Ballantine Laboratories Inc.

Ballantine Laboratories Inc., a small business subsidiary of Noise Unlimited Inc., manufactures and supplies electronic test equipment and components to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor, competing predominantly on full-and-open procurements with occasional small-business set-asides. Headquartered in Annandale, New Jersey, Ballantine Laboratories operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation specializing in voltmeters, multimeters, test adapters, probe-lead assemblies, circuit card assemblies, and related precision instruments classified under NAICS 334515 (Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals).

Ballantine's federal customer base concentrates heavily with Navy logistics and supply commands. The Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command accounts for 165 awards valued at $3.4 million combined potential value, while the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime holds 48 awards worth $1.6 million — together representing the overwhelming majority of the vendor's recent activity. The Department of the Navy Naval Air Warfare Center, the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command, and the Department of the Army round out the active set. Across all agencies, 84% of combined potential value flows to the top five customers, reflecting a highly concentrated customer footprint dominated by naval and defense logistics procurement.

Ballantine holds positions on multiple Navy and DLA indefinite delivery contracts that structure its task-order activity. The vendor draws work through Indefinite Delivery Contract N0010415DD001 (75 task orders, $524 thousand combined potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract N0010403DX402 (31 task orders, $653 thousand combined potential value), and Indefinite Delivery Contract N0010409DD017 (25 task orders, $207 thousand combined potential value), as well as a single-award DLA probe-lead assembly IDC valued at $250,000 (performance ending January 23, 2024) and a single-award DLA voltmeter IDC valued at $250,000 (performance ending November 3, 2023). Representative recent work includes a $198,960 DLA purchase order for 48 model 50423 3440A-M113 voltmeters awarded January 3, 2025, a $112,350 Naval Supply Systems Command firm fixed-price order for voltmeter manufacture awarded March 22, 2024, and a $95,355 DLA purchase order for voltmeters awarded December 9, 2024.

Award volume has declined year over year — 14 awards in 2022 to 2 awards in 2026 to date — though the source reflects recent purchase-order activity through May 2026. The combined potential value across all recent awards totals $6.2 million against $19 million in combined dollars obligated, indicating significant use of existing task orders and IDCs. Ballantine competes in both full-and-open and set-aside categories; recent set-aside designations include Total Small Business on a January 2026 test adapter order and a September 2022 voltmeter purchase order, while the majority of recent awards carry no set-aside designation. The vendor holds no parent vehicles of its own and operates exclusively as a prime contractor drawing task orders from Navy and DLA indefinite delivery contracts.