{"id":33644,"date":"2023-07-26T15:53:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T15:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2023\/07\/26\/l3harris-leidos-collaborate-on-us-armys-athena-reconnaissance-jet\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:41:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:41:46","slug":"l3harris-leidos-collaborate-on-us-armys-athena-reconnaissance-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/industry\/2023\/07\/26\/l3harris-leidos-collaborate-on-us-armys-athena-reconnaissance-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"L3Harris, Leidos collaborate on US Army\u2019s ATHENA reconnaissance jet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Two large defense contractors are teaming up to work on an intelligence-collecting jet the U.S. Army considers vital to its future long-range spying and targeting abilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">L3Harris Technologies and Leidos on July 25 said <a href=\"https:\/\/investors.leidos.com\/news-and-events\/news-releases\/press-release-details\/2023\/Leidos-and-L3Harris-announce-team-for-ATHENA-S\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">they would collaborate on a proposal<\/a> for the Army Theater Level High Altitude Expeditionary Next Airborne-Signals Intelligence venture, or ATHENA-S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is in the midst of an aerial reconnaissance overhaul, moving away from Cold War-era aircraft and toward a future featuring advanced sensors, flights at higher altitudes and insights gathered from deeper distances. The ATHENA \u2014 of which there are the variants \u201cS\u201d and \u201cR\u201d \u2014 is part of the push.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Leidos-L3Harris team focuses each of our companies\u2019 extensive and diverse talents to achieve mission success with ATHENA-S,\u201d Tim Freeman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/battlefield-tech\/it-networks\/2019\/12\/16\/pentagon-issues-65b-contract-for-network-support\/\" target=\"_blank\">a Leidos senior vice president<\/a> and airborne solutions operations manager, said in a statement. \u201cWith our combined integration, investment, engineering and design expertise, we look forward to producing a highly-configurable platform with more ISR capabilities to create an operational picture of the battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The companies said they would together fit two Bombardier Global 6500 jets with radar, electronic and communications intelligence equipment tailored to ATHENA-S specifications. The aircraft are intended to support Army missions within European Command\u2019s area of responsibility, which includes Ukraine and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">L3Harris and Leidos are already involved with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/miltech\/2022\/06\/06\/us-army-closes-in-on-faster-jet-to-replace-guardrail-aircraft\/\" target=\"_blank\">other Army intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance programs<\/a>, namely the Airborne Reconnaissance and Electronic Warfare System, or ARES; and an airborne reconnaissance intelligence system dubbed ARTEMIS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former has been dispatched to the Pacific, a priority region for the Biden administration. It has logged more than 130 flight hours. The latter has been sent to Europe, where it\u2019s recorded more than 2,000 hours of operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army is beefing up its information-collection arsenal as the Pentagon prepares for a potential conflict with Russia and China. Fights with either power would cover a vast distance and require mass amounts of troops, a pivot away from the more surgical counterinsurgency campaigns of the past. The conditions are driving a demand for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/intel-geoint\/2023\/03\/17\/what-is-deep-sensing-and-why-is-the-us-army-so-focused-on-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">what\u2019s known as deep sensing<\/a>: the capacity to find, monitor, target and kill from greater distances and with finer precision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn simplistic terms it is we, as a country, who need to understand the environment that we\u2019re going to operate in as robustly as possible from as far away as possible,\u201d Mark Kitz told C4ISRNET in June, when he was the service\u2019s program executive officer for intelligence, electronic warfare and sensors. Kitz now leads Program Executive Office Command, Control and Communications-Tactical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s critical,\u201d he added, \u201cnot putting any of our systems or soldiers at risk, and doing it in a way that we can understand the operating space at very long distances, especially when you look at Indo-Pacific Command, especially when you look at the target environment in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The companies plan to fit Bombardier Global 6500 jets with radar, electronic and communications intelligence equipment tailored to ATHENA 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