . The situation is referred to in the American press as a "revolving door". After 38 years with the NSA, William B. Black became vice president of SAIC in 1997, only to return to a position with the NSA in 2000. For successful offers, shares were issued as a bonus, which means that people who returned to the civil service continued to receive income from the contracts for SAIC.

Two years after Black's return to the NSA, SAIC developed the Trailblazer computer system on behalf of the NSA , a technical infrastructure that the NSA would use to manage the telephone calls, e-mails and other electronic communications that it eavesdrop on worldwide. After four years and over a billion US dollars, the project was finally abandoned in 2005 after the project became known and criticized as a result of the publications by NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake . SAIC took over the follow-up project ExecuteLocus , which started shortly afterwards and which was implemented instead of Trailblazer.

Virtual Case Files was a SAIC project on behalf of the FBI, with which the FBI wanted to manage, for example, transcripts of intercepted conversations, financial transactions and other search files. The project was canceled after three years as the "most published software bug in history".

In 2003 the board of directors forced Beysters to resign, and Kenneth Dahlberg, General Dynamics ' top manager , took over management of the company. In October 2006, SAIC finally went public .

In 2007 American journalists and Pulitzer Prize winners Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele named SAIC the largest and most powerful "body shop". Body Shop is the name for companies that take on government tasks that can no longer be carried out by officials in an ever-shrinking administration. Unlike private security and military companies , SAIC does not provide fighters, but takes on the thinking and knowledge tasks with knowledge of weapons, internal security, surveillance, computer systems, information dominance and cyber war .

Separation between SAIC and Leidos

In February 2013, the chief executive officer , ex-general John P. Jumper , announced a split of the company, whereby the spin-off would keep the name SAIC and the larger part would operate under the name Leidos. According to the company, the name Leidos was removed from the word Ka Leidos kop to express the company's ability to "combine solutions from different perspectives". On September 27, 2013, a portion of the business called Science Applications International Corporation (New SAIC) was separated and placed on the stock market as a separate company. As part of this spin-off, the name was changed from SAIC to Leidos. The reason for the spin-off is that restrictions due to the close cooperation with authorities adversely affected this part of the business.

At the end of 2013 to the beginning of 2014, there were resignations of management personnel at Leidos, possibly triggered by poor company figures. The head of the health services department, Joe Craver, resigned. His leadership role was temporarily taken over by CEO Jumper and has not been reassigned until April 2014. Jumper himself announced his resignation at the earliest possible date with the publication of the 2013/14 annual financial statements. A possible successor to Jumper, Chief Operating Officer K. Stuart ("Stu") Shea, announced on March 27, 2014 that he would be retiring on April 6, 2014.

Jumper was replaced in July 2014 by the former Boeing manager Roger Krone.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Washington's $ 8 Billion Shadow ; Vanity Fair, March 2007.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y 10-k report of Leidos Holding Inc. for the financial year from February 1, 2013 to January 31, 2014 ;
↑ ^a ^b Joanne S. Lawton (2015) Here's what Leidos paid to woo Roger Krone to the CEO spot on www.bizjournals.com from April 17, 2015; accessed on August 18, 2015.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Siobhan Gorman; Little-known contractor has close ties with staff of NSA ; The Baltimore Sun, January 29, 2006.
↑ Alice Lipowicz, Trailblazer loses its way ; Washington Technology September 10, 2005.
↑ ^a ^b Thomas Stölzel, America reads along ; Wirtschaftswoche from August 10, 2011.
↑ ^a ^b Marjorie Censer; SAIC to name solutions business Leidos ; Washington Post February 25, 2013.
↑ ^a ^b Marjorie Censer; Leidos profit sinks, top executive steps down ; Washington Post December 10, 2013.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e JD Harrison; Leidos COO Stuart Shea resigns as company's revenues continue to slide ; Washington Post March 27, 2014.

[VFair200703-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Washington's $ 8 Billion Shadow ; Vanity Fair, March 2007.

[Leidos10K2014-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y 10-k report of Leidos Holding Inc. for the financial year from February 1, 2013 to January 31, 2014 ;

[fedbiz20150417-3] Joanne S. Lawton (2015) Here's what Leidos paid to woo Roger Krone to the CEO spot on www.bizjournals.com from April 17, 2015; accessed on August 18, 2015.

[BSun20060129-4] Siobhan Gorman; Little-known contractor has close ties with staff of NSA ; The Baltimore Sun, January 29, 2006.

[WTech20050910-5] Alice Lipowicz, Trailblazer loses its way ; Washington Technology September 10, 2005.

[WiWo20110810-6] Thomas Stölzel, America reads along ; Wirtschaftswoche from August 10, 2011.

[WPost20130225-7] Marjorie Censer; SAIC to name solutions business Leidos ; Washington Post February 25, 2013.

[WPost20131210-8] Marjorie Censer; Leidos profit sinks, top executive steps down ; Washington Post December 10, 2013.

[WPost20140327-9] JD Harrison; Leidos COO Stuart Shea resigns as company's revenues continue to slide ; Washington Post March 27, 2014.