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Leidos wins $160 million award for Cyber Command operations

The five-year award includes integration and coordination of offensive and defensive cyber operations. Leidos says its team includes Kudu Dynamics, acquired in 2025.

Leidos has won a $160 million award to support U.S. Cyber Command in planning and conducting full-spectrum military cyber operations. The company announced the award Oct. 21, 2026.1

Leidos' Cyber Command team includes Kudu Dynamics

Award announced Oct. 21, 2026

$160 millionAnnounced award value
Five yearsAward term

The announcement does not specify whether $160 million is a ceiling or an obligated amount.

Source: Leidos release. As of Oct. 21, 2026.

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Jason O'Connor, president of Leidos Intelligence, said the team for the work includes Kudu Dynamics.1 Leidos announced the Kudu acquisition in May 2025, saying it would accelerate its strategy for artificial intelligence-enabled offensive cyber, electromagnetic spectrum operations and vulnerability research.2

The five-year award includes integration and coordination of offensive and defensive cyber operations, including support to secure, operate and defend the Department of War Information Network. Leidos will provide cyber defense, operational planning, emerging threat analysis and support for developing tactics, techniques and procedures.1

Kudu's inclusion connects Leidos' 2025 acquisition to work supporting Cyber Command's offensive and defensive operations.1–2 The award's revenue contribution cannot be determined from the announcement, which does not specify whether $160 million is a ceiling or an obligated amount.1

Sources (2)
  1. Leidos release, U.S. Cyber Command selects Leidos for full-spectrum cyber operations, Oct. 21, 2026 www.prnewswire.com
  2. Leidos release, Leidos acquires Kudu Dynamics, May 28, 2025 www.leidos.com
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Contracts · Competition

Federal News Network: DISA’s decision to expand Leidos’ Defense Enclave contract draws another protest

Competitive Range Solutions argues combatant command network migration should be competed, Federal News Network reports.

Competitive Range Solutions is challenging the Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) decision to expand Leidos’ $11 billion Defense Enclave Services contract, Federal News Network reports. The disputed expansion would add combatant command network migration.2

Federal News Network: DISA’s Leidos expansion faces another protest

Defense Enclave Services contract | Disputed combatant command network migration

Leidos’ existing contractProposed route for the additional work
combatant command network migrationWork the challenger argues should have been competed
Case Currently OpenCompetitive Range Solutions protest status

The protest challenges the decision to add the migration work to Leidos’ existing contract.

Reported by Federal News Network, October 16, 2026; Government Accountability Office, case B-424640.2. As of October 17, 2026.

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The company argues DISA should have competed the work and alleges inadequate advance planning and unreasonable bundling.2

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) lists Competitive Range Solutions, LLC’s protest against DISA as open.1

Federal News Network reports that DISA renewed its effort to give Leidos the work without competition following an earlier protest by General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) in July. GDIT argued that DISA should have competed the requirement to migrate 11 combatant commands. That protest was dismissed after DISA said it would conduct new market research, make a new acquisition approach decision and develop a new acquisition plan.2

DISA gave industry several days to respond to its first sources sought notice and 24 hours for the second, the outlet reports.2

Federal News Network reports that in its latest justification for the noncompetitive modification, DISA argues Leidos is uniquely qualified because of its embedded and specialized knowledge of the DoDNet architecture. DISA has been directed to transition all combatant commands’ common-use IT services to DoDNet by the end of fiscal 2028.2

Sources (2)
  1. GAO bid protest docket, Competitive Range Solutions, LLC (B-424640.2) www.gao.gov
  2. Federal News Network: DISA faces another protest over Enclave contract expansion federalnewsnetwork.com
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Contracts · Munitions

Leidos picks X-Bow to build booster motors for its low-cost cruise missile

Leidos is paying to develop the missile and says an initial 3,000 will come through a Department of War framework agreement. X-Bow's announcement gave no value, quantity or contract type.

X-Bow Systems announced Monday, Oct. 12, that Leidos has selected it to develop and produce the booster motors for Leidos' Low-Cost Containerized Munition (LCCM), which X-Bow calls the Army's low-cost cruise missile.1 X-Bow expects full-rate production of the motors at scale in 2027, the year Leidos says LCCM production begins. That puts the booster on the same clock as the missile.1–2

X-Bow says Leidos selected it to develop and produce the booster motors

for what X-Bow calls the U.S. Army's new Low-Cost Containerized Munition (LCCM)

X-Bowfull-rate production of booster motors at scale in 2027planned

will move through design, qualification testing and static fires

Leidosproduction beginning in 2027planned

an initial 3,000 Leidos LCCMs through a framework agreement with the Department of War

Development of Leidos' LCCM is company-funded

X-Bow Systems, Oct. 12, 2026; Leidos, May 13, 2026

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Leidos is funding LCCM development itself, building on technologies from its AGM-190A Small Cruise Missile program. It said in May that warfighters will receive an initial 3,000 through a framework agreement with the Department of War. To produce the LCCM, it will expand its workforce and enhance its facilities in Huntsville, Ala., and McEwen, Tenn.2

Leidos' booster work goes to a solid rocket motor maker in a sector that, the Pentagon said in February 2022, consolidation had left with only two domestic suppliers.1, 4 On Oct. 7, X-Bow announced a prototype agreement to develop and qualify a solid rocket motor booster for a Navy next-generation weapon. X-Bow puts that agreement's total potential value at $69.7 million, with $50 million obligated at award.3

X-Bow still has to take the booster through design, qualification testing and static fires, and those results will show whether it keeps pace with Leidos' 2027 production start.1–2

Sources (4)
  1. X-Bow Systems, "Leidos Selects X-Bow to Provide Rocket Motors for U.S. Army's Low-Cost Cruise Missile," Oct. 12, 2026 www.prnewswire.com
  2. Leidos, "Leidos to build initial 3,000 low-cost containerized munitions through Department of War framework agreement," May 13, 2026 www.leidos.com
  3. X-Bow Systems, "X-Bow Awarded Nearly $70M to Develop Advanced Booster for Future Navy Missiles," Oct. 7, 2026 www.prnewswire.com
  4. Department of Defense, "State of Competition within the Defense Industrial Base," February 2022 media.defense.gov
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