ClearanceJobs recently sat down with Jack Terry from Leidos. He provided an overview of Leidos and how he has watched the organization grow over the years with a mission first and people always mindset.
Leidos Overview: The Mission and the Programs
Leidos is a large defense contractor with a mission of making the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through information technology, engineering, and science. While the organization is customer-facing, it really has four key markets: civil, defense, health, and intelligence. With the coveted spot of #1 on the Washington Technologies top 100 list, as well as other awards celebrating the organization’s ethics and veteran hiring, Leidos is a leader in the defense industry.
Leidos Over the Years
With 21 years at Leidos, Jack Terry has a critical understanding of how the organization migrated from SAIC to its current role as Leidos. As a software developer in Germany, Jack began his career working as an individual contributor. After the leap back to the states created some clearance transfer delays, he rotated into program management and never looked back. After making his way up through Leidos, supporting his customers each and every day is critical to the national security of our country. With a close customer relationship, his teams at Leidos are able to develop key products. Not only are the customers important in staying with Leidos for the long haul, but Jack also credits the commitment of his colleagues to one another over the years. Additionally, the values-based leadership within the organization starts at the top and flows throughout Leidos, making it easy to get behind leaders. Everyone has a different career path, and with a desire to learn and grow, Leidos has a path for all different types of backgrounds. With its focus on people, Leidos develops great capabilities and products. As the direct successor to SAIC, Leidos has a long history filled with years of past performance and abilities. Despite a new name, Leidos just celebrated its 50th anniversary, and with various acquisitions and mergers, the organization continues to grow and evolve.
Leidos Playbook to Dealing with COVID-19
While COVID-19 has been challenging for everyone, Leidos quickly got to work to create a pandemic playbook in order to ensure its people were supported and its missions were met. With an eye towards safety at work locations, Leidos has kept communications open and contracts moving forward. Leidos has fought to be well prepared to respond to the challenges of the pandemic, as well as respond quickly as the pandemic dynamics adjust. From weekly CEO briefs to safety protocols to weekly team phone calls, Leidos has actively worked to keep teams supported and updated.
Most Intelligence Community customers and employees do not have the ability to work from home, so it’s important to create a safe workplace environment and implement critical communication pipelines. While COVID-19 has ushered in its own set of challenges, it has also opened up new opportunities for communication strategies that will continue on after the pandemic is over.
Opportunities at Leidos Abound
The opportunities abound at Leidos with more contracts to hire for being added regularly. Leidos is the type of company within the national security sector that employees can forge a personally tailored career path. When it comes to individual growth, employees simply need to look at various Leidos capabilities, and then simply become the best at those skills. Mission support goes hand in hand with personal fulfillment at Leidos. Growth is only possible when there have been successful leaders at the helm over the years, and Leidos continues to have leaders that put the organization on the trajectory of growth and success.
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