Navy chooses 16 for $350M 'Seabed to Space' systems contract
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Ross Wilkers
Awardees will perform technical work across the entire lifecycles of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems.
The Navy has awarded 16 companies positions on a seven-year, $349.9 million contract to help develop and field systems for gathering and processing information while onboard afloat vessels.
Awardees will compete for task orders to perform technical work across the entire lifecycles of these intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems. This includes efforts to incorporate new technologies and other capabilities into the ISR systems.
The Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific received 31 bids in total for the ISR Systems and Information Operations from Seabed to Space contract that also goes by the S2ISR acronym, the Pentagon said in its Thursday awards digest.
Winners are as follows:
- Booz Allen Hamilton (incumbent)
- Epsilon C5I (incumbent)
- General Dynamics IT (incumbent)
- HII (incumbent)
- KBR
- Leidos (incumbent)
- MAG Aerospace
- Parsons Corp. (incumbent)
- Peraton (incumbent)
- Prescient Edge
- Science Applications International Corp. (incumbent)
- Scientific Research Corp.
- Sev1Tech (now part of Entarian)
- T2S
- Vickers & Nolan Enterprises
- VTG
S2ISR succeeds a contract awarded in 2021 to 11 companies that have been obligated $111.8 million in total order volume since, according to GovTribe data. All of the top five recipients will continue on to the iteration: Peraton, Science Applications International Corp., Epsilon C5I, Booz Allen Hamilton and Leidos.
The contract’s key task areas include hardware and software development, algorithm development, data design processing, systems engineering, installation, testing, deployment, maintenance, training and analysis.