Frontgrade Technologies Inc.

Frontgrade Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of radiation-hardened and high-reliability electronic components headquartered in Plainview, New York, supplies computer subassemblies, frequency synthesizers, microcircuits, transmitter assemblies, and repair services to defense agencies as a prime contractor on full-and-open purchase orders and definitive contracts with no set-aside designation. The company is a for-profit subsidiary of Frontgrade Technologies LLC, a Colorado Springs-based parent entity.

The Naval Supply Systems Command dominates Frontgrade's customer footprint, accounting for 152 awards valued at $51.3 million combined potential value across 69% of awards tracked in the source. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime places the second-largest order volume (120 awards, $6.7 million combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force, and the Army Materiel Command Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command. The concentration is stark: NAVSUP and DLA together account for 88% of combined potential value. The company competes entirely full-and-open; no small business set-asides appear across its prime footprint.

Frontgrade's capability portfolio centers on radiation-hardened semiconductor manufacturing and repair. Representative prime awards include a $11.4 million NAVSUP purchase order (March 2026) for computer subassemblies with completion by September 2028; a $5.2 million NAVSUP definitive contract (May 2022) for ten electric synthesizers under sole-source authority (FAR 6.302-1) with completion by January 2025; a $3.5 million NAVSUP definitive contract (December 2023) for electrical synthesizers; a $999 thousand NAVSUP purchase order (April 2024) for frequency synthesizers; and a $800 thousand NAVSUP purchase order (November 2025) for computer subassembly repair services. The firm also supplies hybrid and digital microcircuits to DLA Land and Maritime, with awards ranging from $13 thousand to $249 thousand. A smaller $90 thousand award (December 2023) to the Shared Services Center supplied Frontgrade-manufactured integrated circuits (VRG8602-S, RHD8544-S, VRG8608-S units) for completion by December 2025.

Awards per year have grown from 13 in 2022 to 30 in 2025, with 8 awards recorded through early 2026. However, only five awards carrying $2.7 million combined potential value complete within the next twenty-four months, presenting limited recompete exposure in the near term. Top parent vehicles include the Federal Supply Schedule GS24F0701A and GS00F0701A (13 and 8 task orders respectively), an Indefinite Delivery Contract N6833524D0010 (4 task orders), and several smaller IDCs. Across 600 total awards, 92% are prime contracts and 8% subcontract work.

In its subcontractor role, Frontgrade supplies synthesizers, computer subassemblies, hybrid microcircuits, and integrated circuits to Northrop Grumman Systems Corp (the dominant prime, appearing across GBSD EMD and satellite payload programs), Lockheed Martin Corporation (NGI AUR development, PAC-3 missile production, and repair support), Raytheon Company (missile spares and MK-99 platform), Boeing (Space Launch System and wideband satellite communications), L3 Technologies (communication security comsec units), and Southwest Research Institute (radiation-hardened MRAM for the Coronagraph instrument). Sub awards span electronics manufacturing and repair, with recent volume (September 2025 onwards) concentrated on synthesizer and computer subassembly deliveries for Northrop and secondary primes.

The source data spans 600 awards with combined obligated dollars of $121.8 million against $70 million combined potential value — a signal of heavy task-order utilization against ceilings. The vendor's award history extends back to 1988. Primary NAICS concentration sits in Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing (118 awards), Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (60 awards), and Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing (39 awards), with top PSC codes reflecting microcircuits, radar equipment, and motors.