Avnet Inc.

Avnet Inc., operating as Avnet Computers, supplies electronic components and microcircuits to federal research, space, and defense programs exclusively as a subcontractor (100% of recent awards) with no prime contract vehicle positions. The vendor operates as a for-profit corporate entity and competes in full-and-open procurement without SBA set-aside designations.

Avnet's federal footprint is concentrated in component supply for space science and defense platforms. The vendor's recent work divides between two primary primes: Southwest Research Institute, which accounts for five sub-awards (Apr 2026, Mar 2026, Nov 2025, Aug 2025, Apr 2025) for microcircuits and electronic assemblies supporting NASA space weather and solar coronal diagnostic instruments (JEDI and Space Weather Coronagraph programs), and Radiance Technologies Inc., which placed five sub-awards (all Mar 27, 2024) for software-defined radios supporting the DARPA NeuroSymbolic Perception, Action, and Reasoning (NEUROSPAR) and Distributed Automated Intelligent Hardware and Software (Rally) programs.

Avnet's customer concentration spans four federal agencies captured across its subcontractor role: the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (5 awards), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (2 awards), NASA Goddard Space Center (2 awards), and the Air Force Materiel Command Ogden Air Logistics Complex (1 award). Work obligated across all ten recent awards totals $522 thousand — a modest baseline that reflects Avnet's position as a component supplier embedded in larger R&D and manufacturing contracts rather than a contract holder in its own right. The vendor sits on one named Air Force IDC vehicle (FA823225DB012) but has placed no task orders under it in the available source data.

Activity shows modest volume (five awards in 2024, three in 2025, two in 2026 year-to-date), with no recompete cliff or pipeline visibility in the source material. Avnet's NAICS footprint centers on research and development in physical and engineering sciences (6 awards), with secondary presence in guided missile and space vehicle manufacturing (2 awards) and electronic component manufacturing (2 awards). As a pure subcontractor supplying components to research primes and defense contractors, Avnet carries no independent customer relationships or vehicle positions and operates downstream of prime-contract competition.