Orbit Communication Systems, Inc.

Orbit Communication Systems, Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturer of aerospace and defense communication systems based in Deerfield Beach, Florida, operates as a prime contractor (90% of recent awards) and subcontractor on federal aerospace repair, maintenance, and retrofit contracts, competing in full-and-open procurement without set-aside designations. The company specializes in the repair and overhaul of airborne digital interphone systems (ADIS), audio control panels, audio management units, and related avionics equipment for military aircraft platforms including the KC-135 Stratotanker, HC-144, HH-60G helicopter, and F/A-18 Super Hornet fleet.

The Air Force Sustainment Center dominates Orbit's customer base both by dollar value and award count — 41 awards totaling $94.2 million in combined potential value (87% of all dollars across the portfolio). This concentration anchors to a single-award Indefinite Delivery Vehicle for ADIS repair and retrofit services valued at up to $16.5 million, with performance extending through November 2028. Nine task orders under this IDV represent $41.4 million in combined potential value. Representative Air Force work includes a $3.1 million delivery order for ADIS services (awarded September 2025, completing September 2026), a $3.084 million delivery order for ADIS repairs and retrofit (awarded January 2024, completing January 2025), and a $1.44 million delivery order for ADIS repair and maintenance (awarded October 2024, completing October 2025). The Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard places the second-largest count of awards — 60 awards totaling $1.1 million — but at much smaller individual values; these are primarily firm-fixed-price purchase orders for HC-144 audio control panel repairs in the tens of thousands of dollars. The Department of the Navy (Naval Supply Systems Command, Naval Air Systems Command, and Naval Sea Systems Command combined) represents 29 awards totaling $2.9 million, including a $483 thousand purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command for OEM antenna positioners (awarded August 2023, completing July 2024). The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has placed six awards totaling $1.5 million for antenna control unit technical support and warranty services at Wallops and Fairbanks command and data acquisition stations. Across all sources, 17 distinct customer agencies are served, with the top five accounting for 98% of combined potential value.

Activity has grown from three awards in 2022 to fourteen in 2025, declining to five year-to-date in 2026; combined potential value across all 168 awards (prime and sub) stands at $108.8 million, with $47.2 million obligated to date (43%). Only two awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $3.2 million, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. In its subcontractor role, Orbit supplies audio systems, audio control panels, and intercommun equipment to Boeing on multiple F/A-18E, FA-18 Block III, and EA-18G aircraft support contracts (nine sub awards since August 2025), and delivers audio equipment and big safari audio control panels and management units to Sierra Nevada Company on PC12 aircraft and special operations platforms (four sub awards between June 2024 and January 2025). NAICS concentration runs heaviest in Other Support Activities for Air Transportation (60 awards) and Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (24 awards), with PSC codes driven by aircraft component maintenance and repair (63 awards) and airborne intercommunication systems (14 awards).

Provides antenna positioning, pedestals, controllers and complete Tracking and Telemetry solutions to endusers and system houses. Provides Ground, Airborne and Marine stabilized SatCom antennas. Also Audio Mgmt for airborne/ground and marine applications.