Cubic Defense Applications, Inc.

Cubic Defense Applications, Inc., a division of Cubic Corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, is a for-profit defense manufacturer that delivers combat training systems, secure communications equipment, intelligence and surveillance technologies, receiver-transmitter and antenna components, and logistics support services as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards) across full-and-open federal procurement. The vendor does not compete under set-asides and receives no special business designations.

Cubic Defense Applications operates as a large prime contractor across the Department of Defense, with concentration in Air Force programs. The top five customer agencies by award count account for 56% of recent awards, dominated by Naval Supply Systems Command (409 awards, $72.2 million combined potential value) and Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center at Eglin Air Force Base (291 awards, $12.45 billion combined potential value). However, customer concentration by potential value diverges significantly: Air Force Materiel Command Eglin anchors the customer base at $12.45 billion, with Air Force (general) at $455.7 million, Army PEO Simulation, Training and Instrumentation at $448.8 million, Air Force Materiel Command proper at $438 million, and Defense Threat Reduction Agency at $264.4 million representing the top five by dollars. The Navy's Naval Supply Systems Command places many small task orders for electronic components, while the Air Force concentrates value in major combat training systems and platform sustainment programs.

Cubic Defense Applications holds major indefinite-delivery vehicles anchoring its federal footprint. The single largest is an indefinite-delivery contract (F0863503D0001) with 218 task orders carrying $11.75 billion combined potential value, representing the backbone of P5 Combat Training System procurement and sustainment across Air Force, Navy, and foreign military sales. Additional vehicles include a $399 million single-award IDIQ with Air Force for P5 CTS hardware and software sustainment (awarded June 2025, ultimate completion June 2030); a $378.7 million multiple-award IDC with Army PEO Simulation, Training and Instrumentation for Live Training, Ranges and Combat Training Centers (LTRaC 3) (awarded April 2025, completion March 2033); a $91.2 million single-award IDIQ with Air Force Materiel Command for P5 System Security Update retrofit kits (awarded May 2022, completion November 2027); a $28.3 million multiple-award Other Transaction IDV with PEO Simulation, Training and Instrumentation for Synthetic Training Environment Live Training Systems Mortar Training System (awarded June 2025); a $5.6 million single-award IDIQ with Air Force Sustainment Center for repair of lightweight airborne recovery systems (awarded October 2021, completion October 2026); and a $250,000 single-award IDIQ with Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime for antenna equipment. Delivery orders under these vehicles address P5 CTS logistics, retrofit kit fabrication, spares procurement, installation and activation at forward locations, contractor logistics support for international partners including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Australia, and Oman, software upgrades and encryption, and diminishing manufacturing sources mitigation.

Cubic Defense Applications' concrete capability portfolio centers on the P5 Combat Training System platform—an air combat training system used by U.S. Air Force, Navy, Air National Guard, Army National Training Center, and allied air forces—where it provides depot-level contractor logistics support, hardware and software sustainment, system security updates, spares, integration, and program management. Representative recent awards include a $44.2 million delivery order for Block 7 and 102 Pods (July 2025, Air Force), a $14.1 million order for P5 CTS procurement and integration for Morocco (May 2022, Air Force Materiel Command), a $13.4 million order for P5 Saudi contractor logistics support (November 2024, Air Force Materiel Command), and a $6.07 million order for P5 CTS contractor logistics support with depot repair, program management, and diminishing manufacturing sources support (August 2024, Air Force). Beyond P5, the vendor manufactures electronic components including receiver-transmitters, modems, antennas, radomes, multiplexers, radio frequency amplifiers, cable assemblies, and tactical power amplifiers, primarily for Naval Supply Systems Command and naval information warfare programs. Recent component awards include a $1.7 billion antenna procurement (September 2022, Naval Supply Systems Command), a $1.49 million dual-channel modem delivery (September 2022, Naval Supply Systems Command), and a $438,486 radio frequency element procurement (May 2023, Naval Supply Systems Command). The vendor also delivers combat training center support—exemplified by a $35.5 million Georgia Combat Training Center sustainment contract (October 2022, Army PEO Simulation, Training and Instrumentation)—and F-35 modernization work as a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin, where it supplies combat training system components and support across multiple modifications and phases.

Cubic Defense Applications subcontracts to prime contractors including Lockheed Martin (F-35 Block Four modernization, combat training system components), Boeing (F-15 foreign military sales aircraft development), Sikorsky Aircraft (Combat Rescue Helicopter parts and service), and Amentum Services (Indo-Pacific Command Technology Experimentation). The vendor engages specialized defense suppliers as subcontractors on its own prime work, including DRS Training & Control Systems (Leonardo DRS subsidiary) for P5 CTS logistics and spares support, Rohde & Schwarz USA for multiband transceiver procurement (Morocco software integration), CGW Technologies for software and depot support, Wycom Corp. for circuit card assemblies and electronic components, Contour Machining for precision-machined chassis, Cristek Interconnects for cable assemblies, and Infinite Electronics International for RF cable assemblies.

Award activity has remained substantial but variable: 89 awards in 2022, 55 in 2023, 68 in 2024, and 27 in 2025 (through the snapshot date). The recompete cliff is moderate—26 awards totaling $167.9 million potential value reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, representing a modest share of the vendor's $36.18 billion combined potential value footprint. However, the $11.75 billion F0863503D0001 vehicle and the major P5 CTS IDIQs represent the critical platforms sustaining Cubic Defense Applications' federal position and will warrant close recompete attention as ordering periods mature. Across its footprint, Cubic Defense Applications competes full-and-open with no set-aside protection, positioning it as a large-business competitor across Air Force and Navy platforms and a vendor that likely faces recompete pressure from diversified defense primes and specialized electronics manufacturers.