Learn how our unique airborne capabilities support our customer's geospatial intelligence needs and provide actionable, detailed information.
Airborne Solutions
Experienced, proven ISR systems provider
We design, integrate, deliver, and sustain full system life-cycle manned and unmanned aerial solutions. We work with customers across the defense market to enhance their airborne capabilities and have extensive experience: airborne operations, maintenance, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) with all the Armed Services. This includes mission equipment payloads, processing, exploitation, and dissemination, to ensure warfighter mission success. We utilize our diverse workforce, specialized engineering, logistics expertise, mission focus, and aviation assets to rapidly develop and acquire forward-looking, innovative solutions.
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Leidos Special Mission Aircraft
Built on a common platform using a commercial derivative aircraft, the Leidos Special Mission Aircraft (LSMA) enables high-accuracy ISR from the rapid integration of military packages, while reducing training, logistical, system acquisition, hangar modification, and equipment costs.
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Leidos Multi-Mission Aircraft
Based on the King Air 350, the Leidos Multi-Mission Aircraft (LMMA) is our latest airborne ISR solution. The LMMA contains an ISR Pod with rail system for rapid sensor integration, a Star SAFIRE EO/IR system that is HD/MWIR/SWIR capable, a laser illuminator, and integrated GeoFOCIS software. This enables enhanced mission management and GIS visualization.
AgilePod®
Leidos has developed and demonstrated integration of advanced airborne sensors utilizing open architectures. This integration enables collection capabilities to be chosen based on the mission need, rather than on their relationship to other proprietary host platform components. Our AgilePod® common payload framework enables the user to create the right pod configuration to fit the mission sensor requirement.
Manassas Aviation Facility
Leidos operates a thriving, full-service aviation integration and maintenance facility with over 45,000 square feet of hangar floor space equipped with modern tooling and test equipment and staffed with highly skilled technicians based at Manassas Regional Airport, VA. Our wide range of capabilities includes airframe integration and maintenance.
Airborne Solutions Australia
Conducting airborne special missions on behalf of the Australian government, including surveillance, search and rescue, mission aircrew training, and aircraft design modifications.
Mobile Force Protection
As part of the DARPA MFP program, we are developing a range of technology advances to enable rapid detection, identification, tracking, and neutralization of adversary sUASs — all while mitigating collateral damage.
We serve as the system integrator, leveraging our developed sensor technologies and novel mitigation techniques to address sUAS threats.
Our Airborne Solutions
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We provide full-service aviation mission, support, integration, and maintenance capabilities. Through our modern facilities and highly skilled technicians, we deliver training processing, research and development, geospatial technology services, and operational support to our customers, as well as mission support to the ARTEMIS and HR3DGI programs.
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We offer full life-cycle design, engineering, and development. We also provide integration of weapons systems, sensors, as well as advanced aerial/terrestrial ISR Mission Equipment Packages (MEP) and Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) technologies into airborne platforms, Command and Control (C2) centers, and their associated mission networks to infuse operations with ISR data.
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Leveraging decades of experience, we provide turnkey, quick reaction airborne ISR solutions. This includes technical integration expertise on platforms including the Bombardier CL 650, Beechcraft King Air, Cessna Caravan, DeHavilland Dash 7, Dash 8, Twin Otter, and the Bronco II, custom LTAs, rotary-wing platforms, and various Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs).
