Coast / Advanced Chip Magnetics, Inc.

Coast / Advanced Chip Magnetics, Inc., doing business as Coast / A C M, manufactures transformers, inductors, coils, reactors, and related magnetic components for the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) and subcontractor, operating as a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Torrance, California. The company competes in the full-and-open market without set-aside designations on the vast majority of awards, though it holds SBA small disadvantaged business certification and has received a small number of Total Small Business set-aside purchase orders from DLA Land and Maritime.

Coast / A C M's federal footprint concentrates almost entirely on DLA Land and Maritime, which accounts for 401 of 434 prime awards (96% by count) and $4 million of the $4.3 million combined potential value. The company supplies current transformers, power transformers, pulse transformers, audio frequency transformers, saturable reactors, electrical coils, radio coils, and radio frequency filters through DLA's purchasing vehicle — the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime issues the vast majority of awards as firm fixed-price purchase orders and delivery orders with individual ceiling values typically under $35,000. Representative recent prime work includes a $27,020 purchase order (December 2024) for 28 units of current transformers, a $34,740 purchase order (December 2023) for 36 current transformers, a $25,674 purchase order (November 2023) for power transformers, and a $24,125 purchase order (October 2025) for a current transformer. Coast / A C M also holds three active single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Land and Maritime, each valued at $250,000, for the procurement of current transformers with delivery periods extending through June 2026.

Activity has remained flat at 15–20 prime awards per year over the past five years, with a recent dip to one award in 2026 year-to-date. The combined potential value of $4.3 million masks the fact that the company has obligated $6.7 million across these awards — a 155% ratio indicating that many small orders are fulfilling standing quantities under IDCs. Primary NAICS concentration is Capacitor, Resistor, Coil, Transformer, and Other Inductor Manufacturing (227 awards) and Power, Distribution, and Specialty Transformer Manufacturing (60 awards); PSC coding is dominated by Coils and Transformers (417 awards).

Coast / A C M serves as a subcontractor to Raytheon Company on Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) production work, supplying transformers, reactors, inductors, and other magnetics across multiple production lots (lots 34–40) as of mid-2025. Six subcontract awards to Raytheon span AMRAAM variants and SM-6 Block IA tactical augmented unit components. The company also maintains a long-standing relationship with DLA Land and Maritime, documented in SAM since November 2001, as a proven supplier of critical defense logistics components for continental and overseas depot distribution. Performance occurs entirely at the Torrance facility. The company competes without set-aside vehicles on the open market; its full-and-open posture in the DLA supply chain reflects its established position as a qualified, responsive supplier of standard-catalog magnetic components rather than a set-aside-dependent vendor.

Manufacturer of Custom Magnetic Components for Defense, Space, Aerospace, Medical, Commercial and Industrial Marketplaces.