Advanced Telemetry Systems Inc.

Advanced Telemetry Systems Inc., headquartered in Isanti, Minnesota, is a veteran-owned small business manufacturer that designs and manufactures acoustic transmitters, GPS collars, VHF radio tags, and related wildlife telemetry equipment for federal natural resource management and ecological research agencies as a prime contractor (100% of awards). The company operates across multiple NAICS categories centered on communications and navigation equipment manufacturing (NAICS 334511 — Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing; NAICS 334220 — Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing) and competes predominantly full-and-open, with some Total Small Business set-asides scattered across its footprint.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE). The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Portland anchors the portfolio with 45 awards valued at $134.2 million combined potential value — roughly 54% of the company's total pipeline — followed by ACOE Engineering District Walla Walla with 22 awards and $53.7 million. These two ACOE districts account for about 81% of combined potential value across all awards. Beyond ACOE, the Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration places 77 awards worth $2.9 million (the highest award count but lowest per-order value), the Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey carries 42 awards for $4 million, the Bureau of Reclamation places 13 awards for $7.3 million, and the Fish and Wildlife Service operates across multiple regions. Recent representative work includes a $1.47 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers JSATS (Juvenile Salmonid Acoustic Telemetry System) equipment contract awarded in 2023 for 5,275 SS400 transmitters, 32 SR3001 receivers, and associated batteries and cables supporting fish passage studies at Howard Hanson Dam; a $1.26 million Bureau of Reclamation procurement for steelhead telemetry supplies; a $622.8 million USGS purchase order for acoustic transmitters; and a $980 thousand Bureau of Reclamation partial small business set-aside for acoustic telemetry transmitters and receivers completed in 2025.

Advanced Telemetry Systems holds seats on four named indefinite delivery contracts. An ACOE single-award IDC (W912EF13D0003) carries 9 task orders worth $7.5 million combined potential value. A second ACOE single-award vehicle (W9127N07D0007) has generated 13 task orders valued at $11.1 million. The company also operates under two GSA Multiple Award Schedules (GS03F0106U with 13 task orders worth $105 thousand, and GS03F5035C with 12 task orders), and holds a $500 thousand single-award IDC with the U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (awarded December 2025, expiring November 2028) and a $20 thousand single-award IDC with the National Park Service's Midwest Region for Iridium elk collar services at Theodore Roosevelt National Park (awarded June 2024, expiring July 2027). On the ACOE side, the company is a sole-source supplier for JSATS-compatible acoustic equipment, with multiple procurement narratives citing government determinations that existing field deployments necessitate award to Advanced Telemetry Systems to avoid costly redesigns, recalibration, and scientific data revalidation.

Activity trends show modest year-over-year growth (six awards in 2022 to thirteen in 2024, declining to nine in 2025 and ten projected in 2026), with only four awards (combined potential value $188 thousand) reaching completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating low near-term recompete exposure. The company competes across sixty-one distinct customer agencies but derives most revenue concentration from two ACOE districts, signaling high customer concentration risk and tight operational coupling to a small set of fish passage and telemetry research programs. Advanced Telemetry Systems has operated in the federal ecosystem since 1987 and maintains no subcontractor footprint — the entire 738-award portfolio consists of prime awards to the company itself, with no visible teaming or subcontracting relationships in the source material.

Advanced Telemetry Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells radio telemetry systems, scientific receivers, VHF transmitters, GPS transmitters, Iriduim transmitters, Acoustic and Sonic transmitters and receivers, antennas and other small equipment used in ecological and biological wildlife applications for wildlife research.