{"title":"L3Harris vs LeoLabs: Defense & intelligence compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/l3harris-vs-leolabs","comparison":"L3Harris ranks 3 on the Space 100 with a score of 91; LeoLabs ranks 59 with 71. L3Harris is ahead on production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning and firepower. Level on deployment and leverage. L3Harris is based in Melbourne, United States, LeoLabs in Menlo Park, United States. L3Harris: Public. L3Harris is named in 109 signals and LeoLabs in 29.","companies":[{"name":"L3Harris","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/l3harris","city":"Melbourne","country":"United States","stage":"Public","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"L3Harris is a US defense prime (NYSE:LHX, ~$21B group) whose missile-tracking satellite franchise has 4 Tranche 0 satellites on orbit plus 34 in development, winning an $843M T3 Tracking Layer award (December 2025) and a $955M AMDT3 award (July 2026) for fire-control-quality sensors due by end-2028 under the Golden Dome mandate. It is Golden Dome's biggest visible satellite winner, its $1.75B AMDT3 (split with Sierra Space) sitting atop the December 2025 $3.5B/72-satellite T3 round, with Aerojet Rocketdyne propulsion under the group and Army NGC2 orders adding demand. It is the defense-prime space engine at full demand.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Space","list":"Space 100","rank":3,"score":91,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":10,"progress":10,"firepower":10,"commercial":10,"deployment":8,"production":10,"technology":8},"why":"L3Harris builds spacecraft for defense and intelligence missions, including SDA missile-warning satellites, and supplies optical, communications and guidance systems for space missions.","segment":"Defense & intelligence","layer":"Applications"},"signals_total":109,"facts_total":74},{"name":"LeoLabs","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/leolabs","city":"Menlo Park","country":"United States","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"LeoLabs is a US operator of a global phased-array radar network for LEO and VLEO tracking, the commercial gap-filler for the aging, northern-skewed Space Surveillance Network (with equatorial and Southern Hemisphere sites), plus a Delta product giving operators alerts on close approaches and obscured deployments. It was named to the competitive range of MDA's SHIELD homeland-defense program in January 2026 (a $151B ceiling, not an award), and its radar-versus-optical complementarity with Slingshot defines the space-sensing duopoly. Revenue is estimated at 10-100m from repeated annual government contracting.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Space","list":"Space 100","rank":59,"score":71,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":8,"position":8,"progress":9,"firepower":6,"commercial":6,"deployment":8,"production":6,"technology":6},"why":"LeoLabs sells orbital-object tracking and space-domain-awareness data services to government agencies, satellite operators, and other space customers.","segment":"Defense & intelligence","layer":"Applications"},"signals_total":29,"facts_total":37}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}