L3Harris Technologies Integrated Systems L.P.

L3Harris Technologies Integrated Systems L.P. Integrated Aerospace Systems Division, doing business as L3 Communications Integrated Systems Waco, is a large-business prime contractor and subcontractor delivering aircraft maintenance, modification, engineering, and aerospace systems integration for military aviation platforms and special access programs through direct contracts with the Department of the Navy, Department of the Air Force, and other federal agencies. The company operates as a subsidiary of L3Harris Technologies, Inc. and competes exclusively in full-and-open (non-set-aside) procurements across its 872 recent federal awards, which span roughly $30.55 billion in combined potential value and represent 92% prime and 8% subcontractor activity.

L3Harris Integrated Aerospace Systems' core capability centers on depot-level maintenance, repair, modification, and configuration management for military aircraft platforms. Concrete work includes P-8A Poseidon airframe depot maintenance and repair (773 field-level work orders under a $718.2 million Naval Air Systems Command Indefinite Delivery Contract with ultimate completion September 30, 2029); C-130J Hercules unscheduled and programmed depot maintenance overflow support ($42.7 million delivery order, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Robins Air Force Base, FY2024 invoiced $17.2 million across 244,328 contractor hours at $70.22/hr); BIG SAFARI program support—a classified Air Force special access program for advanced aircraft modification and systems integration—through multiple delivery orders ranging from $2.7 million to $660.1 million (largest single order in February 2023 with firm fixed-price ceiling $660.1 million, completion March 31, 2029); and coast-guard HC-130J aircraft missionization ($87.5 million definitive contract, July 2022, completion December 31, 2029). The company also sustains NOAA's WP-3D Hurricane Hunter aircraft through phase inspections and standard depot-level maintenance, and supplies specialized aerospace components—flight-critical communication matrices, integrated voice network equipment, and related avionics—to Naval Supply Systems Command and related naval activities. Service Contract Inventory reporting shows $191.3 million invoiced across FY2022–FY2024, with FY2024 labor across 272 FTEs and 244,328 contractor hours invoiced at a median government-paid rate of $158.51/hr, ranging from the 10th percentile at $0.15/hr to the 90th percentile at $428.83/hr, indicating heavy fixed-price work with material-dominant task orders alongside technical labor intensity.

Customer concentration is acute and skewed toward naval and air-force aviation sustainment. The top five customer agencies account for 67% of recent awards by count. Naval Air Systems Command dominates both volume and dollars: 173 awards worth $16.65 billion combined potential value, anchored by the $718.2 million P-8A Airframe Depot Maintenance and Repair multiple-award IDC (September 2024 award). Naval Air Warfare Center adds 15 awards worth $7.23 billion. The Department of the Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center—the contracting office for BIG SAFARI—issued 131 awards worth $3.28 billion. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at both Robins Air Force Base (17 awards, $2.22 billion) and Wright Patterson Air Force Base (68 awards, $375.9 million) round out the top tier. Together, Navy and Air Force platforms (P-8A, C-130, BIG SAFARI) account for the overwhelming majority of dollars and scope.

The vendor holds primary seats on five high-value indefinite delivery vehicles. The P-8A Airframe Depot Maintenance and Repair Indefinite Delivery Contract (Naval Air Systems Command, $718.2 million ceiling, through September 30, 2029) supports 69 task orders worth $370.9 million in combined potential value. The BIG SAFARI Indefinite Delivery Contract (Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center, $1.0 billion ceiling awarded August 2025, through August 2030) carries no task orders yet recorded in the source but represents a major vehicle for future classified aircraft modification work. Additional vehicles include the C-130 Unscheduled and Programmed Depot Maintenance Overflow Contract (multiple task orders on firm fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee bases ranging from $1.8 million to $42.7 million), the NOAA P-3 and WP-3D Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Services IDC ($37.6 million ceiling), and a Coast Guard Basic Ordering Agreement for HC-130J missionization ($87.5 million).

Activity has grown in recent years from 19 awards in 2022 to 44 awards in 2025. Fifteen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $789.7 million and represent a recompete window for competitors and contract-execution risk for the vendor. The largest recompete exposure sits with the multiple BIG SAFARI delivery orders due to complete between late 2024 and 2029, and the C-130J overflow and sustainment task orders scheduled to conclude between now and August 2025.

In its subcontractor role, L3Harris Integrated Aerospace Systems supplies aircraft components and integration labor to larger defense primes. Named subcontracts flow predominantly to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. and BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. for BIG SAFARI work (VoIP interfaces, communications servers, routers, and support labor), Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation for MQ-4C TRITON Unmanned Aircraft System long-lead items and major subsystems (multiple awards FY2022–FY2025), Vertex Aerospace LLC for E-6B Contractor Logistics Support follow-on task orders, BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. for C-27J aircraft labor and materials support, and smaller teaming with Yulista Solutions LLC, Tyonek Services Overhaul Facility-Stennis, and Kihomac Inc. on specialized aircraft installations and engineering. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, L3Harris self-performed 100% of contractor hours (0% subcontractor share by hours), indicating a delivery model built on internal technical expertise and facilities rather than supply-chain subcontracting. However, named subcontractors on individual delivery orders—Performance Aircraft Services (woman-owned small business, fuel system maintenance), Vertex Aerospace, and Derco Aerospace (Lockheed Martin subsidiary, military spare parts)—indicate selective use of specialized teaming on complex maintenance programs.

The company's facilities anchor in Lacy Lakeview, Texas (primary depot maintenance and aircraft modification center near Waco), with secondary performance at Bellmead, Texas (NOAA aircraft work and some Air Force overflow maintenance), and administrative and technical reach across the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center footprint at Robins and Wright Patterson Air Force Bases. The vendor operates within the L3Harris Technologies, Inc. corporate structure as a subsidiary of the parent aerospace and defense conglomerate, inheriting legacy capabilities from L3 Communications and gaining alignment with L3Harris' government relationships and strategic programs—particularly BIG SAFARI—that have underpinned sustained multi-billion-dollar opportunity in military aircraft sustainment and advanced aerospace systems integration.