CPI Satcom & Antenna Technologies Inc.

CPI Satcom & Antenna Technologies Inc., a for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Plano, Texas, designs and manufactures satellite communications hardware, antenna systems, cable assemblies, and electromechanical components for defense and civilian federal agencies as a prime contractor (84% of recent awards) and subcontractor to major defense primes. The company competes on a full and open basis with no small business set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

CPI Satcom's capability portfolio centers on specialized communications hardware: cable assemblies, antenna control units, power cables, waveguide assemblies, motor-brake assemblies, frequency converters, and related RF components essential to military aviation, maritime, and ground communications systems. Recent representative work spans multiple customer sets. Under the newly awarded Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award IDIQ from the Missile Defense Agency (awarded December 29, 2025, with a $151 billion ceiling and ten-year term through December 28, 2035), CPI Satcom holds position for research, development, prototyping, systems engineering, production, and test and evaluation of multi-domain defense systems. On the DLA side, the company holds single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime, each valued at $250,000 and running through 2029, under which it furnishes cable assemblies and antenna control units on delivery-order basis. Recent prime awards include a $329 thousand definitive contract from the Marine Corps for antenna drive motors (November 2024), a $223.7 thousand DLA Land and Maritime purchase order for diplexers (December 2024), and a $186.7 thousand NOAA purchase order for hurricane-rated antenna motors (July 2024).

Customer concentration reflects a strong DLA footprint anchoring the award count but masked by the dollar distribution. By award count, DLA dominates: DLA Aviation (438 awards, $6.6 million combined potential value), DLA Land and Maritime (255 awards, $7.6 million), and the Navy's Office of Naval Research (103 awards, $6.3 million) account for 81% of all awards. By potential value, however, the portfolio is heavily skewed to two Army programs: the Army PEO Enterprise Information Systems (24 awards, $4.11 billion combined potential value) and the Army Materiel Command Aberdeen Proving Ground (9 awards, $1.62 billion). This divergence indicates that while CPI Satcom sustains high-volume transactional relationships with DLA through small-dollar delivery orders, it also holds position on large-dollar Army modernization vehicles that drive overall potential-value profile.

CPI Satcom's parent vehicle position reflects dual strategy. The SHIELD IDIQ represents its largest single vehicle ceiling by far at $151 billion. On DLA, the company holds four active single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts totaling $1 million in combined ceiling value, through which it has issued hundreds of firm fixed-price delivery orders ranging from under $2,000 to over $30,000. The top Indefinite Delivery Contract by task-order volume and dollars is W15P7T06DL219 (21 task orders, $1.38 billion combined potential value), suggesting ancillary positioning on Army engineering or systems-integration vehicles.

Activity has declined year over year since 2022 (169 awards) through 2024 (107 awards), with only 39 awards in 2025 and 8 in 2026 year-to-date. The recompete cliff within the next twenty-four months is minimal: only two awards totaling $202 thousand face ultimate completion and recompete exposure, indicating limited near-term pressure on the prime footprint but also limited trailing revenue visibility.

SCI-reported activity is sparse and subcontractor-only. The Service Contract Inventory dataset captures four sub-award records spanning FY2022 to FY2024, with CPI Satcom listed as a named subcontractor (zero SCI records as prime). The vendor delivered an average of roughly 10.6 FTEs to federal service contracts in the SCI-reportable range between 2022 and 2024, across only four records, indicating that CPI Satcom's federal work is predominantly product-oriented (cable assemblies, antenna motors, and electromechanical components) rather than labor-intensive service contracts, and its service-contract activity, where present, flows through subcontractor relationships to larger primes.

In the subcontractor role, CPI Satcom supplies antenna assemblies, motor drive units, frequency converters, high-power amplifiers, waveguide assemblies, and sustainment labor to tier-one defense contractors. Named primes include L3Harris Technologies (antenna and amplifier work on satellite communications gateway upgrades and wideband enterprise satellite systems sustainment), L3 Technologies (antenna subassemblies and X-band antenna repair on Air Combat Command and SOCOM programs), Lockheed Martin (demodulator and related RF components), General Dynamics Mission Systems (labor and MUOS ground system sustainment), Peraton (Camp Parks Communications Annex operations and Space Communications and Navigation program antenna support), Raytheon (GEO satellite service-lease testing), and smaller primes such as Assurance Technology Corp and Vertex Aerospace. This subcontractor footprint positions CPI Satcom as a specialized component and sustainment supplier embedded in major defense platform and communications network programs.

The vendor's federal contracting history spans two decades, with the earliest award in the source data dated August 2006. The company has maintained consistent relationships with DLA, the Navy, the Marine Corps, and Air Force through small-dollar replenishment orders for specialized communications components, supplemented by larger engineering and modernization work on Army platforms and major prime subcontracting arrangements in satellite communications sustainment.