“We feel like this acquisition moves us in some certain sub-elements of offensive cyber about 18 months forward on what we would have been able to do with our organic investment,” President of Leidos National Security Sector Roy Stevens told Breaking Defense.
The new solicitation broadly outlines what Navy leaders for years have sought from unmanned vehicles: multi-purpose trucks capable of carrying any payload of their choosing.
Consolidate network monitoring, performance management, and fault isolation into a single, comprehensive solution.
The Sea Dart starts at around $150,000, a Leidos official told Breaking Defense, and works with various payloads and software packages.
A low-cost autonomous system that can do counter-mine for the DoD and infrastructure monitoring for the oil industry.
An on-the-ground look at the 2025 Avalon Air Show in Australia.
Lockheed Martin now has its own air vehicle offering that could compete for a follow-on effort to the Enterprise Test Vehicle program.
Blending superior optics, advanced stabilization and AI-powered autonomy in a compact and rugged system, ASELFLIR 600 delivers unmatched intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.
Kratos will be tasked with “systems engineering, integration, and testing (SEIT), to include integrated subscale, full-scale, and air launch services to address the need to affordably increase hypersonic flight test cadence,” according to the company.
“By all indications, sUAS will present a safety and security risk to military installations and other critical infrastructure for the foreseeable future,” said NORTHCOM chief Gen. Gregory Guillot.
A spokesperson for PEO C3N told Breaking Defense that Leidos is the main award winner of the contract, but there are a handful of subcontractors involved as well.
L3Harris said it wants "further analysis to ensure the proposal received an equitable evaluation," while SNC told Breaking Defense the protest has "no technical merit."
Cybersecurity skills must evolve in near-real time as Zero Day threats continue and AI provides new challenges.
An Army official previously told Breaking Defense that a baseline HADES configuration will include moving target indication, high-end signals intelligence and other capabilities.
Anduril Industries, Integrated Solutions for Systems, Leidos Dynetics and Zone 5 Technologies will now compete to carry their drone prototypes into production.
The new project, called Maru, "will provide the means to replace legacy applications and to integrate modernized exploitation capabilities for the IC, DoD and our international partners," the NGA spokesperson told Breaking Defense.
“This will help enable better-informed, timely decision-making throughout the [command, control, computers, communications, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] and mission IT lifecycle in support of more than 120 Army, DoD and federal government program offices and agencies,” according to Leidos.