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Vse Corp – ‘10-Q’ for 3/31/15 – ‘EX-101.PRE’

On:  Friday, 5/1/15, at 4:39pm ET   ·   For:  3/31/15   ·   Accession #:  102752-15-33   ·   File #:  0-03676

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

 5/01/15  Vse Corp                          10-Q        3/31/15   44:4M

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 Form 10-Q March 31, 2015            HTML    296K 
 2: EX-31.1     Section 302 CEO Certification                       HTML     19K 
 3: EX-31.2     Section 302 CFO and Pao Certification               HTML     19K 
 4: EX-32.1     Section 906 CEO Certification                       HTML     15K 
 5: EX-32.2     Section 906 CFO and Pao Certification               HTML     15K 
26: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     40K 
19: R2          Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets               HTML    122K 
24: R3          Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets               HTML     27K 
                (Parenthetical)                                                  
28: R4          Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Income         HTML    100K 
40: R5          Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive  HTML     28K 
                Income                                                           
20: R6          Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows     HTML    101K 
23: R7          Basis of Presentation                               HTML     19K 
18: R8          Acquisition                                         HTML     47K 
14: R9          Debt                                                HTML     23K 
41: R10         Earnings Per Share                                  HTML     24K 
30: R11         Commitments and Contingencies                       HTML     23K 
29: R12         Business Segments and Customer Information          HTML     88K 
35: R13         Goodwill and Intangible Assets                      HTML     53K 
36: R14         Fair Value Measurements                             HTML     41K 
34: R15         Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements           HTML     18K 
37: R16         Acquisition (Tables)                                HTML     39K 
25: R17         Earnings Per Share (Tables)                         HTML     23K 
27: R18         Business Segments and Customer Information          HTML     84K 
                (Tables)                                                         
33: R19         Goodwill and Intangible Assets (Tables)             HTML     55K 
44: R20         Fair Value Measurements (Tables)                    HTML     40K 
38: R21         Acquisition (Details)                               HTML    107K 
21: R22         Debt (Details)                                      HTML     90K 
31: R23         Earnings Per Share (Details)                        HTML     24K 
22: R24         Commitments and Contingencies - (Details)           HTML     29K 
13: R25         Business Segments and Customer Information          HTML     53K 
                (Details)                                                        
39: R26         Business Segments and Customer Information, Major   HTML     58K 
                Customers (Details)                                              
42: R27         Goodwill and Intangible Assets (Details)            HTML     74K 
17: R28         Fair Value Measurements (Details)                   HTML     59K 
16: R29         Fair Value Measurements, Unobservable Input         HTML     33K 
                Reconciliation (Details)                                         
43: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     60K 
12: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     77K 
15: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports (.xls)            XLS    487K 
 6: EX-101.INS  XBRL Instance -- vsec-20150331                       XML    798K 
 8: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- vsec-20150331_cal               XML    121K 
 9: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- vsec-20150331_def                XML    282K 
10: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- vsec-20150331_lab                     XML    922K 
11: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- vsec-20150331_pre              XML    511K 
 7: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- vsec-20150331                         XSD     89K 
32: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0000102752-15-000033-xbrl      Zip     88K 


‘EX-101.PRE’   —   XBRL Presentations — vsec-20150331_pre


This Exhibit is an XBRL XML File.


                                                                                                                                                                                
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