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
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.
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 Chandler for $127,319,699. SAM.gov, notice 136cea9df1d940e680773ee9f80a60c2
Points of contact
- Deirdre Bulgerdeirdre.a.bulger.civ@us.navy.mil
- Marianne Wildmarianne.g.wild.civ@us.navy.mil
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