Kinemetrics Inc.

Kinemetrics Inc., a Pasadena, California-based manufacturer of seismic monitoring equipment, operates as a foreign-owned subsidiary of Japan's OYO Corporation and competes on full-and-open terms as a prime contractor on federal seismic instrumentation and data acquisition systems. The vendor holds no SBA set-aside designations and operates across 29 federal customer agencies, with 99% of recent awards as a prime contractor and 1% as a subcontractor.

Kinemetrics delivers integrated seismic monitoring systems, digitizers, data loggers, accelerometers, cables, and environmental monitoring software to support earthquake and volcano monitoring missions across civilian agencies. Representative prime work includes a $20 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey on May 1, 2025, for integrated seismic systems, sensors, and data acquisition units supporting the Global Seismographic Network and Advanced National Seismic System through April 30, 2030; a $2,999,999 single-award IDC from USGS awarded September 16, 2024, for professional services upgrading equipment at over 660 National Strong Motion Project sites; and a $611,728 purchase order from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District for seismic equipment deployed across California locations. Recent delivery orders under the primary USGS IDIQ include $244,645 for Q8 seismic equipment and cables (July 22, 2026), $154,781 for Q3 2026 episensor dataloggers and cables (July 29, 2026), and $73,920 for episensor dataloggers and cables supporting the Advanced Seismic Laboratory (July 30, 2026). Kinemetrics also supplies ANTELOPE environmental monitoring software and Basalt4X digital recorders to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, with recent awards including $9,900 for software renewal (June 16 and June 18, 2023) and $31,618 for Basalt4X recorders and ES-T accelerometers (June 27, 2023).

The vendor exhibits extreme customer concentration anchored by USGS. The top customer, the Department of the Interior's USGS Office of Acquisitions and Grants, accounts for 212 awards and $96.7 million in combined potential value—representing 45% of all awards and 46% of total combined potential value across the portfolio. NOAA ranks second with 21 awards and $750 thousand combined potential value, followed by the Army Corps of Engineers with 22 awards and $83 thousand. The top five customers by award count represent 68% of the award portfolio; by potential value, the top five represent 47% of combined potential value. Activity has been declining—from six awards in 2022 to five in 2026—with only three awards (combined potential value $473 thousand) completing within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure but also a flat or declining pipeline.

Kinemetrics sits on five major IDIQ vehicles. The largest is an Indefinite Delivery Contract (ING10PC00066) carrying 73 task orders and $10.1 million combined potential value; the vendor also places work under IDC 140G0319D0003 (41 task orders, $11.6 million), the Earthquake and Volcano Monitoring Systems 2016-2021 vehicle (38 task orders, $6.9 million), IDC 03CRCN0039 (34 task orders, $102.3 million—the second-highest dollar vehicle despite fewer task orders), and the recently awarded USGS 140G0325D0004 (8 task orders, $1.1 million). The disparity between task-order count and potential value in IDC 03CRCN0039 indicates larger individual orders on that vehicle.

Kinemetrics operates through one named subsidiary, Quanterra, Inc., a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer of goods. The vendor subcontracts in limited volume; source data identifies only one recent sub award: a July 21, 2023 task under prime Reid Middleton, Inc., for developing a post-earthquake rapid evaluation and assessment program with a seismic monitoring system at the U.S. Embassy in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, providing data acquisition system, real-time processing, and remote monitoring services. The primary NAICS categories are Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables (184 awards) and Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (130 awards); PSC code 6655 (Geophysical Instruments) dominates at 280 awards across the portfolio. Work is performed at Kinemetrics' Pasadena, California facility and subordinate locations including Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and customer deployment sites.