Leonardo DRS awarded Space Development Agency subcontract

Leonardo DRS (DRS) announced that it was awarded a subcontract to provide Infrared Mission Payloads in support of the Space Development Agency’s Tracking Layer Tranche 3, a piece of the U.S. military’s advanced missile defense program. As the space-based mission payload provider, DRS will design, build, integrate, and test advanced infrared mission payloads to support TRKT3’s capability to provide global detection, warning, and tracking of ballistic missiles and hypersonic weapons. The infrared capability will be used from the earliest stages of an adversarial launch through interception, including delivering precision fire-control sensing data for missile interceptors.