Liz Porter, acting president of Leidos’ (NYSE: LDOS) health group since March, has been promoted to the position on a permanent basis. She will report directly to Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos and a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient.

Todd Fitzgerald, senior vice president of capture operations at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), recently spoke to ArchIntel for an in-depth conversation on how he views the evolving competitive landscape in the GovCon space and how the company works to maintain the highest standards of ethics and integrity within a competitive business environment. This is the sixth in a series of interviews with Competitive Intelligence and GovCon executives who share their insights about creating and sustaining a competitive advantage.

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has been awarded a potential five-year, $379M contract to provide a non-intrusive system for the Customs and Border Protection agency to inspect railway cargo and vehicles as part of threat screening procedures.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 8, 2020 — Mary Legere, a managing director at Accenture's (NYSE: ACN) federal arm, and Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) Intelligence Group President Vicki Schmanske were named as members of the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation's board of directors for 2020-2021, ExecutiveBiz reported June 29.

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received a potential five-year, $960M blanket purchase agreement to develop software to support the Customs and Border Protection’s traveler vetting procedures.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 1, 2020 — Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has granted a New York University student its fifth annual scholarship for science, technology, engineering and math education, ExecutiveBiz reported June 23.

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured a potential one-year, $170M task order from the Defense Health Agency to provide enterprise support services for a new electronic health record system being deployed across the Military Health System, FedHealthIT reported Wednesday.

The Government Accountability Office has dismissed three protests of the U.S. Navy’s award of the $7.7B Next Generation Enterprise Network Recompete contract for network services to Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), Nextgov reported Thursday.

Paul Welch, former vice president of U.S. business development for cyber and nonkinetic effects at Raytheon, has joined Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) as vice president and division manager for the Air Force and defense agencies portfolio. GovCon Wire has learned.

Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has received a potential $401M prime task order with a five-month base period to help the Defense Intelligence Agency maintain and operate information technology systems.