Tactical Tech Refresh: $58.8M Award to Support Navy Fighter Jet Avionics Updates

STS Systems Defense LLC.,* San Antonio, Texas, is awarded a $58,819,066 firm-fixed-price and cost reimbursable, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. This contract will provide for the procurement of updates and avionics modifications to the F-16 and F-5 on-aircraft systems which include, but are not limited to, the following: stores management system, fire control, radar (APG-66, APG-68, and APG-83), mission planning, data transfer equipment, moving maps, targeting systems, pods, weapons, electronic warfare, communications, instruments, data links, radar detection/warning, displays, and global positioning system along with any additional systems that are added for Navy configuration. Work will be performed in Fallon, Nevada (95%); and Hill Air Force Base, Utah (5%), and is expected to be completed April 2030. No funds will be obligated at the time of award; funds will be obligated on individual orders as they are issued. This contract was not competed. Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N0042125D0302).