Leidos, Inc.

Leidos, Inc., operating through its Leidos Solutions Operating Segment division and doing business as SAIC, is a large business prime contractor delivering systems engineering, advanced research and development, defense technology integration, and technical support services across Department of Defense, intelligence community, and civilian federal agencies on a full-and-open competitive basis with no set-aside designations.

Leidos Solutions Operating Segment competes as a prime on the vast majority of recent awards (90% of the 2,778-award portfolio spanning 1997 to present), with particular depth in applied research, directed energy systems, autonomous systems, quantum sensing, advanced sensor systems development, naval warfare systems integration, signals intelligence support, and microelectronics capability solutions. The division is a subsidiary of Leidos Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Reston, Virginia. Recent representative prime work includes a $868.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from the Army's Research Development and Engineering Command under the RS3 IDIQ for integrated and interoperable information dominance solutions for warfighters across the Department of Defense and federal agencies (March 2026, Reston, VA, through March 2031); a $253.7 million critical minerals and materials research and development delivery order from the Army under the IAC-MAC for advanced materials characterization, synthesis, testing, and analysis supporting defense acquisition priorities (June 2024, Wharton, New Jersey, through June 2029); a $225 million autonomous and automated systems design and life-cycle development engineering delivery order from Naval Information Warfare Systems Command under the IAC-MAC for Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (September 2024, San Diego, through September 2029); and a $125 million signature training systems development, security, and operations delivery order from the Chief of Naval Operations under the IAC-MAC for Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (March 2025, Westlake, Maryland, through March 2030).

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of the Navy and Department of the Army. The top five funding organizations by count—Naval Sea Systems Command (357 awards, $2.87 billion), Air Force Research Laboratory (219 awards, $1.76 billion), Army PEO Intelligence Electronic Warfare & Sensors (190 awards, $6.29 billion), Army Research Development and Engineering Command (139 awards, $6.04 billion), and Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (127 awards, $9.15 billion)—account for 37% of the recent award population. By potential value, the rankings shift: Army Aberdeen Proving Ground (52 awards, $38.81 billion) anchors the portfolio, followed by Naval Information Warfare Systems Command ($9.15 billion across 127 awards), Army PEO Intelligence Electronic Warfare & Sensors ($6.29 billion), Army Research Development and Engineering Command ($6.04 billion), and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency ($4.13 billion across 50 awards). The spread reflects large, multi-year delivery orders and IDIQs concentrated in Navy and Army modernization and research priorities.

Leidos Solutions holds positions on a broad family of parent vehicles. The top vehicles by task order count include the Army Contracting Command Indefinite Delivery Contract W911QY15D0047 (175 task orders, $175.2 million combined potential value), Defense Agency Support Group IDIQ DASG6002D0006 (126 task orders, $246.6 million), the Army Chemical Materials Agency's Program and Integration Support IV (97 task orders, $207.1 million), the Air Force FA521507D0005 vehicle (92 task orders, $155.7 million), and the Targeted Requirement EXecution IDIQ (90 task orders, $240.1 million). The division also holds significant DARPA Other Transaction Agreement positions, including a $28 million portfolio across rapid resilience responses, quantum-augmented networks, and advanced research initiatives. Recent IDV awards include a $25.4 billion Defense Microelectronics Activity Advanced Technology Support Program V (ATSP V) multiple-award contract (April 2026), a $151 billion Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract (December 2025), a $4.2 billion PEO Intelligence Electronic Warfare & Sensors aerostat production and sustainment contract (March 2025), and a $4 billion Defense Threat Reduction Agency Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction 2024-2029 IDIQ (May 2024).

Activity has grown modestly over the trailing five years—from 116 awards in 2022 to a peak of 168 in 2024, with 134 awards in 2025 and 24 recorded through August 2026 in the source snapshot. Eighty-nine awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $2.83 billion and represent near-term recompete exposure.

Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts (a subset excluding goods, products, and classified work), Leidos Solutions invoiced $669.3 million from FY2022 through FY2024, with $288.9 million in FY2022 (1,007 FTEs), $175.2 million in FY2023 (913 FTEs), and $205.1 million in FY2024 (691 FTEs delivered across 15 prime records). Government-paid hourly rates on prime service contracts median around $126/hr, with rates ranging from $62/hr at the tenth percentile through $650/hr at the ninety-fifth percentile, reflecting a mix of junior staff augmentation and senior technical leadership roles. Across prime contracts, subcontractors performed approximately 16% of total contractor hours on average, with 246 named subcontractors recorded in the SCI dataset. The division operates predominantly as a prime integrator and systems engineering lead rather than a feeder to larger contractors—90% of recent awards carry prime status.

Leidos Solutions engages a diversified subcontractor ecosystem spanning large defense primes (General Dynamics Mission Systems, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, L3Harris Technologies, Lockheed Martin, RTX BBN Technologies, Viasat, DCS Corporation), specialized small businesses (Quality Aero Inc., women-owned; Rite-Solutions, service-disabled veteran-owned; Argon ST, electronic systems), and universities (MIT, Texas Tech University System, North Carolina State, Brigham Young, Virginia Tech). On recent large awards—including the $125 million signature training delivery order, the $210 million Army Communications Electronics Command systems engineering order, and the $223.9 million autonomous systems design order under IAC-MAC—the division consistently names eight to fifteen subcontractors across software licensing, IT procurement, systems integration, sensor technologies, signal processing, underwater systems, and logistics support. This teaming pattern reflects Leidos Solutions' role as prime system integrator and program manager, with subs contributing specialized capabilities across the defense technology supply chain.

The portfolio concentrates in engineering services (455 awards), applied research and development (433 awards), computer systems design (318 awards), and computer terminal and equipment manufacturing (179 awards). Professional program management and technical support services anchor the PSC distribution (245 awards), followed by engineering and technical support (211 awards), communications security equipment (175 awards), and applied research and exploratory development (142 awards). Leidos Solutions competes across full-and-open, unrestricted procurement actions without reliance on set-asides, consistent with its large business posture and established position in the defense contracting market.