The Navsys Corporation

The Navsys Corporation, doing business as Navsys Corp, is a woman-owned small business based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that designs Global Navigation Satellite System hardware, systems engineering, and Position, Navigation, and Timing applications for defense agencies as a prime contractor across Small Business Innovation Research awards and full-and-open development contracts with no set-asides. The company operates exclusively as a prime (100% of 194 recent awards); it holds no subcontract work.

Navsys's capability portfolio centers on GPS-alternative positioning and navigation systems for degraded or GPS-denied environments, RF Internet of Things prototyping, broadband satellite communications terminals, and signals-of-opportunity navigation correction. Representative work includes a $5.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee Air Force Research Laboratory contract awarded May 2024 for development and maturation of a Position, Navigation, and Timing as a Service system architecture to support worldwide operations where GPS is degraded or denied, a $1.9 million Air Force Research Laboratory SBIR Phase II small-business set-aside award (July 2024) for upgrades to existing broadband satellite communication terminals for GPS-denied operation, a $2.5 million DARPA SBIR Phase II total small-business set-aside contract (October 2021) for RF Internet of Things prototype development and testing, and a $1.8 million DARPA Embedded Entrepreneurship Initiative firm-fixed-price development contract awarded March 2026 for a Minimum Viable Product effort to commercialize GNSS technologies from prior DARPA programs.

Defense represents the entire customer base. The top five funding agencies account for 63% of recent awards by count and 80% by potential value, dominated by the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (27 awards, $26.5 million combined potential value), DARPA (8 awards, $8.6 million), the Navy Office of Naval Research (6 awards, $6 million), the Naval Air Warfare Center (8 awards, $4.7 million), and the Navy Information Warfare Systems Command (7 awards, $3.3 million). SBIR awards span Phase I, Phase II, and Phase II.5 across all five of these agencies.

Award activity has been modest and volatile—two awards in 2020, four in 2021, two in 2023, three in 2024, and one in 2026—with combined potential value of $61.8 million across all 194 awards since 1989. Obligated dollars ($87 million) exceed potential value by 41%, indicating a mature vehicle footprint with exercised options and task order activity. Navsys places work under an indefinite delivery contract (N6600101D7002, 5 task orders), a Navy blanket purchase agreement (DG133C02SE0268, 1 task order), and SeaPort-e (1 task order). Primary NAICS concentration sits with Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (37 awards) and Engineering Services (15 awards). Top PSC codes include R&D-Defense System Electronics/Communication Equipment Basic Research (33 awards) and Applied Research/Exploratory Development (9 awards), with R&D-Defense Other at 10 awards.

NAVSYS offers high quality technical products and services in GPS hardware design, systems engineering, systems analysis, and software design in three primary areas Global Positioning Systems, Inertial Navigation Systems, and Communication Systems.