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50th Anniversary Documentary

Our History

A Kaleidoscope of Innovation: Celebrating 50 years of Leidos

Leidos has a long history of innovative problem-solving and customer service, dating all the way back to 1969 when Dr. J. Robert Beyster founded his "crazy little company." Today, we are a global 47,000-employee Fortune 500 enterprise committed to making the world safer, healthier, and more efficient.

50 Years of Leidos

Now available for download, A Kaleidoscope of Innovation: The Story of Leidos is an enhanced eBook optimized for iBooks.

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kaleidoscope design with images of employees, airplanes, and ships

Our history through the decades

Over the past half-century, Leidos has worked in some of the most advanced areas of science and technology to deliver critical solutions to our customers' most demanding challenges. To learn more about some of our most important achievements, scroll through this interactive timeline of the last 50 years. In addition, Insights will be taking a closer look at many of these key moments in the company's history as part of our 50th anniversary celebration. For a more complete history of Leidos, we invite you to download and read our new eBook.

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