ATCO Ltd. wins $596M, 10-year Alaska Radar System O&M award
ATCO Ltd. awarded Alaska Radar System operations contract
A joint venture led by ATCO Frontec and ASRC Federal will deliver operations and maintenance for the Alaska Radar System under a roughly $596 million agreement that runs a decade and begins in September 2026. The award covers sustainment activities across 15 long-range radar sites, two radio sites, and support facilities at the system headquarters.
Contract scope includes continuous operational support, site services, logistics and facility upkeep tailored for harsh Arctic conditions; those duties extend to lifecycle maintenance and on-site sustainment work. The turning of this contract into day-to-day activity will require established cold-climate supply chains, rotational technical crews and a logistics pipeline able to feed remote locations through seasonal access windows.
ATCO brings prior Arctic systems experience through parallel work on the North Warning System and other remote infrastructure programs, while ASRC Federal contributes long-standing federal operations capability and Alaska-based workforce channels. Together the partners position ARCTEC Alaska as a single-source integrator responsible for preserving radar uptime and interoperability with continental aerospace defense networks.
For the U.S. Air Force, the award secures a decade of managed coverage for a sensor layer that underpins northern air-domain awareness and civil aviation safety across high-latitude flight corridors. The arrangement reduces near-term contracting churn but raises procurement concentration for sustainment work in the Arctic, concentrating capability in a small number of experienced providers.
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