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Parsons Corporation announced it has been awarded a $40 million Non-Kinetic Effects (NOKE) cost plus fixed fee contract to advance next-generation electromagnetic warfare (EW) capabilities in support of critical national security missions. This award includes one base year and four-and-a-half option period years and is new work for the company.
As part of the NOKE contract, Parsons will deliver advanced EW solutions designed to counter and disrupt adversary systems operating across contested environments. These capabilities will help U.S. and allied forces gain and maintain an operational advantage in the all-domain battlespace.
“Parsons is built to move at the speed of mission need,” said Mike Kushin, president of Parsons’ Defense and Intelligence. “We rapidly develop, prototype, and field advanced electronic warfare capabilities that help warfighters detect, disrupt, and defeat emerging threats. By combining deep operational expertise with an agile innovation mindset, we deliver exquisite solutions that are mission-ready, operationally relevant, and designed to provide a decisive advantage in contested environments.”
Parsons delivers integrated national security solutions that advance government and defense customers' operations effectively across the cyber, electromagnetic, space, and physical domains. The company’s spectrum dominance capabilities focus on enabling freedom of action in contested environments through advanced hardware, radio frequency (RF) spectrum exploitation, cyber-electromagnetic operations, signal processing, AI-enabled analytics, and software-defined solutions.
“Our focus is on accelerating capability into the hands of the warfighter, increasing lethality, strengthening decision dominance, and ensuring our customers maintain overmatch across the electromagnetic battlespace,” said Kushin.
Parsons’ combines mission engineering, software-defined capabilities, intelligent automation, and advanced analytics to deliver scalable, interoperable solutions that support Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) and future force modernization efforts. By integrating cyber and electromagnetic effects across domains, the company enables customers to maintain operational advantage at the tactical edge and deliver decisive outcomes aligned to evolving mission priorities.
