Digi-Key Corp

Digi-Key Corp, doing business as Digi-Key Electronics, is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and commercial electronics distributor that operates as a prime contractor (81% of awards) and subcontractor (19%) supplying off-the-shelf and specialized electronic components, connectors, semiconductors, RF assemblies, software licenses, and evaluation kits to Department of Defense and civilian federal agencies. The company competes under full-and-open procurement across all awards with no set-aside designations and maintains its headquarters in Thief River Falls, Minnesota.

Digi-Key's prime capability portfolio centers on rapid fulfillment of commercial electronic parts and specialized components to support defense systems integration, naval platforms, advanced radar and missile programs, and civilian research infrastructure. Representative prime awards include a $102.9 million purchase order from the Federal Aviation Administration for GPS receiver modification parts (awarded January 2024), a $94.7 million Naval Air Warfare Center delivery for RF attenuators and cable assemblies from Mini-Circuits and Huber+Suhner inventories (December 2025), a $29.9 million Naval Air Warfare Center order for two AMD Versal evaluation kits (April 2023), a $18.8 million NIST procurement for a qubit data acquisition and control platform for quantum computing research (September 2025), a $1 million National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Blanket Purchase Agreement for electronic and expendable components supporting the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (awarded April 2022, running through April 2027), and ongoing purchase orders from the Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Supply Systems Command, and Defense Logistics Agency for connectors, filters, relays, power supplies, and specialty RF components.

Customer concentration is distributed across defense and civilian agencies, with the top five funding agencies accounting for 36% of recent awards by count but 73% by combined potential value. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command leads by award volume (120 awards, $503 thousand combined potential value), followed by the Army Materiel Command Communications Electronics Command (102 awards, $180 thousand) and Naval Supply Systems Command (55 awards, $19 thousand). By dollar magnitude, the Army Materiel Command Security Assistance Command anchors the customer base with seven awards carrying $5.2 million combined potential value, including foreign military sales support. The Federal Aviation Administration (11 awards, $859 thousand) and Naval Air Warfare Center (42 awards, $781 thousand) represent secondary concentrations. Digi-Key serves over 100 distinct federal agencies, spanning defense, civilian research, and interagency customers such as NIST, the National Interagency Fire Center, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Parent vehicles comprise Army-wide and agency-specific IDIQs and BPAs. Digi-Key places task orders under the Advanced Technology Support Program IV (15 task orders), Indefinite Delivery Contract SPRBL115D0017 (9 task orders), the Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (7 task orders), and Blanket Purchase Agreement W91CRB17A0003 (6 task orders, $199 thousand combined potential value), among others. The NOAA BPA running through April 2027 establishes pre-approved pricing for electronic component procurement, allowing rapid ordering without separate solicitations.

Activity has expanded significantly year over year — from 25 awards in 2022 to 72 in 2024 and 125 in 2025 — reflecting growing penetration across DoD and civilian acquisition channels. Only two awards (combined potential value $35 thousand) face completion and recompete inside the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. Total awards exceed 1,000 across the source window, with combined potential value of $10.5 million; the discrepancy reflects the prevalence of small individual purchase orders and hardware line items with minimal or zero ceiling values, offset by large obligated amounts on recurring blanket purchase agreement calls.

As a subcontractor, Digi-Key supplies specialized electronic components—discrete semiconductors, FPGAs, tantalum chips, RF connectors, memory, ceramics, resistors, and amplifiers—to major defense primes including Raytheon (dominant sub relationship with over 100 sub awards spanning Patriot, HARM, radar systems, and ATSP programs), Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, L3 Technologies, General Dynamics, and smaller systems integrators such as Thales Defense & Security, CAE USA, and Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies. Representative sub work includes electronics for the Precision Guidance Kit (Northrop Grumman), MIDS JTRS and radio systems (Raytheon), Naval Nuclear Propulsion support (Fluor Marine Propulsion), and advanced radar signal processing programs (Raytheon RASP, ASPIRE initiatives).

Across NAICS coding, Digi-Key's portfolio reflects its position as an electronics merchant wholesaler: Other Electronic Parts and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers dominates with 203 awards, followed by Other Electronic Component Manufacturing (54 awards), aircraft parts distribution (41 awards), and research and development infrastructure support (31 awards). PSC-level concentration shows Miscellaneous Electrical and Electronic Components (84 awards), Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (74 awards), electrical connectors (49 awards), and IT software (38 awards). The vendor operates as a critical materials supplier across the electronic supply chain for defense systems production, sustainment, and research, with no characteristic set-aside posture or contract vehicle lock-in — awards cluster on multiple Army and Navy vehicles rather than a single dominant parent relationship.