Exclusive: Leidos to lease Marriott office space

Leidos Holdings Inc. plans to lease about 300,000 square feet of Gaithersburg office space currently occupied by Marriott International Inc. as it embarks on a multiyear consolidation of its Montgomery County footprint.

The news comes on the heels of the Reston-based government IT contracting giant selling a 44-acre office campus nearby that was the former home of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s (NYSE: LMT) information systems and global solutions business. That division, known as IS&GS, merged with Leidos…