Teledyne Flir Defense, Inc.

Teledyne Flir Defense, Inc., doing business as Flir Surveillance, Inc., manufactures advanced thermal imaging and infrared sensor systems and provides repair, maintenance, and engineering support services to the U.S. Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security as a prime contractor (98% of awards) on a full-and-open competitive basis with no set-aside designations. The company is a division of Teledyne Flir, LLC, a parent entity with a subsidiary arm in unmanned ground systems, and operates primarily from North Billerica, Massachusetts, with secondary locations in Woburn, Wilsonville, and other facilities across the continental U.S. and OCONUS.

Teledyne Flir Defense's federal footprint centers on electro-optical and infrared sensor technologies for maritime, aviation, and ground platforms. Concrete capability examples include a $21.9 million delivery order from the Coast Guard (May 2026) for electro-optical/infrared sensor systems modernization components for MH-65 and MH-60 helicopters under the $74.3 million Coast Guard Electro/Optical Infrared Sensor Systems Modernization indefinite delivery contract; a $31.3 million delivery order (June 2025) under the Army's $500.2 million Family of Weapon Sight - Individual (FWS-I) full-rate production vehicle for thermal weapon sight systems; and a $3.08 million delivery order (June 2024) from Naval Sea Systems Command for SEAFLIR 230 thermal imaging systems. The vendor also delivers repair and test-and-evaluation services across MARFLIR II, SEAFLIR 280-HD, CCFLIR, and similar maritime forward-looking infrared platforms. On the subcontractor side, Teledyne Flir Defense supplies FLIR turrets, gimbal assemblies, cable harnesses, and sensor components to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation on Joint Threat Emitter Enhanced Delivery Initiative work, Amentum Services for aircraft maintenance logistics support, and Vigor Works for low-rate initial production maritime vessel integration.

Customer concentration is dominated by Naval Sea Systems Command (356 awards, $1.55 billion combined potential value) and the Coast Guard (323 awards, $651.8 million), which together account for 45% of awards and 62% of combined potential value when including Marine Corps ($370.1 million), Army Aviation and Missile Command ($101.8 million), and U.S. Special Operations Command ($93.7 million). The top five customers fund roughly 62% of the award pipeline by dollars, with the Navy and Coast Guard serving as anchor customers for SEAFLIR, MARFLIR, and ESS-M modernization programs.

The vendor holds multiple IDIQs across the federal enterprise. The Missile Defense Agency awarded a $151 billion multiple-award SHIELD (Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense) indefinite delivery contract on January 21, 2026 (with a delivery order floor of $500), supporting advanced multi-domain defense systems research, development, prototyping, and production through December 2035. Teledyne Flir Defense also maintains a $74.3 million single-award Coast Guard contract for ESS-M components (November 2026 completion), a $982.1 million multiple-award Naval Sea Systems Command vehicle for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Family of Systems through April 2029, a $500.2 million Army PEO Soldier Family of Weapon Sight - Individual full-rate production contract through April 2027, a $48.7 million single-award NAVSEA contract for electro-optic sensor systems and components through September 2027, an $8 million single-award U.S. Special Operations Command contract (expired July 2025), and a $34.4 million single-award NAVSEA test, teardown, evaluation, and repair vehicle through September 2028. A $893,683 Marine Corps indefinite delivery contract covers RECON III handheld long-range thermal imager repair through July 2027.

Activity has remained relatively flat in recent years—47 awards in 2022, 47 in 2023, 65 in 2024, 66 in 2025, and 20 recorded through mid-2026—with combined potential value across all historical awards at $4.45 billion and $987 million in obligated funds (22% realization). Within the next twenty-four months, fifteen awards with combined potential value of $60.9 million face ultimate completion, creating recompete exposure on Coast Guard, Navy, and Air Force vehicles. SCI-reported invoicing (federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold only) totaled $17 million across FY2022–FY2024, with $7.7 million in FY2022 (1.5 FTEs), $9.1 million in FY2023 (8.7 FTEs), and $167 thousand in FY2024 (0.8 FTEs); median government-paid rates on SCI contracts ran approximately $156.72/hr, with rates spanning $104/hr at the tenth percentile to $437/hr at the ninety-fifth percentile. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed zero percent of hours, indicating that Teledyne Flir Defense delivers service work with its own internal labor.

The vendor competes predominantly as a prime contractor on full-and-open solicitations, leveraging its original-equipment-manufacturer status in thermal imaging and infrared sensor technologies to secure competitive awards without reliance on small-business set-asides. The two percent sub-award footprint reflects occasional component supply and systems integration work to major primes such as Northrop Grumman and Amentum, rather than a sub-reliant business model. NAICS concentration reflects the vendor's core capability: Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (878 awards) and Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing (410 awards) dominate the portfolio, followed by repair and maintenance services (227 awards). PSC distribution mirrors this portfolio, with Night Vision Equipment, Emitted And Reflected Radiation accounting for 620 awards and maintenance/repair of electrical and electronic equipment components for 146 awards, demonstrating the vendor's specialization in advanced sensor systems across defense platforms.