Vectrus Wins $151-Million Navy Contract for Fleet Systems Support

Matthew Greenwood posted 2019-02-12

The U.S. Navy has chosen Vectrus to continue providing end-to-end engineering support for its command, control, communications, computer and intelligence (C4I) systems across the fleet.

C4I merges traditional military command and control functions with advanced data-crunching technologies. The U.S. is actively using those technologies to achieve information superiority with the objective of enabling better and faster decisions—and relaying those decisions to the relevant forces. C4I systems provide commanders with enhanced situational awareness—even when a scenario is evolving quickly and the data is hard to interpret.

The USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) is the command ship of the seventh fleet.

Under the contract, Vectrus will support the C4I systems of the Navy’s afloat force of command ships, ballistic missile defense ships, strike groups as well as some onshore facilities. The company will also support the rapid introduction of new capabilities into the fleet through experimentation and operational fleet exercises. Vectrus engineers will also be responsible for monitoring C4I system performance and network defense status, as well as restoring system function quickly after a malfunction, attack, cyber-attack or other incident.

The contract extends Vectrus’ partnership with the Navy’s Fleet Systems Engineering Team (FSET) program—which began in 1999—through January 2024. "Our afloat teams provide a full range of keyboard to antenna support services that are integral to the readiness of U.S. Navy ships,” said Chuck Prow, President and Chief Executive Officer of Vectrus.

It is also the latest in a string of wins for the company, which provides infrastructure asset management, IT and network communications support, and logistics and supply chain management for the U.S. government. Last year Vectrus won a $60 million contract to provide support services for base operations at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station—the biggest such contract for the Navy. The company also won contracts to support military bases around the world: $84 million for base maintenance at the Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas, $16 million for operating and logistics support at the Al Dhafra Air Base in the UAE and $43 million for installation maintenance at the Army garrison in Stuttgart. In addition, Vectrus bought SENTINEL Corporation, a competitor with expertise in logistics, supply chain management, advanced technology systems and intelligence mission support, for $36 million.

With this contract, Vectrus continues to cement itself as a go-to contractor for the military in a variety of sectors—and the Navy’s C4I systems continue to be battle-ready.

Read more about the Navy’s state-of-the-art control and information systems at Mercury Systems Plans to Improve Life-Cycle and Network Management of U.S. Navy Control Systems.