Business Acquisition, Equity Interest Issued or Issuable, Percentage Of Number of Shares Outstanding

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Payments To Acquire Business, Debt Extinguishment

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Number of shares of equity interests issued or issuable to acquire entity.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount of consideration transferred, consisting of acquisition-date fair value of assets transferred by the acquirer, liabilities incurred by the acquirer, and equity interest issued by the acquirer.

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Amount of equity interests of the acquirer, including instruments or interests issued or issuable in consideration for the business combination.

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- Definition

The cash outflow associated with the acquisition of business during the period. The cash portion only of the acquisition price.

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.

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Acquisitions - Schedule of Consideration Exchanged (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Millions		9 Months Ended
	May 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Preliminary fair value of cash consideration paid by USPS to extinguish certain existing Vencore indebtedness		$ 994	$ 0
Closing price (in dollars per share)	$ 24.86
Vencore and KeyPoint
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Preliminary fair value of cash purchase consideration received by Vencore Stockholders	$ 400
Preliminary fair value of cash consideration paid by USPS to extinguish certain existing Vencore indebtedness	$ 1,000
Shares issued in a business acquisition as a percentage of outstanding shares	14.00%
Vencore
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Preliminary fair value of equity purchase consideration received by Vencore Stockholders	$ 578
Preliminary fair value of cash purchase consideration received by Vencore Stockholders	400
Preliminary fair value of cash consideration paid by USPS to extinguish certain existing Vencore indebtedness	994
Consideration transferred	$ 1,972
Number of shares issued in a business acquisition (in shares)	18,877,244
KeyPoint
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of shares issued in a business acquisition (in shares)	4,396,097