Universal Switching Corporation

Universal Switching Corporation, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Burbank, California, manufactures electronic switching components and systems for federal defense, space, and civilian agencies as a prime contractor (79% of awards) and as a subcontractor on major defense primes. The company specializes in programmable analog and digital switch matrices, relay modules, RF switches, circuit card assemblies, and multicouplers, delivering these components to support GPS programs, naval combat systems, satellite communications, spacecraft ground testing, and aerospace applications.

Universal Switching Corporation competes across both set-aside (Total Small Business) and full-and-open procurements, with recent prime activity split roughly evenly between designated set-asides and open competitions. The company's customer base spans 36 federal agencies, heavily concentrated in the Department of Defense. The top five customers by award count account for 40% of recent awards: the Office of Naval Research (20 awards), Naval Sea Systems Command (14 awards, $1.2 million combined potential value), Naval Air Systems Command and Naval Air Warfare Center (10 awards, $865 thousand), and Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (10 awards). By potential value, the Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard anchors the portfolio (8 awards, $3.3 million combined potential value), followed by Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Air Warfare Center, NASA Kennedy Space Center (5 awards, $839 thousand), and Army Test and Evaluation Command (6 awards, $574 thousand). The concentration signal shows Navy commands dominating by count while the Coast Guard's fewer but higher-value awards represent the largest single-customer dollar exposure.

Universal Switching Corporation holds positions on a Coast Guard indefinite delivery contract (HSCG4412DPC4064, 4 task orders, $1.2 million combined potential value) and Air Force and Navy IDCs with smaller task-order activity. Recent prime awards include a $619,070 purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command for a digital differential switching system (April 2023), a $246,445 Total Small Business set-aside from Air Force Test Center for Universal Switching components (September 2023), a $213,524 purchase order from Naval Air Warfare Center for a programmable switching system operating at 20–3000 MHz (September 2022), a $183,184 purchase order from Naval Air Systems Command for a 12-input programmable switch system (October 2023), and repair work for GPS programs at Ogden Air Logistics Complex (two awards totaling $73,118, March 2025 and March 2026 completion dates). The vendor's award activity shows 4 awards in 2022, 9 in 2023, 15 in 2024, 4 in 2025, and 3 to date in 2026, indicating volatility rather than sustained growth trajectory.

As a subcontractor, Universal Switching Corporation supplies specialized switching components to Lockheed Martin on the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous satellite program (eight sub-awards for ECL matrix switches, handling charges, and panel adapters between 2022 and 2024), to L3 Technologies on signal processing work (two sub-awards, March 2024), to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation on D6 TCID hardware development (January 2026), to Lockheed Martin and Assurance Technology Corporation on communications infrastructure work, and to SAIC, CACI, Peraton, and ASRC Federal on space communications, modernization, and logistics sustainment efforts. The subcontract portfolio reflects heavy embedding in aerospace and defense prime contractor ecosystems, particularly on satellite, space network, and persistent surveillance programs.

Universal Switching Corporation's award portfolio carries a recompete cliff: three GPS repair and component orders awarded to Ogden Air Logistics Complex between March 2023 and March 2026 (combined potential value approximately $116 thousand) reach completion in the next twelve months, creating near-term recompete opportunity for competitors. The vendor's NAICS footprint skews toward electronic component manufacturing (40 awards) and R&D in physical and engineering sciences (23 awards), with PSC concentration in switches (16 awards) and electrical and electronic assemblies (10 awards), reinforcing the core switching-component identity.