Bascom Hunter Technologies, Inc.

Bascom Hunter Technologies, Inc., a Baton Rouge-based small business, operates as a prime contractor (87% of recent awards) on SBIR and STTR research and development contracts across the Department of Defense and allied federal agencies, competing exclusively under total small business set-asides for its primary contract portfolio. The company is a for-profit manufacturer and R&D vendor with two named subsidiaries: Bascom Hunter Technologies, Inc. (the parent operating division) and Candent Technologies Incorporated, a minority-owned, veteran-owned subsidiary.

Bascom Hunter's capability portfolio centers on advanced defense electronics, environmental control systems, artificial intelligence processors, and weapon test systems developed through federally-funded innovation programs. Representative prime work includes a $25.8 million SBIR Phase II research and development contract with Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (awarded July 2022, completion February 2026) for advanced technological solutions; a $4.4 million SBIR Phase III contract with the Air Force for modular cooling capacity development for tactical aircraft (April 2024); a $1.9 million STTR Phase II contract with the Air Force Research Laboratory for highly accelerated life testing of advanced vapor compression systems (June 2024); and a $1.8 million SBIR Phase II contract with the Navy for vacuum pump replacement with improvements (January 2025). The company also holds a Basic Ordering Agreement with the Naval Air Warfare Center (awarded September 2024, running through September 2029) with no specified ceiling, designed to procure SBIR Phase III commercialization efforts across environmental control systems, defense electronics, AI, and weapon test domains. Most recently, Bascom Hunter received a $240 thousand SBIR total small business set-aside contract from the Marine Corps (January 2026, completion May 2027) and secured a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $22.2 million with Naval Information Warfare Systems Command for STTNG INC.2 Protected units production (November 2025, completion December 2026).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Navy programs. Naval Information Warfare Systems Command anchors 90% of potential-value concentration across the portfolio, accounting for 7 awards totaling $51.2 million. By award count, the Naval Air Warfare Center leads with 9 awards ($6.8 million combined potential value), followed by the Department of the Army (8 awards, $2.2 million) and Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (7 awards, $51.2 million). The Air Force Research Laboratory contributes 7 awards ($16 million combined potential value). Twenty-three distinct customer agencies have placed awards, but the top five agencies account for 57% of award volume and 90% of combined potential value, indicating significant concentration in Navy platforms.

Activity has modulated within a constrained range over the past five years — 2022 saw eleven awards, declining to four in 2023, then rebounding to nine in 2024 and ten in 2025. Six awards totaling $29.5 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating near-term recompete exposure across SBIR Phase II and Phase III work.

Bascom Hunter subcontracts to tier-one primes on defense vehicle programs. Recent sub work includes environmental control and fan-system development for Bell Textron on the Future Vertical Lift (FLRAA) program (five separate sub-awards spanning January 2025 through October 2025), cognitive electronic warfare systems engineering for Southwest Research Institute (November 2025), aircraft manufacturing support for L3Harris Technologies under Big Safari (July 2025), and "Speedy Bison Development" labor for Peraton (July 2024 Navy subcontract). The subcontract footprint represents 13% of recent activity and connects Bascom Hunter to major defense primes on tactical aviation and electronic warfare initiatives.

Awards cluster heavily under SBIR and STTR research categories. Top NAICS concentration sits with "Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)" (38 awards), with secondary exposure to aircraft manufacturing (5 awards) and related R&D classifications. The PSC profile mirrors SBIR/STTR dominance: National Defense R&D Services supporting applied research (11 awards), basic research (10 awards), and experimental development (4 awards) dominate the portfolio, reflecting the company's posture as an innovation contractor rather than a production-focused or services-delivery vendor.

U.S.-based Bascom Hunter offers a wide range of industry leading solutions to the wireless communications market, specializing in solving the most difficult problems in wireless communications and RF signal processing, especially co-site, remote, in-channel, adjacent band, and intentional jammer interference. The Company provides products, technical consulting, design, and product support for commercial, industrial, and government customers.