Dana Pittman, a human resources executive with over two decades of talent management experience, was named chief people officer at Vistant, formerly PM Consulting Group. The HR leader served as senior vice president of talent strategy and HR at 1901 Group for more than six years then she transitioned to Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) when the...
Paul Burnette, vice president and director of the Software Accelerator at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said the federal government should work with industry and adopt the SecDevOps approach to develop and deploy “hardened, optimal code” and ensure the security of critical systems. He wrote that SecDevOps could provide organizations the ability to rapidl...
Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented Roger Krone, former CEO and chairman of Leidos, with his 2023 Wash100 Award during a recent visit to Leidos offices on Krone’s last day as the head of the company. In the Wash100 Award’s ten-year history, Krone is the only executive who has landed a spot on the list every single year,...
Chad Haferbier, vice president of multidomain operations solutions at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said government agencies should shift to open-architecture, nonproprietary frameworks that “enable rapid, iterative improvements” to achieve true modernization. “Open architectures also enable agencies to prioritize interoperability and data ...
Thomas Bell, former CEO of Rolls-Royce’s North American subsidiary and president of its global defense business, has officially assumed responsibilities as Leidos‘ (NYSE: LDOS) new chief executive. In late February, Bell was named successor to Roger Krone, a 10-time Wash100 Award winner who took on the CEO role in July 2014 and added the cha...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) reported $3.7 in sales for the first quarter of 2023 and attributed the 6 percent revenue spike to year-over-year growth in the company’s defense, civil and health business segments. The Reston, Virginia-based company said Tuesday net income for the January-to-March period was $164 million and total backlog stood in t...
Meghan Good, vice president and director of the Cyber Accelerator at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said government agencies looking to implement zero trust architectures should look for system integrators that leverage the capabilities offered by other technology companies through partnerships and could provide a comprehensive and a granular view of security...
Derrick Pledger, a senior vice president and chief information officer at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said government agencies seeking to drive digital modernization efforts to improve operations and address mission challenges should look for a vendor that is focused on building deep technical partnerships to develop new platforms and capabilities for agen...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has secured an approximately $50 million contract to help the U.S. Navy’s Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory to study the health and performance of undersea warfighters. The contract was competitively procured and not fixed price due to the nature of the work, according to an award notice posted Wednesday on SAM.go...
Peter O’Donoghue of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and Adam Clater of Red Hat said systems integrators are partnering with companies that offer innovative technologies to speed up the delivery of tech platforms meant to help government agencies address mission challenges. Clater and O’Donoghue wrote in a joint article published on Carahsoft‘s website...
