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Special Operations

Leidos Touts Its Bronco II Offering for SOCOM Armed Overwatch Program

Frank Wolfe

Thursday, June 3rd, 2021

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Leidos Touts Its Bronco II Offering for SOCOM Armed Overwatch Program

For U.S. Special Operations Command's Armed Overwatch program, a Leidos team is bidding the Bronco II, a plane that the company said is a descendant of the Vietnam-era OV-10 Bronco (Leidos Photo)

U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has awarded a contract to a Leidos [LDOS] team to enter its Bronco II aircraft into the next phase of SOCOM's Armed Overwatch program, the company said on June 3. The award was one of five made on May 14 to teams competing in the program. The Leidos team, including Dallas-based Paramount Group USA and Mississippi-based Vertex Aerospace, will advance its Bronco II offering to the Phase III Operational Prototype Demonstration fly-off this summer. The…

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