Leidos : Receives Contract Award from Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
June 19, 2017 at 08:46 am EDT
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Company to Provide Systems Testing to New Customer in the United Kingdom
(Reston, Va.) June 19, 2017 - Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), a FORTUNE 500 science and technology company, was awarded a contract by the United Kingdom's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to provide User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to systems and solutions before they are implemented by the ministerial department. This is a 12-month Digital Outcomes and Specialists, Crown Commercial Service contract supporting the United Kingdom. Work will mainly be performed in London, UK.
Under the contract, Leidos provides end-to-end management of UAT including defining, implementing and managing the UAT master framework; defining and creating test plans and scripts; managing test execution; and maintaining audit trails throughout testing. The work supports Defra, the United Kingdom's government department responsible for safeguarding the natural environment, supporting the UK's world-leading food and farming industry, and sustaining a thriving rural economy.
'This contract award highlights our agile approach and skills in test assurance,' said Bill Krampf, Leidos senior vice president of United Kingdom and Europe. 'Through our efforts with Defra we look forward to building our relationship with this key ministerial department and expanding our relationship with the government of the United Kingdom.'
About Leidos
Leidos is a FORTUNE 500® science and technology solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company's 32,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $7.04 billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2016. 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.