Leidos secures $869M contract to help the Army see the battlefield faster
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Nick Wakeman
The MACRO II effort covers artificial intelligence and advanced networking across land, sea, air, space, cyber and electromagnetic domains.
Leidos has booked a five-year, $869 million Army task order to help operators make faster and better decisions across the electromagnetic spectrum and other domains.
The work will use artificial intelligence, advanced networking and modular open architecture to help turn growing data volumes into actionable insights.
Both Leidos and the Army aim to help users “understand the battlefield and act faster than the enemy,” Chad Haferbier, Leidos’ senior vice president of decision advantage, said in a release Thursday.
The systems to be built under Mission Awareness Capabilities Ramp-up and Optimization II contract will stretch across all domains. This starts with the electromagnetic spectrum and will incorporate land, sea, air, space and cyber domains.
MACRO II has a five-year period of performance.
It appears that Leidos has replaced incumbent Applied Research Associates, which won a contract in 2020 to support the effort.
A bridge contract was awarded to ARA in March to continue its work until MACRO II was in place, according to GovTribe data.
MACRO II is also known as INVICTA and was competed under the General Services Administration’s Astro vehicle.
In its announcement, Leidos said that the contract aligns elements of its NorthStar 2030 strategy. This includes an emphasis on decision advantage through digital modernization, developing critical mission software and supporting evolving requirements.