Custom Electronics, Inc.

Custom Electronics, Inc., doing business as Custom Electronics Inc., manufactures specialized capacitors, power supplies, modulator assemblies, and advanced electronic components for defense primes and federal agencies, operating as a small business prime contractor (54% of awards) and subcontractor (46% of awards) with no SBA set-aside designations on most work but holding a Total Small Business designation on SBIR Phase I and Phase II contracts. The company is headquartered in Oneonta, New York, and operates as a for-profit corporate entity with primary manufacturing focus on capacitor and guided-missile component production under NAICS categories for capacitor manufacturing and electronic component assembly.

Custom Electronics' capability portfolio centers on passive electronic components and assemblies for defense systems. Recent prime work includes an $8.985 million firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded September 25, 2024, by Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) for novel launch-assisted unmanned aerial systems, with performance through June 22, 2027; a $248,983 Phase I SBIR contract awarded February 3, 2025, by RDECOM under Topic A244-040 for AI/ML augmented antenna systems in contested electromagnetic environments, completing August 3, 2025; and a $1.096 million Phase II SBIR award from RDECOM dated July 14, 2022, for novel high-energy-density lithium-air reserve battery development. Subcontract work is dominated by capacitor, power supply, and modulator assembly manufacturing for Raytheon Company (the largest subcontract prime, with multiple orders for AMRAAM regulators, radar transmitter capacitors, and modernization kit components across 2023–2026), Lockheed Martin Corporation (PAC-3 missile production capacitors), L3Harris Technologies (SIRFC pulse modulator modules and NULKA payload resistor assemblies), and The Boeing Company (aerospace commodities integration).

Customer concentration sits heavily with Army research and development. The Department of Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command commands 100% of disclosed potential value across prime awards ($12.8 million from eight awards), anchoring Custom Electronics' SBIR and advanced-development footprint, while the Department of Navy Naval Supply Systems Command and Naval Sea Systems Command account for ten and six awards respectively in the subcontract space but with small individual values. Custom Electronics serves eighteen distinct customer agencies across prime and sub work, with the top five agencies representing 57% of award count. Parent vehicles used include Navy Basic Ordering Agreement N0038319GPF01 (six task orders), Navy Indefinite Delivery Contract N0038325DNE01 (three task orders), and Army Indefinite Delivery Contract H9224120D0001 (two task orders).

Activity has grown modestly — three awards in 2022 to eleven in 2025, with five awards recorded through mid-2026 — reflecting steady subcontract placement alongside periodic prime SBIR awards. One prime award ($9 million, the novel launch-assisted UAS contract with completion June 22, 2027) crosses into the next twenty-four-month recompete window. Recent grant activity includes a sub-award dated March 27, 2025, under The Research Foundation for the State University of New York as prime grantee, in which Custom Electronics collaborates on a consortium hub for advanced dry-mixing lithium-ion cell manufacturing, addressing New York State solicitation goals for domestic production without PFAS, cobalt, or nickel. Custom Electronics competes full-and-open on non-SBIR work and maintains small-business set-aside eligibility, though most recent awards carry no explicit set-aside designation. The company's subcontract footprint with Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and L3Harris reflects embedded supplier status in major missile, radar, and air-defense platforms rather than systems-integration roles.

MANUFACTURE FIXED HIGH VOLTAGE; MICA PAPER CAPACITORS AND TEFLON FILM CAPACITORS & HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTRONIC MODULE ASSEMBLY & ENCAPSULATION. ALSO BUS BAR INSULATION ASSEMBLIES.