Microwave Power Products, Inc.

Microwave Power Products, Inc., operating as Microwave Power Products Division (a subsidiary of CPI Electron Device Business, Inc.), manufactures and repairs specialized electron tubes, traveling wave tubes, and microwave radio-frequency assemblies for defense and aerospace applications as a prime contractor in full-and-open federal procurements. The company is a for-profit limited liability company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, competing as an unrestricted contractor across defense and civilian agencies without set-aside designations.

Microwave Power Products operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor (99% of its 362 recent awards), holding three active single-award indefinite delivery contracts with the Air Force Sustainment Center and the Federal Aviation Administration worth $37.9 million combined: a $17.18 million IDC for repair of AN/ALQ-184 low-band traveling wave tubes (two delivery orders totaling $5.36 million issued to date, completion through September 2028), a $13.33 million IDC for repair of ALQ-172 traveling wave tubes (two delivery orders totaling $5.35 million issued, completion through July 2027), and a $7.41 million single-award IDC for repair and rebuild of ASR-9 electron tubes supporting the National Airspace System (two delivery orders totaling $399,179 issued, completion through April 2027). Recent prime awards include a $3.97 million definitive contract from the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime to manufacture 40 specialized electron tube units (NSN 5960-01-319-3932) with delivery by March 2028, a $2.84 million delivery order from the Air Force Sustainment Center for ALQ-172 traveling wave tube repair (completion July 2027), a $448,735 sole-source purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command for a coupled cavity traveling wave tube amplifier, and a $654,780 purchase order from Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime for 29 electron tubes. The company also receives smaller task orders from the Federal Aviation Administration for National Airspace System assets (six awards averaging under $200,000 each).

Customer concentration is split between defense repair work and civilian air-traffic infrastructure. The top five customer agencies account for 72% of awards by count: the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Air Force Sustainment Center (47 awards, $107.1 million combined potential value) dominates dollar value, followed by the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (25 awards, $88.2 million), the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (62 awards, $22.5 million), the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Aeronautical Center (109 awards, $22.4 million), and the Department of the Army Materiel Command Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground (6 awards, $25.2 million). The Air Force and Navy together account for roughly $195 million (59% of combined potential value across all awards). Microwave Power Products subcontracts minimally (2 sub-awards, 1% of portfolio), serving as a subcontractor to L3Harris Technologies on electronic warfare countermeasures transmitter traveling wave tube work.

Category concentration reflects the company's specialized manufacturing and repair posture: electron tube manufacturing and repair dominate with 127 and 88 awards respectively across the portfolio, while product scope spans other electronic component manufacturing (71 awards), search-and-detection system components (31 awards), and related aerospace electronics. The company's NAICS footprint includes 334413 (semiconductor and related device manufacturing) and 811210 (commercial and industrial equipment repair and maintenance). Activity has remained modest in recent years — six awards in 2022, nine in 2023, three in 2024, seven in 2025, and two in 2026 — with four awards (combined potential value $9.5 million) completing in the next twenty-four months, representing low recompete pressure near term but suggesting a potential volume cliff in late 2026 and 2027 as larger IDC-based delivery orders reach maturity.