General Atomics Wins $150M Navy Contract for Ford Class Carrier Launch Systems

General Atomics, San Diego, California, is awarded a $149,963,257 cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a cost-plus-incentive-fee provision to provide for programmatic, engineering, logistics, software support activity, configuration management, diminishing manufacturing sources and material shortages, repairs and overhauls, technical support, and program planning support for the electromagnetic aircraft launch and advanced arresting gear systems in support of in-service Ford Class Carrier(s). Work will be performed in San Diego, California (98.6%); and various locations within the continental U.S. (1.4%), and ordering is expected to be complete by December 2030. Fiscal 2026 operations and maintenance (Navy) funds in the amount of $2,815,939; all of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competed. Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N0001926D1001).