Helitune Inc.

Helitune Inc., doing business as Beran Instruments, is a foreign-owned manufacturer of vibration and acoustic analysis equipment and condition monitoring technologies that operates as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) delivering specialized rotorcraft diagnostic equipment, maintenance kits, calibration services, and technical training to federal aviation and defense agencies on a full-and-open basis with no SBA set-aside designations, though some individual delivery orders carry total small business set-aside markings.

Helitune manufactures and supplies the RT5JS+ Rotortuner Kit, RT-JEM Jet Engine Monitoring System, optical lenses and instruments, and associated software, firmware, cables, adapters, and interface devices for helicopter vibration monitoring and condition assessment. The company also delivers calibration, function testing, repair, spare parts, and training services for these systems. Concrete representative work includes a $3.45 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with the U.S. Coast Guard (awarded July 31, 2023, through July 30, 2028) covering calibration, function testing, repairs, and supply sparing for rotorcraft monitoring systems, with over one hundred delivery orders issued to date; a $206.3 million Coast Guard delivery order for helitune calibrations (December 10, 2024); a $1.996 million Defense Logistics Agency Aviation maintenance kit procurement designated as total small business (June 26, 2023); and a $155.1 thousand U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command sole-source purchase order for annual maintenance, calibration, inspection, and testing services on Helitune WHIRLTRAK equipment through December 2027 (December 26, 2024).

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard, which accounts for 266 awards (69% of the prime footprint) and $31.9 million (52% of combined potential value). The Department of the Army Materiel Command Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command places the second-largest share at 19 awards and $9.2 million. Together, Coast Guard and Army account for 83% of recent awards and 79% of combined potential value; the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (10 awards, $4.2 million) and Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (10 awards, $2.8 million) round out the active set. The concentration is driven by Helitune's role as the sole original equipment manufacturer and preferred supplier of rotorcraft diagnostic equipment to the Coast Guard, which has issued the majority of awards as task orders against its primary IDV vehicle.

Helitune holds three active indefinite delivery contracts: the Coast Guard's $3.45 million single-award IDV for rotorcraft monitoring systems (over one hundred task orders issued, with 71 delivery orders under vehicle HSCG3813D500002, 70 under 70Z03818DE0000001, 55 under HSCG3808D500167, and 52 under 70Z03823DE0000003); a Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime single-award IDV valued at $350 thousand (December 18, 2025, through December 18, 2026, total small business set-aside) for optical instrument lenses; and a now-expired Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime IDV valued at $756.8 thousand that operated from October 14, 2022, through October 13, 2024, for optical lenses and instruments. The active Coast Guard vehicle alone represents the dominant vehicle platform for the vendor's workload.

Activity has remained relatively flat over the past five years — 24 awards in 2022 declining to 14 in 2025, with 16 awards year to date in 2026 — though dollar concentration has shifted upward due to several large-dollar calibration orders. The recompete exposure window is minimal: only eleven awards (combined potential value $662 thousand) carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, reflecting the long-term nature of the Coast Guard IDV and its task orders.

In its subcontractor role, Helitune supplies materials and parts to Defense Systems and Solutions on two H-60M initial fielding package awards for the Army (FY24 and FY25 awards dated December 1, 2023, and February 23, 2026).

Helitune has been a registered federal contractor since October 2003 and operates from Wood Dale, Illinois. The SCI dataset shows $54 thousand in invoiced revenue on one SCI-reportable service contract in FY2022, with roughly 0.3 federal FTEs on that contract at median government-paid rates of $41.76/hr — a reflection of the vendor's primary business model as a manufacturer and equipment supplier rather than a services labor contractor; SCI captures only a tiny slice of Helitune's federal activity, which centers on goods procurement and specialized technical services tied to the equipment itself.