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Army

Leonardo DRS Nabs $40 Million Army Contract To Equip Two Divisions With M-LIDS

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, October 13th, 2022

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Leonardo DRS Nabs $40 Million Army Contract To Equip Two Divisions With M-LIDS

Single Vehicle Stryker C-UAS designed by Leonardo DRS at Big Sandy test range in Arizona in September. Photo: Leonardo DRS

The Army earlier this month awarded Leonardo DRS a $40 million task order to provide its mobile counter-small drone solution to two divisions, an award that builds off a previous $189 million contract the service awarded the company in 2020 for the Mobile-Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aircraft System Integrated Defeat Systems (M-LIDS). Deliveries of the M-LIDS under the latest task order will begin in 2024, Ed House, director of business development of the Leonardo DRS Land Systems line of business,…

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