Chief of Naval Operations

The Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Chief Naval Operations, a major defense command within the Department of Defense, procures goods, services, and information-technology support for naval operations, shipbuilding, maintenance, and command administration.

The Navy awarded 9,293 federal contracts cumulatively since 1996, with combined potential value of $8.8 billion and $8.52 billion obligated. Recent contract activity has fluctuated: 372 awards in 2023, 360 in 2024, 431 in 2025, 188 in 2026, and 1 year-to-date in 2027. Among 2,296 distinct prime contractors in the portfolio, competitive concentration is moderately concentrated. Over the last five years, the Ministry of Defense leads by potential value with $2.56 billion across 48 awards, followed by The CNA Corporation at $47.8 million across 74 awards. By award count, Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees hold 120 awards, Leidos, Inc. holds 90 awards, and NST Logistics Company LIMITED holds 77 awards, collectively covering 24 percent of recent awards. The remainder of the prime base consists of a long tail of vendors with smaller individual transaction volumes. The set-aside portfolio reflects the Navy's reliance on open competition: 85 percent of awards carry no set-aside designation. Small-business set-asides account for 11 percent of awards combined, with 8(a) sole-source awards comprising the largest carved set-aside category at 2 percent. SDVOSB, WOSB, and HUBZone designations together represent less than 1 percent of awards.

Grant activity is minimal. The Navy obligated $2.2 million across 6 total grant awards, all issued in 2021. No grants have been awarded since November 2021. The three largest recipients by federal dollars obligated were The Afikim Foundation at $450 thousand, Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum at $408 thousand, and North Carolina Museum Of History Foundation at $274 thousand; these three recipients account for 53 percent of federal dollars obligated. The grant portfolio is predominantly Block Grants (83 percent of awards) with a small share of Cooperative Agreements (17 percent). With no grant activity recorded in the past five years, the Navy is not an active federal-grants market.

Recent contract opportunities in the public domain are not listed in the source material. No recent grant opportunities are recorded.