L3Harris Technologies was awarded a $150 million U.S. Space Force contract on April 8, 2026 under MOSSAIC — Maintenance of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities. The program delivers surveillance data enabling earlier threat warning and faster decision-making for protecting space systems. Coverage from GovCon Wire.
What MOSSAIC funds
Modernization of critical ground systems supporting both military operations and civil/commercial space applications. The award is L3Harris' fourth in the MOSSAIC line — predecessors landed in 2020, 2022, and 2023.
Why this is interesting
- Ground-segment is where most SSA value gets created — antennas, signal processing, fusion engines
- Civil/commercial integration scope means commercial-space data buys may flow through L3Harris' MOSSAIC pipe
- Recurring contract pattern (2020/22/23/26) suggests another follow-on in the late-2020s
What to do
- Antenna and RF firms: L3Harris is the SSA ground-systems prime — engage on subs
- Catalog/cataloging-software vendors: Andromeda + MOSSAIC together are the SDA backbone