Parsons Corporation Ready to Protect U.S. Air Force Air Bases

Parsons Corporation announced today that it would lead an industry team of Leidos, SAIC and SRC, Inc., in pursuit of a 10-year, $953 million exertion with the U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa to design, mature, procure, incorporate, work, and keep up Air Base Air Defense systems across the European and African mainland areas of responsibility.

"As asymmetric threats from emerging technologies continue to proliferate, we're focused on developing a flexible, responsive, all-domain air base defense system to rapidly detect, alert, deny or defeat threats ranging from low-cost irregular attacks to hypersonic weapons," said Shaun McGrath, ABAD program manager at Parsons. "Our team's open architecture, platform-agnostic approach, coupled with cutting edge technologies and innovation labs, brought together by a team with relevant operational experience in all-domain systems integration, creates a best value and highly capable offering that will deliver scalable air base air defense systems to protects warfighters and their assets today and into the future."

The Parsons team will focus on the maturation of an all-space system comprised of business off-the-shelf and government off-the-shelf software and equipment technologies with an incorporated design to protect existing and future air bases. Parsons touches each aspect of the all-area battlespace: from space operations to edge computing and full-spectrum digital; to ground-based order and control systems. The organization's demonstrated operational capabilities will ensure all-space superiority and data predominance to quicken decision making in permissive through profoundly contested environments.

Leidos provides a diverse arrangement of systems, solutions, and services covering air, land, sea, space, and cyberspace for customers around the world – including the U.S. Armed force, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Naval force, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), NATO, and the Intelligence Community. Their solutions include enterprise and mission IT, huge scale insight systems, order and control, geospatial and information analytics, cybersecurity, logistics, preparing, knowledge analysis, and operations support.

Science Applications International Corp's. (SAIC's) robust arrangement of offerings includes top of the line solutions in systems designing and combination; enterprise IT, including cloud services, digital, and software; progressed analytics and simulation; and preparing that will be used to propel the ABAD mission and protect sent warfighters.

SRC, Inc., a not-revenue driven research and advancement organization, solves "impossible" problems in the areas of defense, climate, and insight. The organization helps protect America and its allies with cutting edge radars, electronic fighting systems, RF system analysis, simulation, and reconstructing technologies and services. Since 1957, SRC's obligation to the customer and the best solution — not the main concern — has stayed a basic belief that guides its efforts.

About Parsons

Parsons (NYSE: PSN) is a leading disruptive technology provider in the global defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure markets, with capabilities across cybersecurity, missile defense, space, connected infrastructure, and smart cities. Please visit Parsons.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook to learn how we're making an impact.

About Leidos

Leidos is a Fortune 500® information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company's 38,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $11.09 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2020.