Olmsted Instrument Co

Olmsted Instrument Co., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Middletown, Pennsylvania, provides precision repair and overhaul of military aircraft instrumentation—displacement gyroscopes, altimeter encoders, rate gyroscopes, pressure altimeters, air speed computers, and horizontal and vertical situation indicators—as a prime contractor exclusively to defense and federal customer agencies. The company competes almost entirely on a full-and-open basis, without reliance on socioeconomic set-asides, though several recent awards carry Total Small Business designations.

Olmsted's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward military aviation sustainment. The top customer by award count is the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard (568 awards, $36.5 million combined potential value), reflecting sustained demand for C-130H aircraft instrumentation repair. However, the dollar picture is dominated by the Department of the Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (44 awards, $118.5 million combined potential value), centered on altimeter encoder and pressure altimeter work supporting the CH-47 Chinook helicopter fleet. The Air Force Sustainment Center anchors the third-largest customer relationship (126 awards, $28.7 million), with displacement and rate gyroscope repairs for T-38 Talon and C-130 Hercules platforms. Together, these three customers account for roughly 14% of the company's combined potential value across 1,317 prime awards since 1982. The Army Communications Electronics Command (47 awards, $5.7 million) and the Air Force Materiel Command (47 awards, $8.5 million) round out the active set. Olmsted also serves the Army National Guard Connecticut, the Naval Supply Systems Command, and the General Services Administration.

Olmsted holds multiple single-award indefinite-delivery contracts representing the backbone of its federal footprint. The largest is a $6.4 million Air Force Sustainment Center IDIQ for displacement gyroscope repair and overhaul on T-38 aircraft, awarded November 2022 through November 2026, under which the Air Force has issued ten delivery orders totaling approximately $5.2 million as of January 2026. A $1.3 million Air Force Sustainment Center IDIQ for C-130 altimeter encoder repair (September 2024 through September 2034) anchors repair work on transport aircraft. The Army Aviation and Missile Command holds a $428,630 altimeter pressure overhaul IDIQ (April 2023 through April 2028) supporting CH-47 maintenance. The Army Communications Electronics Command operates a $600,000 HSI/VSI test, inspection, and repair IDIQ (March 2022 through March 2027). Olmsted's Coast Guard parent vehicles—Indefinite Delivery Contracts DTCG3803D200009, HSCG3805DH00004, DTCG3899DH00002, and HSCG3806DH00001—collectively carry 304 task orders and represent the highest volume of delivery order activity in recent years, with combined potential values ranging from $205 thousand to $144.6 million. Recent representative work includes a $399,000 full-and-open displacement gyroscope repair delivery order from the Air Force Sustainment Center (January 2026), a $448,000 gyroscope repair and overhaul delivery order (April 2025), a $328,915 altimeter encoder repair delivery order (September 2024), and a $194,469 horizontal and vertical situation indicator test and inspection order from Army Communications Electronics Command (September 2024).

Activity has declined modestly over the past four years—17 awards in 2022 falling to 6 awards in 2026 year to date—though this reflects the episodic nature of delivery order placement against long-term IDIQs rather than sustained loss of customer confidence. Only four awards ($175 thousand combined potential value) face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete cliff risk in the near term. Olmsted's footprint is nearly entirely prime work (100%); the company does not subcontract. NAICS concentration is clear: 772 of its 1,317 awards fall under Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (336413), with 160 awards under Other Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance (811219). PSC codes track similarly—643 awards under Maint/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment–Aircraft Components and Accessories, and 312 under Maint/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment–Instruments and Laboratory Equipment. Olmsted has been registered in SAM since 2002 and operates exclusively from its Middletown facility with no named subcontract partnerships.

sales, service, and installation of avionics and instrumentation.

FAA repair station: OWIR389K

Cage Code: 4H237