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Army Awards SRC Potential $426 Million Deal For E-LIDS Counter-Drone System

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, July 24th, 2020

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Army Awards SRC Potential $426 Million Deal For E-LIDS Counter-Drone System

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The Army has awarded SRC a potential $426 million deal for development and production of the Expeditionary-Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aircraft System Integrated Defeat System (E-LIDS) counter-drone system, the Pentagon said Thursday. “The E-LIDS effort began as an urgent requirement from the Army in early 2017. SRC continues to make advances and improve the system through ongoing development,” Lisa Mondello, a company spokeswoman, told Defense Daily. Mondello said E-LIDS is a fixed-site “system of systems” C-UAS platform with the new…

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