Critical Communications, Controls And Instruments, LLC

Critical Communications, Controls And Instruments, LLC, operating through its C3I Division, is a veteran-owned manufacturer of marine communications, controls, and instrumentation hardware and software solutions that competes as a prime contractor exclusively in full-and-open and small-business set-aside delivery orders and IDIQs with the Department of the Navy. The company, based in Exeter, New Hampshire, operates as a limited liability partnership structured for goods manufacturing and holds a strong position on Navy vehicle platforms anchored by a $4 billion SeaPort-NXG multiple-award contract and a $5 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with Naval Air Warfare Center.

C3I's customer concentration is intense and Navy-locked. Across 133 prime awards totaling $4.11 billion in combined potential value, the Naval Air Warfare Center (86 awards, $101.1 million) and Naval Sea Systems Command (13 awards, $4 billion) account for 96% of the award count and nearly all of the dollar value. The SeaPort-NXG holding dominates the dollars; the Naval Air Warfare Center BPA (updated most recently April 7, 2025, through April 6, 2030, at $5 million ceiling) anchors recurring volume. The vendor also holds a single-award Total Small Business IDIQ with Naval Air Warfare Center for Digital Integrated Launch and Recovery Television Surveillance (DILARTS) parts and components (awarded September 1, 2025, $37.8 million ceiling through September 2030) and a newly awarded Multiple Award MAC IDIQ with Naval Air Warfare Center for Horizon Reference System design and manufacture across Freedom-Class, Independence-Class, Arleigh Burke-Class, and Constellation-Class vessel platforms (awarded January 21, 2026, $1,000 ceiling, effective through January 2031).

C3I's capability footprint centers on specialized maritime electronics and control systems for naval platforms. Representative work includes a $12.5 million DILARTS control room delivery order (September 2025, Naval Air Warfare Center, Total Small Business set-aside); a $3.3 million ALS-CPS (Aircraft Launch and Recovery System — Catapult Power Supply) control panel delivery order for Littoral Combat Ship integration (December 2023); a $3.02 million bubble monitor component for CVN-76 DILARTS system integration (July 2024); a $2.57 million FLEX DRIVER FFG-66 order (March 2024); and recurring smaller orders for Deck Edge Outline Light (DEOL) lamp components, network switches, servo motors, communication panels, and specialized electronic components supporting carrier strike group and surface combatant missions. Work is performed primarily in Exeter, New Hampshire, with select orders executed in Woburn, Massachusetts, and Lakehurst, New Jersey.

Recent activity has flattened after growth through 2025: ten awards in 2023, eight in 2024, eleven in 2025, seven in 2026, and one through mid-2027. Eight awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $17.2 million, presenting recompete exposure concentrated within Naval Air Warfare Center vehicle renewals. C3I competes exclusively on its own delivery; the award portfolio carries zero subcontract awards and zero SCI-reportable sub-hours share. The vendor operates 100% as a prime and carries no named subcontractor relationships in the source.

C3I's service contract footprint is minimal in SCI's view: only one SCI record spanning FY2022, reported as a named subcontractor role with 1.5 FTEs, indicating that the vendor's federal revenue stream is dominated by goods procurement and product delivery orders rather than labor-hour service work above the $150,000 reporting threshold. The broader federal revenue — $64.9 million obligated across a $4.11 billion potential ceiling — reflects the weighted concentration in the large SeaPort-NXG vehicle that carries most of its dollars in unobligated future task-order capacity.

C3I holds a Small Business Innovation Research Phase III Basic Ordering Agreement framework (July 5, 2022, through July 4, 2027, no stated ceiling) that has generated recurring delivery orders translating R&D work into production runs supporting CVN, DDG, FFG, and LCS platforms. The vendor's category concentration runs heavily to aircraft landing equipment (63 awards), search-and-detection navigation systems (49 awards), and switchgear and electrical equipment (7 awards), grounding its role as a specialized supplier of visual and electronic landing aids and ship systems integration components for naval aviation and surface combatant modernization.

Engineering design & development firm, specializing in shipboard communication, navigation, battery monitoring, Advanced Lighting Systems, Indicators, Sound Powered Telephones, and Combined Systems and Consoles.