Leidos wins $2.6B TSA equipment logistics recompete

Leidos has won a potential seven-year, $2.6 billion contract to continue its role as a main provider of IT and logistics services to the Transportation Security Agency in support of screening equipment at airports.

TSA awarded this recompete of the Integrated Logistics Support program on Thursday and received three bids in total, according to Federal Procurement Data System records.

Work under ILS involves the testing, deployment and maintenance of equipment that checks passengers and baggage for weapons and other possible security threats at 448 domestic airports.

Leidos can trace its incumbency back to 2013 and won the prior recompete in 2019 at a $926.5 million ceiling, which has since increased to $1 billion.

TSA has obligated approximately $860 million against that contract since the award, according to GovTribe data.

For some of the screening equipment, Leidos is the original manufacturer and inherited that status through its acquisition of the former L3Harris Technologies security detection and automation business in 2020.

In the fall of 2023, Leidos wrote down the value of the so-called SD&A business in a move aimed at resetting expectations for what the growth path could actually look like. The ILS recompete win marks a step in that direction.