Leidos is a technology and engineering company that plays a significant role in the space industry, providing services to both government and commercial clients. They specialize in engineering design, development, fabrication, testing, and integration of spaceflight hardware, as well as mission operations and scientific research support. Leidos is a trusted partner for NASA, supporting programs like the International Space Station and Artemis, and provides cargo mission support, including hardware development and logistics.
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The Tranche 0 mission carried two infrared sensor satellites built by SpaceX and Leidos to detect and track hypersonic missiles in flight.
Under a 2020 contract, SpaceX teamed with Leidos Corp. to build four Tracking Layer satellites that are projected to launch in March.
Leidos is a member of Advanced Space’s Oracle mission team and is providing space sensor optical payload technology for the Oracle spacecraft.
The Oracle spacecraft being built by General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems will be integrated with Leidos’ high-performance space optical payload and a customer-provided green propulsion system.
The launch rescheduled for March includes eight York Space satellites and two of four SpaceX-Leidos missile-tracking satellites being built for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 0.
SpaceX participated in the U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency missile-tracking and missile-detection constellation and partnered with Leidos to develop four classified infrared sensor satellites scheduled to launch before the end of the year.
Northrop Grumman selected Leidos to supply infrared sensor payloads for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s missile-tracking satellite constellation in low Earth orbit.
Under the contract with Northrop Grumman, Leidos will develop and build the sensor payload for a proliferated constellation of low Earth orbit satellites for the Tranche 1 Tracking Layer.
Leidos acquired Dynetics in 2019 and gained significant expertise in sensor satellites and payloads through that acquisition.
Leidos was one of four companies that competed in 2020 for a Missile Defense Agency contract to design a hypersonic and ballistic missile-defense satellite and lost the contract to L3Harris and Northrop Grumman.
Leidos worked as a subcontractor to SpaceX under a $149,000,000 contract that SpaceX won in 2020 to build four satellites for the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 0.
Leidos filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office over the cloud-services award on 2021-12-28.
Leidos withdrew its protest with the Government Accountability Office on 2022-03-16, allowing the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and General Dynamics Information Technology to proceed with the work.
The Department of Defense’s Space Development Agency purchased the first eight Tracking Layer satellites in 2020, four from L3Harris and four from a SpaceX–Leidos team.
The first eight Tracking Layer satellites from L3Harris and the SpaceX–Leidos team passed design reviews and are scheduled to launch in 2023.
HawkEye 360 secured a $5,000,000 investment from Leidos in January 2022 with Leidos gaining access to HawkEye 360’s commercial RF data archive.
HawkEye 360 raised $145,000,000 for its RF data reconnaissance business in November and recently received an additional $5,000,000 for its Series D investment round from Leidos.
Leidos will leverage its expertise in developing advanced analytics to work with HawkEye 360’s RF geospatial intelligence data.
Leidos invested $5,000,000 in the second close of HawkEye 360’s Series D round.
Leidos will make a $5,000,000 strategic investment in HawkEye 360.