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SNC, New Leidos-L3Harris Team Readying For Army’s ATHENA-S ISR Jet Award By End Of FY ‘23

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, July 26th, 2023

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SNC, New Leidos-L3Harris Team Readying For Army’s ATHENA-S ISR Jet Award By End Of FY ‘23

SNC's new RAPCON-X ISR jet. Photo: SNC.

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) and a newly announced team of Leidos [LDOS] and L3Harris Technologies [LHX] have detailed their proposals for the Army’s ATHENA-S intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) jet program, with an award expected by the end of this fiscal year. Both are outfitting Bombardier Global 6500 jets with radars and signals intelligence systems for ATHENA-S, which is intended to serve as a bridge capability to ultimately inform final requirements for the Army’s future HADES, or High Accuracy Detection…

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