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TSA Awards Leidos Support Contract; Rapiscan Nabs Winner-Take-All X-Ray Award

Defense Daily Staff

Monday, September 30th, 2013

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) last week awarded Leidos [LDOS] a potential five-year, $442.5 million contract to provide integrated logistics support for checkpoint security equipment at airports nationwide. Work under the award, which was made to Science Applications International Corp., will be performed by Leidos, which is being spun out of its former parent company. Leidos unseated incumbent Siemens [SI], which beat out then-incumbent Boeing [B A] for the work in 2005. The initial increment to Leidos under the contract…

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