DRS Signal Solutions, Inc.

DRS Signal Solutions, Inc., a Frederick, Maryland-based subsidiary of Leonardo SPA Aircraft Division, manufactures specialized radio frequency tuners, signal processing equipment, microwave components, and electronic assemblies for the Department of Defense and naval research agencies as a prime contractor on full-and-open, non-set-aside purchase orders and delivery orders. The company does not compete under small-business set-asides; 91% of its recent awards are prime contracts, with the remaining 9% routed through major defense primes including Lockheed Martin, Sierra Nevada Company, L3Harris Technologies, BAE Systems, and General Dynamics.

DRS Signal Solutions' customer concentration is heavily skewed to the Navy. The top five funding agencies account for 68% of awards by count and 83% of combined potential value, anchored by the Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command (178 awards, $33 million combined potential value), the Naval Supply Systems Command (229 awards, $10.3 million), and the Office of Naval Research (66 awards, $12.3 million). The Army Materiel Command Communications Electronics Command, however, leads in dollar concentration with 5 awards valued at $41.1 million. The portfolio spans 47 distinct customer agencies, but naval procurement dominates both volume and sustained ordering patterns. Over the past five years (2022–2026), awards have accelerated from 6 in 2022 to 38 in 2024, though activity moderated to 19 awards in 2025 and 7 through May 2026. The recompete cliff is shallow: only 2 awards totaling $804 thousand face completion in the next twenty-four months, indicating limited near-term recompete exposure.

Work is delivered primarily as sole-source purchases of manufactured components and repair or evaluation services. Representative prime work includes a $2.54 million Office of Naval Research order (September 2021) for twenty-eight microwave tuner systems for the Naval Research Laboratory; a $1.39 million Naval Supply Systems Command definitive contract (August 2023) for twenty-three radio frequency tuners; a $1.04 million Naval Sea Systems Command order (March 2025) for a 1U VPX channel tuner; and a $627.5 thousand Naval Supply Systems Command purchase order (September 2024) for ten radio frequency tuners. A January 2026 delivery order awarded DRS Signal Solutions a $500 thousand ceiling under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award IDIQ (Missile Defense Agency), a $151 billion vehicle extending through December 2035 that positions DRS Signal Solutions to bid on air, missile, space, and cyber defense task orders across the Department of Defense enterprise. DRS Signal Solutions' primary vehicle footprint includes the Federal Supply Schedule GS35F0054J (64 task orders, $3.8 million combined potential value), Navy-specific indefinite delivery contracts, and the SHIELD IDIQ. The company's NAICS concentration reflects its equipment-manufacturing posture: Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (238 awards) and Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing (175 awards) dominate the classification profile.

As a subcontractor, DRS Signal Solutions delivers tuners, transceiver components, chassis assemblies, and electronic component manufacturing to Lockheed Martin (submarine and surface-ship electronic warfare systems including AN/SLQ-32 and BLQ-10 platforms), Sierra Nevada Company (BIG SAFARI radio and microwave tuner procurement across multiple programs), L3Harris Technologies (BIG SAFARI aircraft manufacturing and electronic component orders), BAE Systems (electronic warfare tactical upgrade and quad-upconverter work), General Dynamics (electronic warfare tactical upgrade engineering support), and MITRE (Air Force national security engineering services). Sub-award activity has grown; DRS Signal Solutions has received 21 sub-awards in the past twelve months (May 2025–May 2026) across these primes, with Sierra Nevada Company and Lockheed Martin accounting for the majority of recent footprint. Service Contract Inventory data shows minimal SCI-reportable service revenue; the vendor reported 0.6 FTEs in FY2024 under one subcontract record, indicating that DRS Signal Solutions operates predominantly on goods and product manufacturing rather than on federal labor-hour service contracts. The vendor's federal footprint of $125.8 million in combined potential value and $227.9 million in combined obligated dollars reflects sustained demand for proprietary electronic components and repair services across Navy and Army signal-processing systems, with strategic positioning on the SHIELD IDIQ to expand into multi-domain defense procurement beyond traditional naval customer base.