Vaisala Inc.

Vaisala Inc., a Finland-headquartered, foreign-owned manufacturer of weather and environmental monitoring equipment, operates as a prime contractor across federal agencies without set-aside designations, delivering specialized atmospheric instrumentation, sensors, repair services, and calibration support primarily to civilian meteorological and aviation customers. The company competes through full and open competition exclusively; no set-aside participation appears in the award record.

Vaisala's federal footprint concentrates on two core capability areas: equipment manufacturing and maintenance. On the manufacturing side, the vendor supplies radiosondes, mini dropsondes, ceilometer digital receivers, ice-free wind sensors, carbon dioxide probes, lightning detection systems, and transmissometer units to support real-time atmospheric observation and forecasting. Representative prime awards include a $172,017.92 NOAA purchase order for radiosondes (June 2026), a $266,915 NOAA definitive contract for two RVP10 digital receiver units (September 2025), and a $122,610 Office of Naval Research purchase order for mini dropsondes (September 2025). On the maintenance side, Vaisala provides repair, refurbishment, calibration, and software support services under a $1,637,790 single-award NOAA indefinite delivery contract spanning five years (awarded September 2022), from which the vendor has drawn multiple firm-fixed-price delivery orders for ice wind sensor repairs, transmitter board refurbishment, and calibration services. A $149,992.35 NOAA purchase order for lightning sensor software and service with option years extending through April 2029 (awarded July 2025) anchors long-term software and support obligations.

Customer concentration is extreme. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration dominates the prime portfolio — 234 of 614 total awards (38% of the count) representing $148.2 million (78% of combined potential value across all 614 awards). The Federal Aviation Administration Headquarters and FAA Aeronautical Center combine for 129 awards, but their combined potential value ($15.6 million) trails NOAA by an order of magnitude; FAA work consists of repetitive small purchase orders ("Assets in Support of the NAS") worth $12,000 to $120,000 each, reflecting consumable sensor and equipment replenishment. The Department of the Army Materiel Command Communications Electronics Command (22 awards, $3.1 million) and the Smithsonian Institution (15 awards, $130 thousand) are tertiary customers. This concentration creates both recurring revenue stability and recompete risk: only three awards face completion inside the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $211 thousand, suggesting NOAA's IDIQ structure provides multi-year certainty.

Vaisala sits on five named parent vehicles spanning NOAA, Army, and FAA channels. The Indefinite Delivery Contract DTFAAC15D00008 (FAA) anchors 74 task orders worth $1.8 million combined; NOAA's single-award IDIQ (DOCWC133M09CQ0020) accounts for 10 task orders valued at $9.7 million. The Army's W15P7T06DM003 contract carries 30 task orders ($3.8 million potential value). These vehicles are the primary ordering mechanisms for both repair services and sensor procurement across the customer base.

Activity has declined from 21 awards in 2023 and 15 in 2024 to only 11 in 2025 and 1 in 2026 (through mid-June). This contraction reflects neither market loss nor recompete cliff — it reflects the snapshot nature of the award timing relative to the source date (mid-July 2026). NOAA's IDIQ, which underwrites most dollar value, runs through September 2027 and continues to generate delivery orders. Over the full portfolio history (first award July 2005), the vendor has accumulated $189.1 million in combined potential value with $86.4 million obligated (46%).

Vaisala operates through named subsidiaries including Nu-Metrics Inc., Surface Systems Inc., Highway Information Systems Incorporated, and Veriteq Instruments Inc., though the source does not specify which subsidiaries hold independent contract authority or how they function operationally relative to the parent. The vendor's U.S. operational footprint centers on Burlington, Massachusetts (headquarters and administrative), with performance sites in Woburn, Massachusetts (primary repair and service facility), North Las Vegas, Nevada (lightning sensor software operations), and Grandview, Missouri (logistics). Work is performed entirely domestically with no foreign subcontracting noted; the vendor holds a single identified sub-award (July 2025) providing dew point and humidity probes to NASA Johnson Space Center under an engineering services prime contract, indicating minimal subcontractor posture.

Federal revenue derives almost entirely from NOAA and FAA routine procurement. Award frequency and dollar magnitude are both consistent with a specialized-equipment supplier rather than a systems integrator — typical orders cluster in the $15,000 to $75,000 range for FAA NAS assets, with NOAA repair and maintenance delivery orders ranging from $17,000 to $110,000 per task. No contract vehicles, GSA Schedules, or government-wide acquisition contracts appear in the parent vehicle list, limiting Vaisala's cross-agency teaming leverage; the vendor operates through customer-specific IDIQs and transactional purchase orders only. This structure reflects Vaisala's role as a specialized equipment manufacturer rather than a service integrator — federal customers order directly from the vendor's own supply and service network, not through aggregated federal vehicles.