Award notice
GQM-163A Supersonic Sea Skimming Targets (SSST) Full Rate Production (FRP) Lot 18
N00019-23-RFPREQ-WPM208-0013
Department of the Navy, Naval Air Systems Command. Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing.
Awarded
Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
$127,319,699.08 on the award notice, March 26, 2026, contract N00019-26-C-0122
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Description
As published on SAM.gov.
The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), Patuxent River, MD, has awarded a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract, N00019-26-C-0122, to Northrop Gumman Systems Corporation, (NGSC), Launch Vehicle Division (LVD), Chandler, AZ for the Ful Rate Production (FRP) Lot 18 of twenty-eight (28) GQM-163A Coyote Supersonic Sea-skimming Targets (SSST) to support the United States Navy (USN), Foreign Military Sales (FMS), and Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO). This contract was awarded on a sole source basis under the statutory authority of 10 U.S.C. 3204(a)(1) and FAR 6.302-1, "Only one Responsible Source and No Other Type of Supplies or Services will Satisfy Agency Requirements". NGSC is the sole designer, developer, manufacturer, and integrator of the GQM-163A Coyote SSST and is the only responsible source possessing the engineering data, technical skills, and requisite knowledge of the design, fabrication, performance, and operational characteristics of the GQM-163A Coyote SSST required to perform the necessary follow-on production efforts within the required timeframes and without substantial duplication of costs.
Attachments
Files listed on SAM.gov. The ones we hold a copy of download from here; the rest open SAM's download, which needs no account.
- G-16 CJA_PMA-208 Supersonic Target GQM-163A_approved 1_Redacted.pdf561 KB, March 31, 2026
The contract, on USAspending
Federal procurement data the awarding office reported to FPDS, matched to this solicitation by its number.
- Recipient
- Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
- UEI
- F9PAEKAAXGB6
- CAGE
- 8LM16
- Vendor location
- Chandler, AZ
- Contract
- N0001926C0122, definitive contract
- Obligated
- $127,319,699.08
- Actions
- 2 between March 26, 2026 and April 30, 2026
- Competition
- Not Competed, 1 offer received
- Set-aside reported
- No Set Aside Used.
- Described as
- FRP-18 Gqm-163a Base Target Vehicle USN
- Match
- award number N0001926C0122 equals the contract number; same awarding office N00019 (high confidence)
- Record
- USAspending award page
Publications
Every notice SAM.gov issued under this solicitation number, oldest first. Each is a separate record on SAM.
March 31, 2026
Award notice
Awarded to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation for $127,319,699. SAM.gov, notice 136cea9df1d940e680773ee9f80a60c2
1 revisions on SAM
- March 31, 2026: publish, award notice
Points of contact
- Deirdre Bulgerdeirdre.a.bulger.civ@us.navy.mil
- Marianne Wildmarianne.g.wild.civ@us.navy.mil