Arnold Magnetics Corporation

Arnold Magnetics Corporation, doing business as Arnold Magnetic Technologies, manufactures custom power conversion equipment including AC-DC power supplies, DC-DC converters, and power distribution assemblies for the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on full-and-open federal contracts, with no SBA set-aside designations in its recent prime footprint.

Arnold Magnetics is a for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Camarillo, California, operating since at least the early 1980s (first award dated February 1981) with a 442-award prime federal contracting footprint spanning nearly four decades. The company competes on the open market; across its prime awards, only one of the past five years carried an SBA designation — a Total Small Business set-aside on a January 2023 Naval Sea Systems Command purchase order for $28,030. The vendor's prime work is concentrated in NAICS 333613 (Power, Distribution, and Specialty Transformer Manufacturing) and related electrical equipment categories, with 207 awards under PSC 5930 (Converters, Electrical, Nonrotating) and 27 under PSC 5975 (Miscellaneous Electric Power and Distribution Equipment).

Arnold Magnetics' customer base is almost entirely Navy-centric. The top five customer agencies by count account for 67% of all awards, led by Naval Supply Systems Command (86 awards, $4 million combined potential value), Naval Sea Systems Command (82 awards, $1.6 million), and Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (48 awards, $1.7 million). Naval Air Systems Command's Naval Air Warfare Center anchors the dollars: 25 awards worth $4.5 million combined potential value. These five Navy commands dominate both volume and value — together they represent 92% of combined potential value across all 443 awards. Recent representative prime work includes a $786,429 firm fixed-price purchase order from Naval Supply Systems Command awarded April 17, 2026, for power supply equipment; a $275,536 purchase order from Naval Information Warfare Systems Command awarded September 29, 2025, for AC-DC power conversion equipment; and a $1,247,254 definitive contract from Naval Supply Systems Command awarded July 29, 2024, for power supply delivery. Arnold Magnetics holds a cornerstone $3.068 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with Naval Air Warfare Center (awarded August 31, 2023, set-aside as Total Small Business) for Pilot Production Unit Power Supply Assemblies running through August 30, 2028, from which a $835,188 delivery order was issued in September 2023 to meet minimum requirements.

The vendor's subcontractor footprint is substantial: 51 sub-awards (12% of total) flow through major defense primes. Lockheed Martin Corporation is the dominant prime partner, with sub-work spanning power distribution assemblies, power supplies, and control systems for platforms including the AN/BLQ-10 supplemental spares and the AN/TPS-59 radar replenishment system. Electric Boat Corporation engages Arnold Magnetics for submarine-class construction material procurements, including SSN 804 and SSN 814 components and stowage-on-board repair parts. General Dynamics Mission Systems, BAE Systems (both Information and Electronic Systems Integration and Technology Solutions branches), L3 Technologies, Serco, and Laurel Technologies Partnership round out the regular prime partners. Sub-work spans electromechanical assemblies, radio frequency distribution and control systems, electronic warfare tactical upgrade engineering support, and long-lead-time material procurement for naval platforms.

Award velocity shows recent growth: 9 awards in 2022, 16 in 2023, 28 in 2024, then 18 in 2025 and 3 in the first seven months of 2026. The vendor faces minimal recompete cliff risk — only two awards totaling $882 thousand in combined potential value complete within the next twenty-four months. Combined potential value across all 443 awards sits at $13.7 million against $23.7 million in combined dollars obligated (173% of potential value), indicating substantial task order execution against lower-ceiling vehicles; the top parent vehicles include multiple indefinite delivery contracts with Navy commands. Place of performance is consistently the Camarillo, California facility, with some delivery to Navy locations including Saint Inigoes, Maryland and San Diego, California.