L3Harris receives $40M VAMPIRE contract from DoD

L3Harris announced receiving a $40M Department of Defense contract to deliver 14 Vehicle Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment – or VAMPIRE multi-purpose weapons system – to strengthen Ukrainian security defense efforts. The portable VAMPIRE kit will allow Ukraine ground forces to target and shoot down enemy drones and defend against adversary ground threats. The systems ordered by DoD are tailored to provide critical defense assets to help Ukraine protect against attacks on civilian infrastructure. Under the DoD contract, L3Harris will install VAMPIRE kits on U.S. government-provided vehicles for agile combat support to the Ukrainian battlefield. The contract calls for L3Harris to deliver 14 VAMPIRE systems to DoD, with four delivered by mid-2023 and ten more delivered by the end of 2023. The VAMPIRE prototype, submitted to DoD in April, was selected in August as part of DoD’s $3B security assistance package under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. The company began field testing in 2021 and continued range and durability tests in summer 2022.