Dare Electronics, Inc.

Dare Electronics, Inc., a woman-owned small business manufacturer based in Troy, Ohio, supplies specialized electromechanical and electronic components—electromagnetic relays, timer assemblies, sensors, flashers, and control boxes—primarily to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor on small-business set-aside and full-and-open purchase orders and delivery orders. The vendor competes almost exclusively as a prime (99% of 1,405 awards), with a deep concentration in DLA Land and Maritime procurement and a secondary footprint in DLA Aviation and Naval Supply Systems Command work.

Dare Electronics' customer concentration is extreme. DLA Land and Maritime accounts for 955 awards (68% of the award count) and $32.1 million (83% of combined potential value). DLA Aviation places 42 awards worth $2.1 million; DLA general (non-component-specific) accounts for 207 awards at $1.9 million; Naval Supply Systems Command carries 17 awards at $455 thousand. Together, these three customer rollups span 88% of awards and 94% of dollar value, reflecting a single-customer-centric business model anchored to DLA's relay and electronic components supply chain. Dare Electronics' award portfolio spans 1,405 total awards with $38.9 million combined potential value, though obligated dollars run to $49.7 million (128% of potential), indicating older awards with higher final invoice values are still in the portfolio. Most recent activity dates July 16, 2026, two months ago.

The vendor's work reflects two postures: Total Small Business set-asides (a substantial subset, particularly for large electromagnet relay orders exceeding $500 thousand) and unrestricted full-and-open competitive orders. Dare Electronics holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with DLA Aviation for timer assemblies, valued at $536,766 with ultimate completion February 20, 2028, and has generated six delivery orders against it. The source references existing single-award IDVs with DLA Land and Maritime for electromagnet relays valued at $250,000, against which dozens of purchase orders flow as delivery orders. Representative recent prime work includes a $799,986 Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (October 22, 2025) for 69 electromagnet relays (NSN 5945013252818), a $743,211 relay order set aside for small business (August 19, 2025, same NSN), and a $84,656 delivery from Air Force Sustainment Center (June 25, 2026) for control box electrical components in support of C-130 aircraft new manufacture. The vendor also manufactures and delivers current sensors, thermal relays, phase sequence indicators, solid-state flashers, and timer assemblies under similar DLA vehicle structures.

On the subcontract side, Dare Electronics serves major defense primes including The Boeing Company (F/A-18E and F-15EX platform support, November 2025 and May 2025), Raytheon Company (A3 Sentinel radar life cycle support, August and May 2025), L3Harris Technologies (BIG SAFARI other electronic component work, July 2025), Lockheed Martin Corporation (3DELRR integrated logistics support, relay sequencing and time-delay relay components, February 2025), and Sierra Nevada Company (BIG SAFARI voltage sensor and relay work, April and December 2023). These sub-awards are sparse (13 total, 1% of portfolio) and underscore that Dare Electronics' federal footprint is predominantly prime work. The subcontract work signals a secondary role supplying precision-engineered relay and sensor components to defense primes on specialized programs where component pedigree and long-lead manufacturing are valued.

Dare Electronics brings over 75 years of defense industry experience and qualifies as a woman-owned small business. Its NAICS concentration runs to 334418 (Relay and Industrial Control Manufacturing, 532 awards), 334418 (Printed Circuit Assembly, 147 awards), and miscellaneous manufacturing codes. PSC coding underscores its specialization: 986 awards under "Relays and Solenoids," 83 under "Electrical and Electronic Properties Measuring and Testing Instruments," and 42 under "Miscellaneous Electrical and Electronic Components." Recent activity shows awards in 2026 (19 awards to date), 2025 (39 awards), and 2024 (29 awards), a relatively stable and moderately active pipeline. Twenty awards worth $2.7 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating modest recompete exposure. The vendor's award trajectory is flat to slightly growing but heavily dependent on DLA's replenishment cycles for qualified-products-list relay items, making it a specialist supplier tied tightly to a single customer's inventory management rather than a broad-based federal contractor.

DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE TIME DELAY, SOLID STATE AND HYBRID RELAYS, VOLTAGE FREQUENCY AND PHASE SENSORS, POWER MONITORS, CHOPPERS, FLASHERS, STEPPERS, AMPLIFIERS, FILTERS, DC-DC CONVERTERS AND POWER SUPPLIES.