Fairmount Automation, Inc.

Fairmount Automation, Inc., doing business as Fairmount Automation Inc., manufactures specialized electronic components, circuit card assemblies, power supplies, and automation modules for the U.S. Navy and Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor on firm fixed-price purchase orders and delivery orders, with 99% of its federal footprint in prime awards and no SBA set-aside designations across the portfolio.

Fairmount Automation is a for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, registered in SAM as a federal contractor since 2002. The company has no minority-owned, women-owned, or HUBZone certifications and competes full-and-open across all work. Primary NAICS codes reflect the core portfolio: printed circuit assembly and electronic assembly manufacturing (111 awards), bare printed circuit board manufacturing (50 awards), and search, detection, and navigation system instrument manufacturing (53 awards). Top PSC codes track electrical and electronic assemblies, boards, and cards (179 awards), electronic modules (83 awards), and electrical control equipment (56 awards).

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Navy. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) anchors the dollar value with 104 awards worth $52 million combined potential value, driven by a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $10.65 million through April 2030, awarded April 8, 2025, for power supplies, circuit card assemblies, computer subassemblies, communication interfaces, controllers, and wiring harnesses supporting naval platform equipment readiness. Naval Supply Systems Command places the most orders by count (161 awards, $3.4 million combined potential value), while Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime ranks second in volume (321 awards, $2.3 million combined potential value). Together, these three customers account for 93% of all recent awards. DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment contributes 37 awards; the Navy Secretary's Office of Naval Research and Naval Air Warfare Center represent smaller dollar increments.

Recent activity reflects a declining trajectory. Awards per year fell from 78 in 2022 to 25 through mid-2026, a 68% drop over four years. Only three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months with a combined potential value of $27 thousand, creating minimal recompete exposure in Fairmount's near-term pipeline. Over the past several years, combined potential value across all awards stands at $58.7 million, with $33.3 million (57%) obligated; this figures reflects the long tail of small transactional orders and a portfolio skewed toward complete or near-complete performance.

The NAVSEA IDC is the single most material vehicle. Issued April 8, 2025, it has generated four delivery orders through September 2025 totaling approximately $313 thousand, including a $146 thousand order for programmable logic controller and accessory materials (September 12, 2025), a $119 thousand delivery order for products and repair services (August 29, 2025), a $27 thousand order for a DAM-2BK+ digital controller with gray enclosure (April 8, 2025), and a $19 thousand follow-on software materials order for CVN-75 (USS Harry S. Truman) (September 19, 2025). A second-tier vehicle, DLA Land and Maritime Indefinite Delivery Contract N6449819D4023, has generated 25 task orders worth $2.7 million combined potential value. DLA IDC N6554011D0011 has produced 24 task orders worth $3.9 million.

Fairmount Automation serves as a subcontractor to four major defense primes, though subcontracting comprises only 1% of the award footprint (9 sub awards). Named sub relationships include Lockheed Martin (AEGIS fire control loop controller electronics, $52M+ parent programs), Huntington Ingalls (ship alteration work on LCS-22, control fire alarm panels), Textron Systems (LCAC 100-class craft long lead-time material), and QED Systems (CVN and submarine power systems repair engineering). These arrangements position Fairmount as a component supplier to shipbuilding and combat systems integration rather than as a systems integrator.

Fairmount Automation competes entirely full-and-open with no set-aside participation, positioning the firm as a direct competitor to other non-small businesses in the defense electronics supply base. The company's competitive advantage rests on established relationships with NAVSEA and DLA, manufacturing depth in circuit card assemblies and control electronics, and demonstrated capability as a critical sole-source supplier (evidenced by sole-source purchase orders for proprietary Fairmount-branded products such as fire alarm control panels). Recent activity decline suggests either portfolio maturation or competitive pressure from larger, integrated defense contractors in the automation and power-systems space.