Advanced Navigation Pty. LTD.

Advanced Navigation Pty. LTD., operating as Advanced Navigation, is an Australian-headquartered designer and manufacturer of inertial measurement units, fiber optic gyroscopes, autonomous underwater vehicles, and subsea navigation systems that serves as a prime contractor on full-and-open federal procurements (38% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to defense primes across Navy, Air Force, and research agency programs (62% of recent awards). The company is a for-profit international organization based in Sydney, New South Wales, with a named subsidiary, Advanced Navigation Corp., structured as a foreign-owned goods manufacturer.

Advanced Navigation competes exclusively in full-and-open category with no SBA set-asides across its prime footprint. Representative prime work includes a $239,428 firm fixed-price purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command for a BOREAS A90 Inertial Measurement Unit (awarded December 30, 2025, completion February 27, 2026), an $82,296 purchase order from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 for a HYDRUS 1000 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (August 2023), and a $25,043 Office of Naval Research purchase order for POSEIDON Subsea GNSS antenna and bulkhead connectors (August 2022). Recent sub work flows primarily through Sierra Nevada Company (Big Safari navigation instruments and aircraft parts, awarded September–November 2025), The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (technical support for test and evaluation, July–August 2025), The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (materials for unconventional irregular warfare manned-unmanned systems, June 2025), The Boeing Company (common aerospace commodities increases, May–December 2024), and DCS Corporation (Spatial FOG evaluation kit for the Naval Research Laboratory, May 2025).

Customer concentration skews heavily toward Navy organizations. The top five funding agencies account for 76% of recent awards by count, with the Department of the Navy entities dominating: Office of Naval Research (4 awards, $42 thousand combined potential value), Naval Air Systems Command (3 awards), Naval Sea Systems Command (3 awards, $292 thousand combined potential value), and Strategic Systems Programs (2 awards). By potential value, NAVSEA anchors the portfolio at $292 thousand across three awards, followed by the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service ($82 thousand) and ONR ($42 thousand). Advanced Navigation places task orders under four parent vehicles: Basic Ordering Agreement FA862021G4009 (Air Force Materiel Command, 4 task orders) and Basic Ordering Agreement N0001921G0006 (Navy, 3 task orders), alongside a single Indefinite Delivery Contract with NAVSEA.

Activity has accelerated sharply—one award in 2022 and 2023 combined to ten awards in 2025—driven by subcontractor awards. Combined obligated dollars ($6.3 million) far exceed combined potential value ($443 thousand), indicating that the source captures provisional ceiling values while agencies have invoiced substantially higher amounts under Navy BOAs and purchase orders. The category concentration spans search, detection, and navigation system manufacturing (6 awards) alongside aircraft engines and parts (3 awards) and engineering services (3 awards), reflecting the breadth of Advanced Navigation's product line across inertial sensors, autonomous platforms, and subsea positioning. The company serves ten distinct customer agencies and maintains an established teaming relationship with Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Leidos, and other major defense primes as a supplier of specialized navigation and inertial instrumentation.