Master International Corporation

Master International Corporation's Master Electronics Division, operating as Master Electronics, supplies electronic components and assemblies to the Defense Department as a prime contractor (99% of awards) competing predominantly under full-and-open and total small business set-aside designations. The for-profit parent company, headquartered in Santa Monica, California, serves as a leading authorized distributor of specialized electronic parts in support of military logistics and supply chain requirements, with a footprint spanning 2,672 recent prime and sub awards across 29 federal agencies.

Master Electronics' capability portfolio centers on sourcing and distributing discrete electronic components including relays (electromagnetic, hybrid, rotary, solid state), switches (toggle, sensitive, rotary, push), circuit breakers, connectors (plug, receptacle, adapter), power supplies, fans, lamps, terminal boards, and related electrical assemblies. Representative prime work includes a $535,600 DLA Land and Maritime purchase order for AC plugs (August 2023), a $185,771.25 rotary relay delivery order from the same customer (January 2023), and a $125,491.52 circuit breaker purchase order set aside for small business (December 2022). More recent awards span March 2026 purchases of test clips ($4,438.56), electrical connectors ($4,836), and electromagnetic relays ($3,402) from DLA Land and Maritime, with ultimate completion dates extending to 2027. Master Electronics also furnished internal components for cables to Navy NAVSUP Engineering Logistics Office ($58,298.29, September 2025) and Global Multi-Mission Radio Control System integration hardware to Naval Sea Systems Command ($28,560.25, April 2024) sourced from authorized vendors including Belden, Grayhill, Teledyne Industrial, and Sensata/Airpax.

Customer concentration is extreme and overwhelmingly focused on DLA. The top five funding agencies account for 98% of recent awards by count, with DLA Land and Maritime anchoring the portfolio at 2,190 awards valued at $24 million combined potential value—over 90% of all work. DLA Aviation follows with 277 awards ($1.3 million), DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment with 88 awards ($326 thousand), and Naval Sea Systems Command with 28 awards ($89 thousand). The remaining customer agencies—including Coast Guard, Drug Enforcement Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Department of Defense installations—account for fewer than 100 awards combined. This concentration reflects Master Electronics' role as a standing distributor on DLA indefinite delivery contracts rather than competitive pursuit across multiple agencies.

Master Electronics holds nine single-award IDCs with DLA Land and Maritime and DLA Aviation, each capped at $250,000 ceiling value and covering specific component categories: centrifugal fans, cable assemblies, connectors (plug, electrical), relays (rotary, electromagnetic, proximity), switches (sensitive, toggle, rotary), telephone jacks, and circuit breakers. Four IDCs are designated total small business set-asides (awards dated May 2025, March 2024, April 2023, and January 2023); the remainder carry no set-aside. Delivery orders flowing from these vehicles typically represent individual procurements of $1,000 to $50,000, with DLA placing 3 to 12 orders per year per vehicle and requiring delivery within 92 to 113 days to CONUS and OCONUS depots. The vendor's top parent vehicles—all DLA IDCs—account for fewer than 30 task orders combined in the source data, reflecting the bounded snapshot of recent activity; the true volume sits in the hundreds of smaller purchase orders against these standing vehicles over the past decade.

In its subcontractor role, Master Electronics supplies specialized electronic components to prime contractors on defense systems integration and production programs. Named primes include Laurel Technologies Partnership (MK 41 VLS LCU components, Australia Shipset 2 production electronic parts, USN TI-24 production shipsets, awarded October 2025 through June 2023), Raytheon Company (AN/SPY-6(V) hardware production ceramic chips and power transformers, September–October 2025), Honeywell International (hybrid relays for EGI+ mission systems, June 2025), Lockheed Martin Corporation (B-1B DSU components and incremental funding for temperature-humidity meters, November 2024 through February 2025), BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services (limited production systems relay load, August 2025), General Dynamics Mission Systems (SDA Tranche 1 operations and integration goods, GFE transportation, June and December 2024), L3Harris Technologies (Meadowlands production RF amplifiers, August 2024), CAE USA (F-16 training simulator toggle switches, May and November 2024), Ultra Electronics Ocean Systems (AN/SPS-73 production fan assembly components, June 2025), and Peraton (NSROC IV sub-orbital payload hardware, September 2024). These sub-awards reflect Master Electronics' role as a component supplier into large-scale defense production and modernization efforts rather than as a systems integrator.

Activity has been relatively stable over the past five years, with award counts ranging from 52 to 74 per year (2022–2024) and rising to 65 in 2025, though only four awards are recorded to date in 2026 owing to the current month. The recompete cliff is minimal: only three awards with combined potential value of $3,000 reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, signaling low near-term recompete pressure on the vendor's DLA portfolio. The vendor's award portfolio is heavily skewed toward distribution and supply: the top NAICS categories center on relay manufacturing (481 awards), switchgear manufacturing (357 awards), connector manufacturing (304 awards), and other electronic component manufacturing (266 awards), while the top PSC codes track relays and solenoids (662 awards), circuit breakers (401 awards), and switches (382 awards). Master Electronics does not appear as a named subsidiary in the corporate structure block; the source identifies only the parent entity, Master International Corporation, and repeats its name without naming distinct operating divisions or other owned entities beyond the Master Electronics Division designation used for business.