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Leidos has formally announced a partnership with L3Harris Technologies for the US Army’s Theater Level High-Altitude Expeditionary Next Airborne - Signals Intelligence (ATHENA-S) proposal to deliver two enhanced intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft.
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The team of industry titans will work to modify two Bombardier Global 6500 jets with radar, electronic, and communications intelligence capabilities tailored to ATHENA-S requirements.
ATHENA-S will fly at higher operating altitudes, provide increased range, greater endurance, more capacity for larger payloads, and greater stand-off ranges, along with next-generation sensor technology.
Tim Freeman, Leidos senior vice-president and Airborne Solutions operations manager, said, “The Leidos-L3Harris team focuses each of our companies’ extensive and diverse talents to achieve mission success with ATHENA-S.”
The aircraft are intended to support US Army missions in the US European Command area of responsibility and are designed to close the gap between the Army’s medium- and high-altitude ISR aircraft fleet.
“With our combined integration, investment, engineering, and design expertise, we look forward to producing a highly-configurable platform with more ISR capabilities to create an operational picture of the battlefield. The Leidos-L3Harris team is excited to deliver a decision advantage for the US and our allies.”
Leidos currently operates two Leidos Special Mission Aircraft (LSMA) for the Army’s Airborne Reconnaissance Targeting and Exploitation Multi-Mission Intelligence System (ARTEMIS) program in support of US European Command. The LSMA provides deep-sensing electronics intelligence to enable threat analysis and delivery of long-range precision fires.
L3Harris currently operates a Bombardier Global Series jet as part of the Army’s Airborne Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare System (ARES) program supporting US Indo-Pacific Command.
In addition to ARES, L3Harris is also performing on Phase 2 of the Army’s Multi-Domain Sensing System program to develop, build, integrate, and demonstrate prototype electronic and communications intelligence sensors for the High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System (HADES) program.
