Microwave Components LLC

Microwave Components LLC, doing business as Microwave Components, Inc., is a Stuart, Florida-based distributor of radio frequency and microwave electronic components operating as a prime contractor on the Defense Logistics Agency's supply chain for specialized defense and aerospace components. The vendor is a small business subsidiary of AAR Supply Chain, Inc., and competes almost exclusively on full-and-open (non-set-aside) contract awards, though a recurrent minority of recent prime awards carry total-small-business set-aside designations.

The vendor's portfolio spans 2,826 awards with a combined potential value of $36.4 million, 99% of which are prime contracts. The work is narrowly concentrated in three product families: electrical connector plugs, cable and harness assemblies for radio frequency applications, and RF/microwave test and measurement components (attenuators, power dividers, dummy loads, antennas, directional couplers). Representative prime work includes a $96.1 thousand purchase order from DLA Aviation in January 2026 for radio frequency detectors; a $77.3 thousand total-small-business purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime in August 2024 for 92,000 feet of radio frequency cable; a $42.6 thousand total-small-business purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime in May 2025 for 12 units of antenna; and a $25.8 thousand purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime in July 2024 for RF power dividers. The vendor holds multiple single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Land and Maritime, each valued at $250,000 to $350,000, covering electrical connector plugs, adapter connectors, fixed attenuators, and connector receptacles; these IDCs are the backbone of the prime footprint. A $7 million blanket purchase agreement with the U.S. Army Materiel Command Communications Electronics Command for cables and related accessories extends through July 2028.

Customer concentration is severe and single-threaded. DLA Land and Maritime accounts for 2,199 awards (78% of the prime portfolio) and $22.5 million in combined potential value; DLA Aviation adds 431 awards and $3.8 million. Together, the two DLA components represent 95% of award count and combined potential value. Army Materiel Command Communications Electronics Command, by contrast, generates only 16 awards but anchors $7.1 million in potential value through the single large BPA. The vendor serves 30 distinct customer agencies but sustains material revenue concentration in two procurement offices at a single federal agency.

Activity has declined sharply. The vendor achieved 118 awards in 2022, 150 in 2023, and 141 in 2024, but fell to 87 awards in 2025 and only 19 in the first five months of 2026. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $24.4 million, representing 67% of combined potential value; the gap signals that not all awarded ceiling amounts have been drawn down through delivery orders or task orders. Four awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $140 thousand, indicating modest recompete exposure relative to the portfolio scale.

In its subcontractor role, Microwave Components supplies RF connectors, cable assemblies and harnesses, and component-level RF and microwave parts to Raytheon (on AMRAAM production, lower-tier air and missile defense work, and life-of-type transistor obsolescence buys), L3Harris Technologies (BIG SAFARI wiring and antenna work), L3 Technologies (foreign military sales antennas), and Dynetics (FY25 goods and services for Guam defense systems). The sub footprint comprises 38 awards across four named primes; Raytheon and the L3 constellation account for the majority of sub engagement. The vendor's position as a sub is secondary to its DLA prime business and reflects supply-chain insertion rather than systems-integration or prime-contractor-scale responsibility.

Microwave Components' parent, AAR Supply Chain, Inc., is a for-profit organization also structured as a parent/child entity; AAR Supply Chain is itself a prime contractor on federal vehicles. The subsidiary operates under its own UEI and maintains distinct contract vehicles but leverages parent relationships and supply-chain footprint.