Atlas Instrument Co Inc.

Atlas Instrument Co Inc., a Chambersburg, Pennsylvania-based small business manufacturer, supplies precision optical instruments and navigational equipment to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor, competing predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on indefinite delivery vehicles with the Defense Logistics Agency and the Department of the Navy. The company manufactures mission-critical optical components including prism assemblies, telescopic lenses, eyepiece assemblies, bearing circles, azimuth circles, binocular headrests and carriages, optical lenses, cell assemblies, and related housing and support components that sustain military equipment readiness across multiple service branches.

Atlas operates as a 100% prime contractor with no sub-award activity. The customer concentration is stark and heavily weighted to Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) divisions. DLA Land and Maritime dominates both volume and potential value, accounting for 150 awards worth $4.5 million combined potential value (roughly 49% of the portfolio), followed closely by DLA Aviation with 103 awards worth $2.4 million (26% of potential value). The Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command places 33 awards ($1.1 million), Naval Sea Systems Command places 55 awards ($817 thousand), and the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard places 12 awards ($84 thousand); these five customers account for 86% of award count and 98% of combined potential value. The portfolio reflects a classic single-source-dependent posture: DLA Land and Maritime and DLA Aviation together represent 75% of potential value across 253 awards.

Atlas holds ten active indefinite delivery contracts with DLA and the Department of the Navy, all single-award vehicles ranging from $250 thousand to $350 thousand ceilings. The largest vehicles by task-order activity are Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE4A618D0082 (14 task orders, $146 thousand combined potential value), SPE4A618D5720 (14 task orders, $104 thousand combined potential value), N0018906A0111 (12 task orders, $82 thousand combined potential value), SPE4A614D5044 (6 task orders, $35 thousand combined potential value), and SPE7L123D60RR (5 task orders, $12 thousand combined potential value). Two of the active IDVs are designated Total Small Business set-asides; the remainder carry no set-aside. Recent representative work includes a $140.4 thousand Total Small Business set-aside purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command in July 2025 for telescopic alidades to Naval Station Kings Bay, a $60 thousand Total Small Business set-aside purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime in April 2025 for binocular carriages, and a $51.8 thousand purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime in August 2024 for 49 eyepiece assemblies. Work is performed exclusively at Atlas's Chambersburg facility, with delivery to DLA depots throughout the continental United States and overseas locations.

Award activity has been consistent but volatile year to year — fifteen awards in 2022, thirty-one in 2023, fifteen in 2024, thirty in 2025, and eighteen through year-end 2026 — totaling 412 awards since 1997 with combined potential value of $9.1 million and combined obligated dollars of $6.7 million (73% execution rate). Within the next twenty-four months, four awards with combined potential value of $242 thousand face ultimate completion and recompete exposure. The portfolio is tightly concentrated by product category: Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing (110 awards) and Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (108 awards) account for roughly 53% of award count; navigational instruments and optical instruments account for roughly 80% of PSC-coded awards. Atlas competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on DLA and Navy vehicles; only a handful of awards each year carry full-and-open or no set-aside designation, underscoring that the company's federal posture is built on recurring small-business vehicle access rather than competitive breadth.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENTS, OPTICAL AND MECHANICAL: AZIMUTH CIRCLE, BEARING CIRCLE, TELESCOPIC ALIDADE, PELORUS, STADIMETER.