L3Harris wins $1.2 billion contract to maintain, upgrade space surveillance systems

The award is for a brand new program named MOSSAIC, quick for upkeep of house situational consciousness built-in capabilities.

WASHINGTON — L3Harris has been awarded a 10-year $1.2 billion contract by the U.S. Area Power’s Area and Missile Programs Middle to take care of and modernize the navy’s community of house surveillance sensors.

The award is for a brand new program named MOSSAIC, quick for upkeep of house situational consciousness built-in capabilities. The number of L3Harris was introduced Feb. 25 on the beta.SAM.gov federal contracting alternatives web site.

MOSSAIC replaces a earlier contract that Harris (earlier than it merged with L3) had held since 2002 to take care of the Air Power’s community of telescopes — referred to as the Floor-based Electro-Optical Deep Area Surveillance System — that monitor objects in geostationary orbits. Now below management of the U.S. Area Power are three GEODSS websites — on the island of Diego Garcia within the Indian Ocean; on the White Sands Missile Vary, New Mexico; and in Maui, Hawaii.

The Area and Missile Programs Middle a yr in the past solicited aggressive bids for MOSSAIC and L3Harris’ was considered one of two gives acquired, the Air Power stated in a Feb. 25 contract announcement.

The earlier contract held by Harris was extra narrowly centered on the operations and upkeep of GEODSS websites. MOSSAIC broadens the scope of the work to incorporate house situational consciousness — to be derived from authorities and business sensors — in assist of the U.S. navy’s house surveillance and command facilities in Colorado, California and Virginia.

The transition to the brand new contract begins on March 2.

In line with an trade supply, L3Harris already has technical specialists and personnel deployed on the Nationwide Area Protection Middle at Schriever Air Power Base in Colorado Springs; and on the Mixed Area Operations Middle at Vandenberg Air Power Base, California, and that workers might be assigned to MOSSAIC. Underneath the brand new contract, the corporate will assist the deliberate upgrades of the telescopes on the three present GEODDS websites and the opening of two extra websites that SMC is eyeing in Spain and Australia.