Amentum wins $4B Space Force range contract

Amentum has won a potential 10-year, $4 billion contract to help the Space Force operate and maintain the service branch’s Eastern and Western ranges being used by launch customers.

Space Force officials received four bids for the contract that also covers integration, systems engineering and sustainment work at Patrick Space Force Base in Florida and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

The Pentagon’s Monday awards digest lists the ranges’ user base as including space exploration, national security and commercial operators.

Range Generation Next LLC, a joint venture of General Dynamics' IT services business unit and RTX, has been the incumbent since 2014 when the program was called the Launch Test and Range System Integrated Support Contract.

LISC was managed by the Air Force until Space Force started in 2019 and later took over the responsibility for both ranges.

Solicitation documents released in June 2023 describe the new Space Force Range Contract as supporting the younger service branch’s efforts to transform its ranges into a pair of spaceports that serve both government and commercial customers.

Proposals were due in February 2024 and Space Force selected a proposal by the Jacobs Technology business unit, one of several Jacobs federal-facing units that merged into Amentum back in the fall.