BlueForge Alliance Awarded Prime Contract from U.S. Navy

BRYAN/COLLEGE STATION, Texas – BlueForge Alliance (BFA), a nonprofit defense industrial base integrator, today announced it has been awarded a Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) prime contract to support planning, resourcing, coordinating, and uplifting the U.S. Submarine Industrial Base (SIB) and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) requirements. The two-year contract includes initial funding of $503 million, with a total cumulative value of up to $980 million.

This contract will significantly expand BFA’s ongoing efforts in collaboration with the U.S. Navy, its shipbuilders, and stakeholders from across the submarine and maritime industrial base to increase capacity and production resilience by executing successful domestic programs and international partnerships.

“We are deeply grateful and humbled that the Navy has chosen BlueForge Alliance to be its maritime industrial base integrator,” said Kiley Wren, BlueForge Alliance co-founder and co-chief executive officer. “We are very appreciative of the Navy’s continued support and investment in the mission of strengthening the submarine and maritime industrial base and are honored to come alongside our best-in-class shipbuilders and suppliers to meet our critically urgent maritime demands. This contract will empower our team to continue adding capability to the supply chain, build hiring pools, and improve shipyards, and technologies, all of which fill a critical need for the Navy and our national security.”

As part of this contract, BlueForge Alliance will continue its efforts to enhance existing suppliers and develop new suppliers to increase resiliency of supply chains; facilitate the rapid deployment of manufacturing technology to improve productivity and remove known production risk areas and bottlenecks identified by shipbuilders and suppliers; accelerate investments in supply chain infrastructure and capacity; and implement a consortium approach to critical areas in the defense industrial base workforce that require a whole-of-enterprise response.

“We look forward to putting this contract to work,” said Rob Gorham, co-founder and co-chief executive officer at BlueForge Alliance. “BFA remains 100 percent committed to the Navy’s mission and our global network of partners stand ready to support. Mission success depends on the critical role we play as a non-profit, unbiased integrator. We are actively convening a nexus of public-private partnerships necessary to catalyze the industrial base for the Navy’s next horizon of critical missions and are implementing a whole of nation approach to maximize impact through speed and scale.”

The Navy is on a once-in-a-generation journey to recapitalize its submarine force structure, which includes building one Columbia Class, and two Virginia Class submarines every year into and throughout the 2030s. Over the next 10 years, an estimated 140,000 workforce members across critical manufacturing trades are needed to successfully build the Navy’s next-gen submarine fleet. The magnitude of this challenge requires holistic and differentiating efforts and investments, including the scale of advanced manufacturing technologies and the deployment of a national communications strategy to align people to a no-fail mission.

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About BlueForge Alliance

BlueForge Alliance (BFA) is a nonprofit defense industrial base integrator that supports the U.S. Navy’s industrial base initiatives and efforts to strengthen and sustain the maritime manufacturing sector. BFA is a critical partner in the SIB’s mission to ensure industry has the capability, capacity, and resilience to build and maintain America’s next generation of undersea platforms. BFA is headquartered in Bryan/College Station, Texas. For more information, visit www.BlueForgeAlliance.us.

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