DB Systems, Inc.

DB Systems, Inc., a woman-owned small business manufacturer based in Hurricane, Utah, supplies specialized electronic components and air navigation equipment to federal civilian and defense agencies as a prime contractor on 266 recent awards spanning navigation systems, power supplies, circuit card assemblies, and precision electronic components. The company competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designation, though it holds multiple total small business set-aside IDIQs with the Federal Aviation Administration and Defense Logistics Agency.

DB Systems operates as a Subchapter S Corporation manufacturer under primary NAICS codes 334220 (Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing) and 334511 (Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing), with core capabilities in Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) antenna systems, distance measuring equipment, glide slope antennas, power supply units, circuit card assemblies, and lightning arresters. Concrete recent examples include a $14.5 million single-award FAA Headquarters IDIQ awarded July 22, 2025, for 900E TACAN Antenna Systems and implementation services through July 22, 2027—the FAA determined this system is the only approved nationwide replacement remaining in production and issued five task orders totaling $13 million within the first six months; a $4.2 million single-award total small business set-aside IDIQ from FAA Headquarters for distance measuring equipment and glide slope antennas running through April 25, 2027, against which the FAA has issued delivery orders including $140,525 (October 2025), $88,330 (August 2025), and $60,225 (June 2025); and a $1.25 million Air Force Research Laboratory SBIR Phase II contract for a Rapid Activation Portable TACAN Electronically Rotating (RAPTER) system awarded June 20, 2023.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Federal Aviation Administration Headquarters dominates both award count and dollar value, accounting for 99 awards worth $44.3 million combined potential value—85% of the total portfolio across all 19 customer agencies. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime ranks second with 79 awards worth $2.7 million, primarily for power supplies and electronic components. FAA's Aeronautical Center placed 44 awards worth $1.5 million. This concentration reflects DB Systems' specialized position as sole-approved supplier of the 900E TACAN antenna and sustained supplier of NAS modernization components. The Air Force Research Laboratory and Department of the Air Force Materiel Command represent smaller but strategically significant customers for advanced TACAN development work.

DB Systems' vehicle portfolio centers on three large FAA IDIQs and multiple DLA single-award power supply contracts. The $14.5 million FAA Headquarters 900E TACAN IDIQ has generated six task orders totaling approximately $13.5 million. The $4.2 million FAA total small business set-aside IDIQ for distance measuring and glide slope equipment has supported 30 delivery orders worth approximately $3 million. DLA Land and Maritime holds five single-award IDIQs—three for power supplies ($250,000 ceiling each awarded December 2023, one expiring December 2024, and two with 2026–2027 expiration), one for power supplies ($350,000 ceiling awarded December 2025 through December 2026), and one awarded February 2026 for $350,000 through February 2027. These vehicles anchor DB Systems' predictable revenue stream across civilian and defense logistics customers.

Activity trajectory shows volatility: 38 awards in 2022, 42 in 2023, declining to 28 in 2024, recovering to 30 in 2025, with 12 awards recorded in 2026 through mid-July. Combined potential value across all 267 awards stands at $52.5 million with $27.6 million already obligated. Nine awards totaling $9.3 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating near-term recompete exposure concentrated in smaller DLA and FAA delivery orders rather than the strategic 900E TACAN IDIQ, which runs through July 2027.

DB Systems subcontracts minimally; only one sub-award appears in the recent portfolio—a June 2025 sub under KBR Wyle Services for reliability and sustainment improvements to air traffic control and landing systems on behalf of Air Force Materiel Command Life Cycle Management Center. The company operates predominantly as a prime.

Performance is located in Hurricane, Utah across all contracts. The vendor manufactures rather than distributes or integrates, with direct control over design, production, and testing of navigation and electronic systems for federal customers facing legacy system obsolescence and high failure rates, particularly in TACAN infrastructure.

dB Systems, Inc. (dBs) is an industry-leading small business that designs, tests, and manufactures high-quality, fully-compliant, low-cost antennas used in terminal aircraft navigation and landing.

dBs helps the world's free militaries and aviation agencies safely control, navigate, and land aircraft with the highest accuracy antennas available. Our expertise in these high-tech antennas includes TACAN, DME, IFF/SLS, Glide Slope, Localizer, EPOL VDB, ADS-B/UAT, Multilateration, GPS, and CD/FTS.

dBs stays at the forefront of technology and we are committed to keeping our systems to date as technology develops. We are directly connected to our customers at periodic and frequent intervals, in addition to an encouraged open communication policy. Our customers' needs are important to us; if it can be done, we can and will always find a way to outfit the system with the features our customers require or request.