L3Harris Technologies, Inc.

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.'s Harris Defense Communications Division, doing business as Harris Corp, manufactures tactical communications equipment, radio systems, antenna assemblies, and related sustainment services to the Department of Defense as a large-business prime contractor competing full-and-open without set-asides. The division operates primary manufacturing and engineering facilities in Rochester, New York, with secondary locations in Salt Lake City, Utah and Tampa, Florida, and is a subsidiary of L3Harris Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Melbourne, Florida.

Harris Defense Communications dominates the federal communications hardware market through an exceptionally high prime-to-sub ratio: 98% of recent awards carry prime responsibility, with the division building most delivery teams internally rather than leaning on subcontractors. The capability portfolio centers on the AN/PRC series multi-channel handheld radios (AN/PRC-117G, AN/PRC-163, AN/PRC-161), satellite communications terminals, RF amplifiers, antenna systems, cryptographic equipment, and component-level sustainment including cable assemblies, mounting hardware, power adapters, and electronic subcomponents. Recent representative awards include a $66.2 million delivery order from Naval Information Warfare Systems Command for tactical communications equipment and sustainment (June 2026), a $48.3 million delivery order from Naval Information Warfare Systems Command for special warfare tactical communication equipment under order PRP 26197 (July 2026), a $20 million Marine Corps delivery order for multi-channel handheld communications equipment (May 2026), and a $9.8 million Air Force delivery order for 469 units of AN/PRC-163 tactical radio systems (March 2026).

The division's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Navy and special operations communities. Naval Information Warfare Systems Command leads by combined potential value at $15.82 billion across 2,173 awards, followed by Army Materiel Command's Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground at $13.12 billion (217 awards), United States Marine Corps at $11.47 billion (598 awards), Army Materiel Command Communications Electronics Command at $7.46 billion (1,338 awards), and United States Special Operations Command at $4.25 billion (1,069 awards). By award count, Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime dominates with 6,020 awards valued at $648.2 million, reflecting high-volume baseline component and spares ordering. The top five customers account for 59% of awards but only 60% of combined potential value—a concentration that reflects both large individual task orders (Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, Army) and high-frequency small-order activity (DLA Land and Maritime).

Harris Defense Communications holds a dominant position on a $36.9 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with Naval Air Warfare Center (N68335-25-D-0001, October 3, 2024 through October 6, 2029) that has generated over 569 active delivery orders across Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Special Operations Command. The division also competes extensively under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (2,063 task orders, $1.97 billion potential value) and holds seats on multiple defense IDIQs including SPE7MX17D0035 (2,217 task orders, $95.1 million) and SPE7MX22D0010 (1,693 task orders, $50.2 million). Notably, the division was awarded a position on the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ from the Missile Defense Agency on January 21, 2026, valued at $151 billion with performance through December 28, 2035, though initial task order activity is minimal to date. L3Harris operates across primary NAICS 334220 (Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing), which accounts for 8,896 of its 19,536 total awards.

Recent activity shows a declining trajectory from 939 awards in 2024 to 200 in 2026 (through September), reflecting the source's cutoff date and the awards-per-year metric's historical range rather than sustained trend. Within the next twenty-four months, 124 awards (combined potential value $2.06 billion) reach ultimate completion and face recompete exposure. In its subcontractor role, Harris Defense Communications delivers RF amplifiers, cable assemblies, antenna components, and related sustainment to Lockheed Martin on C4I technical support and navigation set work, to BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. on NGMP handheld radio and cable assembly orders, to Sierra Nevada Company on airborne mission networking kits for MC-130J aircraft, and to smaller primes on special operations and electronic warfare support.

Across SCI-reportable prime contracts above the $150,000 threshold, the division invoiced $13.1 million (FY2022–FY2025), with FY2025 showing $5 million across 10.6 FTEs. Government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $163.36/hr to a median of $209.69/hr to a 90th percentile of $501.92/hr, indicating engineering and program-management-heavy delivery. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed approximately 12% of total contractor hours, underscoring the division's preference for in-house labor. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule labor portfolio spans 15 categories from IT Business Analyst 1 ($156.59/hr, bachelor's, entry-level) through IT Engineer 7 ($375.24/hr, bachelor's, fifteen years' experience), with no security-cleared roles listed.