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$38,959,902

General Services Administration·Federal Acquisition Service

to L3 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

aerospaceactiveONGOING · MOD OF 2020 CONTRACT
WORK BEGAN2020-09-21·LATEST ACTION2026-04-10·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_47QFLA20F0281_4732_47QFLA20D0014_4732
Award description

L3 SOLE SOURCE IDIQ TO3 USSOCOM SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

L3 Technologies provides satellite communications systems and services to U.S. Special Operations Command.

Sub-sectors
space-based-communicationsmilitary-satellitedod-space-payload
Why this matters

USSOCOM satellite communications are critical for global special operations command, control, and intelligence capabilities.

Supply-chain signal

Sole-source IDIQ contract indicates L3 is the sole qualified provider for USSOCOM satellite comms; signals consolidation in military space communications supply chain.

U.S.–China competition angle

Secure satellite communications for U.S. special operations directly counters Chinese military space and communications capabilities in contested regions.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.002183.

Period of performance
Start
2020-09-21
End
2026-08-28
Status
activein 101 days
Sources

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