Vectronic Aerospace Inc.

Vectronic Aerospace Inc. Wildlife Division manufactures GPS wildlife tracking collars and telemetry devices for federal land-management and research agencies as a prime contractor on purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts. The company is foreign-owned and self-certified as a small disadvantaged business, headquartered in Coralville, Iowa, and operates across primary NAICS codes in radio and wireless communications equipment manufacturing (334220) and aeronautical and navigation systems manufacturing.

Vectronic competes across a split posture: roughly half its recent awards carry total small business set-aside designations, while the remainder are full-and-open or sole-source competitive procurements. The company holds no standing IDIQs or GWACs; instead, it wins awards through direct purchase orders and task orders against customer-specific indefinite delivery contracts. A $250 thousand five-year IDC ceiling awarded by the Office of Acquisitions and Grants in July 2024 underpins ongoing GPS Iridium collar work for the Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture, with a $99.7 thousand delivery order already placed against it.

The customer base concentrates in Interior and Agriculture. The top five funding organizations account for 69–77% of recent awards by count and value, respectively: the U.S. Geological Survey's Office of Acquisitions and Grants (11 awards, $850 thousand), the Smithsonian Institution (8 awards, $58 thousand), USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Wildlife Services (7 awards, $417 thousand), the Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station (5 awards, $176 thousand), and USDA's Marketing and Regulatory Programs Business Services (3 awards, $169 thousand). Fish and Wildlife Service Alaska Region also anchors recurring work, notably a $78.3 thousand airtime contract for Arctic National Wildlife Refuge caribou collar operations running through July 2031.

Capability work spans GPS and Iridium-enabled collars equipped with video recording, mortality sensors, triaxial activity tracking, and programmable drop-off mechanisms for caribou, elk, horses, bison, feral swine, wild dogs, and other ungulates and predators. Recent representative contracts include a $46.2 thousand sole-source USGS delivery for Iridium GPS camera collars for Alaska science center caribou survey work (July 2026, justified by USGS's documented 90%-plus success rate with Vectronic equipment versus 60% for alternatives), a $78.3 thousand Fish and Wildlife Service Arctic Refuge caribou collar airtime contract (July 2026), a $99.7 thousand Office of Acquisitions and Grants delivery order for GPS Iridium collars with video cameras (July 2024), and a $92.8 thousand USGS small-business set-aside for Iridium GPS radio collars for horses (September 2023). The company also refurbishes existing collar hardware and supplies consumables such as batteries.

Activity has been episodic: ten awards in 2022, three in 2023, eight in 2024, two in 2025, and three in 2026 through August. Only one award carrying $34 thousand in potential value reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting limited near-term recompete exposure. Vectronic operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data. The company competes across thirteen distinct federal agencies but derives 77% of combined potential value from five customer organizations within Interior and Agriculture research and land-management missions.

We manufacture state of the art wildlife GPS radio telemetry equipment for government agencies.