Navy seeking lead integrator for SURTASS

The Navy is conducting a market survey to find small businesses capable of integrating a towed array sensor system that is key to its anti-submarine surveillance vessels, the service announced this week.

The Surveillance Towed-Array Sensor System "provides the mobile, tactical arm of the Integrated Undersea Surveillance System, providing long-range detection and cueing for tactical weapons platforms or other vessels of interest," according to fiscal year 2020 Navy budget justification documents.

The market survey seeks out small businesses capable of "engineering, integration, configuration management, and operational sustainment support" for SURTASS systems installed on the Navy's auxiliary general ocean surveillance ships, the follow-on T-AGOS (X) program and Japanese auxiliary ocean surveillance vessels.

Responses to the survey are due Sept. 19.