Evolved SEASPARROW Missile (ESSM) Next Significant Variant (NSV)…

Sources Sought Due Oct 19, 2026

Evolved SEASPARROW Missile (ESSM) Next Significant Variant (NSV) Sources Sought

Dept of Defense, Navsea Hq, N00024-26-R-5445

Responses close Oct 19, 21:00 UTC

Evolved SEASPARROW Missile (ESSM) Next Significant Variant (NSV) Sources Sought - Please see attachment for additional information.

SAM.gov holds the attachments, amendments, and the response instructions. Bids go there.

What else bears on this

Also open from this office 3

Posted by NAVSEA HQ, the same office that posted this notice.

Closes	Solicitation	Number
Jul 17, 2026	MK 41 VLS Canister Production Industry Day	VLS008
Aug 18, 2026	SM-2 and SM-6 FY27 Material and Inventory	N00024-23-C-5408
Sep 10, 2026	MK 41 VLS Electronic Design Agent and Depot Operations	VLS009

What this buyer has signed $6.5B

The largest federal awards in our record from DEPT OF DEFENSE, under the space and missile manufacturing codes we collect. This is context about the buyer, not the outcome of this notice: no award in the record references a solicitation number, so which notice produced which award is not something we can show.

Recipient	Amount	Signed	What for
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION	$4.8B	Apr 9, 2026	EXECUTE PHASED ARRAY TRACKING RADAR TO INTERCEPT ON…
DYNETICS, INC.	$617M	Apr 14, 2026	DO FOR THE FY26 PRODUCTION BUY.
RAYTHEON COMPANY	$500M	May 26, 2026	KUWAIT NASAMS 7 LOT PROCUREMENT
RAYTHEON COMPANY	$198M	Apr 17, 2026	SM-3 BLOCK IIA UNDER LAYER.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS…	$127M	Mar 26, 2026	FRP-18 GQM-163A BASE TARGET VEHICLE USN
NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS…	$102M	May 14, 2026	SATCOM SPACE VEHICLE
INTELSAT GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS…	$75M	May 22, 2026	SEE SECTION B.
VIASAT INC	$75M	May 22, 2026	PTS-G SWARM 1 DESIGN, DEVELOP, TEST, AND PRODUCE GLOBAL…

Suppliers who do this kind of work 27

Companies in our directory under Spacecraft & buses and Launch, which is where this notice matched: NAICS 336414 (space vehicles). A category is our own grouping, so this says what a company sells rather than that it is eligible or interested.

The supplier index holds 18 more in these categories.