L3Harris opens facility focused on space-based missile defense and life-saving weather capabilities

Defense contractor L3Harris invests more than $125 million in Fort Wayne site expansion

L3Harris Technologies has invested more than $125 million to expand and update its Fort Wayne campus, officials announced today.

L3Harris opens facility focused on space-based missile defense and life-saving weather capabilities

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – L3Harris is expanding its work in Fort Wayne. A ribbon cutting on Wednesday marked the opening of the new state-of-the-art Payload Integration Facility. L3Harris is a global corporation that makes imaging and sounding instruments that go as payloads on satellites up in space. Payloads are the part of the spacecraft that carries the equipment needed to complete a mission. L3Harris Fort Wayne advances space technolog…

L3Harris expands Fort Wayne production facility to support Golden Dome missile defence shield

The newly expanded 95,000-square-foot facility will focus on engineering, integration, testing, and programme management for missile defence initiatives. This investment will allow L3Harris to deliver strategic capabilities in the latter half of President Trump’s second term. Members of Indiana’s congressional delegation attended the dedication ceremony to mark the completion of the facility. Representative Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) stated, “The ne…