Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, operating as Sperry Marine Division, delivers maritime navigation systems, radar equipment, electronic chart display and information systems (ECDIS), gyrocompass systems, and related steering and bridge equipment to the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, and other maritime agencies as a prime contractor on a full-and-open basis, without SBA set-asides. A subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation (parent headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia), Sperry Marine is based in St. Rose, Louisiana and operates as a for-profit manufacturer of goods and systems integrator, competing across 323 recent federal awards with no small business set-aside footprint.

Customer concentration is extreme and customer-ranked: the Department of the Navy's Military Sealift Command dominates 94% of award count (164 awards, $97.3 million combined potential value) and nearly all dollars, reflecting Sperry Marine's primary role as a navigational bridge services provider for MSC's fleet of civilian-crewed replenishment and auxiliary vessels. The Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard is the second customer by count (86 awards, $1.1 million combined potential value), followed by Naval Sea Systems Command, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Maritime Administration; together, the top five customers account for the full 100% of combined potential value in the source. The two rankings converge entirely — MSC anchors both volume and dollars — but the gap widens sharply at the second tier, where Coast Guard places many small orders while MSC places far fewer but much larger delivery orders.

Sperry Marine holds a $55.94 million multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for Navigational Bridge Services with Military Sealift Command, awarded December 22, 2021, with ultimate completion December 21, 2026. This vehicle enables procurement, installation, maintenance, and repair of navigation systems, electronic communication equipment, steering gear, and safety systems on MSC vessels globally. Sperry Marine has issued 12 task orders under this IDIQ carrying $111 thousand in combined potential value; delivery orders under the IDIQ have ranged from $2,500 (minimum guarantee navigational bridge services for vessel R. CORSINO, January–September 2022) to $738,843 (ECDIS and radar parts for T-AO ship class, issued October 2021). Representative prime work includes a $519,935 delivery order for ECDIS and radar parts supporting T-AO class ships (July–August 2022, Harvey, Louisiana), a $386,714 delivery order for ECDIS and radar parts for auxiliary supply class vessels (December 2021–March 2022, Harvey, Louisiana), a $163,785 delivery order for ECDIS and radar supportive parts for USNS Impeccable (May–August 2022), and a $83,264 sole-source purchase order from the Coast Guard for two Gyrocompass Systems (February 2025, completion September 2025). Sperry Marine also holds positions on two additional Navy IDIQs (N3220518D4866 with 29 task orders, $1.3 million combined potential value, and N3220518D0062 with 7 task orders, $3.5 million combined potential value) and supports the Complex and Non-Complex Maintenance vehicle for Surface Combatant and Amphibious Class Ships at Norfolk.

NAICS concentration reflects the mission: Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (151 awards), Engineering Services (49 awards), and Ship Building and Repairing (36 awards) dominate the portfolio. Top PSC categories track similarly — Miscellaneous Ship and Marine Equipment (71 awards) and Maintenance/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment for Ship and Marine Equipment (56 awards) account for the preponderance of volume. Activity has remained relatively flat year over year (12 awards in 2022, declining to 6 in 2024, then rising to 8 in 2025 and 8 in 2026), with only 2 awards (combined potential value $96 thousand) facing ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating a modest recompete cliff. The vendor operates almost entirely as a prime (99% of 323 awards); sub work is minimal, with three sub-awards under CACI Federal, Amentum Services, and East Coast Repair & Fabrication for miscellaneous hardware, e-card maintenance, and technical representative assistance on USS WASP bearing journal installs. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $11.7 million, or 12% of the $99.4 million combined potential value, signaling a portfolio weighted toward future delivery rather than invoiced work.