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The deal with Leidos sets up a three-year contract with a two-year option worth $98 million, according to an Army statement at the time of the award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both General Dynamics Mission Systems and Northrop Grumman also submitted offerings to the AFATDS competition. The deadline to file a bid protest is Friday, but no record of protests besides Raytheon\u2019s had appeared on the GAO\u2019s website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Raytheon has much to lose as sources say AFATDS was a lucrative endeavor for the company, which successfully fielded 13 versions since its inception in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company first entered into an agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in 1981 to develop AFATDS and received its first contract in 1984. AFATDS was approved for fielding in 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AFATDS has supported operations in Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom. It is 100 percent fielded with more than 4,000 systems. 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