Talen-X, Inc.

Talen-X, Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturer of positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) simulation hardware and software headquartered in Ankeny, Iowa, operates as a prime contractor on 48% of its recent federal awards and as a subcontractor on 52%, competing on full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations except for one small business total set-aside contract with the Federal Aviation Administration. The company is a subsidiary of Orolia Defense & Security, LLC, a foreign-owned parent corporation also engaged in PNT solutions manufacturing.

Talen-X's federal capability footprint centers on GNSS and GPS simulators, wavefront simulators, and related software platforms used for defense testing, evaluation, and training. The company manufactures the BROADSIM platform (a multi-GNSS simulator supporting GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou signals), the Safran Skydel GSG-8 GNSS simulator, and custom variants optimized for specific military applications. Recent representative prime contracts include a $2.24 million firm fixed-price purchase order from the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command for software and hardware maintenance and servicing through March 2027; a $1.98 million definitive contract from the Naval Air Warfare Center for a GNSS wavefront simulator delivered to China Lake, California; a $1.79 million purchase order from the Air Force Test Center for a GPS/GNSS simulator capable of simulating multi-constellation signals with vehicle velocities up to nine thousand meters per second; and a $955,930 five-year upgrade, maintenance, and service contract with the Air Force for BROADSIM platform support at Albuquerque, New Mexico through March 2029.

Customer concentration is spread across defense and research agencies. The top five customers by combined potential value account for 85% of dollars: the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command leads with eight awards totaling $6.4 million; the Air Force Materiel Command Test Center contributes three awards valued at $2.9 million; the Air Force places five awards totaling $2.2 million; the Navy Secretary of the Navy Assistant for Administration anchors one award at $2 million; and the Naval Air Warfare Center holds five awards at $722 thousand combined potential value. The vendor serves twenty-four distinct customer agencies across the DoD and civilian research community.

Talen-X places subcontract work under major primes including Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (engineering support for electromagnetic warfare, air and missile defense analysis, and countermeasures), The MITRE Corporation (systems engineering and R&D for Army Assured PNT and Air Force projects, providing modeling, simulation, and testing support), Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (precision guidance kit GPS receiver simulation on weapon programs), Lockheed Martin Corporation (next-generation interceptor development support and secure synchronization systems), Raytheon Company (hypersonic attack cruise missile testing), HII Mission Technologies Corp (Army Research Laboratory photonics and quantum sciences subscription services), KBR Wyle Services (operational multi-domain GNSS applications testing and hardware), SRC Inc. (counter-UAS fixed-site low systems PNT solutions), Verus Research (autonomous multi-satellite GPS emulation for hardware-in-the-loop development), Assurance Technology Corp (BroadSim platform simulators), and Radiance Technologies Inc. (PNT Resiliency Laboratory BroadSim maintenance and Orolia Skydel software support).

Activity has grown from four awards in 2022 to nineteen in 2023 and sixteen in 2024, moderating to thirteen in 2025 with only three awards recorded in 2026 year-to-date. The combined potential value across sixty-seven recent awards totals $16.8 million, though obligated dollars across those awards reach $21.9 million (131% of potential value), indicating contract modifications and option exercises. Only one award carries ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months ($2.2 million), suggesting modest near-term recompete exposure.

Talen-X operates across multiple indefinite delivery vehicles: six task orders under Army Indefinite Delivery Contract W56KGU18D0004, five under the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services Small Business vehicle, three under the Information Analysis Center Multiple-Award Contract, and two under Army IDC W31P4Q20D0032. Primary NAICS categories align with the company's core offering: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (21 awards), Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (18 awards), and Electronic Computer Manufacturing (3 awards). Work is performed predominantly at the company's Ankeny headquarters, with significant performance locations including Albuquerque, New Mexico; Warner Robins, Georgia; Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; and various Navy and Air Force test facilities.