Leidos Wins Contract to Support UK MOD PICASSO Programme
November 11, 2021 at 03:00 am IST
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Leidos was recently awarded a three-year (with optional 4th year) contract by the MOD (worth up to ?70M with all options) to deliver GEOINT capability in support of the UK'sNational Centre for Geospatial Intelligence as part of the PICASSO programme. PICASSO is an enduring capability programme that provides UK Defence with an integrated information environment for the exploitation, production and dissemination of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT)1. PICASSO outputs enable UK Armed Forces and Partners across Government (PAG) to undertake informed decision making to fulfil their role in a safe and legal manner in support of national security tasks. A collection of legacy systems, the programme is gradually being moved to a common service management model delivered with industry standard approaches to service management, agile development and delivery. Through this award, Leidos will introduce a number of modernisation initiatives to improve service delivery, user experience, agile change and overall programme transparency. Specifically modernising infrastructure, storage and end user access will be carried out in an agile manner, in collaboration with the MoD's internal service provider community.
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.