Critical Imaging LLC

Critical Imaging LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Utica, New York, manufactures and repairs specialized imaging equipment—infrared cameras, video camera assemblies, power supplies, and ruggedized long-range threat cameras—for U.S. Air Force threat simulation and weapon system programs as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) competing in full and open competition with no set-aside designations.

The company operates almost exclusively within the Air Force's threat-emitter ecosystem. The Ogden Air Logistics Complex accounts for 66 awards with $12.7 million in combined potential value, and the Air Force Sustainment Center adds 18 awards with $3.4 million, together representing 92% of the vendor's recent award count and 99% of combined potential value. No other federal customer represents more than $882 thousand. Critical Imaging's customer concentration is extreme and narrow: two Air Force logistics nodes hold roughly all of the work. The top NAICS categories center on electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance (73 awards, primarily PSC Maint/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment—Miscellaneous), with secondary work in optical instrument manufacturing and search-and-detection system manufacturing.

Critical Imaging holds a $4,999,999 five-year single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Ogden Air Logistics Complex running through September 29, 2029, awarded August 27, 2024, covering repair, maintenance, and manufacturing services for advanced imaging equipment across the Joint Threat Emitter (JTE), Modular Threat Emitter (MTE), MUTES/Mini-MUTES, and Unmanned Threat Emitter (UMTE) programs. Delivery orders under this IDC represent the bulk of the vendor's recent work. Representative prime awards include a $269 thousand FY23 repair order for UMTE and JTE cameras (July 2023), a $124 thousand repair order for ruggedized long-range threat cameras under the UMTE program (June 2022), a $96.5 thousand repair order for JTE and UMTE equipment (November 2024), and a $78.75 thousand repair order for a JTE infrared camera (January 2025). Earlier parent IDCs FA825018D0004, FA825015D0008, and FA825024D0002 funded 39 of the vendor's prior task orders totaling roughly $2.4 million in combined potential value.

Award velocity remains modest: five awards in 2021, declining to two in 2022 and three in 2023, then rising to four in both 2024 and 2025. The vendor's footprint spans 105 total awards since 2004, with $17.6 million in combined potential value and $11.6 million obligated (66% drawdown). In its minimal subcontract role, Critical Imaging supplies imaging components and manufacturing support to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation on two Joint Threat Emitter Enhanced Delivery Initiative delivery orders issued February 2025, one for the base JTE program and one for Foreign Military Sales to Lithuania. The subcontract volume is negligible relative to prime work.

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