Caes Mission Systems LLC

Caes Mission Systems LLC, doing business as Ultra Electronics Herley, manufactures specialized radio frequency and microwave components, oscillators, frequency synthesizers, flight termination receivers, radar altimeters, and related electronic assemblies for defense and aerospace applications as a prime contractor (82% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to major primes including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, and L3 Technologies. The vendor is a for-profit limited liability company and child entity of Caes Systems Holdings LLC, headquartered in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, competing on a full and open basis without set-aside designations across a diverse customer base spanning 30 federal agencies.

Caes Mission Systems operates primarily in NAICS 334220 (Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing), 334511 (Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing), 336413 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing), and related electronics assembly codes. Representative prime work includes a $906,000 Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime purchase order for 50 radio frequency switches (March 2026), a $306,810 Naval Sea Systems Command sole-source procurement for 40 phase-locked dielectric resonant oscillators (September 2024), a $220,188 Air Force Sustainment Center definitive contract for electronic amplifier repair (August 2024), and a $631,800 DLA Land and Maritime order for 39 variable attenuators (August 2022). The vendor also holds a position on the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, a $151 billion multiple-award vehicle awarded by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with one small initial delivery order valued at $500.

Customer concentration is dominated by defense logistics and naval platforms. The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Land and Maritime leads by volume and dollars at 196 awards with $26.6 million combined potential value; DLA Aviation contributes 43 awards ($4 million); Naval Supply Systems Command holds 35 awards ($10.5 million); Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center places 25 awards ($3.8 million); and Air Force Sustainment Center contributes 18 awards ($6.7 million). These five customers account for 64% of awards and 82% of combined potential value. The top parent vehicles are standard government IDIQs: SPE7MX14D0114 (26 task orders, $689 thousand), N0038309D025G (14 task orders, $2.6 million), SPM7MX12D0083 (14 task orders, $2.3 million), FA821422D0001 (10 task orders), and FA811709D0032 (7 task orders, $501 thousand).

The vendor shows strong sub-award engagement with major defense primes. Recent subcontract work includes flight test telemetry and termination (FT3) production for the MMIII program under Boeing (multiple awards, January–December 2025); Next Generation Jammer Low Band (NGJ LB) development funding under L3 Technologies (multiple awards, September 2025–December 2025); Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) production and receiver development under Raytheon (multiple awards, October 2025–March 2025); PAC-3 Enhanced Flight Termination Receiver manufacturing under Lockheed Martin (multiple awards, January–February 2025); and Tomahawk and Standard Missile range safety subsystem and test kit support under Raytheon (multiple awards through February 2024). The sub-award footprint spans 93 awards (18% of total activity), representing mission-critical RF/microwave and telemetry components for strategic and tactical missile programs, electronic warfare, and naval systems.

Activity has accelerated in recent years — 14 awards in 2022, 15 in 2023, 49 in 2024, and 35 in 2025 — though 2026 shows only 5 awards to date. Reported combined potential value is $62.9 million against combined obligated dollars of $145.7 million, reflecting award timing and contract status in the source data snapshot. Only 5 awards carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $1.8 million, indicating limited near-term recompete exposure in the dataset. Award history spans back to 1990, with the most recent prime award on March 9, 2026 (a $906,000 DLA purchase order for RF switches).