Raytheon Company

Raytheon Company's Land & Air Defense Systems (LADS) Division manufactures missile defense components, radar assemblies, electronic warfare systems, and guidance control equipment as a prime contractor to the U.S. Department of Defense, competing in full-and-open procurements with no reliance on set-aside categories. The division is a wholly owned subsidiary of RTX Corporation, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with primary operations in Andover, Massachusetts.

LADS dominates the Patriot missile system sustainment and modernization ecosystem. Recent representative work includes a $2.297 billion fixed-price-incentive definitive contract awarded July 31, 2024, by PEO Missiles and Space for Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense System (LTAMDS) upgrades to the Patriot P3I (Product Improvement) program, covering launching stations, radar systems, and support equipment for U.S. and allied foreign military sales through March 2031; a $841.68 million definitive contract for Patriot P3I production issued December 19, 2025, supporting Poland, Romania, Switzerland, Korea, and Ukraine; and a $334.2 million fixed-price level-of-effort engineering services delivery order from PEO Missiles and Space issued January 31, 2025, for calendar-year 2025 telemetry systems, computer hardware, mechanical components, RF and microwave electronics, power systems, and non-product services through January 2027. LADS also operates the $14.593 million Patriot Missile Support Center at Largo, Florida under cost-plus-fixed-fee terms. Beyond Patriot, the division delivers F-15 and F-16 radar reliability and maintainability engineering services to Air Force Sustainment Center and Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex on cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery orders; specialized components for TOW-2 anti-armor systems; Taiwan and UAE modernization kits; and cryptographic appliances (KIV-77) for foreign military sales.

Customer concentration is extreme and government-dependent. LADS derives 88% of recent award count from five agencies: the Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (1,092 awards, $14.96 billion combined potential value) leads by far, followed by the Department of the Army (568 awards, $780.6 million), PEO Missiles and Space (105 awards, $23.52 billion), Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (80 awards, $152.7 million), and Army Communications Electronics Command (71 awards, $222.3 million). The dollar rankings diverge sharply — PEO Missiles and Space anchors 56% of combined potential value despite representing only 5% of award count, driven by the multi-billion-dollar Patriot P3I and LTAMDS programs. AMCOM's 1,092 awards, though numerous, represent discrete spares and sustainment calls averaging under $14 million each, creating execution-heavy, logistics-intensive volume business.

LADS sits on the foundational Indefinite Delivery Contract SPRBL115D0017 (459 task orders, $4.92 billion combined potential value), the Army's single largest multiple-award IDIQ for aviation and missile components and technical support. Additional vehicles include Indefinite Delivery Contract DAAH0194GS003 (187 task orders), W31P4Q05D0029 (126 task orders, $217.8 million), Basic Ordering Agreement DAAH0191G0011 (60 task orders), and W31P4Q13D0006 (52 task orders, $4.9 million). A newly awarded single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract SPRBL1-25-D-0006 valued at $235 million through October 31, 2031, establishes technical support services for PEO Missiles and Space operations.

Activity has been volatile and faces material recompete exposure. Awards per year tracked 66 (2022), 122 (2023), 72 (2024), 75 (2025), and 8 (2026 through April only). One hundred twelve awards carrying combined potential value of $2.81 billion reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing significant recompete cliff risk across Patriot spares, F-15 engineering, and technical support delivery orders.

Service Contract Inventory data covering federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold reveals SCI-reportable invoiced revenue of $470.8 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $307 million with 1,188 FTEs; FY2023: $117.5 million with 179 FTEs; FY2024: $46.3 million with 70.4 FTEs). The sharp decline reflects the mix of SCI-reportable service contracts versus the much larger population of product and component delivery orders the division executes. Government-paid hourly rates on prime service contracts ranged from a median of $315.22/hr to a 90th percentile of $1,296.63/hr, reflecting labor-heavy engineering and program management work alongside lower-rate sustainment logistics. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed approximately 3% of total contractor hours, indicating LADS executes most delivery work in-house and leverages a lean subcontracting footprint. Named subcontractors on major awards span RF and microwave specialists (Mercury Systems, Teledyne Defense Electronics, Spectrum Microwave), mechanical and hydraulic suppliers (Moog, Parker-Hannifinn, Lentros Engineering, Lektron), circuit card assembly and flexible circuit manufacturers (Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions, TTM Technologies, Spartronics subsidiaries), cable and connector suppliers (Cristek Interconnects, Amphenol, Precision Cable of Tennessee), and small business component vendors (CDP Fastener Group, Aero Electronics Systems HUBZone-certified woman-owned, Theonics Inc. woman-owned small business).

LADS operates as a pure-prime, full-and-open competitor with no reliance on small business or disadvantaged-business set-asides. The division's $42.01 billion combined potential value across 2,178 awards positions it as the dominant supplier in the Patriot ecosystem and a primary vendor for Air Force radar and F-16 sustainment, with a cost-plus and firm-fixed-price portfolio tilted heavily toward sustainment logistics, spares procurement, and technical support services. The corporate parent, RTX Corporation, provides enterprise-level scale and technical depth, though LADS operates with distinct P&L accountability and customer relationships centered on Army PEO and AMCOM leadership.