Saab, Inc.

Saab, Inc. Surveillance Division, operating as Saab and its subsidiaries, manufactures radar systems, electronic components, and unmanned systems for the Department of Defense and civilian agencies as a prime contractor on 379 awards (79% of its footprint) and as a subcontractor on 103 awards (21%). A foreign-owned subsidiary of Sweden-based Saab Aktiebolag, Saab competes full-and-open across all award categories with no set-aside participation and operates from its U.S. headquarters in East Syracuse, New York.

Saab's customer base concentrates heavily in the Navy. Naval Supply Systems Command leads by award count at 242 awards valued at $27.5 million combined potential, but Naval Sea Systems Command dominates dollar volume with 47 awards worth $5.8 billion—comprising about 10% of Saab's $57.05 billion total combined potential value. The Marine Corps accounts for 75 awards, $32.4 million, while the Air Force Materiel Command and the Federal Aviation Administration each anchor roughly $1 billion in potential value across a smaller number of large vehicles. This concentration reflects Saab's established role supplying multifunction radar, power amplifiers, circuit card assemblies, and electronic warfare components to naval platforms and range systems.

Saab's prime portfolio spans multiple major IDIQs. The $4 billion SEAPORT-NXG multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with Naval Sea Systems Command through January 1, 2029 enables task orders for radar systems, electronic warfare technologies, engineering support, and logistics across Navy Systems Commands. The $999.95 million Test and Evaluation Technologies for Ranges, Armaments, and Spectrum (TETRAS) II contract with Air Force Materiel Command runs through June 29, 2028 for test and evaluation infrastructure supporting fifth- and sixth-generation weapons validation. Saab holds a $494.35 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Army's Program Executive Office Ammunition for the XM919 Individual Assault Munition system through June 28, 2029, with performance in Sweden. The company also sits on a $982.1 million multiple-award Unmanned Surface Vehicle Family of Systems contract with Naval Sea Systems Command through April 30, 2029, and a $245.9 million Undersea Weapons and Undersea Defensive Family of Systems contract, also with NAVSEA, through January 23, 2029. A recently awarded $151 billion SHIELD (Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense) contract with the Missile Defense Agency, effective through December 28, 2035, positions Saab for multi-domain defense procurement across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat scenarios. Recent representative prime awards include a $70.08 million September 2025 definitive contract with the Army's PEO Missiles and Space for Giraffe 1X short-to-medium range radar systems (up to 36 units, 10 initial production), a $128.48 million August 2023 Naval Air Systems Command award for Low-Rate Initial Production Units 8 & 9 radar equipment, and a $13.2 million January 2023 Office of Naval Research cost-plus-fixed-fee award for autonomous target recognition and counter-unmanned aircraft system research and prototyping. Saab also carries a $16.09 million Federal Aviation Administration Basic Ordering Agreement for Surface Awareness Initiative deployment supporting ADS-B technology and surface situational awareness at commercial airports.

Saab operates as a subcontractor predominantly to prime systems integrators. Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation serves as the most frequent prime partner, with Saab providing signal processing, power equipment, and engineering support for Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) low-rate initial production and spares sustainment; software sustainment for G/ATOR; and general engineering and logistics support. General Dynamics Mission Systems subcontracts Saab for Littoral Combat Ship Independence-class in-service engineering and combat systems support. BAE Systems engaged Saab to supply Giraffe multifunction radars and related subsystems for the Instrumentation Range Support Program. Vigor Marine engaged Saab for radar turntable replacement components on USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10). HII Mission Technologies, Fairwinds Technologies, and ASRC Federal Facilities Logistics account for smaller subcontract engagements in electronic components and circuit card assemblies.

Activity has accelerated sharply. Awards per year grew from 51 in 2022–2023 to 57 in 2024 and jumped to 115 in 2025, reflecting recent large vehicle awards (SEAPORT-NXG, TETRAS II, Unmanned Surface Vehicle, XM919, FAA BOA) plus high-volume transactional purchase orders from Naval Supply Systems Command for components, filters, modulators, and power supplies. Forty-four awards totaling $405.9 million in combined potential value complete within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure primarily on smaller component orders and engineering services task orders against legacy vehicles.

The Service Contract Inventory dataset captures minimal activity: 14 records (13 prime, 1 sub) across FY2022–FY2024 with zero invoiced revenue, reflecting that Saab's federal business centers on product manufacturing and delivery, not reportable service contracts. The SCI data records 0.4 FTEs in FY2024, a trivial fraction of the workforce deployed against the company's product-delivery portfolio. SCI does not capture the scale of Saab's federal operations, which are dominated by goods procurement, component manufacturing, and production contracts.

Saab's named subsidiary, Saab Aeronautics Indiana LLC, operates as a foreign-owned manufacturer supporting the parent entity. The parent company, Saab Aktiebolag (Sweden), holds federal contract vehicles and awards directly; Saab, Inc. Surveillance Division serves as the principal U.S. operating entity for Department of Defense and federal civilian contracting.