$15.2M Navy Contract: SeaLandAire to Advance Digital Sonobuoy Technology Through 2030

SeaLandAire Technologies Inc.,* Jackson, Michigan, is awarded a $15,165,106 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide continued advanced technology and design for digital directional frequency analysis and recording vertical line array (DDVLA) sonobuoys in support of the advancement of the DDVLA sonobuoy successful transition from Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) phase III to engineering and manufacturing development and low-rate initial production. These efforts support SBIR phase III topic N101-014 entitled “High Gain Array of Velocity Sensors.” Work will be performed in Jackson, Michigan (98%); Washington, D.C. (1%); and Lexington Park, Maryland (1%), and is expected to be completed in May 2030. Fiscal 2025 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $2,482,405 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract action was competed, one offer was received. Naval Air Warfare Center, Lakehurst, New Jersey, is the contracting activity (N6833525C0010).