Daico Industries, Inc.

Daico Industries, Inc., doing business as Daico Industries Inc., manufactures advanced radio frequency and microwave control components and electronic subsystems for defense and aerospace applications, operating predominantly as a prime contractor (95% of awards) to the Defense Logistics Agency with occasional subcontract work for major defense primes. A for-profit Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Carson, California with facilities in Long Beach, the company competes full-and-open (no set-aside designations characterize the prime footprint, though two small-business set-aside awards appear in recent history) and has maintained federal contracting registration since 2001.

Daico's federal customer base concentrates heavily on DLA Land and Maritime, which accounts for 81% of awards (458 of 712 prime awards) and $23.7 million of the $29.3 million combined potential value across the portfolio. The remaining customer concentration spans the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command ($1.6 million across 5 awards), the Air Force Materiel Command Aeronautical Systems Center ($1.2 million across 7 awards), and the Army Materiel Command Communications Electronics Command ($580 thousand across 34 awards). This concentration is not a buying-pattern quirk—DLA Land and Maritime drives both award count and dollar value decisively. The top parent vehicles in the source include five indefinite-delivery contracts ranging from 3 to 8 task orders each; the primary vehicle is SPRBL115D0017 with 8 task orders.

Representative prime work includes a $689,625 total-small-business purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime for 75 antenna unit switches awarded in May 2024, a $282,150 total-small-business purchase order for antenna unit switches awarded in August 2025, and a $204,630 purchase order for antenna unit switches awarded in February 2026. Across the portfolio, Daico delivers antenna selectors, radio frequency switches, phase shifters, solid-state switches, variable attenuators, and microcircuits—the top product categories by award count are antennas and waveguide equipment (411 awards under PSC code), filters and networks (92 awards), and microcircuits (78 awards). Activity has been volatile year to year—26 awards in 2022, dropping to 9 in 2023, rising to 20 in 2024, peaking at 25 in 2025, and trailing at 6 in the first months of 2026. Eleven awards with combined potential value of $1.2 million face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months.

In its subcontractor role, Daico supplies components to Raytheon on PATRIOT spare-parts work including antenna pedestals and RF switches across multiple modifications and program variants, to Boeing on F-15EX advanced procurement and MQ-25 programs, to Lockheed Martin on Taiwan F-16 retrofit antenna and RF work, to Sierra Nevada Company on airborne mission networking kits, and to CAES Systems on non-recurring engineering and switch/attenuator assemblies. Across both roles, Daico's footprint sits entirely within electronic-component manufacturing for defense platforms—communications, radar, avionics, and electronic warfare systems—with no civilian agency exposure or IT services work.

Manufacturer of RF/Microwave switches, attenuators, amplifiers, phase-shifters for military, space, commercial and wireless markets. We also provide build-to-print services using hybrid and PWB/SMT technologies.