Cubic Secure Communications, LLC

Cubic Secure Communications, LLC, doing business as CMS Secure Comms, is a San Diego-based subsidiary of Cubic Corporation that manufactures and sustains defense communications equipment, radio frequency components, and tactical networking systems for the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on 82% of recent awards, competing exclusively in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations. The vendor holds three active indefinite delivery vehicles worth approximately $3.96 billion combined potential value — including a $2.92 billion multiple-award Data Link Enterprise position with the Air Force Electronic Systems Center, a $900 million Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Architecture and Integration Directorate IDIQ, and a $14.8 million single-award Common Data Link System sustainment contract with Naval Information Warfare Systems Command awarded September 26, 2025.

The portfolio spans radio frequency amplifiers, antenna systems, cable assemblies, wiring harnesses, portable test equipment, and specialized components for rotary-wing aircraft and naval information-warfare platforms. Recent representative work includes a $17.99 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract from Air Force Research Laboratory (July 2025) for HALO Advanced Networking SATCOM Elements software-defined aperture development; a $17.69 million CPFF definitive contract from AFRL (February 2023) for HALO-Enabled Resilient Mesh (HERMES) networked aerial-layer communications technologies; an $11.86 million firm-fixed-price delivery order from Air Force Electronic Systems Center (July 2022) for Common Tactical Edge Network development under the Data Link Enterprise IDV; a $1.76 million CPFF delivery order from Naval Air Systems Command (September 2023) for hardware portable Commercial Driver's License test sets; and a $998 thousand firm-fixed-price definitive contract from Naval Supply Systems Command (January 2026) for radio frequency amplifiers.

Customer concentration sits heavily with Air Force research and acquisition commands. The top five customers by potential value account for 100% of the portfolio: Air Force Electronic Systems Center (7 awards, $2.92 billion), Air Force at large (2 awards, $900 million), Air Force Research Laboratory (3 awards, $52.8 million), Naval Air Systems Command (4 awards, $45 million), and Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (3 awards, $23.9 million). By award count, concentration is lower: the same five represent 53% of awards, with Naval Supply Systems Command and Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex also sustaining smaller transaction volumes. The Data Link Enterprise vehicle anchors the portfolio's dollar concentration through six task orders worth $87.4 million combined potential value.

Work across the four primary IDVs includes both firm-fixed-price hardware procurements (antennas, cable assemblies, test equipment, aircraft spare parts) and cost-plus-fixed-fee research and development contracts for signal processing, software-defined networking, and autonomous landing technologies. A $359.9 thousand form-fit-function hardware replacement trade study for the LARS V12 system (Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex, May 2025) and a $1.45 million LARS software upgrade contract (Warner Robins, September 2023) reflect the vendor's footprint in legacy system modernization. An $8.24 million Office of Naval Research definitive contract (September 2021) for Landing Autonomous Navigation Technology for Enhanced Recovery to Navy Ships (LANTERNS) autonomous recovery research has completed.

In its subcontractor role — 18% of recent awards — Cubic Secure Communications delivers communications equipment, antenna kits, and logistics support to Sierra Nevada Company (MC-130J Airborne Mission Networking Kits, February 2025); antenna and weapons-system trainer labor support to Sierra Nevada (ABMN LRIP kits, August 2023); comms and training systems analysis and development to Booz Allen Hamilton on Future Vertical Lift cross-functional team work (December 2024); virtual server and storage area networking infrastructure to Atlantic Diving Supply (October 2024); and compatibility testing to Goodrich Corporation (April 2024). The vendor also engages Phase Sensitive Innovations Inc. and Extreme Waves, Inc. as subcontractors on its own AFRL research contracts.

Activity has fluctuated: four awards in 2022, eleven in 2023, eight in 2024, nine in 2025, and two through early February 2026. Seven awards (combined potential value $37.3 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and trigger recompete exposure. The portfolio's primary NAICS concentration is research and development in physical and engineering sciences (15 awards), followed by other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing (7 awards) and radio and television broadcasting and wireless communications equipment manufacturing (5 awards), reflecting the vendor's dual posture in both sustainment supply and advanced development work.