MRV Systems, LLC

MRV Systems, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in San Diego, California, manufactures autonomous profiling floats, Argo floats, and oceanographic instrumentation for federal oceanographic research and environmental monitoring missions, competing as a prime contractor (92% of recent awards) on full-and-open federal contracts with no recurring set-aside designations. The vendor operates manufacturing and field-deployment facilities in San Diego and Seattle, Washington, and maintains a division presence in Wood Dale, Illinois.

MRV Systems' customer base is heavily concentrated in the Department of the Navy and the Department of Commerce. Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command dominates by potential value, accounting for 22 awards worth $123.8 million combined potential value (81% of the portfolio), while the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration anchors volume with 23 awards worth $23.5 million. Together, these two customers represent 100% of MRV Systems' recent award portfolio by combined potential value. Navy customers include Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Naval Air Systems Command's Naval Air Warfare Center, and the Secretary of the Navy's Office of Naval Research. Secondary Navy relationships include Naval Information Warfare Systems Command. NOAA, the civilian customer, issues delivery orders for Argo floats, buoy floats, and related oceanographic equipment to support the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and broader ocean observation missions.

MRV Systems holds two significant IDIQs: a $51.1 million multiple-award indefinite-delivery contract with Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (awarded July 2026, completion June 2029) for air-rigged or air/surface-deployable profiling floats meeting NAVOCEANO standards, with mandatory FIPS 140-2 Level 2 encryption and Iridium satellite communications capability, and a $7.5 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract with NOAA (awarded September 2022, completion September 2027) for Argo floats. Under the NOAA IDIQs 1305M322DNRMA0015 and 1305M321DNRMA0008, MRV Systems has issued delivery orders ranging from $71,090 to $1.97 million for Argo float deliveries, Deep Argo floats (MODEL SOLO), Core Argo floats with various sensor payloads (S2-A SBE, ALTO RBR, BGC), and buoy floats. Representative NOAA work includes a $1.97 million firm fixed-price delivery order (August 2026, completion August 2027) for Argo floats and a $924,735 delivery order (June 2023, completion June 2024) for Argo floats to support PMEL. Navy work includes a $3.27 million firm fixed-price delivery order (August 2022, completion August 2023) for profiling floats with alkaline and lithium power sources and a $1.14 million cost-plus-fixed-fee R&D contract (March 2026, completion June 2028) with Naval Air Warfare Center for research and development on oceanographic systems.

Primary NAICS concentration centers on Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (37 awards) and Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (14 awards), with PSC codes dominated by Geophysical Instruments (20 awards) and Buoys (16 awards). Activity has remained flat over the past five years (six awards in 2022, declining to three in 2025, with five in 2026 year-to-date). Four awards with combined potential value of $3.8 million reach ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure concentrated in the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command and NOAA customer base. MRV Systems also acts as a subcontractor: under Atlantic Diving Supply Inc. as prime, MRV has performed work on air-launched autonomous microobservers and Alamo ship-deployment sock systems (awards August 2024 and March 2024). In the federal grant space, MRV serves as sub-recipient under Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of Washington, contributing sensor integrations, engineering design, and float operations to NSF- and NOPP-funded projects on passive acoustic tracking systems and BGC-enabled Spray2 glider development (sub-awards December 2023, February 2024, and December 2025).

Designer and manufacturer of autonomous underwater vehicles to aid in the collection of oceanographic data