L3 Technologies, Inc.

L3 Technologies, Inc. Communication Systems-West Division, a subsidiary of L3Harris Technologies, manufactures secure tactical communications terminals, radio frequency equipment, and related military data-link systems for the Department of Defense as a large-business prime contractor competing on full-and-open federal contracts without set-aside designations. The division operates from Salt Lake City, Utah, and holds a diverse portfolio of indefinite-delivery contracts anchored in the Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) program family, a Major Defense Acquisition Program delivering jam-resistant digital voice and data communications across air, land, and sea platforms.

Communication Systems-West's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Navy commands. Naval Information Warfare Systems Command dominates by potential value at $8.11 billion across 309 awards, followed by Naval Air Systems Command and Naval Air Warfare Center combined at $7.4 billion across 120 awards, with the Army Communications Electronics Command third at $4.62 billion across 225 awards. The Air Force Electronic Systems Center ranks fourth with $4.08 billion across 72 awards. Naval Supply Systems Command, while leading in raw award count at 785 awards, carries a lower potential-value profile at $294.4 million, reflecting a mix of small-value spares, repairs, and sustainment task orders. This portfolio concentration—46 percent of recent awards concentrated in five Navy and Army customers, accounting for about 63 percent of combined potential value—signals sustained dependency on naval tactical communications modernization and Army satellite communications sustainment as core revenue drivers.

The division's vehicle position is anchored in multiple large IDIQs and basic ordering agreements. Communication Systems-West holds a $939.6 million multiple-award IDIQ with Naval Information Warfare Systems Command for MIDS Weapons Data Link Small Weapons Attritable Family 2 radio development and sustainment through September 2030, with recent delivery orders for terminal production (Lot 14 at $81 million, systems engineering and integration for SWARMM Family 2 SF2 radios at $87.6 million, and STT terminal deliveries in the $2–7 million range). A $307.7 million multiple-award IDIQ with Naval Information Warfare Systems Command covers MIDS Low Volume Terminal production, Block Upgrade 2 retrofits, and engineering services through April 2031. The division also holds a single-award $283.3 million IDIQ with the Air Force Electronic Systems Center for Ground Control Element sustainment through January 2031, and a single-award $11.96 million Naval Supply Systems Command contract for MIDS LVT Block Upgrade 2 terminal repair through February 2031. Two basic ordering agreements with Naval Supply Systems Command—N0038320GW401 and N0038314G024F—have generated 176 and 114 task orders respectively, totaling $64.3 million in combined potential value, supporting MIDS equipment repairs and radio frequency component supply. Most recently, the Missile Defense Agency awarded Communication Systems-West a multi-billion-dollar multiple-award IDIQ under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program in December 2025, though this represents a placeholder ceiling ($151 billion) with only a $500 initial delivery order to date.

Recent representative contract work underscores the division's role in both terminal production and sustainment. A $4.584 million September 2026 sole-source purchase order from the U.S. Coast Guard procured 20 Small Tactical Terminal KOR-24A-Naval Variant units and 21 STT Fan Trays for USCG MH-65E aircraft, requiring L3 as the original equipment manufacturer with FAA airworthiness compliance. A $81 million delivery order from Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (September 2025) covered MIDS JTRS Terminal Production Lot 14 facilitization with subcontractors including Creation Technologies Idaho, Crane Electronics, Vanguard EMS, Regal Technology Partners, Piezo Technology, and North Star Scientific. A $42.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order (September 2025) supported MIDS WDL SF2 radio production facilitization under the same NAVWAR IDIQ, with Collins Aerospace Government Systems, Tevet LLC (an SDVOSB and HUBZone firm), Fabricated Components Corp, and Avnet as major subs. Communication Systems-West also delivers sustainment work: a $37.97 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from the Air Force Electronic Systems Center (February 2026) supported GCE FY26 sustainment through the Ground Control Element IDIQ, and a $24.2 million Air Force delivery order (April 2026) funded Senior Leader Network sustainment and maintenance over two years.

Activity trajectory shows growth through 2024 followed by a plateau. The division recorded 154 awards in 2022, 264 in 2023, 319 in 2024, and 302 in 2025, with 73 awards in the first three months of 2026. The recompete cliff is material: 139 awards totaling $1.36 billion in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing the division to competitive recompete risk across its core MIDS LVT, MIDS WDL, and Ground Control Element vehicles.

Communication Systems-West primarily builds its own delivery teams on prime contracts. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the division shows minimal sub-hour engagement; the source reports zero percent sub-hours share on average, indicating the division retains primary responsibility for execution rather than outsourcing labor. SCI data shows $32.8 million in invoiced revenue in FY2022 across 263 FTEs, with subsequent years showing large FTE swings (4,544 FTEs in FY2024, 77.9 in FY2025), reflecting volatile contract timing rather than consistent SCI-reportable service contract activity. The median government-paid hourly rate on SCI-recorded prime contracts is $156.75 per hour across the available data.

The division operates as a subcontractor on several major defense platforms. Communication Systems-West appears as a named sub to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation on RQ-4 Global Hawk and MQ-4C Triton sustainment and repair work across multiple delivery orders, supplying radio and communications equipment components. It also subs to General Atomics on Gray Eagle and MQ-9 technical services and contractor logistics support, to The Boeing Company on E-4B fleet sustainment and Apache attack helicopter production for Foreign Military Sales (Poland, Egypt, Kuwait), and to Lockheed Martin on tactical wide-band data link hardware development. Teaming with L3Harris Technologies Integrated Systems L.P.—the division's parent holding—appears on Armed Overwatch production aircraft and AFLCMC radio equipment efforts, leveraging the broader L3Harris ecosystem.

Communication Systems-West competes predominantly as a full-and-open, large-business prime across Navy and Air Force contracts. The division carries no small business designations and does not pursue set-aside opportunities. Foreign Military Sales represent a secondary but recurring revenue stream, with recent awards for tactical communications equipment to France, Slovenia, Italy, Latvia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, and other allied nations under Army Communications Electronics Command execution. The division's core positioning is as a cornerstone supplier for naval tactical communications infrastructure and MIDS program sustainment, with sustained engagement in terminal production, systems engineering integration, and multi-year depot repair and retrofit initiatives under long-standing IDIQ vehicles that anchor approximately 80 percent of its award value.