Extreme Waves, Inc.

Extreme Waves, Inc., a San Diego-based for-profit manufacturer of advanced antenna and satellite communications systems, operates as a prime contractor (44% of recent awards) and subcontractor (56%) on federal R&D and procurement contracts for defense and civilian agencies, competing in full-and-open categories without set-aside designations on most work but holding Small Business status across its portfolio.

Extreme Waves designs and manufactures phased-array antennas, satellite communications (SATCOM) equipment, and RF components for naval, air force, and civilian research applications. The company's concrete capability set spans Ku/Ka-band phased-array systems with dual simultaneous receive-and-transmit beams, 23–26 GHz and 28 GHz frequency phased-array beamformers, and specialized TX/RX antenna arrays. Recent prime work includes a $4 million firm fixed-price Office of Naval Research definitive contract awarded November 9, 2023, for design and development of Ku/Ka-band phased-array antennas with dual simultaneous beam capabilities, completing February 8, 2026; a $1.75 million Naval Information Warfare Systems Command SBIR Phase II contract awarded September 26, 2024, for advanced antenna systems and phased-array technologies, completing July 6, 2026; and a $245 thousand NIST purchase order awarded June 13, 2025, for three RX antennas (Model W-1218-RX) supporting the Institute's Communications Technology Laboratory. The company also holds purchase orders from Naval Information Warfare Systems Command for individual phased-array antennas, SATCOM antennas, and TX/RX arrays ranging from $43 thousand to $171 thousand.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of the Navy. The Naval Information Warfare Systems Command leads by award count at nine awards valued at $2.4 million combined potential value, while the Office of Naval Research dominates potential value at $4 million on a single contract. The Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology holds three awards worth $648 thousand. The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory accounts for five awards, and NASA holds one award valued at $110 thousand. These top customers account for 74% of all awards by count and 100% of combined potential value.

Activity has grown substantially — two awards in 2022 to twelve in 2025, with three awarded in 2026 so far. Extreme Waves places task orders under five parent vehicles: Indefinite Delivery Contract N0014004D0011 (two orders), Indefinite Delivery Contract W56KGU18D0004 (two orders), Indefinite Delivery Contract FA300213D0011 (one order), and single-award positions on the Information Analysis Center Multiple-Award Contract and One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services.

In its subcontractor role, Extreme Waves supplies RF components and phased-array hardware to multiple primes. Cubic Secure Communications, LLC engages Extreme Waves on HALO Advanced Networking SATCOM product development and HALO-Enabled Resilient Mesh (HERMES) TX/RX panel work. The MITRE Corporation uses Extreme Waves for TX/RX phased-array systems engineering (18–50 GHz) and Army Pacific strategic systems analysis. Rockwell Collins sources compact front-end filter arrays through Extreme Waves on the COFFEE program. Additional sub relationships include Science Applications International Corporation (aviation systems engineering hardware), Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (materials), HX5 LLC and Valkyrie Enterprises (DOD RF components and research), and CACI Federal (Naval Undersea Warfare Center hardware modernization). The portfolio is anchored in R&D and manufacturing NAICS categories (11 awards in Physical Sciences R&D, 7 awards in Radio/Television Broadcasting Equipment Manufacturing) and product PSC codes centering on antennas and waveguides (5 awards) and semiconductor devices (2 awards).