What Teledyne Technologies does

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE: TDY) is a US-based industrial technology company founded in 1960 and headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California, operating through four segments: Instrumentation, Digital Imaging, Aerospace & Defense Electronics, and Engineered Systems. The company provides enabling technologies to sense, transmit, and analyze information across the full electromagnetic spectrum (X-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared) for aerospace and defense, factory automation, environmental monitoring, oceanographic research, energy, medical imaging, and pharmaceutical research markets.

Its portfolio spans thermal imaging modules and systems (FLIR-branded), defense electronics and unmanned platforms (Black Recon, Rogue 1, FirstLook, Black Hornet, TacFLIR), chemical and CBRN detection (CheMSense), space-qualified imaging sensors (H4RG-10 focal plane arrays, radiation-tolerant semiconductors), marine instrumentation (Slocum gliders, GAVIA AUVs, SeaRaptor AUVs), test and measurement (Teledyne LeCroy oscilloscopes), environmental analyzers (Teledyne API), and MEMS foundry services. Core technological capabilities include Multi-Dimensional Mass Spectrometry, NDAA-compliant uncooled longwave infrared modules, AI-assisted counter-UAS perception software, and a customer and company-sponsored applied research center.

Teledyne operates primarily through direct enterprise sales to government defense agencies (U.S. Army, CBP, allied ministries), OEMs that integrate components, and authorized dealer networks for commercial marine and industrial products. Products are sold under multi-year contracts via custom quotation. The company pursues a stated strategy of high-barrier market specialization combined with active M&A, having spent approximately $900M on acquisitions over 13 months including DD-Scientific, Maretron, TransponderTech, Adimec, Valeport, and select Excelitas Technologies aerospace and defense electronics businesses, following the landmark $8B FLIR Systems acquisition in 2021.

Name

Teledyne Technologies

Legal name

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated

Website

https://teledyne.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

1960

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

Teledyne Technologies provides enabling technologies to sense, transmit, and analyze information across the electromagnetic spectrum for aerospace and defense, marine, space, healthcare, environmental, and industrial markets through four operating segments and brands including FLIR, Raymarine, and Teledyne LeCroy.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Thousand Oaks

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Digital Imaging: Digital imaging segment includes high-performance components and solutions from sensors, cameras and image processing hardware and software through highly engineered integrated systems. Covers visible, infrared, ultraviolet and X-ray spectra for industrial, healthcare, aerospace, geospatial, scientific, government, and defense applications. Includes FLIR Defense (thermal imaging systems), FLIR OEM (camera modules), FLIR Marine (maritime electronics), Teledyne Vision Solutions (machine vision), Teledyne Imaging Sensors, and Teledyne e2v (semiconductors). Segment represented strongest organic growth in Q1 2026.
2. Instrumentation: Instrumentation segment provides monitoring and control instruments for marine, environmental, industrial and other applications, as well as electronic test and measurement equipment. Includes power and communications connectivity devices for distributed instrumentation systems and sensor networks deployed in mission critical, harsh environments. Marine Instrumentation includes subsea vehicles, sonar systems, and marine sensors.
3. Aerospace & Defense Electronics: Aerospace and Defense Electronics segment provides sophisticated electronic components and subsystems and communications products including defense electronics, data acquisition and communications equipment for air transport and business aircraft, harsh environment interconnects, components and subsystems for wireless and satellite communications, and general aviation batteries.
4. Engineered Systems: Engineered Systems segment provides innovative systems engineering and integration and advanced technology development as well as complex manufacturing solutions for defense, space, environmental and energy applications. Also designs and manufactures electrochemical energy systems.
5. MEMS Foundry Services: Teledyne offers unmatched MEMS and microfabrication capability, from design to prototyping right through high volume 200mm production. State-of-the-art facilities, mastery of materials from silicon to specialty metals to non-conventional substrates. Foundries offer decades of experience across vast process portfolio.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Teledyne Technologies provides enabling technologies to sense, transmit, and analyze information across multiple spectra (visible, infrared, ultraviolet, and X-ray) for industrial growth markets. The company operates through four segments — Instrumentation, Digital Imaging, Aerospace & Defense Electronics, and Engineered Systems — delivering products for aerospace and defense, marine, medical imaging, environmental monitoring, and space applications.

Product overview

Teledyne Technologies provides enabling technologies across four main business segments: Instrumentation (marine, environmental, and test/measurement instruments), Digital Imaging (FLIR thermal products, machine vision, healthcare imaging, space imaging, MEMS foundry), Aerospace & Defense Electronics (defense electronics, aerospace avionics, RF/microwave components), and Engineered Systems (energy systems, maritime systems, mission systems, space systems). The portfolio includes well-known brands like FLIR (thermal imaging and defense systems), Raymarine (marine electronics), Teledyne LeCroy (oscilloscopes), and Teledyne Marine (underwater vehicles and instruments). Major product lines include thermal cameras (Boson family), autonomous drones (Black Recon, Rogue 1, FirstLook, Black Hornet), chemical detection systems (CheMSense), counter-drone software (Prism C-UAS), and specialized imaging sensors for space, scientific, healthcare, and industrial applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• FLIR: Thermal imaging systems for defense, security, and industrial applications; includes FLIR Defense, FLIR OEM, FLIR Marine, and FLIR Thermal Solutions
• Raymarine
• Teledyne Space
• Teledyne Healthcare
• Teledyne Marine
• Teledyne Defense Electronics
• Teledyne Brown Engineering
• Teledyne MEMS
• Teledyne API
• Teledyne e2v
• Teledyne Qioptiq
• SevenCs
• Teledyne CARIS
• WhaleSpotter
• Black Recon
• Rogue 1
• Boson
• CheMSense
• Prism
• FirstLook

Products and services

• Black Recon Autonomous Micro-Drone Autonomous micro-drone platform for short-range reconnaissance and situational awareness missions, targeted at military and security end users.
• CheMSense Protect Compact chemical detection system for identifying hazardous substances, used by defense, homeland security, and first-responder organizations.
• Boson SX8 Thermal Camera Module Long-wave infrared (LWIR) thermal camera module with an 8-micron pixel pitch, sold to OEMs integrating thermal imaging into their own products.
• Ocean Scout Pro II Handheld thermal monocular for maritime users, providing situational awareness on the water for boating, search and rescue, and marine patrol.
• FirstLook 125 Throwable Reconnaissance Robot Throwable, lightweight reconnaissance robot used by military, law enforcement, and tactical teams to inspect dangerous or confined areas.
• Rogue 1 Block 2 Loitering Munition Drone Loitering munition drone system designed for precision strike and tactical engagement by defense forces.
• Prism C-UAS Counter-Drone Software AI-enabled counter-UAS software for detecting, classifying, and tracking hostile drones, sold to defense and security integrators.
• Prism SKR Autonomous Targeting Software AI-enabled autonomous targeting software intended for integration onto weapons platforms to support target identification and engagement.
• TDLNA0840SEP Space Low-Noise Amplifier Space-qualified low-noise amplifier (LNA) for satellite communications payloads, sold to space and satellite primes and integrators.
• Caiman Low-Light Imaging Module Compact low-light imaging module designed to be embedded by OEMs into security, surveillance, and tactical vision products.
• Black Hornet 4 Nano-Drone

Quantifiable outcome

• Record first quarter 2026 revenue of $1,560.1 million, up 7.6% year-over-year
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability7 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and flagship.

• CMM Microsystems / FABrIC ChallengecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTeledyne MEMS was selected as the advanced MEMS manufacturing partner for two recipients of the FABrIC Challenge funding awards administered by CMC Microsystems through the Government of Canada. Noze Inc. is developing a silicon aroma sensor for non-invasive breath-based health monitoring, while Sheba Microsystems Inc. is developing MEMS actuators with AI-based temperature compensation for automotive ADAS camera systems. The collaboration reinforces Teledyne MEMS's role as a key enabler of Canada's domestic semiconductor ecosystem, supporting Canadian companies in scaling transformative MEMS technologies from development to commercialization.
• NASAflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerTeledyne has supported NASA's space missions for more than 65 years, including the Apollo space program. Multiple business units deliver mission-critical technologies for Artemis II including Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter, RS-25 engine spark igniters, space-qualified coverglass, communications amplifiers, and RF components. Technologies enable launch, sustain power, maintain communications, and provide situational awareness for America's first crewed voyage around the Moon.
• European Space Agency (ESA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTeledyne Space Imaging has partnered with ESA on multiple space missions, supporting Earth observation, climate monitoring, and scientific research missions. The company powers ESA's CHEOPS mission for exoplanet characterization and supports SMILE space weather mission.
• International Hydrographic Organization (IHO)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerTeledyne participated in the 2026 IHO Assembly in Monaco with its integrated maritime technology portfolio across brands including Teledyne CARIS, Raymarine Commercial, FLIR Marine, ChartWorld, SevenCs, and Teledyne Marine. Products were aligned with the next-generation S-100 universal hydrographic data model. The IHO Assembly brings together representatives from over 90 member states to advance global ocean mapping and charting standards.
• BMD, SpacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTeledyne FLIR Defense partnered with BMD, Spa for maritime applications of CheMSense Protect chemical detection systems and legacy sensor updates for military customers. The partnership expands deployment of rapid chemical detection technology into naval and maritime defense platforms.
• U.S. Army (CBRN Defense Program)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerTeledyne Energetics US received production contract awards exceeding $5 million from multiple Drone Dominance Program participants for its Arm & Fire Module designed for one-way-attack unmanned aircraft systems. The module features an Exploding Foil Initiator-based detonator and integrates technology from Teledyne's Solidtron family, supporting expanding domestic and international one-way-attack UAS programs.
• Schmidt SciencescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTeledyne Space Imaging was awarded a contract by Schmidt Sciences to deliver advanced near-infrared H4RG-10 flight focal plane arrays and custom electronics for the Lazuli Space Observatory's Integral Field Spectrograph. The observatory is designed for rapid-response observations of supernovae and transient events to study the universe's expansion history.
• Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV)coreGTM or Marketing PartnerTeledyne delivered four GAVIA AUV systems to the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration for deep-sea operations. The company also demonstrated autonomous anti-submarine warfare capabilities to NATO members in the North Atlantic, showcasing technology for allied defense forces.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Northrop Grumman:
• RTX Corporation: RTX (Raytheon) is a major defense prime with overlapping capabilities in missile systems, radar, sensors, and electronic warfare, competing for many of the same U.S. and NATO programs that drive Teledyne's defense backlog.
• Roper Technologies:
• Honeywell International: Honeywell is a large diversified industrial and aerospace conglomerate with sensing, controls, and defense electronics businesses that overlap with Teledyne's instrumentation, test & measurement, and aerospace & defense electronics segments. Both serve mission-critical aerospace and process-control customers at global scale.

Direct peers

• Trimble:
• Keysight Technologies: Keysight is the most direct peer in electronic test and measurement instrumentation (oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers), competing head-to-head with Teledyne LeCroy for engineering and defense test budgets.
• Leonardo DRS:
• Garmin:
• L3Harris Technologies: L3Harris is a direct defense electronics peer, providing sensors, communications, electronic warfare, and integrated mission systems to U.S. and allied governments - directly comparable to Teledyne's Aerospace & Defense Electronics and FLIR Defense businesses.
• Ametek: Ametek is a diversified electronic instruments and electromechanical devices company with comparable niche specialization, defense exposure, and acquisition-driven growth model, serving similar process and analytical instrumentation customers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance10 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles33 records

Subsidiaries28 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A43 records

Investments

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