Churchill Navigation Inc.

Churchill Navigation Inc., doing business as Shotover Systems, Inc., manufactures augmented reality mapping systems (ARS) and ground control station trainers for federal law enforcement and border security agencies as a prime contractor competing on full-and-open basis without set-asides. A veteran-owned small business headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, Churchill Navigation is a subsidiary of Helinet Aviation Services LLC, a Los Angeles-based helicopter service provider with primary federal work in wildland firefighting. Churchill Navigation's federal footprint centers on specialized geospatial and full-motion video technology for drug interdiction, border operations, and tactical surveillance, with performance at Boulder, Colorado and Fort Worth, Texas for customer installations.

Customer concentration is acute and heavily skewed toward law enforcement. The Drug Enforcement Administration accounts for 12 of 17 recent awards and $86.9 million of the $88.9 million combined potential value across the vendor's entire federal footprint — a concentration that dominates both award count and dollars. The Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters Division places two awards valued at $1.7 million combined. The Department of the Navy Criminal Investigative Service, Customs and Border Protection, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration round out the five agencies served, each with single awards under $300 thousand. This concentration reflects sustained, recurring demand for ARS-700, ARS-700C, and ARS-750 systems delivered through delivery orders averaging $109,250 to $546,250 per call.

Churchill Navigation holds two parent vehicles: an indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract (15DDHQ21D00000012) against which the DEA has placed six task orders carrying $1.2 million in combined potential value, and a newly awarded single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (15F06726A0000933) with a $1.5 million ceiling and a September 2031 completion date, issued September 14, 2026 for new, repaired, and overhauled ARS Systems 600 and 700 Series. Recent named work includes a September 2026 Navy BPA call for a $150 thousand Shotover-Churchill Moving Map Overlay System for surveillance aircraft camera equipment at Quantico, Virginia with completion scheduled July 2027; a February 2026 DEA delivery order for $109,250 for an ARS system (Fort Worth, Texas); a July 2023 DHS Customs and Border Protection purchase order for $20 thousand for Churchill Ground Control Station Partial Trainers (Boulder, Colorado); and a July 2022 DEA delivery order for $546,250 for an ARS-700C augmented reality mapping system (Boulder, Colorado). Only one award ($150 thousand) faces completion within the next twenty-four months and recompete exposure. The vendor operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract footprint and competes across two primary NAICS categories — Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing and Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing — reflecting the specialized sensor and mapping hardware portfolio. Combined obligated dollars total $6.5 million against $88.9 million in potential value, indicating high ceiling-to-obligation ratios typical of systems supply contracts.

Churchill Navigation designs and sells augmented reality mapping systems, video recorders and gimbals/sensors for law enforcement and military use.