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Vse Corp – ‘10-Q’ for 3/31/17 – ‘EX-101.PRE’

On:  Friday, 4/28/17, at 2:52pm ET   ·   For:  3/31/17   ·   Accession #:  102752-17-20   ·   File #:  0-03676

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

 4/28/17  Vse Corp                          10-Q        3/31/17   44:2.9M

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Vse Corporation Form10-Q March 31, 2017             HTML    288K 
 2: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     21K 
 3: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     21K 
 4: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     16K 
 5: EX-32.2     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     16K 
12: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     33K 
13: R2          Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets               HTML     89K 
14: R3          Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets               HTML     23K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
15: R4          Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Income         HTML     63K 
16: R5          Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive  HTML     28K 
                Income                                                           
17: R6          Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows     HTML     81K 
18: R7          Nature of Business and Basis of Presentation        HTML     23K 
19: R8          Debt                                                HTML     28K 
20: R9          Earnings Per Share                                  HTML     25K 
21: R10         Commitments and Contingencies                       HTML     24K 
22: R11         Business Segments and Customer Information          HTML     99K 
23: R12         Goodwill and Intangible Assets                      HTML     68K 
24: R13         Fair Value Measurements                             HTML     31K 
25: R14         Income Taxes                                        HTML     19K 
26: R15         Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements           HTML     23K 
27: R16         Nature of Business and Basis of Presentation        HTML     52K 
                (Policies)                                                       
28: R17         Earnings Per Share (Tables)                         HTML     23K 
29: R18         Business Segments and Customer Information          HTML     93K 
                (Tables)                                                         
30: R19         Goodwill and Intangible Assets (Tables)             HTML     69K 
31: R20         Fair Value Measurements (Tables)                    HTML     27K 
32: R21         Nature of Business and Basis of Presentation        HTML     16K 
                (Details)                                                        
33: R22         Debt (Details)                                      HTML     78K 
34: R23         Earnings Per Share (Details)                        HTML     22K 
35: R24         Commitments and Contingencies - (Details)           HTML     24K 
36: R25         Business Segments and Customer Information          HTML     33K 
                (Details)                                                        
37: R26         Business Segments and Customer Information, Major   HTML     49K 
                Customers (Details)                                              
38: R27         Goodwill and Intangible Assets (Details)            HTML     53K 
39: R28         Fair Value Measurements (Details)                   HTML     26K 
40: R29         Fair Value Measurements - Narrative (Details)       HTML     23K 
41: R30         Income Taxes (Details)                              HTML     19K 
43: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     69K 
42: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     37K 
 6: EX-101.INS  XBRL Instance -- vsec-20170331                       XML    734K 
 8: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- vsec-20170331_cal               XML    122K 
 9: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- vsec-20170331_def                XML    196K 
10: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- vsec-20170331_lab                     XML    693K 
11: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- vsec-20170331_pre              XML    377K 
 7: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- vsec-20170331                         XSD     73K 
44: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0000102752-17-000020-xbrl      Zip     92K 


‘EX-101.PRE’   —   XBRL Presentations — vsec-20170331_pre


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