
The Army has awarded CACI’s [CACI] Mastodon Design a nearly $100 million contract to build and supply the service’s new dismounted electronic warfare (EW) system. The new award follows a prototyping and demonstration effort with Mastodon Design, with the Army aiming to begin fielding the Terrestrial Layer System–Brigade Combat Team (TLS BCT) Manpack to an initial unit this year. “The efforts to demonstrate, test and rapidly procure a [commercial off-the-shelf]-based product significantly accelerated the procurement timeline and will result in…