Astronautics Corporation Of America

Astronautics Corporation Of America, a Wisconsin-based manufacturer of avionics equipment and navigation systems for military aircraft, operates as a prime contractor on full-and-open federal contracts, holding a 99% prime-to-sub split across a diversified portfolio of 3,673 federal awards spanning four decades. The company competes without SBA set-aside designations and manufactures concrete goods — flight instruments, engine data concentrator units, multi-function displays, circuit card assemblies, inertial measurement units, and navigation components — supporting repair, upgrade, and sustainment work across multiple Department of Defense platforms and supply chains.

Astronautics Corporation Of America operates through two named subsidiaries, Kearfott Corp and Kearfott Corporation, both manufacturers of goods. The parent and subsidiary structure anchors the company's capability in navigation, guidance, and motion control technologies for rotary-wing and fixed-wing military aircraft including the UH-60 Black Hawk, HH-60G, F-15, C-130 Hercules, and B-2 Spirit bomber. Recent prime work includes a $1.79 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract awarded by the Air Force Sustainment Center on January 22, 2026, for repair and overhaul of engine data concentrator and multi-function display units supporting a 28-aircraft TH-1H helicopter fleet through January 2027; a $6.29 million single-award IDC from Naval Air Systems Command (October 2023, completing October 2026) for C-130T Electronic Flight Instrument upgrades; and a $3.27 million firm fixed-price delivery order from NAVAIR (October 2023) for AFI-4700 software updates and time-sharing option authorizations. Representative smaller awards include a $867 thousand delivery order from the Air Force Sustainment Center (March 2026) for TH-1H engine data concentrator and multi-function display repairs, and a $635 thousand circuit card assembly purchase order from Naval Supply Systems Command (July 2025).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to Army supply chain and air operations. The top five funding agencies account for 80% of awards by count: the Department of the Army leads with 1,700 awards and $28.4 million combined potential value, followed by the Department of the Air Force (450 awards), Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (347 awards, $7.9 million), Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (243 awards, $35.7 million), and the Department of the Navy (205 awards). By potential value, the ranking shifts — DLA Land and Maritime tops at $35.7 million across 243 awards, followed by the Army at $28.4 million, the Air Force Sustainment Center at $24.8 million across 64 awards, the Navy's Office of Naval Research at $11.9 million, and NAVAIR at $10.9 million across 14 awards. This divergence signals that while Army places the highest volume of orders, DLA Land and Maritime and Air Force Sustainment Center anchor the largest individual contract values.

Vehicle position spans Federal Supply Schedule GS00C50167 (1,262 task orders, the dominant vehicle by far), two Army IDCs (DAEA1885D0057 with 133 task orders and DAEA1885D0056 with 109 task orders), and Air Force Basic Ordering Agreements (F3460181G1743 with 48 task orders and F3460185G0006 with 37 task orders). The GSA Schedule dominates activity volume by an order of magnitude, indicating heavy reliance on quick-turn, catalog-style ordering for components and repair services across the federal customer base.

Activity has been stable at roughly 14 awards annually in 2024 and 2025, with only three recorded awards in 2026 year-to-date (reflecting the source snapshot date of mid-July). Only five awards carry ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $1.9 million, indicating minimal recompete cliff exposure. Subcontract footprint is minimal — 19 awards or 1% of the total — with noted subs under The Boeing Company (F-15EX and T-38C avionics systems integration), Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (P-3 aircraft maintenance and logistics support), and KBR Wyle Services LLC (avionic product and lifecycle analysis for the Air Force Sustainment Center). The vendor's primary revenue driver and competitive posture center on direct prime relationships with logistics agencies and air operations commands rather than teaming as a major supplier to large defense primes.