Assurance Technology Corp

Assurance Technology Corp, a Massachusetts-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, operates as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards) delivering advanced radar systems, radio frequency engineering, and space technology research and development to the Office of Naval Research and the Department of the Air Force. The company holds no SBA set-aside designations but competes under Total Small Business set-asides on its most recent ONR vehicle — the FROST (Focused Radio Frequency Optimized Signal Transference) IDIQ awarded September 26, 2025.

Assurance Technology's capability portfolio centers on RF engineering, advanced radar development, optical payload systems, and space-qualified component design. Recent prime work includes a $224.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract from ONR for the JASPER (Juxtapositional Acquisitional Signal Production Emitting Radar) research and development effort (awarded September 17, 2021, completion June 16, 2027); an $87.75 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order under the FROST IDIQ for advancing RF research and development (awarded September 26, 2025, completion September 25, 2028); a $22.053 million cost-plus-fixed-fee task order under a $70 million ONR single-award IDIQ for optical payloads research and development (awarded December 17, 2023, completion June 15, 2026); a $5.942 million delivery order under FROST for mobile platforms RF systems (awarded September 26, 2025, completion September 25, 2028); and a $2.869 million Phase II SBIR definitive contract from the Air Force for low SWAP-C development under Total Small Business set-aside (awarded April 13, 2026, completion April 13, 2027). All work is performed at the company's Carlisle, Massachusetts facility unless stated otherwise; the optical payloads task order carries performance in Washington, DC.

Customer concentration is extreme and skewed to naval research. The Office of Naval Research accounts for 54 awards carrying $2.01 billion combined potential value — 98% of the vendor's combined potential value across all 593 awards. The Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration represents the second-largest customer by dollars ($149.7 million, 1 award), followed by the Department of the Air Force Defense Finance and Accounting Service and related Air Force entities carrying far smaller volumes. The top five customers by potential value account for 98% of combined dollars. By award count, the Navy (all offices combined) holds 351 of 593 awards, with the Air Force placing 67 awards; the top five customers by count cover 83% of total awards.

Assurance Technology holds positions on multiple ONR indefinite delivery contracts: the FROST IDIQ (awarded September 26, 2025, $244 million ceiling, Total Small Business set-aside, completion September 25, 2030), with two delivery orders issued to date; the $70 million single-award ONR R&D Labor IDIQ (awarded December 1, 2023, no set-aside, completion November 30, 2028); and four additional named ONR IDCs listed in the top-parent-vehicles block as the highest-volume task-order recipients (IDC F1962892D0008 with 46 task orders; IDC N0001483C0152 with 26 task orders; IDC N0001493D2022 with 24 task orders; IDC N0001483C0097 with 20 task orders). The company also holds 26 task orders under Federal Supply Schedule GS35F0029J ($42.1 million combined potential value).

Recent activity is sparse but substantial in dollar magnitude: 1 award in 2026, 6 in 2025, and 10 in 2024, reflecting the capital intensity of large research contracts rather than volume velocity. Two awards carrying combined potential value of $227.3 million reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore face recompete in that window. The JASPER contract (completion June 16, 2027) and the optical payloads task order (completion June 15, 2026) anchor this recompete exposure; the FROST delivery orders (both completion September 25, 2028) fall outside the window.

On the subcontractor side, Assurance Technology operates primarily as a feeder to large defense primes: Raytheon Company (High Speed Anti-Radiation Missile Targeting System logistics support and amplifier work, multiple sub awards through December 2025), Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (NEXTSTEP NASA award for space exploration habitation development, two sub awards December 2024 and November 2022), Goodrich Corporation (U-2 SYERS optical systems support and sustainment, two sub awards through January 2024), The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory LLC (DRAGONFLY Extended Phase B NASA mission for flight parts, May 2025), and KBR Wyle Services (Ground Systems and Mission Operations engineering services, May 2025). Across SCI-reportable service contracts, the source records minimal activity: 0.3 FTEs in FY2024 under a single named-subcontractor record, indicating either that Assurance Technology's federal R&D work is classified and therefore excluded from SCI reporting, or that the vendor's federal footprint consists predominantly of goods and development contracts above the SCI threshold rather than labor-hour service contracts. Personnel on ONR contracts must hold security clearances up to Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information level and possess a minimum of ten years of experience.

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