The Army said Thursday it has awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a nearly $59 million deal to provide prototypes for the Terrestrial Layer System–Brigade Combat Team (TLS-BCT) program that will undergo operational assessment with a first unit.
The new Other Transaction Authority (OTA) agreement runs through October 2023 and continues Lockheed Martin’s work on the TLS-BCT program, which aims to provide an integrated suite of signals intelligence, electronic warfare and cyber capabilities on Stryker vehicles.
“TLS-BCT equips the new force structure in the Intelligence Collection Platoon and the EW Platoon that are organic to the Military Intelligence Company in the Brigade Combat Team and integrated on maneuver formation vehicle platforms,” Ken Strayer, the Army’s Project Manager for Electronic Warfare and Cyber (PM EW&C), said in a statement. “The new integrated suite of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Electronic Warfare (EW), and Cyberspace Operations provides the Warfighter with critical situational awareness of the enemy through detection, identification, location, exploitation, and disruption of enemy signals of interest.”
After Lockheed Martin had participated in a competitive first phase of TLS-BCT, the Army awarded the company a $9.6 million deal last September to continue work developing the Stryker-integrated suite of systems.
PM EW&C said previous work on TLS-BCT included detailed technical reviews and soldier touchpoints to inform further development of the system.
The Army noted that it plans to use additional OTA agreements in the future to work on integrated TLS-BCT capabilities on its new Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicles.