Kat Villarreal tests virtual reality equipment designed for Air Force training at the unveiling of Leidos’ new facilities at Port San Antonio on Friday.Leidos, the global technology giant behind the body scanning machines found at airports across the country, celebrated its expansion into Port San Antonio on Friday.
will initially add about 100 employees to its intelligence group at the Port, said Anil Tailor, senior vice president with Leidos Intelligence Group. “That will include employing folks like network engineers, system engineers, cybersecurity specialists, programmers and developers,” he said. Most of theTailor said Leidos hopes to hire locally. He said the company has a good relationship with UTSA, which opened its National Security Collaboration Center and School of Data Science at its downtown campus earlier this year.
Leidos joins a growing list of tenants at the Port, including Boeing, StandardAero, CNF Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Knight Aerospace and Accenture Federal Services. More than 18,000 people work at the Port, according to a 2018 report from the Texas Comptroller’s Office.