Navy awards $349M unmanned maritime support contract
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Ross Wilkers
Navy leaders set up the contract in part to drive further development and maturation of the systems, plus their underlying technologies.
The Navy has awarded nine companies positions on an eight-year, $349.4 million contract for broad systems engineering and technical services focused on unmanned maritime systems.
The Navy received 21 offers for the Unmanned Maritime Systems Support contract and awardees will compete for task orders to carry out the work, the Pentagon said in its Monday awards digest.
Awardees include:
- Abbott On Call (newcomer)
- Astrion (incumbent)
- HII (incumbent)
- ManTech (incumbent)
- Naval Systems Inc. (newcomer)
- Peraton (incumbent)
- Prescient Edge (newcomer)
- Science Applications International Corp. (incumbent)
- Serco Group’s North American subsidiary (incumbent)
The Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific set up the contract to cover a wide variety of services such as specification and design, fabrication, development, integration, assembly, installation, test, evaluation, demonstration, fielding, operations, maintenance, training, logistics, documentation, administration, configuration management, and program management.
Solicitation documents from November outline how NIWC Pacific leaders are also using this contract as part of its efforts to drive development and maturation of unmanned vehicle products, plus integration and fielding of supporting technologies.
The Navy awarded the current contract in 2021 and has obligated $157 million in task order volume to-date, according to GovTribe data.
Peraton and Astrion are the largest incumbents at 43% and 28%, respectively. Astrion inherited its incumbency in 2023 following the combination of ERC and Oasis Systems, the latter of which won the contract position.