Navy Recruiting Command

The Department of the Navy Recruiting Command, a sub-agency within the Navy's administrative hierarchy, manages the service's personnel recruitment operations and funds supporting activities through both contracts and grants. The command executes recruiting campaigns, manages recruiting facilities, and funds youth-development programs aligned with Navy recruitment missions.

Navy Recruiting Command has awarded 5,941 federal contracts since 1999, totaling $2.41 billion in combined potential value. Contract activity has remained steady, with 120 awards in 2022, 138 in 2023, 131 in 2024, 123 in 2025, and 75 year-to-date in 2026. Combined dollars obligated reached $2.66 billion. The command transacts with 1,393 distinct prime contractors across its portfolio.

Among recent awardees (last five years), Young & Rubicam LLC dominates by award count and combined potential value, holding 195 awards valued at $558.6 million. The top five primes by count account for 54 percent of recent awards. By potential value, however, concentration is fragmented — Young & Rubicam represents 25 percent of the combined potential value of the top five, followed by Industries For The Blind And Visually Impaired, Inc. (29 awards, $31.3 million), Cellco Partnership (3 awards, $12.7 million), OFS Brands Holdings Inc. (61 awards, $6.4 million), and City of New York (4 awards, $1.9 million). This divergence reflects the command's use of high-volume, lower-value awards for facility rentals and operational services alongside major media-relations contracts.

The command's contracting footprint is predominantly open competition: 87 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation. Small-business awards comprise 12 percent of the portfolio, split across traditional small-business contracts (708 awards) and smaller shares of 8(a), Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, Woman-Owned Small Business, and HUBZone designations.

Navy Recruiting Command also administers federal grant programs, having awarded 9 grants totaling $55.7 million in combined federal dollars since 2017. The grant portfolio is minimal and highly concentrated: US Naval Sea Cadet Corps is the sole distinct recipient, holding all four awards in recent activity (2021–2025) and representing 49 percent of the total federal dollars obligated across the full portfolio. The grant assistance mix is predominantly Formula Grants (6 awards, 67 percent) with Project Grants (3 awards, 33 percent).

No recent contract or grant opportunities are recorded in publicly available solicitation data against Navy Recruiting Command or its descendant offices.