Leidos : Rear Admiral Nevin Carr Named Leidos U.S. Navy Strategic Account Executive
June 15, 2015 at 03:48 pm EDT
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Rear Admiral Nevin Carr Named Leidos U.S. Navy Strategic Account Executive
(Reston, Va.) June 15, 2015 - Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), a national security, health and engineering solutions company, announced the appointment of Rear Admiral Nevin Carr as Vice President and U.S. Navy Strategic Account Executive. In his role, Carr will be responsible for identifying and executing strategic initiatives to achieve customer mission success, and growing the company's naval and maritime business.
Carr retired from the U.S. Navy in 2012, following a 34-year career that included command of USS Arleigh Burke and USS Cape St George. As Deputy Director of Surface Warfare for Combat Systems he was responsible for requirements governing surface Navy combat systems, weapons, sensors and data links. Serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for International Programs, he helped build international partnerships through training, cooperative development, and Foreign Military Sales. As Chief of Naval Research, Carr led 4,000 scientists and engineers executing the Navy's $2 billion science and technology effort. He worked closely with industry, academia, major research institutions, and international partners to develop emerging and disruptive technologies such as directed energy, autonomous systems, human augmentation, and the electromagnetic rail gun.
"Nevin brings invaluable experience and insight of the naval market to Leidos," said Leidos Executive Vice President for Business Development and Strategy Michael Leiter. "His proven leadership honed in his 34 year career in the Navy will strengthen our existing customer relationships and enable us to continue consistent and reliable support of our U.S. Navy customers."
Prior to joining Leidos, Carr served as Vice President for AECOM, formerly URS's Federal Services division. He also served on several boards as advisor or director, as a senior advisor with McKinsey & Co, and as a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford.
About Leidos
Leidos is a science and technology solutions leader working to address some of the world's toughest challenges in national security, health and engineering. The Company's 19,000 employees support vital missions for our government and the commercial sector, develop innovative solutions to drive better outcomes and defend our Nation's digital and physical infrastructure from 'new world' threats. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $5.06 billion for its fiscal year ended January 30, 2015. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
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Leidos Holdings, Inc. specializes in the provision of engineering, technological and scientific services. Net sales by business segment break down as follows:
- defense (56.6%): design, engineering and integration of technological solutions for intelligence, airborne surveillance and reconnaissance, maritime and land-based solutions, electronic warfare systems, and automated sensor, alarm, command and control systems, software development, cyber security solutions and data processing and analysis solutions, IT infrastructure development and integration, etc.;
- civil security (23.7%): development and integration of solutions for the protection of goods, data and digital information, solutions and systems for air traffic flow control and flight data management, vehicle and cargo inspection, explosives and radiation detection, computer security, environmental management, nuclear security, complex logistics management, etc.;
- health (19.7%): integration of complex systems and technological infrastructures for the management of data, medical information and electronic health records, provision of healthcare services, IT systems lifecycle management, research and development of biopharmaceuticals, etc.
Net sales by market are divided between the US Department of Defense and the intelligence community (49.4%), government agencies (37.4%) and commercial customers (13.2%).
The United States accounts for 91,4% of net sales.
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