$99.1M Navy Order: Northrop Grumman to Build Minimum Viable Products for Distributed Battle Management

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., El Segundo, California, is awarded a $99,128,262 cost-plus-fixed-fee (N0042125F7048) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001925G0003). This order is to support the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control vision by leveraging commercial technologies to provide resilient, interoperable and secure information dominance solutions that take advantage of higher bandwidth and low-latency data rates. Initial Providence Distributed Battle Management Command and Control System Minimum Viable Products will support the DOD use cases. The capability will be hosted in various manned and unmanned systems. Work will be performed in Patuxent River, Maryland (15%); Melbourne, Florida (15%); Fallon, California (15%); Shreveport, Louisiana (10%); Guam (10%); Washington, DC (8%);Abilene, Texas (5%); China Lake, California (5%); Hickman, Hawaii (5%); Anchorage, Alaska (3%); Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (3%); Oceanside, California (3%); and Point Mugu, California (3%), and is expected to be completed in March 2028. Fiscal 2025 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $7,471,923; and fiscal 2025 Navy working capital funds in the amount of $575,000, will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This order was not competed. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.