Bustec, Inc.

Bustec, Inc., a small business manufacturer of precision data acquisition systems and analog-to-digital converters, operates as a prime contractor (67% of recent awards) and subcontractor supplying specialized measurement instrumentation to federal research and defense agencies. Based in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, Bustec manufactures ProDAQ thermocouple instruments, rackmount kits, and related electronics under NAICS 334515 (Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals) and PSC 6625 (Electrical and Electronic Properties Measuring and Testing Instruments). The vendor competes full-and-open and under Total Small Business set-asides, with no recurring 8(a), HUBZone, or other SBA certifications evident in recent awards.

Bustec's customer footprint concentrates heavily on NASA's Shared Services Center, which accounts for four awards and $381 thousand of the combined potential value across the vendor's twelve tracked prime and sub awards. Recent capability work includes a $271.5 thousand sole-source purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center (awarded June 10, 2026) for twenty-five ProDAQ 6150 Isolated Precision Thermocouple LXI Instruments and twenty-five rackmount kits, performance at Bustec's Wakefield facility with delivery by August 5, 2026; a $30.77 thousand Total Small Business purchase order from NASA (July 17, 2025) for two ProDAQ 6150-AC thermocouple instruments destined for NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio; and a $7.5 thousand Other Transaction Agreement from the U.S. Air Force (November 10, 2025) for NFAC Front-End Hardware Prototype development, also performed in Wakefield. The Department of the Navy Office of Naval Research and Naval Sea Systems Command contribute secondary volume, along with isolated awards from the Department of the Army and Air Force Materiel Command.

Activity has accelerated sharply — one award in 2022 to six in 2025 — though the combined potential value of $524 thousand across all awards masks obligated dollars of $3.9 million, reflecting historical contract execution at scale. One award (Bustec's June 2026 NASA purchase order, $272 thousand combined potential value) reaches completion within the next twenty-four months and faces recompete. In its subcontractor role, Bustec supplies materials and components to Defense Systems and Solutions on four task orders under the Army Indefinite Delivery Contract W58RGZ-18-D-0001 for Electronic Systems Test Set (ESTS) Modernization and Engine Test Instrument Replacement System work. Bustec's capability footprint is narrowly specialized in precision analog-to-digital converters, thermocouple measurement systems, and associated test instrumentation for NASA research facilities and defense test-and-measurement programs, with no diversification into consulting, systems integration, or services-based work.

Bustec Inc, is a leading supplier of high performance data acquisition and test products. Bustec products are based on computer independence and open platform standards to ensure long term use and preserve capitol investments. Bustec leads the measurement world in accuracy and data throughput's besides offering the highest channel density available on the market today. Bustec office data acquisitions solutions for VXI & LXI/Ethernet, and uses the same function card modules interchangeably in carriers for both platforms.