Herotek, Inc.

Herotek, Inc., a minority-owned, Asian-Pacific American-owned small business manufacturer headquartered in San Jose, California, supplies radio frequency detectors, frequency multipliers, semiconductor devices, and related RF and microwave components to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor (94% of recent awards) and to major defense primes including Raytheon, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), and Lockheed Martin as a subcontractor. The company competes predominantly full-and-open on small-business set-aside purchase orders, with roughly 40% of recent prime awards designated for total small business set-asides and the remainder awarded non-set-aside. Herotek is registered as a for-profit manufacturer and has held federal contracting relationships since 2001.

Herotek's customer base is heavily concentrated with the Defense Logistics Agency, which accounts for 82% of recent awards across all customer agencies. DLA Land and Maritime leads with 174 awards valued at $2.2 million combined potential value, followed by DLA Aviation with 65 awards valued at $1.1 million. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command places 14 awards totaling $147 thousand in combined potential value. The two rankings align tightly — DLA Land and Maritime and DLA Aviation together represent 85% of combined potential value — reflecting a single-customer, single-agency footprint. The company's primary product categories, tracked across top NAICS and PSC codes, center on RF detector manufacturing (124 awards under the Electrical And Electronic Properties Measuring And Testing Instruments PSC), miscellaneous communications equipment (88 awards), and semiconductor devices (44 awards and 16 awards respectively). Representative prime work includes a $133,434 purchase order from DLA Aviation for RF detectors awarded August 20, 2024; a $95,460 total small business set-aside purchase order from DLA Aviation for 15 units of RF detectors awarded May 23, 2024; and a $59,203 total small business set-aside purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime for semiconductor devices awarded October 15, 2024.

Herotek holds five active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA divisions. The vendor's award velocity is episodic — 12 awards in 2022, 20 in 2023, 14 in 2024, 20 in 2025, and 3 year-to-date in 2026 — with only one award completing inside the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $12 thousand), signaling minimal recompete pressure. Combined potential value across all 335 awards totals $4.3 million, though combined dollars obligated reach $6.1 million (143% of potential value), indicating overrun on invoiced delivery orders relative to contract ceilings. In its subcontractor role, Herotek delivers RF detectors and related components to Raytheon on Patriot missile spares procurement and MK-99 firing unit programs, and to SAIC on AN/SPG-62 radar system and MK-82 director overhaul work. The vendor's entire prime footprint operates through DLA purchase orders and IDCs; no involvement with GWACs, agency-wide vehicles, or civilian agency programs is evidenced in the source data.