Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Family of Systems (UUV)

The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command awarded this Master IDIQ on July 30, 2018, to procure hardware, materials, supplies, and services for development, fabrication, integration, evaluation, and support of the Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Family of Systems, with orders authorized through July 28, 2027—approximately one year remaining in the ordering window.

The vehicle carries a shared ceiling of $794.5 million. Fifty-one task orders have been awarded since the vehicle's inception, generating a combined potential value of $279.8 million, of which $172.1 million (62 percent) has been obligated. Recent ordering momentum has declined: the vehicle averaged 3.8 orders per year over 2021–2024 but saw only one order in 2025, with the most recent award on June 17, 2025.

All task orders are unrestricted competitive awards. Scope ranges across autonomous system development—particularly autonomy software for large displacement unmanned undersea vehicles and autonomous controller design—hardware fabrication and integration for platforms including TETRA II, Snakehead, REMUS systems, and Talon, payload development such as the Untethered GOAT multi-function payload, communications and towing interface specifications for submarine deployment, software services, and engineering support for fleet readiness. Delivery orders mix firm fixed price and cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing; representative awards include TETRA II Development Services at $22.5 million ceiling (cost-plus-fixed-fee, awarded December 2024), Anguilla Services at $28.1 million ceiling (October 2024), and LDUUV autonomy software development at $23.9 million ceiling (January 2024).

Five firms account for 41 percent of task-order count. Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution lead by combined potential value at $72.2 million and $65.2 million respectively, followed by The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Oceaneering International, and Lockheed Martin. These five firms hold 83 percent of combined potential value across their twenty task orders. Nineteen additional contractors share the remaining orders, including mid-tier systems integrators and specialized R&D institutions. All 51 task orders fund Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command requirements, indicating concentrated customer demand.

Place of performance is not specified in available task-order summaries, though Woods Hole and Draper Laboratory locations suggest distributed coastal and academic research sites.

This IDIQ enables the Government to procure hardware, materials, and supplies, as well as services used to develop, build, fabricate, integrate, evaluate and support the Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (UUV) Family of Systems (FoS).