Communications Scientific International, Incorporated

Communications Scientific International, Incorporated, doing business as Communications Scientific, is a minority-owned, Black American-owned small disadvantaged business providing specialized maintenance and logistics components to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor, with 716 purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts spanning 2006 to the present. The Baltimore, Maryland-based Subchapter S corporation operates exclusively in the full-and-open federal marketplace without set-aside designations on its purchase orders, though it holds two active single-award Total Small Business IDCs with DLA Land and Maritime.

Communications Scientific's capability portfolio centers on brazing and soldering flux, insulating compounds and varnishes, electrical insulation sleeving, intake filter elements, wire rope assemblies, connectors, and storage batteries—consumable and replacement components that sustain Department of Defense equipment maintenance across multiple depots domestically and overseas. Recent representative awards include a $14.74 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from DLA Aviation on November 17, 2025 for insulating compound; a $9.68 thousand delivery order from DLA Land and Maritime on August 22, 2024 for intake filter elements (NSN 8510841822); and a $6.99 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from DLA Aviation on September 16, 2024 for insulating compound. The firm also holds two single-award IDCs with DLA Land and Maritime: a $250 thousand Total Small Business IDC awarded May 2, 2025 through May 1, 2026 for intake filter elements, and a prior $250 thousand Total Small Business IDC that ran from September 29, 2023 through September 28, 2024.

Customer concentration is extreme and stable. DLA divisions account for 99% of recent awards by count and 97% by combined potential value, with DLA Land and Maritime anchoring the portfolio at 505 awards worth $3.8 million combined potential value, followed by DLA Aviation at 99 awards worth $3.1 million. The remaining three DLA subdivisions—Troop Support Construction and Equipment, Troop Support Hardware, and Troop Support Medical—represent a combined 105 awards worth $400 thousand. No other federal agencies appear in the active award footprint. Communications Scientific has worked with ten distinct customer agencies over its full award history, reflecting a sustained shift toward DLA concentration over the past two decades.

Activity has accelerated, rising from 11 awards in 2022 to 36 in 2025, though the 2026 count (8 awards to date) reflects a partial-year snapshot as of April 9, 2026. The combined potential value across all awards stands at $7.6 million, with $3.4 million obligated (44% execution rate). The top five parent vehicles are all DLA IDCs: SPM4A607D2612 with 11 task orders worth $851 thousand, SPM7L413D5A66 with 6 task orders worth $64 thousand, SPE7L315D5050 with 5 task orders worth $48 thousand, and two smaller IDCs (SPM7M113D5S00 and SPM7M113D5C83) carrying minimal values. The bulk of Communications Scientific's work flows through individual purchase orders rather than parent contract vehicles, consistent with DLA's micro-buy logistics procurement model for maintenance consumables.

Award taxonomy shows Communications Scientific's product portfolio splits across welding and brazing supplies (233 awards under NAICS All Other Miscellaneous Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing and PSC Miscellaneous Welding, Soldering, And Brazing Supplies), storage batteries (100 awards under NAICS Storage Battery Manufacturing and PSC Batteries, Rechargeable), electrical insulators and insulation materials (39 awards), and navigation and guidance system components (59 awards). The company competes in full-and-open procurements and holds vendor registration dating to 2005, demonstrating two decades of uninterrupted DLA supplier standing.

COMScientific provides engineering, communications and information systems technology and suport services, including integrated logistics and design and development, test and integration of systems and applications; applied R&D for Department of Defense and Government-focused industry customers