Teledyne Defense Electronics, LLC

Teledyne Defense Electronics, LLC — doing business as Teledyne Storm Microwave — manufactures specialized RF cable assemblies, coaxial cables, and fiber optic cables for the U.S. Navy as a prime contractor on small-dollar purchase orders and as a subcontractor to major defense primes including Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, L3Harris, and Saab. The vendor competes full-and-open, with no SBA set-asides across its recent federal portfolio. Teledyne Storm Microwave is a division of Teledyne Defense Electronics, LLC, itself a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California; manufacturing operations are based in Downers Grove and Woodridge, Illinois.

The vendor's federal footprint is dominated by prime purchase orders from the Department of the Navy, concentrated in RF and microwave cabling for naval aviation systems and maritime weapons platforms. Representative prime work includes a $57.8 thousand purchase order from Naval Air Warfare Center (March 2026) for radio frequency cable assemblies; a $51.1 thousand sole-source order from Naval Sea Systems Command (August 2025) for coaxial cable components designed for firing systems in undersea explosive testing supporting the DDG-128 shock trial; a $60.6 thousand NAVAIR delivery order (September 2024) for RF cable assemblies; and multiple prior awards for fiber optic cables, True Blue 205 and True Blue 420 RF cable lines, and custom cable assemblies to technical specifications. Naval sourcing is consistently sole-source, justified by Teledyne's exclusive manufacturing capability to produce ultralow insertion loss, temperature-stable, flight-certified, and militarily specified cabling meeting exact part requirements.

Customer concentration is heavy on the Navy. The top five Navy entities — Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Air Warfare Center, Naval Supply Systems Command, Naval Air Systems Command, and the Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research — account for 61% of awards by count and 39% of combined potential value. Naval Sea Systems Command leads by award count (87 awards, $359 thousand combined potential value); Naval Air Warfare Center leads by dollar value (58 awards, $1.2 million). The Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center at Eglin Air Force Base contributes 27 awards ($78 thousand). Despite 376 total awards in the source data spanning four decades, combined potential value sits at only $5.5 million, reflecting the small-dollar purchase order character of the prime work; obligated dollars of $71.8 million indicate substantial prior execution on these micro-contracts.

Teledyne Storm Microwave sits on five named parent vehicles: Navy Basic Ordering Agreement N0038321GZJ01 (32 task orders), the Advanced Technology Support Program IV (24 task orders), Air Force Basic Ordering Agreement FA862021G4027 (10 task orders), Army Indefinite Delivery Contract W56KGY22D0001 (10 task orders), and Army Indefinite Delivery Contract W31P4Q20D0032 (5 task orders). Award velocity has accelerated sharply — 15 awards in 2022 to 112 in 2025 — but only one award faces recompete completion within the next twenty-four months, totaling $58 thousand.

Subcontract activity, which comprises 56% of the 376 total awards, routes through defense primes on weapons programs and electronic warfare systems. Northrop Grumman (Advanced Technology Support Program for scaled onboard electronic attack, antenna selector assemblies, and Block 3 EA subsystem production), Raytheon (AMRAAM missile production lots 34–40, Small Diameter Bomb Increment II, and SM-6 Tactical All Up Round cable and RF cable assemblies), and Lockheed Martin (PAC-3 missile production, AN/SLQ-32(V)6 shipboard radar cable assemblies, and Ukraine Q-53 radar systems) anchor the largest sub flows. L3Harris, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Boeing, and SRC round out the prime base. Subcontract scope is consistently RF and coaxial cable assemblies, fiber optic cable manufacturing, and wire harness production for airborne, shipboard, and land-based systems. The cable and wire manufacturing NAICS category (Other Communication and Energy Wire Manufacturing, 80 awards; Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance instrument manufacturing, 48 awards; Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing, 48 awards) dominates the category concentration, with Cable, Cord, and Wire Assemblies for Communication Equipment the leading PSC (94 awards).

Teledyne Technologies, the parent, is a for-profit publicly traded corporation and awarded federal contract and grant prime across a multi-subsidiary footprint spanning sensing, electronics, and engineering solutions for defense, space, and commercial sectors; Teledyne Storm Microwave's niche within that portfolio is RF and cabling components for naval and airborne platforms. The vendor operates as a full-and-open manufacturer without set-aside designation, relying on sole-source justifications tied to proprietary cabling designs and flight certification for Navy renewal demand.