Naval Sea Systems Command

The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA), the Navy's principal acquisition and logistics arm for ships, submarines, and combat systems, manages 710,397 federal contract awards spanning from October 1984 through September 2027, with combined award potential value of $39.66 billion. NAVSEA transacts heavily through small task orders, blanket purchase agreements, and schedule vehicles; recent awards show 24,564 awards in 2023, 23,862 in 2024, 22,468 in 2025, 10,916 in 2026, and 7 so far in 2027, indicating a declining annual cadence in recorded volumes. Combined dollars obligated total $837.81 billion (2 percent of potential value), reflecting the portfolio's depth of multi-year commitments and option exercises. NAVSEA rolls up activity across 45,144 distinct prime contractors over its lifetime.

Contract competitive concentration is highly fragmented by award count: the top five primes by count—EHB Supply (1,408 awards), Airgas USA LLC (1,395 awards), Caprice Electronics Inc. (1,053 awards), New TECH Solutions Inc. (989 awards), and Premier & Companies Inc. (916 awards)—hold only 5 percent of recent awards. By potential value, concentration is also highly fragmented at 0 percent coverage among the top five, though Leidos Inc. ($613.5 million on 820 awards), Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd. ($443.7 million on 862 awards), and Carahsoft Technology Corp ($152.2 million on 791 awards) dominate the dollar landscape over the last five years. Many transact through Schedule task orders or BPA calls with potential value not reported in source data. Set-aside activity reflects NAVSEA's open-market posture: 81 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation, 17 percent are total small-business set-asides, and sole-source 8(a) awards account for 1 percent, with service-disabled veteran-owned, HUBZone, and women-owned categories each under 1 percent.

NAVSEA also administers 187 federal grant awards since June 2017, with $2.42 billion in federal dollars obligated across 110 distinct recipients. Grant activity has accelerated recently: 15 awards in 2022, 31 in 2023, 20 in 2024, and 57 in 2025, with 1 recorded so far in 2026. Grant recipient concentration is fragmented by count—the top five recipients (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University with 12 awards, University of Washington and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station each with 4, Purdue University and Regents of the University of Michigan each with 3) hold 21 percent of recent awards—and highly fragmented by federal dollars at 0 percent coverage among the top five. Grant assistance is predominantly Project Grants (90 percent), with Cooperative Agreements at 9 percent and single Block and Formula Grants each at 1 percent.

Recent contract opportunities span maintenance, logistics, and specialized procurement: NSWC Philadelphia Division is soliciting walk-behind trailer pushers and pintle-hitch equipment for boat maintenance under a total small-business set-aside closing November 6, 2026; Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport seeks moving services (set-aside small business, due November 5); Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division issued a pre-solicitation for Environmental and Ship Motion Forecasting Follow-On as a single-award IDIQ under cost-plus-fixed-fee with a five-year ordering period (due November 6); and NAVSEA's Submarine Maintenance and Repair initiative posted a presolicitation for a multiple-award IDIQ across public shipyards and Trident Refit Facilities for CNO availabilities on all submarines, with performance at Portsmouth, Kittery, Bremerton, Pearl Harbor, Kings Bay, Silverdale, Groton, and San Diego, closing November 21 under partial small-business set-aside. Component and commodity solicitations remain active: sources sought for jet ejectors (November 3), spark gap switches sole-source to Fisica Applied Technologies (October 28), HyperWorks software maintenance sole-source to Siemens (October 22), and ASTM Compass subscriptions sole-source to American Society for Testing and Materials (October 28, small-business set-aside).