Nightline, Inc.

Nightline, Inc. Tennessee Division, an SBA-certified HUBZone small business manufacturer, supplies night vision device accessories and optical components to the Department of Defense and federal agencies as a prime contractor (100% of awards) under foreign military sales programs and direct procurement vehicles. The Tennessee Division operates as a child entity of Nightline Inc., a Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Doral, Florida, and self-certified small disadvantaged business. Nightline manufactures PVS-7, PVS-14, and AVS-6 night vision goggles, image intensifiers, optical eyeshields, and nitrogen purge devices for night vision systems, competing primarily through small-business set-asides (Total Small Business and no-set-aside designations) across a narrowly concentrated customer base.

The vendor's customer concentration is extreme and lopsided. The Army Communications Electronics Command dominates the footprint with 177 awards (77% of the source portfolio) valued at $38.3 million, all delivery orders against indefinite delivery vehicles supporting foreign military sales cases across dozens of countries—Kosovo, Paraguay, Tajikistan, Ecuador, Ghana, Albania, Mauritania, Tunisia, Morocco, Nepal, Lebanon, Jamaica, Ukraine, Georgia, Niger, Lithuania, Djibouti, Nigeria, Philippines, Oman, Croatia, Iraq, and Taiwan. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation places 32 awards ($4.1 million) for optical eyeshields and image intensifiers. The Army Contracting Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground, the Navy's Naval Air Warfare Center, and the Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services together account for the remaining 5% of awards. However, the dollar rankings diverge sharply: two awards from the Air Force Materiel Command's Aeronautical Systems Center carry a combined $950 million potential value—a placeholder ceiling on an indefinite delivery vehicle that dwarfs all other activity and signals either an aspirational long-term relationship or a vehicle not yet activated for task orders.

Nightline holds five active parent vehicles. The primary engine is an indefinite delivery contract (W91CRB21D5001) with the Army Communications Electronics Command valued at $6.9 million, supporting 45 task orders for night vision device accessories across foreign military sales cases, set aside for total small businesses. Two parallel Army CECOM IDVs (W15P7T12DD028 with 56 task orders valued at $3 million, and W91CRB16D5008 with 45 task orders valued at $3.6 million) cover similar scope. Nightline also holds a $4,999,999 single-award blanket purchase agreement with the Navy's Naval Air Warfare Center running through August 2028, though the summary indicates it may support aircraft structural components and electrical harnesses rather than night vision products. A $588,246 IDV with DLA Aviation for optical eyeshields (noted in award summaries but not detailed in the vehicle block) rounds out the active indirect-procurement footprint.

Awards per year averaged 10 to 16 over the past five years, with no clear trend; recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal (one award, $15 thousand combined potential value). Recent prime activity shows a standard FMS delivery pattern: a $220,314 Kosovo order in April 2025, a $117,418 Paraguay order in September 2025, a $112,005 Tajikistan order in September 2025, and a $91,375 Tunisia order in March 2025, all under the $6.9 million CECOM IDV, all firm fixed price, and split between Total Small Business and no-set-aside designations. Nightline also supplies optical eyeshields to DLA Aviation—a $38,769 order in March 2024 and a $111,681 order in April 2023, both under the DLA Aviation IDV. The FBI Knoxville Division placed a $93,385 purchase order for night vision monocular devices and mounts in September 2021, representing the vendor's sole non-defense prime award in the source.

The source identifies one subcontract: a $934 modification to change part numbers on a task order under a prime contract held by ASRC Federal Facilities Logistics LLC, awarded August 2024, with minimal scope detail. Nightline's role as a sub is negligible; the vendor operates almost entirely in the prime role.

Nightline's product concentration is severe: 204 of 229 awards fall under NAICS 541511 (Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing), and 213 awards carry PSC code for night vision equipment. This vendor is a single-capability, single-customer specialist in night vision accessory supply to CECOM FMS programs, with a secondary optical eyeshield line to DLA Aviation. The placeholder-ceiling Air Force contract signals potential for growth outside this niche but has generated no task-order activity to date in the source data.