Caron East, Inc.

Caron East, Inc., a Cumberland, Maryland-based small business, sells geospatial surveying equipment, unmanned aerial systems, LIDAR scanners, positioning technologies, and related maintenance and software services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) and occasionally as a subcontractor. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation with no reported SBA set-aside designation across most of its prime footprint, though specific awards carry total small business set-asides; Caron East competes predominantly in full-and-open federal procurement and regularly executes delivery orders through the GSA Multiple Award Schedule.

Caron East's customer concentration centers on civilian natural-resource and law-enforcement agencies. The top five funding offices account for 49% of awards by count and 37% of combined potential value, with the Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service Central Region leading by volume (48 awards, $4.3 million combined potential value), followed closely by the NRCS Southeast Region (41 awards, $6.4 million) and FBI Headquarters Division (32 awards, $6.1 million combined potential value). NRCS regional offices collectively dominate the award footprint, with over 125 awards across multiple regions supporting conservation surveying, farm production support, and emergency watershed protection. Recent representative prime work includes a $10,266 delivery order from the NRCS Southeast Region for field maintenance and software upgrade of survey data collectors under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (October 2026); a $127,762 delivery order from GSA Headquarters for evidence collection equipment and services under total small business set-aside (September 2026); a $345,372 delivery order from the USDA's Pacific West Area for Topcon GPS equipment serving natural resources programs (September 2024); and a $643,576 delivery order from the NRCS Southeast Region for Topcon surveying equipment in Louisiana (September 2023). The vendor also executes numerous sub-$100,000 orders across NRCS state offices for Topcon total stations, GPS receivers, GNSS systems, and associated accessories and maintenance plans.

Caron East's vehicle position anchors on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule, which accounts for 217 task orders carrying $23.2 million in combined potential value—the vast majority of its federal footprint. Beyond MAS, the vendor holds a $3 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Department of Interior's Office of Policy Management and Budget for Wingtra unmanned aircraft systems and geospatial services to Interior bureaus and the United States Geological Survey (established May 2023, running through May 2028, total small business set-aside at parent level), under which approximately eighteen task orders totaling roughly $1.6 million have been issued since inception with individual call values ranging from $35,000 to $270,000. In September 2026, Caron East was awarded a $4.5 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract from the FBI Headquarters Division for evidence collection equipment and services (completion March 2032), marking entry into the Bureau's evidence-procurement footprint. The vendor also holds a $5 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with U.S. Customs and Border Protection for Wingtra SUAS 2.0 UAV capabilities under the MAS vehicle (effective through September 2026), and operates under multiple-award task-order vehicles including a $1.9 million BPA (140D0423A0048) with approximately 26 task orders.

Activity has remained relatively steady, with 27 awards in 2022, 36 in 2023, 35 in 2024, 21 in 2025, and 26 awards year-to-date in 2026. The recompete cliff is minimal—only 17 awards (combined potential value $1 million) complete in the next twenty-four months, suggesting stable incumbent positioning across the NRCS and Interior customer base. The vendor's subcontractor footprint is minimal: recent sub work includes drone and accessory provision to Science Applications International Corporation on systems-engineering and cybersecurity programs for the Army C5ISR Center (May 2025).

Caron East sources equipment primarily from brand manufacturers including Topcon Positioning Systems (robotic total stations, GNSS/GPS receivers, data collectors, and field software), Wingtra (fixed-wing vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned aerial systems), GeoSLAM (mobile LIDAR scanners), FARO (handheld LIDAR systems), and Sokkia (survey-grade receivers). The company's award portfolio concentrates in NAICS 334513 (Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals), representing 225 awards, with secondary concentrations in aircraft manufacturing (31 awards) and equipment repair and maintenance (34 awards). Place of performance spans Cumberland, Maryland (headquarters and primary fulfillment location) and subordinate U.S. locations including regional NRCS offices, Interior bureaus, FBI sites, and Defense installations; Interior BPA calls have been performed at alternative locations including Aurora, Colorado, and Boise, Idaho, reflecting geographic distribution of Interior bureau operations.