Systems Engineering & Management Company

Systems Engineering & Management Company, doing business as Systems Engineering & Management Co., a small business manufacturer of radio-frequency and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) based digital telemetry products headquartered in Vista, California, operates as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards) and subcontractor delivering specialized telemetry simulators, receivers, and retransmission amplifiers to defense and space agencies. The company is a child entity of One Dev, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, and has maintained an active federal contracting presence since at least 2002, with an established pattern of full-and-open competition rather than set-aside awards — of the prime contracts named in recent activity, only two carry small business or total small business set-aside designations.

Systems Engineering & Management Company's product portfolio centers on portable hand-held telemetry simulators, telemetry receivers, and pre-exit telemetry retransmission amplifiers (PETRA) operating in L and S-band RF frequencies, marketed under the SEMCO brand. Representative recent prime awards include a $2.512 million firm fixed-price purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command (August 2023) for a telemetry receiver, a $118,950 total small business set-aside from NAVSEA (January 2022) for a PETRA system, and a $47,800 sole-source purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center (July 2026) for a SEMCO Portable Telemetry Simulator with dual RF output and embedded sync/BERT functions, performing at Cape Canaveral Space Station. Historical contract values have ranged from approximately $50 thousand to over $2.5 million, predominantly structured as firm fixed-price purchase orders with performance periods of 90 days to twelve months. The company designs RF signal emitters, telemetry receivers, and provides engineering support for test-range applications.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to Navy programs. The top five customer organizations account for 81% of awards by count, led by the Department of the Navy broadly (361 awards, $1.2 million combined potential value) and Naval Sea Systems Command specifically (38 awards, $7.1 million combined potential value), followed by Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center (34 awards, $4.8 million combined potential value), the Department of the Air Force (119 awards, $41 thousand combined potential value), and NASA Kennedy Space Center (20 awards, $466 thousand combined potential value). The potential-value ranking diverges markedly — GSA Federal Acquisition Service anchors the largest dollar commitment at $24.7 million across just two awards, suggesting a high-value indefinite delivery or schedule vehicle; Navy NAVSEA and Naval Air Systems remain significant by both volume and dollars, while the broad Navy customer base by count translates to modest per-award values. The vendor has served 40 distinct federal customer agencies across 702 total awards.

Systems Engineering & Management Company places task orders under five named parent vehicles: Indefinite Delivery Contract F3365791D2259 (45 task orders), Federal Supply Schedule GS00F0013N (44 task orders, $6.5 million combined potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract N0012392D5207 (38 task orders), Basic Ordering Agreement N0012388D0044 (31 task orders), and Multiple Award Schedule (27 task orders, $3.3 million combined potential value). These vehicles are predominantly Navy-administered, reflecting the customer concentration. Award activity has fluctuated significantly — one award in 2022, four in 2023, twenty-one in 2024, four in 2025, and two in 2026 — with the spike in 2024 driven primarily by task order volume under the established parent vehicles rather than new customer engagement.

The vendor operates as a subcontractor to major defense primes and range-support integrators, including BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. (providing telemetry simulators, digital telemetry transmitters with LDPC encoding, tracking receivers, and freight receivers under the Instrumentation Range Support Program III), KBR Wyle Services LLC (providing Wallops Range operations and maintenance support, with mobile instrumentation deployed worldwide including Norway, Kwajalein Atoll, Coquina NC, Australia, and French Guiana), L3Harris Interstate Electronics Corporation (providing telemetry signal simulators and RF telemetry simulators under FTI PM operations planning and logistics), Lockheed Martin Corporation (providing receiver telemetry for AEGIS modernization), and Teledyne Brown Engineering Inc. Top-category concentration reflects the product mix: Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing (52 awards), Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (43 awards), and Engineering Services (31 awards) dominate NAICS representation, while Logistics Support (189 awards) and Engineering/Technical Support (45 awards) dominate PSC coding, indicating that much of the vendor's footprint is classified as support rather than direct manufacturing sales.