Contracted Air Services (CAS) Electronic Warfare Sonobuoy Lot Acceptance Testing (SLAT) Services

PMA-226 Contracted Air Services (CAS) Integrated Product Team (IPT) has a requirement for Contractor Owned, Contractor Operated (COCO) aircraft to provide production lot testing of sonobuoys used in the United States Navy (USN) inventory as well as conducting engineering tests of pre-production models. The primary mission of Sonobuoy Lot Acceptance Testing (SLAT) is to provide a COCO aerial platform with sonobuoy pneumatic-launch capability to support NAVAIR's Sonobuoy Quality Assurance Program (SQAP), which involves real-world ocean airdrop tests of random samples from production lots, ensuring they meet required standards before being deployed for operations. Additionally, the COCO platform will support pre-production sonobuoy model testing. COCO mission support will be provided from an airfield within 100 NM of San Clemente Island, California where the sonobuoys will be airdropped.