Innovation to Production: Navy Taps Creare for 1,024 Advanced Maintainer Helmets

Creare LLC,* Hanover, New Hampshire, is awarded an $8,763,100 firm-fixed-price contract for the production and delivery of 1,024 full-rate production hearing protection helmets, as well as provides for associated program management, systems engineering, verification and logistics support in support of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III effort based on Phase II SBIR Topic N04-255, titled “Advanced Helmet for Maintainer Head and Hearing Protection” for the Navy. Work will be performed in Salem, Oregon (39%); Carpentersville, Illinois (25%); Lebanon, New Hampshire (18%); Hanover, New Hampshire (16%); Hillsboro, Oregon (1%); and Ottawa, Ohio (1%), and is expected to be completed in March 2027. Fiscal 2025 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $8,763,100 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was not competed. Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N0042125C0002).