Crystal Instruments Corporation

Crystal Instruments Corporation, doing business as Crystal Instruments, manufactures advanced vibration testing and condition monitoring equipment, accelerometers, data acquisition systems, and related electronic components, and serves the federal government primarily as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards) across defense and civilian agencies with no set-aside designation. The Santa Clara, California-based for-profit manufacturer competes in full-and-open procurements; recent work spans primarily NAICS 334515 (instrument manufacturing for measuring and testing electricity and electrical signals) and related measurement device codes.

The customer base concentrates heavily on Navy and Defense Logistics Agency programs. The top five customer organizations account for 82% of awards by count and 98% by potential value, led by the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (60 awards, $22.5 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command (37 awards, $9.3 million), followed by the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (35 awards, $804 thousand), Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (19 awards, $52 thousand), and the Defense Logistics Agency Construction and Equipment division (10 awards, $9 thousand). A secondary customer concentration exists at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (2 awards, $4.5 million combined potential value) for ground recording system calibration services. The Navy customer base dominates both award count and dollar value; NAVSEA alone anchors roughly 59% of all recent potential value.

Crystal Instruments holds two active parent vehicles: a single-award $7.5 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with NAVSEA running through August 2029 (issued July 30, 2024), under which NAVSEA has placed six task orders totaling $604 thousand in combined potential value for COCO-series vibration analyzers, cable assemblies, and hardware/firmware upgrades, and a single-award $250 thousand Indefinite Delivery Contract with DLA Aviation (issued May 30, 2024, one year term) for cable assemblies, under which DLA Aviation has placed multiple small delivery orders ranging from $48 to $1,296. A predecessor DLA Aviation IDC (issued June 14, 2023, terminated June 13, 2024) carried $250 thousand in ceiling and generated eight task orders. Representative prime work includes a $67.5 thousand purchase order from NASA Shared Services Center (awarded June 24, 2026) for ISO 17025 calibration of 25 ground recording system data acquisition components in support of the X-59 Quesst supersonic flight test mission, a $295.6 thousand BPA call from NAVSEA (October 2024) for C70X-G04 vibration monitoring products, and $239.8 thousand from NAVSEA (August 2023) for seven CoCo-70X machinery vibration analyzers supporting the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division. The vendor also executes numerous sub-$10 thousand orders across DLA divisions for portable memory, battery storage, accelerometers, and cable assemblies.

Recent activity has grown from 14 awards in 2022 to 18 in 2025, with four awards recorded through mid-2026. The recompete cliff for the next twenty-four months carries minimal exposure: one award (combined potential value $42 thousand) reaching ultimate completion inside that window. Only one award in the source data carried a set-aside designation (Total Small Business), confirming the vendor's consistent competitive posture in unrestricted procurements. Crystal Instruments subcontracts occasionally; recent sub work includes engineering services for acoustical sound testing devices under The Aerospace Corporation (December 2025), V-22 foreign military sales data recorder kits under Bell Boeing Joint Project Office (September 2025), and instrumentation range support program modal testing and dynamic signal analysis under BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. (June 2025). The sub footprint is minimal (3% of total awards) and tactical, with no prime teaming relationships evidenced in the source data.