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After Leidos Win On NGEN, Initial Focus Is On Transition

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, February 11th, 2020

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After Leidos Win On NGEN, Initial Focus Is On Transition

After winning the Navy’s potential $7.7 billion contract last week for network support services, Leidos [LDOS] initially will be focused on developing transition plans to move services away from the legacy vendor and bring on new capabilities, a Navy official said this week. The transition will occur over the next nine months and that’s the focus of the initial task order to Leidos, Capt. William “Ben” McNeal, program manager for Naval Enterprise Networks, said on a conference call with reporters…

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