ManTech Partnership: Penn State Wins $99M Contract to Propel Electro-Optics Manufacturing for Navy

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, is being awarded a sole-source indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract in the amount of $99,000,000 for the Navy Manufacturing Technology (ManTech) Electro Optics Center of Excellence. The Pennsylvania State University is an educational institution. The contractor will operate and manage the Electro Optics Center of Excellence (herein EOC or the Center) in its mission to develop naval platform-related manufacturing technologies and transition the technology for implementation in United States electro optics and other industrial facilities. In addition to accomplishing the Centers core mission, the contractor shall manage, operate, sustain, and enhance the Centers ability to function as an Office of Naval Research (ONR) ManTech Center of Excellence. Work will be performed at University Park, Pennsylvania. The maximum dollar value, over the 5-year ordering period from July 21, 2025, through July 21, 2030, with a five-year ordering period option through July 21, 2035, is $99,000,000. Fiscal 2025 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $859,940 will be obligated on a cost-plus-fixed-fee task order at time of award. The first task order will be issued for a cost-plus-fixed-fee total of $399,940. The second task order will be issued for a cost-plus-fixed-fee total of $460,000. ONR, Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity (N00014-25-R-7001).