Teledyne Flir Defense, LLC

Teledyne Flir Defense, Inc., doing business as Flir Surveillance, Inc., manufactures advanced thermal imaging and infrared sensor systems and provides test-and-repair, maintenance, and sustainment services to the federal government as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) across defense and homeland security agencies, with no small business set-aside designations. The vendor is a division of Teledyne Flir, LLC, a for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon, operating under primary NAICS codes 334511 (Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance systems manufacturing) and 811219 (Other electronic equipment repair and maintenance).

Teledyne Flir Defense's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward maritime and naval applications. The top five customer agencies by potential value account for 62% of combined dollars: the Department of Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command (359 awards, $1.55 billion), the Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard (329 awards, $652.3 million), the Marine Corps (36 awards, $370.1 million), the Army's Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (28 awards, $103.2 million), and U.S. Special Operations Command (64 awards, $95.4 million). By award count, NAVSEA and the Coast Guard dominate—together representing 45% of all awards. This concentration reflects the vendor's core franchise: repair, refurbishment, spare parts provisioning, and engineering support for forward-looking infrared systems including SEAFLIR 280-HD, MARFLIR II, CCFLIR, and Enhanced Sensor Suite (ESS) platforms that equip Coast Guard helicopters and naval vessels.

Teledyne Flir Defense holds major indefinite delivery contracts anchoring its federal footprint. The $74.3 million single-award Coast Guard contract for Electro/Optical Infrared Sensor Systems Modernization (ESS-M) components (through November 2026) has generated 71 task orders totaling $690.8 million in combined potential value; recent delivery orders include $21.9 million (May 2026), $39.9 million (January 2026), and $8.9 million (August 2025) for ESS-M components for MH-65 and MH-60 helicopters. The $48.7 million Naval Sea Systems Command single-award contract for electro-optic sensor systems and components (through September 2027) has supported repairs and spares for SEAFLIR, MARFLIR, and CCFLIR platforms with delivery orders ranging from $35,000 to $3.08 million. The $500.2 million Army multiple-award Family of Weapon Sight - Individual (FWS-I) vehicle for weapon-mounted long-wave infrared sensors has generated three delivery orders totaling approximately $75.4 million, including a $31.3 million June 2024 order (terminated for convenience September 2025) and a $41.6 million May 2022 order. The $982.1 million Naval Sea Systems Command Unmanned Surface Vehicle Family of Systems multiple-award contract (through April 2029) began generating orders in 2024. A newly awarded $151 billion Missile Defense Agency SHIELD (Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense) multiple-award IDIQ (January 2026, through December 2035) supports advanced multi-domain defense research, prototyping, and systems engineering with an initial $500 task order.

Recent prime work exemplifies the vendor's capability footprint: repair and refurbishment of thermal imaging systems (SAFIRE 380HD, SEAFLIR 280-HD, MARFLIR II) for Coast Guard and Navy platforms; test, teardown, and evaluation services for CCFLIR and maritime electro-optic sensor systems; supply of ESS-M turret sensor units, computer electronics units, and display units for helicopter modernization; and maintenance and overhaul of turret assemblies for UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters. Foreign military sales work includes $14.97 million in thermal weapon sight packages for an FMS case (May 2023, Army) and a $2.78 million FMS contract for Night Vision HISS-XLRS systems for Israel (December 2023). Delivery order pricing is uniformly firm fixed-price with no set-asides, reflecting the vendor's position as the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and sole-source supplier on several major vehicles.

Activity shows modest year-over-year growth through 2025 (47 awards in 2022 and 2023, rising to 66 in 2025) with 32 awards recorded in 2026 through mid-September. Within the next twenty-four months, 15 awards (combined potential value $80.3 million) reach ultimate completion and present recompete exposure, primarily lower-value repair and spares orders across Coast Guard and Navy accounts.

On federal service contracts captured in SCI, Teledyne Flir Defense reported $19.9 million in invoiced revenue from FY2022 to FY2025 (19 prime records, zero sub records). Staffing ranged from 0.8 to 8.7 FTEs across those fiscal years; FY2023 peaked at 8.7 FTEs and $9.1 million. Government-paid hourly rates on these SCI records ran a median of $156.72/hr, with a 10th-percentile floor of $104.21/hr and a 90th-percentile ceiling of $436.92/hr, reflecting a mix of technician and senior engineering labor. The vendor performed all SCI-reportable work in-house with zero subcontractor hours recorded.

In its subcontractor role, Teledyne Flir Defense supplies thermal imaging repair and FLIR components under primes including Amentum Services (aircraft maintenance support), Vigor Works (unmanned surface vehicle cable assemblies and electronics), Northrop Grumman (Joint Threat Emitter Enhanced Delivery Initiative work), Atlantic Diving Supply (CCFLIR stabilized gimbal assemblies and shipping cases), HX5 (MSV(L) EMD phase support), KBR Wyle (Wallops Range operations support), and Booz Allen Hamilton (CHAD SKELETOR Integration). The sub footprint is thin (2% of total awards by count, 32 sub records) and consists primarily of component supply and engineering support on larger platform integration primes rather than independent mission-critical subcontracting.

Corporate structure identifies Teledyne Flir Unmanned Ground Systems, Inc. as a named subsidiary, though award activity in the source traces principally to the Teledyne Flir Defense, Inc. division and its Flir Surveillance, Inc. doing-business-as designation. The parent entity, Teledyne Flir, LLC, operates a broader portfolio spanning grant work, additional contract vehicles, and civilian applications not enumerated in the Teledyne Flir Defense prime record.

Teledyne Flir Defense competes exclusively full-and-open (no SBA set-asides) and positions itself as the OEM incumbent and sole-source supplier on marquee coast guard and Navy thermal imaging platforms. The vendor's federal strategy centers on sustainment, repair, and modernization work rather than development, with geographic concentration in North Billerica and North Chelmsford, Massachusetts for manufacturing and engineering support.