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Leidos Invests $5 Million In Satellite RF Monitoring Company HawkEye 360

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, January 6th, 2022

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Leidos Invests $5 Million In Satellite RF Monitoring Company HawkEye 360

Cluster of three HawkEye 360 satellites in low-Earth orbit. Image: HawkEye 360

Leidos [LDOS] on Thursday said it will make a strategic investment in HawkEye 360, a commercial provider of geospatial-intelligence (GEOINT) solutions based on radio frequency (RF) technology in a move Leidos said will improve its capabilities in national security space. HawkEye 360 said the $5 million investment will be added to a previous $145 million investment funding round from various investors the company disclosed last November to help it grow its data and analytic services. The Northern Virginia-based company is…

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