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Payloads
Providing resilient space-based missile warning and tracking
The accelerating pace of change across the space domain requires continual situational awareness and threat detection capabilities; aligned to rapid payload innovation and integration. For 30 years Leidos has been investing and developing Wide-field of View (WFOV) Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) sensors and mission data processing focused on missile warning and tracking.
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High specification
Faster and less expensive payload integration
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Industry leading
Delivering innovative satellite sensor technology
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Interoperability
Prioritizing speed, agility, and performance
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Development agility
Producing space-based sensors rapidly
Leveraging a constellation of small satellites and low Earth orbit (LEO), Leidos is advancing an important mission objective to develop a marketplace for military payloads that drives innovation, speed, agility and interoperability with commodity space vehicles providing the government greater flexibility and choice in space system acquisition over traditional vendor-specific closed system architectures.
Integrating data from the edge
Seamless sensor to shooter command and control, delivering operationally actionable intelligence to the point of need.
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Hypersonics
A prime contractor for the Common-Hypersonic Glide Body, our expertise in the field of hypersonic defenses and sensing is unmatched.
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Supporting the national security mission in space
Lonestar provides space-based situational awareness directly into the hands of the tactical warfighter.
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