Thales USA Inc. Sets Sail with $10.5M Contract to Equip Navy Ships with Next-Gen TACAN Systems

Thales USA Inc., Overland Park, Kansas, is awarded a $10,455,330 firm-fixed-price contract for the production and delivery of 11 OE-4691 tactical air navigation (TACAN) antenna systems, 196 high power assemblies, 49 low power assemblies, and 49 remote monitor and maintenance controllers, as well as associated data, to upgrade existing shipboard TACAN systems and to support new ship construction to include all air capable ships, providing range and bearing information to equipped aircraft in support of the Navy. Work will be performed in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is expected to be completed in November 2026. Fiscal 2024 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $9,761,124; and fiscal 2023 other procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $694,206, 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 competitively procured pursuant to 10 U.S. Code 3204(a)(1). Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity (N0001924C0021).