DRS Network & Imaging Systems LLC

DRS Network & Imaging Systems LLC, a subsidiary of Italian aerospace and defense multinational Leonardo DRS, Inc., manufactures advanced sensor, imaging, and electronic components for the Department of Defense as a prime contractor across full-and-open federal procurements, with no set-aside posture. The company competes as a large business across Defense Logistics Agency, Army, Navy, and Air Force programs, holding a substantial portfolio of Indefinite Delivery Contracts and recurring task orders for thermal imaging systems, night vision equipment, optical components, cable assemblies, circuit card assemblies, and specialized electronics supporting armored vehicle platforms.

DRS Network & Imaging Systems operates from Melbourne, Florida, with secondary performance locations at Dallas, Texas; Arlington, Virginia; Huntsville, Alabama; and Cypress, California. The company's primary NAICS categories span Other Electronic Component Manufacturing (691 awards), Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing (262 awards), Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (212 awards), and Electronic Computer Manufacturing (205 awards). Recent representative prime contracts include a $63.8 million delivery order from the Army's Program Executive Office Soldier for Family of Weapon Sight - Individual (FWS-I) full-rate production of long-wave infrared sensors with optical components and receiver assemblies (September 2025); a $21.6 million delivery order from Aviation and Missile Command for target acquisition equipment (September 2025); a $9.88 million delivery order from U.S. Special Operations Command for imaging and sensor component production (May 2025); and an $8.3 million definitive contract from Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime for 2,198 base distribution boxes supporting M-1 Abrams tank logistics (April 2025). The company also executes a $950 million Indefinite Delivery Contract with DLA Aviation for Bradley Fighting Vehicle test and evaluation services and maintains a $43.9 million IDC with U.S. Special Operations Command for specialized camera production.

Customer concentration among the top five funding agencies accounts for 61% of recent awards. The Department of the Army dominates by potential value—the Army Acquisition Support Center's Program Executive Office Soldier anchors $7.67 billion across 92 awards, followed by Army Materiel Command's Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal at $3.74 billion (141 awards), Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command at $2.79 billion (346 awards), Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground at $2.51 billion (23 awards), and PEO Command Control Communications-Tactical at $2.16 billion (79 awards). By award count, Defense Logistics Agency Aviation leads with 826 awards ($60 million), DLA Land and Maritime follows with 541 awards ($850.2 million), and Army Materiel Command Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command places third with 346 awards ($2.79 billion). This concentration reflects DRS's role as a core supplier of components and repair services for the Abrams tank, Bradley Fighting Vehicle, and soldier-portable optical systems across the Army enterprise.

DRS holds positions on multiple Indefinite Delivery Contracts as a prime contractor, including the Advanced Technology Support Program V (ATSP V), a $25.357 billion multiple-award vehicle from the Defense Microelectronics Activity extending through December 2035; the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, a $151 billion multiple-award vehicle from the Missile Defense Agency extending through December 2035; a $250,000 single-award IDC with DLA Land and Maritime for optical instrument windows (October 2025); and a $5.68 million Other Transaction IDV from PEO CSCSS for the VIPK prototype project (May 2025). DRS also executes task orders on the Solutions for Enterprise Wide Procurement V (SEWP V) GWAC. The top five parent vehicle IDCs by task-order volume are Indefinite Delivery Contract W25G1V08A0722 (189 task orders, $835 thousand), W31P4Q18D0001 (157 task orders, $340 thousand), W31P4Q18D0067 (135 task orders, $93.8 million), W58RGZ04D0028 (107 task orders, $246.1 million), and W58RGZ09D0001 (68 task orders, $409.8 million). Combined potential value across all awards reaches $90.5 billion; combined dollars obligated represent $9.21 billion (10% of potential value).

Activity has grown sharply: 208 awards in 2022 increased to 369 in 2024, then moderated to 204 in 2025 and 46 year-to-date in 2026. Within the next twenty-four months, 126 awards (combined potential value $952.4 million) reach ultimate completion, presenting recompete exposure across thermal imaging, optical windows, cable assemblies, and display system contracts.

DRS operates as a prime contractor on 94% of its awards (3,568 contracts and IDVs), with 6% as a subcontractor (221 sub-awards). When functioning as a subcontractor, DRS supplies optical components, cable assemblies, thermal imaging systems, and electronic components to BAE Systems Land and Armaments (Bradley Fighting Vehicle and M109A7 production, AMPV early material, Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle development), General Dynamics Land Systems (Mobile Protected Firepower engineering, Short Range Air Defense System, SGT STOUT), Raytheon Company (custom circuit card assemblies, missile spares, terminal operator units), L3Harris Technologies (GEOXO Imager implementation), Defense Systems and Solutions (Degraded Visual Environment Pilotage kits for CH-47 Block II), L3 Technologies (submarine photonics masts), DCS Corporation (camera assemblies, DVE-Wide color low-light), and Amentum Services (C5ISR prototyping integration facility support). Service Contract Inventory data show minimal SCI-reportable invoiced revenue ($0 across FY2022–FY2024) and near-zero FTE trajectory (0.2 FTEs in FY2022, 0.0 in FY2023 and FY2024), indicating that DRS's federal work is predominantly goods and products rather than labor-intensive services; SCI captures only service contracts above $150,000 and excludes goods, classified work, and the substantial imaging and sensor component manufacturing that defines the company's portfolio.

DRS Network & Imaging Systems is one of four named subsidiaries under parent Leonardo DRS, Inc. (headquartered Arlington, Virginia), itself a subsidiary of Leonardo SPA. The parent entity Leonardo DRS has 3,789 total awards with $90.5 billion combined potential value across 66 customer agencies. DRS Network & Imaging Systems anchors Leonardo DRS's sensor, imaging, and electronic component strategy for defense platforms, positioning the subsidiary as a critical supplier within Leonardo's broader U.S. defense industrial footprint spanning rotorcraft, missiles, land systems, and advanced electronics.