Datapath, Inc.

Datapath, Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturer of specialized communications and cybersecurity equipment headquartered in Duluth, Georgia, operates as a prime contractor delivering cable assemblies, uninterruptible power supplies, antenna components, RF amplifiers, interface units, and tactical communications sustainment services to the Department of Defense, with 97% of recent awards as prime and competes predominantly full-and-open across defense agencies without set-aside designations.

Datapath is a subsidiary of Wavestream Corporation, a California-based foreign-owned manufacturer, and has maintained federal contracting registration since 2002. The company's capability footprint centers on manufacturing and sustainment of specialized communications components and systems supporting Army tactical networks, satellite communications infrastructure, and C5ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) platforms. Representative prime work includes a $24.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from Army Communications Electronics Command (CECOM) for WIN-T INC 2 STT 208 system support and sustainment under the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services (RS3) IDIQ, a $12.2 million firm fixed-price delivery order for HPA equipment under the C5ISR Gateway to Sustainment (G2S) contract, and a $5.5 million firm fixed-price delivery order from CECOM for radio frequency amplifiers and cable assemblies. The company also holds a $157,338 sole-source software maintenance contract with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for MaxView network management platform support through November 2026.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Army programs. The top five funding agencies account for 74% of recent awards by count, led by Army Materiel Command Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground (203 awards, $39.56 billion combined potential value), CECOM (162 awards, $403 million), and the Department of the Army proper (108 awards, $3.6 million). When ranked by potential value across all 774 awards, the distribution shifts: the Department of Navy Naval Sea Systems Command anchors the portfolio with 11 awards carrying $76.51 billion combined potential value, followed by Army Contracting Command at $39.56 billion and PEO Command Control Communications-Tactical at $15.6 billion. This divergence reflects a small number of large Navy and Army contracts dominating the dollar exposure while Army CECOM and DLA drive higher transaction volume with smaller individual orders.

Datapath's core vehicle position includes the $3.2 billion C5ISR Gateway to Sustainment (G2S) multiple-award IDC with CECOM (multiple delivery orders through 2028), the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services (RS3) IDIQ under CECOM (supporting WIN-T sustainment), a $250,000 single-award DLA Aviation IDC for cable assemblies (ultimate completion April 2028), an $800,000 small-business-set-aside IDC with CECOM for WIN-T interface units (expired May 2023), and a $250,000 small-business-set-aside DLA Aviation indefinite delivery contract for manual adjuster kits (through December 2026). The top parent vehicles by task-order volume include Indefinite Delivery Contract W15P7T04AF405 (243 task orders, $141.8 million combined potential value), DAAB0700AA755 (88 task orders), and W15P7T06DL215 (48 task orders, $2 billion combined potential value). These vehicles position Datapath for ongoing sustainment work across Army and Navy communications systems.

Activity has accelerated in recent years. Awards jumped from 12 in 2023 to 32 in 2025, though only 2 awards are recorded as of early 2026. The recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is modest: only 2 awards (combined potential value $24.8 million) reach ultimate completion inside that window, indicating a relatively stable, long-tail contract portfolio. The combined potential value across all 774 awards totals $135.58 billion, though only $2.25 billion (2%) has been obligated to date, reflecting the high-value nature of the underlying IDCs and the graduated draw-down typical of sustainment contracts.

Datapath's subcontractor footprint is minimal across its prime work. The company appears on the SCI dataset with negligible service-contract invoicing, showing 0.1 FTEs in FY2022 and no SCI-reportable revenue, indicating that most federal work flows through goods and product sales rather than labor-intensive services. In its subcontractor role, Datapath delivers satellite communications equipment, antenna components, and network sustainment support to primes including Peraton Inc. (Space Communications and Navigation SCAN program ground systems at NASA Goddard), Leidos (U.S. Antarctic Program science operations and maintenance), General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (MQ-9B production and FMS Taiwan antenna and satellite systems), Booz Allen Hamilton (satellite communications division technical support), Trace Systems (tactical network and VSAT sustainment), and IAP World Services (satellite communications support and MaxView software maintenance). The named subcontract portfolio reflects Datapath's role as a component supplier and specialty equipment vendor to major defense integrators rather than a labor-augmentation subcontractor.

The sourcing pattern across the award portfolio is dominated by communications equipment manufacturing (393 awards under NAICS Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing, 91 under Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing) and by miscellaneous communication equipment procurement (277 awards) and radio/television communication equipment (154 awards) at the PSC level. The category concentration demonstrates that Datapath competes in highly specialized, low-volume defense procurement niches—cable assemblies, antenna components, power systems, and interface units—rather than broad-based IT or systems integration. Place of performance clusters at Datapath's Duluth, Georgia manufacturing facility and at Berkeley Lake, Georgia for CECOM sustainment work, with subordinate work locations at customer sites across the continental United States and overseas CONUS locations for satellite and tactical network deployments.