Kearfott Corporation

Kearfott Corporation, doing business as Kearfott and operating as the Guidance and Navigation Division of Astronautics Corporation of America, manufactures and repairs inertial measurement units (IMUs), attitude motion sensor sets (AMSS), global positioning systems, and related precision navigation components for the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (82% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on defense avionics programs. Kearfott competes in the full-and-open market with no set-aside designations across its recent prime footprint, reflecting its established competitive standing as a specialized navigation systems supplier.

Kearfott's federal customer base concentrates heavily on defense logistics and sustainment. The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command's Air Force Sustainment Center anchors the portfolio by potential value, with 40 awards worth $170 million combined, driven by a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $88 million for B-2 Spirit stealth bomber IMU and AMSS repair and maintenance awarded in August 2021. The Naval Supply Systems Command (84 awards, $41.5 million combined potential value) places a second stream of work across navigational instruments and inertial navigation components, while the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation and Naval Sea Systems Command round out the active customer set. These five customers account for 86% of combined potential value. Kearfott's recent prime awards under the Air Force contract include delivery orders valued at $6.58 million (August 2024), $4.46 million (November 2024), $5.18 million (November 2025), $4.05 million (April 2025), $3.33 million (March 2026), and $2.33 million (March 2026) for IMU major repairs. Naval work includes a $1.64 million definitive contract for global positioning products (September 2023), a $721,901 gyroscope rate repair and modification contract (January 2023), and a series of purchase orders ranging from $24,000 to $511,286 for inertial navigation systems, GPS components, and navigational instruments.

Kearfott holds positions on five major IDC vehicles anchoring task order activity: the Air Force Sustainment Center IDC FA869021D1009 (28 task orders), IDC F0960396G0003 (19 task orders), IDC FA811721D0020 (15 task orders, $45.2 million combined potential value), and two Navy IDCs—N0038306D003P (16 task orders, $6.2 million combined potential value) and N0010407GA100 (16 task orders, $3.4 million combined potential value). The Air Force IDC FA811721D0020 represents a second substantial vehicle beyond the B-2 sustainment contract, diversifying Kearfott's prime exposure. The vendor's NAICS footprint spans navigation and guidance system manufacturing (70 awards), aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing (80 awards), and aircraft manufacturing (38 awards), with PSC concentration in navigational instruments (64 awards) and maintenance and repair of instruments and laboratory equipment (46 awards).

Kearfott's subcontract role centers on inertial navigation modules, gyroscope components, and IMU assemblies supplied to prime contractors dominating aerospace and defense platforms. Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation represents the highest-volume prime relationship, with sub-awards spanning B-2 AMSS engineering services, Global Hawk and MQ-4C Triton contractor logistics support and sustainment across multiple 2022-2025 deliveries, and related TRITON LRIP work. Lockheed Martin Corporation places sub-orders for inertial navigation units, GPS/INU modules, and related components across the Q-53 radar system, advanced radar threat systems, and three-dimensional expeditionary long-range radar platforms (January 2025 through December 2024). Raytheon Company sources IMU and IRU components for the P-8A APY-10 radar system (April 2023, June 2029). Other subs flow through BAE Systems, Hamilton Sundstrand, Textron Systems, L3Harris, and American Systems for platform-specific avionics and sustainment work on the M109 Family of Vehicles, Shadow UAS, and T-38 autopilot actuator systems. Recent sub-award activity (86 sub-awards across the portfolio, 18% of total awards) remains steady and diversified across defense primes.

Activity grew substantially in 2025 (51 awards versus 16 in 2024), though first-half 2026 data shows only 4 awards captured so far in the source snapshot. Ten awards (combined potential value $26.7 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and carry recompete risk. Kearfott's parent company is Astronautics Corporation of America, headquartered in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, a global avionics and navigation systems manufacturer with a decades-long federal supply record supporting multiple defense platforms including the UH-60 Black Hawk, F-15, and B-2 bomber. Kearfott's Pine Brook, Montville, New Jersey facility serves as the primary place of performance for the vast majority of prime and sub work, with one award citing Little Falls, New Jersey as a secondary performance site. The vendor carries ISO 9001/SAE AS9100 certification and maintains government source approval status for flight-critical navigational instruments, positioning it as an approved sole-source supplier on multiple Navy and Air Force procurements where proprietary or qualified-supplier requirements apply.