Lite Coms LLC

Lite Coms LLC, a woman-owned small disadvantaged business based in Victor, New York, manufactures and delivers wideband satellite communications systems, antenna equipment, and related components to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on a single-award indefinite-delivery vehicle (IDV) and as a subcontractor supporting Army and special operations command requirements. The company operates predominantly on full-and-open competition rather than set-aside vehicles, though it holds woman-owned small business (WOSB) and total small business (TSB) designations and occasionally competes under those categories.

Lite Coms' capability portfolio centers on satellite communications infrastructure — wideband SATCOM systems in light and heavy configurations, antenna technologies including reflector panels and light antenna systems, ARTSTRAT (Army Transportable Satellite Ground Station) units, ground terminal equipment, and associated test assets and spare parts. The company's product lines include the Lite Sat satellite communications platform, Lite Com reflector panels, and Phoenix system terminal assemblies. Representative prime work includes an $81.9 million delivery order from the Marine Corps (March 2025) for test assets and spare items under the Wideband Satellite Light/Heavy program, a $48.7 million Marine Corps order (August 2024) for long-lead antenna and ARTSTRAT units, and a $46.4 million Marine Corps delivery order (June 2024) for light antenna systems and long-lead items, all issued under the company's $1.54 billion IDV. Lite Coms also holds a $172,764.64 Defense Media Activity purchase order (September 2023) for Lite Sat satellite communications services at Fort Meade and OCONUS locations.

Customer concentration is extreme and recompete-focused. The Marine Corps accounts for eleven awards valued at $1.74 billion in combined potential value — 100% of tracked potential dollars — and anchors the company's entire prime footprint through the single $1.54 billion IDV awarded in September 2023 and running through September 2028. The source lists nine awards under the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Construction and Equipment with no stated dollar value; the Army (CECOM, RDECOM, and PEO C3T) accounts for five awards; the Air Force, Defense Media Activity, and Defense Information Systems Agency round out the customer set. All top-valued awards are Marine Corps delivery orders with firm fixed-price pricing and no set-aside designation, issued against the primary IDV. Approximately $183 million in delivery orders have been obligated under the $1.54 billion IDV as of January 2026.

In its subcontractor role, Lite Coms delivers satellite communications equipment and integration support through Atlantic Diving Supply (multiple awards including Lite Sat Phoenix system assembly, KA-band BUC/SSPA components, and hardware upgrades), General Dynamics Global Force and General Dynamics One Source (Army CECOM and Tobyhanna Army Depot field support), Amentum Services (C5ISR prototyping integration facility support at Aberdeen), and Fairwinds Technologies (Tactical Uplink SATCOM Kit antenna components). Sub work spans Army communications modernization, special operations equipment logistics, and defense communications prototyping. Activity grew sharply from one award in 2022 to fifteen in 2024, but declined to three in 2025 and three in 2026. Three awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $47.4 million and face recompete exposure, primarily under the Marine Corps IDV.