Digital Receiver Technology, Inc.

Digital Receiver Technology, Inc., doing business as DRT, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thales Defense & Security Inc. and operates as a foreign-owned manufacturer competing full-and-open across defense and homeland security markets without small business set-asides. The company designs and manufactures digital signal processing–based receivers, software-defined radio systems, direction-finding equipment, and communications test-and-measurement platforms, delivering these goods and associated repair, integration, and engineering services to the federal government as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards) and subcontractor.

DRT's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Navy and Special Operations Command. The top five funding agencies by potential value account for 88% of the company's combined potential value: United States Special Operations Command leads at $1.08 billion across 70 awards, followed by the United States Marine Corps ($95.2 million, 72 awards), U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command ($87.2 million, 47 awards), Naval Sea Systems Command ($80.6 million, 60 awards), and Naval Information Warfare Systems Command ($78 million, 187 awards). While NIWS Command places the most individual orders, USSOCOM anchors nearly 67% of total dollars across DRT's portfolio. DRT's core capability footprint reflects this concentration: radio and television broadcasting and wireless communications equipment manufacturing accounts for 554 of the company's 935 awards, with additional depth in miscellaneous communication equipment (248 awards), radio and television communication equipment (96 awards), and communications security equipment and components (79 awards).

DRT holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with United States Special Operations Command (N6523607D7293) valued at $48 million through August 16, 2027, under which 92 task orders worth $45.6 million have been issued. This vehicle frames DRT's strategic position: it procures general radio navigation equipment, data links commercial products and services, digital receiver radios, direction-finding technologies, wireless receiving systems, and associated integration services, with secondary performance at DRT facilities in Germantown, Maryland, and Lexington, Kentucky. DRT also operates under Navy indefinite delivery vehicles, including IDCs N0016404G6617 (37 task orders, $93.6 million), N0016410GJT18 (33 task orders, $18.5 million), and Army vehicle W911QY18D0182 (28 task orders, $40 million), and holds a GSA Multiple Award Schedule position through which it issues BPA calls. Recent prime examples include a $1.52 billion delivery order from USSOCOM in December 2024 for batteries, chargers, conduction cooling systems, and receiver kits with FlashPoint3 kit options; a $1.31 billion delivery order to PEO Enterprise Information Systems in July 2023 for QRX1 modules; a $906.24 million delivery order to the same command in November 2023 for digital receiver radios and direction-finding technologies; and a $1.85 billion purchase order to Customs and Border Protection in September 2022 for a direction-finding solution.

Subcontract activity reflects DRT's role as a specialized supplier of radio-frequency and signal-processing components and modules to prime defense contractors. Named subcontract relationships include L3Harris Technologies Integrated Systems (BIG SAFARI programs, electronic computer manufacturing), Scientific Research Corporation (cryptologic carry-on program and afloat signals exploitation engineering support, RFT and quad receiver components), General Dynamics Mission Systems (PROPHET enhanced systems and terrestrial spectrum warfare), Lockheed Martin Corporation (Joint Tactical Wireless System logistics support, tactical kits, and DRT1000C/RFT3A-40 systems), HII Mission Technologies Corp (expeditionary surveillance and force protection systems, spectrum analyzer upgrades, and project convergence capstone support), and Leidos (multi-domain radar and three-dimensional geospatial information operations). Recent sub awards show sustained engagement in air and ground electronic warfare modernization, with work spanning integration travel, module repair and upgrade, and supply of receivers, converters, and timing components.

Activity has remained relatively stable at 20–32 awards per year across 2022–2025, with only five awards recorded to date in 2026. The recompete cliff shows minimal near-term exposure: just four awards with ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $755 thousand, signaling that most DRT vehicles and task orders extend well beyond the typical two-year window. Obligated dollars represent 23% of combined potential value ($365.9 million of $1.61 billion), indicating significant remaining ceiling capacity across active vehicles. DRT's corporate footprint spans 66 distinct customer agencies, with the Navy, Marine Corps, Army, and Special Operations Command accounting for the vast majority of volume and value. The company's award history spans four decades, with the earliest award in source data recorded in September 1983.