Real-Time Laboratories, LLC

Real-Time Laboratories, LLC, a foreign-owned manufacturer of hydraulic, pneumatic, and electromechanical components based in Boca Raton, Florida, supplies specialized defense hardware to the U.S. military as a prime contractor (94% of awards) through direct purchase orders and indefinite-delivery contracts, with selective subcontractor engagement on major platform programs. The company is a subsidiary of Israeli aerospace and defense contractor Elbit Systems LTD and competes in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations across its prime footprint.

Real-Time Laboratories operates as a critical supplier in the defense supply chain, delivering precision-engineered components for the M1 Abrams tank family, High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), CH-47 Chinook aircraft, and KC-135 transport platforms. Recent representative prime work includes a $185.8 thousand purchase order from the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime for 17 units of linear direct valves (awarded January 7, 2025), a $112.9 thousand order for gunner handles (awarded January 31, 2025), a $152.3 thousand order for 3-way valves (awarded June 26, 2025), and a single-award indefinite-delivery contract from DLA Aviation for $9 million ceiling value running through March 31, 2031 (awarded April 2, 2026) for cylinder assemblies used in KC-135 platforms. The company holds two large Army Materiel Command indefinite-delivery contracts valued at approximately $4.4 million and $10.8 million respectively for axial piston pumps and linear valves supporting M1 Abrams tank modernization.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Defense Logistics Agency and the Department of the Army. The top five customers account for 83% of award count: DLA Land and Maritime leads with 268 awards ($18.8 million combined potential value), followed by DLA Aviation (73 awards, $13.6 million), the Army Materiel Command's TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (40 awards, $28.9 million), a generalized DLA entity (39 awards, $548 thousand), and the Army Materiel Command's Detroit Arsenal Contracting Command (24 awards, $54.3 million). By dollar concentration, the Army Materiel Command's Detroit Arsenal ($54.3 million) and TACOM ($28.9 million) anchor the top value, with DLA Land and Maritime and DLA Aviation providing sustained volume through routine replenishment procurement. The vendor has worked with 23 distinct customer agencies, with secondary activity from the Marine Corps and other defense components.

Real-Time Laboratories' award footprint spans five named indefinite-delivery contracts: SPM7MX10D7010 (14 task orders, $2.1 million combined potential value), SPRDL116D0041 (5 task orders, $4.7 million), DAAE2099D0146 (4 task orders), M6785416D6000 (4 task orders, $2.7 million), and SP074001D7666 (4 task orders). The remaining prime awards are firm-fixed-price purchase orders issued by DLA Land and Maritime, DLA Aviation, and Army contracting commands through routine request-for-quote solicitations. All prime awards carry full-and-open, non-set-aside designations.

Activity has fluctuated modestly over the past five years—15 awards in 2022, 19 in 2023, 29 in 2024, then declining to 15 in 2025 and 2 in 2026 year-to-date. Only one award (combined potential value $113 thousand) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete cliff exposure in the near term.

As a subcontractor, Real-Time Laboratories supplies hydraulic and pneumatic components to BAE Systems Land & Armaments on the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) program—recent sub awards include early order material and engineering support (dated February 2025 through January 2026) tied to the $30+ billion AMPV EMD and LRIP effort replacing the M113 platform. The company also performs sub work for Lockheed Martin on HIMARS logistics support and component provisioning (field service representatives, depot-level repair, and contractor logistics support spanning fire-control subsystems, valve assemblies, manifolds, sensors, and solenoids), for General Dynamics Land Systems on M1 Abrams SEPV3 tank production and upgrade contracts (including conditional product-design reviews and production of 250 tanks for Poland), for Boeing on CH-47 Chinook aircraft procurement and modification (long-lead items, spare parts, and purchased-outside-production status), and for Atlantic Diving Supply on motion-control device procurement. Sub awards are almost exclusively material or material-plus-service commitments tied to major vehicle and aircraft production efforts; one sub record (FY2024, Atlantic Diving Supply) registers in the Service Contract Inventory as 0.1 FTEs, indicating minimal service-labor footprint in SCI-reportable work.

The vendor's product category concentration spans hydraulic and pneumatic components across five primary NAICS and PSC codes. By NAICS, small-arms ordnance and ordnance accessories manufacturing (68 awards) leads, followed by other metal valve and pipe fitting manufacturing (57 awards), fluid power valve and hose fitting manufacturing (49 awards), other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing (48 awards), and industrial valve manufacturing (37 awards). By PSC, powered valves (89 awards) rank first, nonpowered valves (67 awards), guns through 30 millimeter (61 awards), miscellaneous aircraft accessories (34 awards), and power and hand pumps (30 awards) round out the top five. The vendor's combined potential value across 538 awards totals $132.9 million with $134.5 million obligated (representing 101% of potential value), indicating substantial task-order execution against IDCs and contract modifications extending ceiling commitments.

Real-Time Laboratories operates as a child entity under Elbit Systems Of America LLC, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. Its place of performance is primarily Highland Beach, Florida, with subcontractor relationships routing to major defense primes (BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics Land Systems, Boeing) rather than direct DoD prime awards in the defense systems integration space.