Kranze Technology Solutions Inc.

Kranze Technology Solutions Inc. IL Division, a woman-owned small business headquartered in Des Plaines, Illinois, operates as a prime contractor and subcontractor delivering advanced defense technologies and specialized instrumentation systems to the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Special Operations Command. The company manufactures and engineers digital interoperability systems, airborne networking solutions, infrared countermeasures equipment, and test and evaluation support services—competing predominantly full and open without set-aside designations on recent awards, though one sole-source WOSB award appears in the portfolio.

Kranze's customer footprint is heavily concentrated in Navy programs. The top five funding agencies account for 82% of awards by count, with the Naval Air Warfare Center anchoring 17 awards (combined potential value $777 million), Naval Air Systems Command placing 14 awards ($88.4 million), and US Special Operations Command issuing 11 awards ($25.8 million). However, the dollar ranking shifts dramatically when the Naval Sea Systems Command's multi-billion-dollar Seaport-NXG vehicle enters the picture: a single $4 billion multiple-award indefinite delivery contract awarded January 2, 2025, represents the majority of Kranze's combined potential value across the entire portfolio ($4.9 billion total). This concentration in a single vehicle creates significant recompete exposure—that $4 billion vehicle completes January 1, 2029, within the recompete cliff window.

Kranze holds four major indefinite delivery vehicles. The most recent is a $99 million single-award MAGTAB SMALL EUD contract with Naval Air Warfare Center (awarded October 10, 2025, through October 9, 2030). A $12 million single-award test support IDC with US Special Operations Command (April 1, 2023, through March 30, 2027) has funded two task orders: a $731,585 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order for DAIRCM test and evaluation support and a $2.7 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order for flight test support services. A $249.9 million multiple-award Combat Environment Instrumentation Systems II vehicle with Naval Air Warfare Center (awarded March 29, 2023, through March 28, 2028) has generated four task orders totaling $60.8 million in combined potential value, including a $36.8 million order for digital interoperability networking instrumentation and support (awarded August 28, 2025, ultimate completion October 21, 2028), a $14.5 million order for H-53 product support (awarded June 28, 2024), and a $9.5 million order for H1 product support (awarded November 25, 2024). A Basic Ordering Agreement with Naval Air Systems Command for Mesh Network Manager support on the V-22 platform carries potential value exceeding $43 million.

Recent representative work spans infrared countermeasures test and evaluation, airborne networking engineering, and naval aviation platform support. A $42.9 million incremental funding modification to an unnamed Naval Air Warfare Center contract for field service representative support (awarded January 31, 2025, ultimate completion January 30, 2030) represents Kranze's largest single delivery order. Work spans processor solid replacement parts (NSN-coded, $1.77 million definitive contract with Naval Supply Systems Command, awarded February 23, 2026), TTNT Modules for Naval Air Systems Command ($4.4 million delivery order, awarded June 28, 2022), and data acquisition units with US Special Operations Command ($662,208 delivery order for a fourth Data Acquisition Unit and Data Dumper, awarded August 8, 2025). A $1.73 million delivery order from US Special Operations Command (awarded July 25, 2025, ultimate completion July 24, 2027) covers Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures (LAIRCM) flight test support, data analysis, test reporting, and data storage under the NAVY SEAPORT-NXG vehicle.

Activity accelerated sharply in 2025, jumping from 4 awards in 2024 to 23 awards, with 80% of all awards held as prime contracts and 20% as subcontracts. Eight awards carrying combined potential value of $12.5 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing Kranze to recompete timing pressure outside the broader Seaport-NXG cliff. Kranze subcontracts to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation on Link 16 UH-1Y/AH-1Z B-kit manufacturing (multiple task orders, July 25, 2025), Booz Allen Hamilton on Directional Airborne Networks for Contested Environments (DANCE) infrared countermeasures and digital interoperability solutions (November 3, 2025), ManTech on Marine Corps Systems Command radio communication kit systems engineering analysis (September 15, 2025), and George Mason University on Mobile Unmanned/Manned Distributed Lethality Airborne Network (MUDLAN) accelerated development and demonstrations (April 2025). Place of performance is concentrated at the company's Rosemont and Des Plaines, Illinois facilities, with one field service representative order executed at Patuxent River, Maryland.