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As Security and Detection Business Slows, Leidos Focuses on Integration

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, November 10th, 2020

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As Security and Detection Business Slows, Leidos Focuses on Integration

Leidos Advanced Imaging Technology scanner. Photo: Leidos

The ongoing pandemic has slowed business for Leidos’ [LDOS] new security, detection and automation business, the company is putting more focus on integrating the business into its overall structure, Roger Krone, the company’s chairman and CEO, said earlier this month. “For us, that’s almost good, because we get a chance to really focus on integration, and get those systems and processes into what we call the Leidos business framework, and where we want them before we see any significant ramp…

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