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By Troy Turner
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded Radiance Technologies, a high-tech firm headquartered in Huntsville, an almost $150 million contract for improvement and modernization projects to upgrade existing infrastructure and instrumentation for the Reagan Test Range.
It is the second major contract in as many weeks linking Huntsville and the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, or RTS, on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
AlaDefense.com reported on March 31 that Range Generation Next LLC, which has its primary operational facilities in Huntsville, received a defense contract modification extending a job award total that already is more than a half-billion dollars.
Also known as RGNext, the company has a well-established history of working with defense and space agencies to provide range, testing, engineering and other launch services for missile and space activity.
Reagan Test Site includes a range and sophisticated test facility for missiles and space rockets.
Its RTS Operations Center-Huntsville, or ROC-H, is located in Huntsville more than 6,500 miles from Kwajalein. It serves as the command-and-control facility for missile defense testing and for space operations at RTS.
Agencies such as the Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command, Huntsville, utilize RTS.
Radiance Technologies began operations in 1999 and has grown to employ more than 1,000 workers. Its fields of interest include intelligence, cyber, directed energy, artificial intelligence/machine learning, hypersonics and space.
The company’s new contract, awarded a minimum $149,683,593, carries a performance completion date of April 10, 2031. Using customers are Army and federal civilian agencies.
The contracting agency is Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.
Radiance has provided a variety of tech services for the War Department in recent years. The company in 2025 was awarded a $49 million contract for Phase IV of the Secure Advanced Framework for Simulation and Modeling (SAFE-SiM) program.
That contract provides for continuation on Radiance Technologies Inc.’s Phase III research results critical to meeting the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s joint all-domain, theater-wide analysis goals.
The company previously has appeared in Top 10 lists of Alabama industries luring defense spending.
Alabama’s military and defense industries in Fiscal Year 2024, the most recently available statistics, hit new heights in attracting defense spending, reaching an intake of nearly $17 billion and moving Alabama to ninth among the 50 states and District of Columbia in the most recent state-by-state review.
Troy Turner is the editor and senior consultant for AlaDefense.com. He can be reached at [email protected]. His bio can be found here.
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