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, with 270 of its 271 recent awards issued as prime contracts and IDIQs rather than subcontract work.

DB Systems' core capability footprint centers on the design and manufacture of Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) antenna systems, distance measuring equipment, glide slope antennas, circuit card assemblies, power supply units, and precision electronic components for aviation infrastructure and defense logistics. The company holds the sole FAA-approved designation for the 900E TACAN antenna system remaining in production nationwide—a critical distinction that anchors its largest contract vehicle. Representative prime work includes a $14.5 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with FAA Headquarters (awarded July 2025) for 900E TACAN Antenna Systems and implementation services running through July 2027, under which five task orders totaling approximately $13.5 million have been issued since award; a $4.2 million single-award, total small business set-aside IDIQ with FAA Headquarters (awarded April 2023) for distance measuring equipment and glide slope antennas supporting the National Airspace System through April 2027; and a $1.25 million Air Force Research Laboratory SBIR Phase II contract (awarded June 2023) for development of a Rapid Activation Portable TACAN—Electronically Rotating (RAPTER) system under total small business set-aside.

Customer concentration is extreme and heavily skewed toward FAA. The top five funding agencies account for 87 percent of awards by count and 96 percent by combined potential value. The Federal Aviation Administration Headquarters dominates the portfolio with 101 awards worth $44.9 million in combined potential value, driven almost entirely by the two large TACAN and navigation-equipment IDIQs. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime ranks second with 80 awards but only $3.1 million combined potential value—a pattern reflecting numerous small purchase orders for individual electronic components and power supplies that feed defense supply chains. The FAA Aeronautical Center, FAA Non-Franchise Acquisition Services, and Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory complete the top five. The concentration is decision-critical: DB Systems competes almost entirely within the FAA's air navigation and TACAN modernization budget, with secondary revenue from DLA logistics replenishment and occasional Air Force research programs.

DB Systems holds four active Indefinite Delivery Contracts as of the source date. The $14.5 million FAA 900E TACAN IDIQ (effective July 22, 2025–July 22, 2027) carries the largest ceiling and has generated five task orders in its first thirteen months. The $4.2 million FAA distance measuring equipment and glide slope antennas IDIQ (effective April 25, 2023–April 25, 2027) operates under total small business set-aside and has supported approximately $1.1 million in delivery orders through November 2025. Three Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime single-award IDIQs for power supply units, each with $250,000 to $350,000 ceiling values and one-year to two-year terms, provide structured procurement vehicles for component replenishment to DLA depots across CONUS and OCONUS locations. The company competes across these vehicles with firm fixed-price delivery orders and purchase orders, typically carrying 97- to 128-day delivery windows to support air traffic control infrastructure, defense logistics operations, and aviation safety programs.

Activity has softened from its 2023 peak. The company recorded 42 awards in 2023 and 38 in 2022, but declined to 28 awards in 2024, 30 in 2025, and 16 through mid-September 2026. The source's time window captures awards dating back to 1997, indicating long-standing federal contractor status, though the recent trajectory warrants attention. Combined potential value across all 271 awards totals $53.5 million, of which $29.3 million (55 percent) has been obligated. Ten awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry $5.3 million in combined potential value and face recompete exposure—notably including the two large FAA navigation-equipment contracts approaching their April 2027 completion date.

DB Systems holds a single subcontract role: a June 2025 sub-award from KBR Wyle Services, LLC for reliability and sustainment improvement support to Air Traffic Control and Landing Systems under Air Force Materiel Command, with work centered on 900E TACAN antenna spares. That engagement reflects the company's niche expertise in TACAN systems but does not materially move the sub/prime split.

The vendor's set-aside posture is predominantly full-and-open on prime awards, though the two largest IDIQs carry set-aside framing. The $14.5 million FAA 900E TACAN contract was awarded without formal set-aside designation (sole-source to the only approved system in production); the $4.2 million distance measuring equipment and glide slope antennas IDIQ is a total small business set-aside. The three DLA power supply IDIQs carry no set-aside. Of the 271 awards in the portfolio, category concentration clusters around antennas and waveguides (134 awards, primary PSC), electrical and electronic assemblies and boards (66 awards), and bare printed circuit boards (46 awards under primary NAICS 334412). The woman-owned small business designation recurs across all prime awards and IDIQs, positioning DB Systems to compete in WOSB set-asides when available, though the company's current pipeline demonstrates stronger leverage on full-and-open solicitations where its TACAN monopoly and specialized manufacturing capability dominate.

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.