Centron Industries Inc.

Centron Industries Inc., a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business and Asian-Pacific American-owned manufacturer based in Gardena, California, competes predominantly as a prime contractor (99% of awards) across federal defense and civilian agencies, delivering specialized electronic components, cable assemblies, wiring harnesses, circuit card assemblies, and power distribution equipment for military communications and logistics applications.

Centron operates nearly exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides. The company's customer base centers heavily on the Department of Defense, with the top five customers by award count and value concentration anchoring 78% and 91% of awards respectively. The Department of the Army Materiel Command Communications Electronics Command leads both rankings—77 awards worth $157.5 million combined potential value—driven by a $6.999 million indefinite delivery contract for Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS) spare circuit cards, electronics components, and cable assemblies running through 2025. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation follows with 310 awards worth $47.7 million, supported by multiple IDVs including a $2 million contract for UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter fault monitor assemblies (awarded April 28, 2025, running through April 27, 2030), a $350,000 contract awarded January 22, 2026, and two $250,000 vehicles awarded September 22, 2025 and November 3, 2025. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for 124 awards worth $22.2 million, anchored by a $974,687.04 IDV for battery assembly cases awarded February 18, 2025 and running through February 17, 2030. Centron also maintains a footprint with the Department of the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal (20 awards, $63 million potential value). Civilian work includes smaller purchase orders from the Federal Correctional Institution Phoenix (through the Bureau of Prisons) for raw electronic components supporting Federal Prison Industries manufacturing.

Centron's award activity has grown materially—from 20 awards in 2022 to a peak of 42 in 2025—with year-to-date 2026 showing 10 awards. The combined potential value across all 750 awards stands at $326.3 million, with $118.9 million obligated (36% realization). Twenty awards worth $8.1 million combined potential value face completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure primarily on the SINCGARS and battery assembly case vehicles. Centron's award footprint spans cable and wire assemblies (187 awards under PSC 61), miscellaneous electric power and distribution equipment (159 awards), and other electronic component manufacturing (222 awards under the corresponding NAICS code 334419). Representative recent work includes a $5.1 million definitive contract from Air Force Materiel Command (ACC Warren) for 29 wiring harnesses awarded March 5, 2026; a $1.1 million definitive contract from DLA Land and Maritime for 253 units of military ordnance harnesses awarded November 25, 2025; and a $272,469.94 delivery order from Army Communications Electronics Command for cable assemblies and electronic component assemblies awarded January 17, 2025. The company also supplies non-defense customers: a $1.064 million order from Federal Correctional Institution Phoenix for electronic components supporting Federal Prison Industries operations (awarded January 21, 2022) and several subsequent raw materials contracts at $18 thousand to $480 thousand each.

Centron holds a minor subcontracting footprint (4 sub-awards, 1% of total) with Lockheed Martin Corporation on Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) production, supplying SINCGARS mounting base electrical equipment and assemblies (awards January 27, 2025, November 13, 2024, and September 24, 2024), and with BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. for telephone set assemblies (award February 15, 2024). The company's primary IDVs sit with DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime rather than government-wide vehicles; Centron does not hold seats on GWACs or agency-wide IDIQ platforms. The five highest-volume parent vehicles are non-GWAC indefinite delivery contracts—DLA Aviation SPE4AX19D0005 (81 task orders, $2.7 million combined potential value), Army W15P7T07DL408 (23 task orders, $12.8 million), DLA SP045103D0412 (17 task orders, $1.9 million), DLA SPM45103D0412 (16 task orders, $263 thousand), and Army W15P7T11D0078 (11 task orders, $1.9 million). The company was registered in SAM.gov since December 2001, positioning it as an established supplier with over two decades of federal defense contracting experience.

Design & manufacturer of electro-mechanical systems and equipment including amplifiers, power supplies and multiprocessing DSP boards, Circuit cards assemblies, Cable & connector assemblies, Optic assemblies. R&D services in DSP and RF communications.