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 the government IT contractor embarks on a multiyear consolidation of its Montgomery County footprint.

The news comes on the heels of the Reston 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. Lockheed had spun off that division, known as IS&GS,…