K&L Microwave LLC

K&L Microwave LLC (doing business as K & L Microwave Inc.), a subsidiary of MPG Holding Company, manufactures precision RF filters, diplexers, multiplexers, and related microwave components as a prime contractor on Department of Defense and federal civilian supply contracts, with 66% of recent awards held as prime contracts and no small business set-aside designation. The company, headquartered in Salisbury, Maryland, is a registered federal contractor since 2002 and competes in the open market across defense supply and sustainment work.

K&L Microwave's prime work centers on direct-order purchase orders and delivery orders for combat-aircraft sustainment, naval fleet equipment, and aviation systems. Representative recent prime awards include a $238,740 delivery order from the Air Force Materiel Command Ogden Air Logistics Complex (February 2026) for ALR-69A diplexer production units under a $45.7 million IDC running through October 2026; a $239,565 firm fixed-price purchase order from Naval Supply Systems Command (July 2025) for multiplexer production with first-article test; a $32,306 purchase order from Non-Franchise Acquisition Services (April 2026) for 5G RF filters supporting the Airport Surveillance Radar Model 11 system; and a $105,402 radio-frequency tuning-unit purchase order from Naval Supply Systems Command (October 2025). The company also holds a $250,000 single-award IDC with Defense Logistics Agency Aviation for radio cable assemblies (ultimate completion April 2024, now expired).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward defense supply. The Air Force Materiel Command Ogden Air Logistics Complex anchors 98% of combined potential value across the recent awards portfolio ($46.9 million from five awards), driven entirely by the $45.7 million F-16 ALR-69A diplexer IDC. Naval Supply Systems Command ranks second by both award count (22 awards, $732 thousand combined potential value) and cumulative dollars, followed by Naval Sea Systems Command (19 awards, $483 thousand), Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (57 awards, $455 thousand), and Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (15 awards, $623 thousand). The top five customer entities account for approximately 52% of award count but 98% of combined potential value, indicating highly concentrated dollar exposure in the Air Force-Navy sustainment ecosystem.

Prime vehicle holdings are dominated by the Air Force Materiel Command IDC (FA854019D0001), with 16 task orders issued. K&L Microwave also places orders under Naval Supply Systems Command IDCs (N0001923D0012 with nine task orders), Air Force Basic Ordering Agreement FA862021G4027 (five task orders), and additional Air Force and DLA single-award and multiple-award vehicles. Task order work splits across F-16 electronic warfare components, multiplexers for naval combat systems, filters for radar and communications, and cable assemblies.

Recent subcontract activity shows engagement as a component supplier to major systems integrators on fighter, rotorcraft, missile, and naval programs. Named prime contractors include Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (LITENING targeting pods, E-2D multiyear production, Stand-In Attack Weapon Phase 2), Raytheon Company (AMRAAM Lots 39–40, Patriot systems, Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile extended range test assets, radar signal processing), Lockheed Martin Corporation (THAAD interceptor bandpass filters, Radio Frequency Distribution System for National Security Cutter, PAC-3 missile production), Sierra Nevada Company (Multi-Intelligence Sensor Development components, Airborne Mission Networking kits, Link 16 filters), L3Harris Technologies (BIG SAFARI program), BAE Systems (BIG SAFARI RF filters), and Alliant Techsystems (AGM-88G AARGM-ER, missile products). Sub work typically involves RF filters, multiplexers, duplexers, and electronic component manufacturing to engineering specifications.

Activity has accelerated year over year — eight awards in 2022 to 52 in 2025 — reflecting growth across both prime and sub channels. Of the 266 total awards in the source (spanning 2001 to 2026), 175 are prime awards (66%) and 91 are subcontract awards (34%). Seven awards with combined potential value of $618 thousand reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting modest recompete risk relative to the $45.7 million IDC anchor running through October 2026. The portfolio is concentrated in Other Electronic Component Manufacturing (112 awards) and Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (29 awards), with filters and networks as the dominant procurement code (83 awards). All recent awards carry firm fixed-price terms with no set-aside designation, and performance is based in Salisbury, Maryland.