Leidos has been awarded a $661.8 million contract to design an airborne sensor system.
Under the indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract, Leidos will design and support the Airborne Reconnaissance Low-Enhanced (ARL-E) system, according to the Department of Defense contract announcement.
ARL-E will replace "nine ARL-Multifunction (ARL-M) systems with nine ARL-E systems through upgrading the air platform from existing Dash 7 to Dash 8-315 Quick Reaction Capability (QRC) airframes, re-hosting/upgrading current ARL sensors, adding new QRC sensors [wide area surveillance (WAAS), light detection and ranging (LIDAR), hyper spectral imaging (HSI)], and integrating with Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A)," according to the original FedBizOps solicitation.
