The Maintenance Of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities (MOSSAIC) program has awarded L3Harris Technologies an option year five grant. The U.S. Space Force has awarded a contract for up to $187 million that will continue to modernize and maintain vital space infrastructure, enabling the Space Force’s core competence of space domain awareness. MOSSAIC finds, tracks, and identifies deep space objects to support the U.S. military’s space surveillance and command centres in Colorado, California, and Virginia. This allows MOSSAIC to give military, commercial, and civil users accurate and fast space surveillance information.
Under the MOSSAIC program’s option year five contract, L3Harris will upgrade and modify all systems. This includes creating rich sensor information to facilitate the shift to the necessary dynamic and responsive tasking methodology for tactical space domain.
According to Ed Zoiss, President of Space & Airborne Systems at L3Harris, “the MOSSAIC program is critical as it provides domain awareness for warfighters. We are honoured to carry out this program’s ongoing work and support the U.S. Space Force in ensuring sustainability, safety, and security throughout the entire space domain.”
The contract value for the MOSSAIC initiative is expected to reach up to $1.2 billion over a ten-year period. In order to maintain and modernize radar, optical, and command and control systems that give fast, accurate space domain awareness data to military, civilian, and commercial customers, L3Harris was awarded a $23 million contract in February 2020. This contract is an extension of that award. L3Harris has been able to support mission performance by performing maintenance and improvements to space domain ground systems thanks to subsequent option year grants.
