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Leidos receives $1.5B DOD task order

Reston-based Fortune 500 government contractor Leidos has received a task order valued up to $1.5 billion to support the Department of Defense with technology to enhance its Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) missions, the company announced Wednesday.

Under the contract, Leidos will focus on the rapid insertion of technologies across the agency’s mission spectrum and integrate new tech with existing and legacy systems. The award includes a one-year base period with four additional one-year options with work being performed across the globe.

“In today’s battlefield, the command who has actionable multi- and cross-domain data fastest is the one with the high ground,” Leidos Defense Group President Gerry Fasano said in a statement. “Leidos has finely tuned our portfolio of expertise and developed a dynamic enterprise suite of C5ISR solutions, including Joint All-Domain Command and Control tools, to ensure our warfighters exploit state-of-the-art technology to maintain their decisive advantage and enable joint synergy for operational superiority. We are honored to support this critical mission, providing readiness against evolving global threats.”

In August, Leidos entered into an agreement with British technology aerospace manufacturer Cobham Ltd. to purchase the special missions business from its Australia-based Cobham Aviation Services subsidiary. Financial details were not disclosed.

General Dynamics Missions Systems, Iridium land $324M space contract

Fairfax-based General Dynamics Missions Systems and McLean-based Iridium Communications Inc. have received a $324 million contract to build and provide network operations and support for the National Defense Space Architecture.

The award, from the Space Development Agency, includes a $162.9 million base and $161.5 million in options. Under the contract, General Dynamics Missions Systems and Iridium will work with partners including Colorado-based KSAT USA, Massachusetts-based Raytheon and Emergent Space Technologies, based in Maryland, to develop, equip and operate NDSA centers and lead ground-to-space integration for the SDA’s low-earth orbit satellites, according to a news release.

The SDA was established in 2019 and helps get military satellites launched and into orbit. It is expected to become a part of the U.S. Space Force later this year.

“We are incredibly proud to bring our long heritage of mission-critical space and ground communications and networking expertise to the Space Development Agency,” General Dynamics Mission Systems President Chris Brady said in a statement. “Together with our partners, we’re excited to build the foundation for the SDA’s initial warfighting capability and backbone of Joint All-Domain Command and Control.”

Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) is a Department of Defense effort to connect sensors from each of the military’s branches into a single network.

“Iridium, General Dynamics Mission Systems and the U.S. government have a long and successful history of working together and partnering on this project is a natural evolution of our relationship,” said Idirum CEO Matt Desch. “Iridium’s 25 years of experience operating in (low-earth orbit) makes us uniquely qualified for this opportunity, and we’re honored to take on this tremendous responsibility in support of this next generation network.”

General Dynamics Missions Systems is a business unit of Reston-based Fortune 500 aerospace and defense contractor General Dynamics Corp. and employs more than 12,000 people worldwide. Iridium operates a constellation of 66 satellites providing communications services such as broadband, voice and data communications.