Comet Technologies Usa, Inc.

Comet Technologies Usa, Inc., doing business as Plasma Control Technologies, is a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of specialized electronic components based in the United States. The company primarily supplies high-power vacuum capacitors, transmitting capacitors, and radio transmitter parts to federal government agencies. As a manufacturer of electronic components, Comet Technologies specializes in producing critical electronic parts for broadcasting and communications infrastructure, with a particular focus on supporting global media and communications networks.

Through its federal contract awards, Comet Technologies has consistently provided specialized electronic components to the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Office of Technology Services and Innovation. The company's contracts have involved delivering vacuum capacitors and transmitting capacitors to support broadcasting infrastructure across multiple international transmitting stations, including locations in Thailand, the Philippines, Kuwait, Botswana, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). None of the company's federal contract awards have been designated with small business set-aside provisions. The contract awards have ranged in value from approximately $15,000 to $144,000, with most being firm-fixed-price purchase orders or delivery orders focused on supplying specific electronic components to support the agency's global media broadcasting networks.

Comet Technologies has held at least one significant indefinite delivery contract (IDV) with the U.S. Agency for Global Media, specifically a single-award IDV (Contract ID: 95170020D0227) established in September 2020 with a potential ceiling value of $311,000 and a performance period through September 2022. Under this IDV, the company has been awarded multiple delivery orders for high-power capacitors to fulfill transmitting station requirements. The IDV enables the procurement of various capacitor products, including transmitting capacitors, vacuum capacitors, and high-power vacuum capacitors. Delivery locations have spanned multiple U.S. states, including California, Virginia, and North Carolina. The aggregate value of delivery orders placed against this IDV has exceeded $500,000, demonstrating the agency's ongoing need for Comet Technologies' specialized electronic components in supporting global broadcasting programs and technology modernization efforts.