Wade Antenna Inc.

Wade Antenna Inc., doing business as Taco Antenna, manufactures and sells UHF-VHF antennas, SATCOM antennas, antenna poles, helical antennas, and related RF communications equipment to the federal government as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) on full-and-open, non-set-aside basis. The Canadian manufacturer, headquartered in Brantford, Ontario with performance locations in Ottawa, Ontario and select U.S. sites, operates across NAICS 334220 (Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing) and delivers against purchase orders, delivery orders, and indefinite-delivery contracts across Department of Defense and civilian agencies.

Taco Antenna's customer concentration is dominated by Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime — the source of 217 awards representing $6.6 million in combined potential value and accounting for 51% of recent award volume. The top five funding agencies by potential value diverge from the award-count ranking: the Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration Headquarters leads by dollars ($11 million across 19 awards), followed by DLA Land and Maritime ($6.6 million), GSA Federal Acquisition Service ($6.1 million), the Department of Navy Information Warfare Systems Command ($979 thousand), and the Federal Aviation Administration Aeronautical Center ($619 thousand). Together these five agencies account for 77% of combined potential value. The concentration imbalance reflects the vendor's portfolio of high-value GSA Federal Supply Schedule task orders alongside numerous smaller DLA Land and Maritime purchase orders for antenna sets and poles.

Taco Antenna holds a $3 million GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract (Multiple Award Schedule) running through October 2029, covering military antenna systems including MULDIPOL antennas, helical antennas, VHF/UHF military antennas, fixed UHF SATCOM equipment, and counter-drone systems, with 246 task orders placed across the contract for $14.6 million in combined potential value. The vendor maintains six single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Land and Maritime — five expired or expiring within the 2022–2024 window with $250,000 ceilings each, and a most-recent award (May 14, 2026) with a $350,000 ceiling running through May 2027, all focused on UHF-VHF antennas, poles, and related equipment for consolidation and containerization to DoD depots. Representative prime work includes a $182,000 delivery order from the U.S. Air Force at Edwards AFB for an air-traffic-control military MULDIPOL antenna (September 2025), a $202 thousand Naval Air Warfare Center purchase order for brand-name Taco Antenna antennas and mounts supporting U.S. Special Operations Command (July 2025), a $177.7 thousand Naval Information Warfare Systems Command delivery order for UHF SATCOM antennas under the MAS contract (June 2023), and recurring DLA Land and Maritime delivery orders ranging from $3.5 thousand to $65 thousand for antenna poles and sets.

Activity has remained flat over the past five years — 18 awards in 2022, 16 in 2023, 16 in 2024, and 20 in 2025 — with three awards recorded in 2026 to date. The vendor carries minimal recompete exposure from the source data; the largest upcoming contract decision is the continuation of DLA Land and Maritime IDIQ vehicles that historically have been single-award renewals with similar ceiling values.

Taco Antenna subcontracts at minimal scale (1% of awards). Recent sub work includes SATCOM antenna development and integration efforts under Scientific Research Corporation as prime (two awards, September and November 2025 for fixed helical mast mounts and UHF SATCOM antennas supporting future baselines and foreign military sales), antenna procurement under Canadian Commercial Corporation as prime (two awards, March and April 2025), and specialized antenna development under General Dynamics Mission Systems Inc. as prime for the Global Aircrew Strategic Network Terminal Increment 2 (GASNTI2) Block 1 nuclear-hardened communications system (June 2024).

The vendor's award footprint is nearly homogeneous: 492 of 608 awards carry PSC code for Antennas, Waveguides, and Related Equipment, with 261 awards coded to NAICS 334220. Taco Antenna competes entirely in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside strategy. The combination of sustained DLA Land and Maritime volume, high-value GSA Schedule task orders, and specialized SATCOM antenna demand from naval warfare and air operations units positions the vendor as a steady single-source supplier of commodity and specialty antenna products rather than a growth-trajectory competitor.