American GNC Corp

American GNC Corp, a minority-owned, woman-owned small business manufacturer based in Simi Valley, California, conducts research and development for advanced guidance, navigation, and control technologies and autonomous systems as a 100% prime contractor across defense and civilian space agencies under total small business set-asides. The company specializes in SBIR Phase I and Phase II research contracts, with demonstrated expertise in unmanned systems, sensor networks, autonomous operations, and fault detection systems for aerospace and defense applications.

The vendor's customer base spans twenty distinct federal agencies, concentrated heavily among defense and space organizations. By award count, the top four customers — the Department of the Army (43 awards), the Department of the Air Force (31 awards), NASA (30 awards), and the Department of the Navy (25 awards) — account for 74% of recent awards. However, dollar concentration diverges sharply: NASA's Shared Services Center (18 awards, $6.2 million combined potential value) anchors 33% of combined potential value across the portfolio, followed by the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command at Picatinny Arsenal (10 awards, $2.5 million), the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (5 awards, $1.5 million), and the Navy's Naval Air Systems Command (7 awards, $1.3 million). This structure reflects American GNC's positioning as an SBIR specialist: smaller dollar awards per contract but distributed across many research initiatives.

Award volume has declined in recent years — two awards in 2021 and 2022, one award each in 2023 and 2025, and one award in 2026 — but the portfolio carries substantial historical depth, with a first award dating to 1990 and a combined obligated total of $40.6 million against $18.7 million in combined potential value across 198 awards. Work concentrates in R&D categories: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (29 awards), with top PSC codes spanning Space R&D Services and Defense Basic Research (31 awards) and Defense Applied Research/Exploratory Development (14 awards). Recent representative work includes a $849,969 Phase II SBIR award from NASA's Shared Services Center for the Semi-Autonomous Anomaly Monitoring and Early Detection (SAMY) System (completed May 2025), a $224,940 Phase I SBIR for the Integrated Modular Platform for Aerial Characterization, Telemetry, and Sensing (IMPACTS) awarded September 2026, and a $149,962 Phase I SBIR for the Robust System Fault Classification & Detection System (ROBUSTDETECT) awarded September 2025. One award worth $225 thousand carries an ultimate completion date within the next twenty-four months, representing minimal recompete exposure in the near term. American GNC sits on the Federal Supply Schedule GS24F0014K with three task orders totaling $137 thousand, though the vendor operates predominantly as a direct research prime rather than through major government-wide vehicles.

COMMERCIAL, PHYSICAL & BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH, ENGINEERING SERVICES, SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COMPUTER INTEGRATED SYSTEM DESIGN, MANAGEMENT SERVICES, COMPUTER MAINTENANCE & REPAIR, ADVANCED NAVIGATION GUIDANCE & CONTROL, ENGINEERING MODELING, ANALYSIS, DESIGN, I