Fischer Custom Communications Inc.

Fischer Custom Communications Inc., a Torrance, California-based manufacturer of electronic test and measurement equipment and transient protection devices, operates predominantly as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards) supplying specialized electrical arresters, power strips, antenna components, and electromagnetic compatibility testing equipment to the Department of Defense on a full-and-open basis across multiple single-award indefinite delivery contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency and Navy commands. The company is a for-profit organization with over 50 years of experience in defense supply and holds no SBA set-aside designations on the vast majority of its prime portfolio, though it maintains two Total Small Business set-aside IDCs with DLA Aviation and has received scattered small-business set-aside delivery orders.

Fischer's customer concentration is heavily weighted to Navy and DLA logistics commands. The Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command leads by potential value ($23.6 million across 29 awards, representing 54% of the top-five customer dollar share), driven largely by a single $500 thousand Blanket Purchase Agreement awarded June 2025 and multiple antenna and pole orders to Naval Information Warfare Systems Command exceeding $300 thousand each. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime follows by award count (173 awards worth $3.2 million), but those are fragmented small-dollar delivery orders—arresters, power strips, receiver groups, and absorbers ranging from $750 to $75 thousand—placed against recurring $250 thousand single-award IDC vehicles. Naval Sea Systems Command ranks second by potential value ($3.3 million across 38 awards), including sole-source P-2MHz pulser repairs, custom communications hardware, and clip-on probe procurements. Together, the top five customers account for 70% of awards and 72% of combined potential value, signaling concentrated exposure to Navy communications infrastructure and DLA logistics operations.

Fischer's vehicle footprint comprises single-award IDCs and BPAs issued by DLA and Navy commands rather than government-wide or multi-agency vehicles. The Indefinite Delivery Contract N6600105D0023 (Navy) carries 12 task orders worth $18 million combined potential value, anchoring Fischer's largest active vehicle. Five additional IDVs—SP093504D5D66, SP092004D5007, SPE4A623D60FY, N6600114D0124, and four others—each carry 4 to 7 task orders. All IDCs are single-award vehicles with $250 thousand to $500 thousand ceilings, typical of DLA procurement posture; the June 2025 NAVSEA BPA at $500 thousand represents Fischer's highest-ceiling vehicle to date. Fischer does not appear on government-wide acquisition contracts (GWACs) or multi-agency vehicles in the source data.

Award activity has declined from a peak of 29 awards in 2023 to 17 in 2025 and only 2 in 2026 year-to-date (as of mid-July). This downward trajectory, combined with an awards-per-year ratio that has halved since 2023, suggests either recompete cliff exposure or a slowdown in routine DLA replenishment orders. The source does not flag imminent recompete deadlines in the next twenty-four months for the top-value vehicles, but the aging of many DLA IDCs (several expiring in 2024–2025 with renewal awards not yet visible) carries recompete risk for a vendor whose business model relies on recurring DLA and Navy logistics orders.

Fischer subcontracts to four major defense primes: Lockheed Martin Corporation (five sub awards including A4 Sentinel radar engineering services and cruise missile defense systems work on lightning arresters), Northrop Grumman Systems Corp (three subs on B-2 collaborative combat communications and battery charger obsolescence, providing electromagnetic testing and instrument manufacturing), BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. (two subs on antenna and surge arrestor engineering labor), and Applied Research Associates Inc. (one sub on electromagnetic reliability and effects prediction testing). The sub footprint is small (12 of 412 total awards, 3%) and concentrated in aerospace platforms (B-2, A4 Sentinel) and Navy communications systems, complementing Fischer's prime role as a transactional component and test-equipment supplier.

Fischer's PSC and NAICS concentration is sharp. The Fuses, Arrestors, Absorbers, and Protectors PSC category dominates with 184 awards—this is Fischer's core commodity. Secondary strengths are Electrical and Electronic Properties Measuring and Testing Instruments (31 awards) and Antennas, Waveguides, and Related Equipment (19 awards), reflecting test equipment, measurement probes, and antenna mast/pole orders. NAICS codes align similarly: Switchgear and Switchboard Apparatus Manufacturing (88 awards), Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals (67 awards), and Current-Carrying Wiring Device Manufacturing (37 awards) account for the plurality of work. This vertical specialization—electrical safety, protection, and test equipment for Navy and logistics supply—is Fischer's market identity and a limiting factor on diversification into non-defense or civilian agency work.

Lightning/EMP Surge Protection Devices, EMP Test Systems, EMC/EMI instrumentation for CISPR and Mil Std compliance testing Contract R&D for DTRA and SPAWAR