Microwave Power Products, Inc.

Microwave Power Products, Inc., doing business as CPI International, manufactures specialized electron devices—traveling wave tubes, klystrons, and related microwave amplifiers—and provides repair, rebuild, and production services to the U.S. Department of Defense and civilian federal agencies as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) competing full-and-open with no set-aside designations. The company is a for-profit manufacturer of goods headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and operates as a child entity under parent CPI Electron Device Business, Inc.

The Department of the Navy dominates Microwave Power Products' customer base by both volume and dollar value. Naval Supply Systems Command has placed 266 awards (combined potential value $348.7 million) and Naval Sea Systems Command has placed 152 awards ($469.6 million combined potential value), together accounting for 62% of all awards. The Department of the Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (94 awards, $154.9 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command's Ogden Air Logistics Complex (84 awards, $117.1 million combined potential value) round out the primary customer set. These five customer organizations account for 90% of combined potential value across the portfolio. The Navy's clear dominance by dollars reflects CPI's role as a core supplier of critical microwave tube components for the DDG 51 Arleigh Burke Class Guided Missile Destroyer program and related naval platforms.

Concrete representative work spans repair, rebuild, and new production across major defense programs. Naval Sea Systems Command issued a $4.1 million delivery order (March 27, 2026) for new production, rebuild, and repairs of continuous wave illuminator traveling wave tubes with completion targeted for October 25, 2027. Naval Supply Systems Command awarded a $13.7 million definitive contract (June 27, 2024) for electron tube production supporting the DDG 51 program. The Ogden Air Logistics Complex issued a $36.96 million multiple-award IDIQ (September 7, 2022, ultimate completion September 6, 2027) for F-16 APG-68 traveling wave tube teardown, test, evaluation, and repair, under which at least three delivery orders totaling approximately $6.48 million have been issued. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $4.1 million single-award IDIQ (January 30, 2026, through January 29, 2031) for klystron repair and refurbishment services supporting the National Weather Service's NEXRAD weather radar systems. A notable research contract: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency funded Microwave Power Products with a $12.74 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract (September 27, 2021) under the Waveform Agile Radio-Frequency Directed Energy (WARDEN) program to develop extreme power, broadband amplifiers and agile waveform techniques for high-power microwave applications.

Activity has remained steady at 21–24 awards per year across 2022–2025, with 10 awards year-to-date in 2026. The vendor faces a recompete cliff of 24 awards (combined potential value $70 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, concentrated in Navy and Air Force vehicle repairs and production orders. The company subcontracts to prime contractors including L3Harris Technologies (contractor logistics support for pulse traveling wave tube assemblies, awarded December 19, 2024), HII Mission Technologies Corp (NITE task order magnetron and microwave power product repairs, May and August 2025), and BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. (instrumentation range support program, August 22, 2024), representing a small sub footprint (1% of awards) with work oriented toward specialized repair and component supply.

The top five parent vehicles by task order count are two Navy indefinite delivery contracts (N0010405GRS40 with 75 task orders, $15 million combined potential; N0010401GA403 with 65 task orders), an Army contract (W31P4Q13D0014 with 55 task orders, $4.8 million combined potential), a Navy Basic Ordering Agreement (N0010412GA100 with 26 task orders, $3.7 million combined potential), and an FAA indefinite delivery contract (DTFAAC12D00012 with 24 task orders, $2.6 million combined potential). These vehicles anchor sustained order flow across Navy repair and production work, Army missile-system klystron support, and civil aviation microwave component services. Portfolio concentration is exceptionally high: electron tube manufacturing and repair account for 597 of 1,181 awards under PSC classification, with radar equipment, electronic component manufacturing, and test instrumentation comprising the next largest categories. The combined portfolio spans $1.24 billion in potential value with $590.9 million obligated.