KVH Industries Inc.

KVH Industries Inc., a for-profit manufacturer of satellite communications equipment and airtime services based in Middletown, Rhode Island, operates as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) on full-and-open federal procurements with no set-aside designations, delivering satellite connectivity, Ku-band airtime, VSAT systems, antenna products, and navigational instruments to maritime and defense agencies.

KVH's customer concentration is extreme and represents a recompete-dependency risk. The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Coast Guard dominates the portfolio, accounting for 85 of 310 recent awards (covering 63% of award count) with $205.6 million in combined potential value — representing 89% of the vendor's total combined potential value of $231.7 million across all 492 awards in the source. This concentration flows through a single vehicle: the Small Cutter Connectivity (SCC) IDIQ awarded by the Coast Guard on September 22, 2022, with a $69 million ceiling and five-year term through September 21, 2027. The SCC IDIQ serves as the parent vehicle for the bulk of KVH's Coast Guard work, supporting Ku-band satellite airtime, equipment, warranty, and support for over 140 small cutters, deployable communication kits, rescue assets, and test platforms nationwide. Recent SCC task orders include a $900,920 delivery order for continued Ku-band airtime and antenna warranties (awarded September 22, 2026), a $792,097 task order modification for airtime and warranty to 12 cutters (September 22, 2025), an $11.4 million task order for small cutter airtime and communications (September 23, 2023), and an $11.2 million task order for Ku-band airtime services and warranty (September 23, 2022). The remaining top-four customer agencies by potential value are the Department of the Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command ($5.4 million across 8 awards), the Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Ground Combat Systems ($2.4 million across 9 awards), the Department of the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal ($2.3 million across 42 awards), and the Department of the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command ($2.3 million across 22 awards). The second-tier customer footprint is characterized by small, sub-million-dollar awards distributed across Army supply and configuration management vehicles and Navy satellite airtime renewals.

KVH's parent-vehicle footprint reflects this Coast Guard dominance. The Coast Guard's SCC IDIQ (HSCG7910DPT1112) anchors 68 task orders with $46.9 million in combined potential value. Beyond that, KVH places work under Army-wide IDIQs: DAAE0700DM008 (72 task orders with no dollar ceiling specified in the source), W56HZV07D0094 (18 task orders, $1.2 million combined potential value), W15QKN12D0067 (9 task orders, $2.1 million combined potential value), and SP044004D1290 (7 task orders with no dollar ceiling specified in the source). These Army vehicles carry small purchase orders for navigation systems, inertial measurement units (GEO-FOG products), and antenna repair; they are characteristic of KVH's Army work — routine sustainment of installed systems rather than large new procurements.

Recent representative work beyond the SCC IDIQ includes a $244,710 firm fixed-price purchase order from Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (awarded February 3, 2026) for satellite airtime and monthly maintenance services, performed noncompetitively after the government identified KVH as the sole capable provider; a $779,456 definitive contract from Naval Supply Systems Command (September 30, 2024) for KVH One TracNet H60 VSAT units with integrated satellite airtime services performed in Bahrain; a $29,563 small-business-set-aside purchase order from Air Education and Training Command (May 23, 2024) for 40 KVH plastic radomes; and a $112,848 purchase order from Naval Forces Central Command (August 15, 2023) for TracPhone V7-HTS antenna systems, Ku-band airtime, and warranty services. The vendor also delivers navigational instruments (inertial measurement units and course indicators) and GEO-FOG 3D dual receiver kits to Army Engineer Research and Development Center and Naval Air Warfare Center in support of unmanned ground vehicle programs and Navy inertial systems integration.

Award activity has declined materially. KVH received 9 federal awards in 2022, 4 in 2023, 6 in 2024, 4 in 2025, and 2 through September 2026 — a pattern suggesting SCC IDIQ task orders are the primary vehicle and new competitive work is sparse. The recompete cliff is low: only 2 awards (combined potential value $1 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. However, the SCC IDIQ itself represents the vendor's principal recompete risk; its September 21, 2027 completion date is outside the twenty-four-month window but within the medium-term planning horizon for a Coast Guard recompete. KVH's position on that vehicle is uncontested in the source data; the SCC IDIQ was awarded competitively in 2022 as a single-award contract, and no co-awardees or competing prime vehicles are named.

On SCI-reportable service contracts (those above the $150,000 federal reporting threshold), KVH invoiced $20.2 million across FY2022–FY2025, with $8.9 million in FY2022 and $11.3 million in FY2024; FY2023 and FY2025 carried no reportable SCI revenue. The SCI dataset shows 3.0 FTEs delivered in FY2022 and 0.5 FTEs in FY2024, reflecting the vendor's profile as a product and airtime company rather than a labor-intensive services contractor. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI prime contracts ran from $1,375 at the 10th percentile through a median of $2,177 per hour to $10,260 at the 90th percentile, consistent with a mix of field engineering, systems integration, and program management labor alongside high-value equipment and airtime delivery. KVH performs as a prime across all SCI records with no named subcontractors; the vendor operates primarily as a direct supplier rather than a system integrator or team prime.

KVH operates predominantly as a sole-source or non-competitive vendor on specialized satellite communications and navigation equipment. Across the award portfolio, the vendor competes full-and-open but retains strong incumbent positions on its primary vehicles—particularly the Coast Guard SCC IDIQ—and is frequently identified in procurement narratives as the original equipment manufacturer or sole capable provider for proprietary TracPhone, GEO-FOG, and Ku-band systems already integrated into Coast Guard and Navy platforms. This posture reduces competitive pressure on renewal task orders but concentrates recompete risk on the SCC vehicle and exposes the vendor to potential technology displacement or consolidation of satellite communications requirements within broader defense prime integrators.