L3Harris Technologies, Inc.

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.'s Harris Defense Communications Division, doing business as Harris Corp, is a large-business prime contractor and subcontractor delivering tactical communications equipment, radio systems, antenna assemblies, and related sustainment services to Department of Defense and federal agencies. The division competes full-and-open without set-aside restrictions across a portfolio dominated by communications hardware manufacturing and systems integration work.

Harris Defense Communications operates as a subsidiary of the parent L3Harris Technologies, headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, with primary manufacturing and engineering facilities in Rochester, New York and secondary operational locations including Salt Lake City, Utah and Tampa, Florida. The division's federal work spans primary NAICS 334220 (Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing) and related electronics codes, with primary PSC classifications in radio and television communications equipment, antennas and waveguides, and miscellaneous communications equipment.

The division's capability portfolio centers on tactical radio systems—particularly the AN/PRC series (AN/PRC-117G, AN/PRC-163, AN/PRC-161), multi-channel handheld radios with advanced waveforms including High Performance Waveform and Tactical Scalable Mobile Ad Hoc Network capability, satellite communications terminals (including KOR-24A Small Tactical Terminal systems), RF amplifiers, antenna systems in tripod-mounted and vehicle-integrated configurations, cryptographic equipment, and component-level sustainment including cable assemblies, mounting hardware, power adapters, and electronic subcomponents. Recent named delivery orders include a $19.94 million Air Force award for AN/PRC-163 CODE INFIL/EXFIL systems (January 2026), a $26.8 million Marine Corps order for multi-channel handheld radios and vehicle integration kits (November 2025), a $20 million Naval Information Warfare Systems Command delivery for communications equipment and sustainment (February 2026), and a $16.13 million Marine Corps delivery for multi-channel handhelds with Warrior Robust Enhanced Network waveform (December 2025).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to Naval Information Warfare Systems Command ($15.66 billion across 2,154 awards, 18% of potential value) and Army communications customers. The top five funding agencies account for 59 percent of award volume by count and 61 percent by potential value: Naval Information Warfare Systems Command leads both on dollars; Army Materiel Command ACC Aberdeen Proving Ground ($13.37 billion across 218 awards), Marine Corps ($11.44 billion across 593 awards), Army CECOM ($7.46 billion across 1,337 awards), and Special Operations Command ($4.25 billion across 1,068 awards) round the top tier. Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime dominates award count volume (5,974 awards, $647.5 million combined potential) but represents lower-dollar component and spares orders. This split—high count at DLA, high dollars at Naval IW and Army ACC—indicates L3Harris anchors its business on large parent contracts with major commands while sustaining steady baseline demand through DLA.

The division holds a dominant position on a $36.9 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with Naval Air Warfare Center (N68335-25-D-0001, awarded October 3, 2024, running through October 6, 2029), which has generated over 569 active delivery orders to Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, Air Force, Marine Corps, Special Operations Command, and related customers. The division also holds parent vehicles including multiple GSA Schedules (2,063 task orders, $1.97 billion combined potential) and additional IDCs including SPE7MX17D0035 (2,217 task orders, $95.1 million), SPE7MX22D0010 (1,647 task orders, $49.5 million), and SPRBL111D0029 (764 task orders, $97.6 million). Additionally, L3Harris Technologies parent was awarded a $151 billion multiple-award Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ by the Missile Defense Agency (January 21, 2026, through December 28, 2035) covering multi-domain defense systems; Harris Defense Communications is positioned as a contributor to that vehicle.

Activity has run high and relatively stable: 938 awards in FY2024, 660 in FY2025, and 97 to date in FY2026 (through June 3, 2026). The division faces a moderate recompete cliff: 144 awards with completion dates inside the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $2.06 billion, concentrated in sustained demand from Naval IW and Army customers. The parent IDC with NAVAIR (running through October 2029) anchors the largest renewal risk and opportunity.

L3Harris operates predominantly as a prime contractor (98% of awards) with selective subcontracting. The division subcontracts to major primes including Sierra Nevada Company (on airborne mission networking kits and radio systems for special operations platforms), Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (on Integrated Battle Command System hardware), Lockheed Martin Corporation (on satellite communications and navigation systems integration), General Dynamics (on mobile user objective system sustainment and information technology security), BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. (on antenna and radio component modernization), Raytheon Company (on ground-controlled approach equipment), and Scientific Research Corporation (on Link-16 antenna integration and engineering development). These teaming arrangements position Harris Defense Communications as a specialized communications equipment prime and subcomponent supplier to broader defense systems integrators, particularly on platforms requiring tactical radio and satellite communications integration.

SCI-reported invoicing of $8.1 million across FY2022–FY2024 (4 prime records, 3 subcontractor records) reflects only unclassified service contracts above $150,000 and captures a fraction of the division's federal activity; the vast majority of this division's output is communications equipment goods rather than reportable services. On those SCI prime records, median government-paid rates ran around $202.54/hr, with senior labor pricing through $543/hr. The division reports delivering roughly 15.8 FTEs in FY2022 and 7.1 FTEs in FY2024 on SCI-captured work; this represents a narrow slice of actual federal workforce scale. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, average sub-hours share was 18 percent, indicating the division builds substantial portions of its delivery teams organically while using targeted subcontractor support for specialized design and integration tasks.

The division's GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 15 active categories priced from $156.59/hr (IT Business Analyst entry-level) to $375.24/hr (senior IT Engineer), all requiring bachelor's degrees and none carrying security clearance requirements—typical for commercial IT support services delivered through GSA rather than communications hardware work. This labor posture signals a supplemental role relative to the hardware-focused prime contract base; most revenue is captured in equipment rather than labor-hour billing.