NAV Systems Inc.

NAV Systems Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Chesapeake, Virginia, manufactures and services maritime navigation, communication, steering, and safety systems as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) to the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, competing exclusively under full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations.

NAV Systems operates as an original equipment manufacturer with deep specialization in navigational bridge equipment. The company's capability portfolio centers on gyrocompass repair and maintenance, wind speed and direction indicator systems, steering control and autopilot upgrades, aneroid barometer procurement, course indicator repair, and associated navigational equipment services. Recent representative contracts include a $674,000 purchase order from Naval Supply Systems Command (May 2024) for aneroid barometers with delivery through November 2027; a $427,654 delivery order from Military Sealift Command (September 2025) for T-AO 187 steering control system modification with autopilot upgrade and factory acceptance testing, completing June 2026; a $617,500 purchase order from Naval Supply Systems Command (March 2024) for repair or modification of 30 course indicator units, completing October 2026; and an $108,278 purchase order from Military Sealift Command (May 2025) for starboard anemometer repair aboard the USNS SUPPLY, with performance at the contractor's Norfolk, Virginia facility through July 2025.

Customer concentration is extreme and singular. Military Sealift Command dominates 99% of awards by count and 96% by potential value (62 awards, $71.4 million combined potential value across the source window). The remaining active customer base is negligible by comparison: Naval Supply Systems Command holds 8 awards totaling $1.8 million, the Coast Guard holds 10 awards totaling $844 thousand, and three other Navy commands (Fleet Forces Command Atlantic, plus two minor civilian orders from NOAA) account for $189 thousand. The Navy represents 99% of funding across all customer agencies.

NAV Systems' single dominant vehicle is the Navigational Bridge Services multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with Military Sealift Command, valued at $55.94 million with a ceiling date of December 2026. Under this IDC, the company has received over $53 million in task orders to date since the contract's award in December 2021. The contract supports worldwide navigational bridge services — communication, navigation, steering, and safety systems — with work performed across the Navy's sealift fleet, including vessels such as the USNS Richard E. Byrd, USNS Yuma, USNS Comfort, USNS Supply, and USNS Arctic. Task orders under this IDC carry firm fixed pricing and are not set aside. A second, smaller vehicle — Indefinite Delivery Contract N3220518D4863 — carries 8 task orders totaling $243 thousand. Outside of these two IDCs, the company receives largely discrete purchase orders and delivery orders issued directly by Naval Supply Systems Command and the Coast Guard.

Activity has remained stable year over year at 6 to 10 awards annually from 2022 through 2025, with only one award recorded in 2026 to date (the March 2026 USNS Arctic inspection order). Five awards carrying combined potential value of $2 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating modest recompete exposure in the form of contract renewals and task order continuations, particularly on the Navigational Bridge Services IDC as it approaches its December 2026 expiration.

NAV Systems operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data. The vendor does not hold positions on government-wide acquisition contracts, Federal Supply Schedules, or multi-agency vehicles beyond its Military Sealift Command IDC relationships. Work is performed primarily at the contractor's Chesapeake, Virginia headquarters facility, with some performance at Navy facilities in Norfolk, Virginia and aboard Navy vessels worldwide. The company competes in full-and-open procurements and does not carry SBA set-aside certifications; the source data indicates NAV Systems qualified as a small business on a single Coast Guard total small business set-aside award in September 2023 (a $183,601 wind speed indicator order), but this designation does not recur across the portfolio and does not characterize the vendor's predominant posture.