MPI America Inc.

MPI America Inc., a foreign-owned small disadvantaged business headquartered in San Jose, California, manufactures and supplies advanced semiconductor testing and measurement equipment—probe stations, on-wafer probes, thermo-reflectance systems, and related instrumentation—to federal research and defense agencies as a prime contractor on 21 of 24 recent awards (88%) and as a subcontractor on specialized test systems for defense research primes.

MPI America operates exclusively in the full-and-open market without set-aside designations on most awards, though it maintains small disadvantaged business status and qualifies for Total Small Business set-asides when agencies invoke them; a single recent award from the Office of Naval Research in September 2024 carried a Total Small Business set-aside. The company's primary NAICS categories reflect its manufacturing footprint: Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals (9 awards), Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing (3 awards), and Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance (3 awards), with PSC coding concentrated in Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (7 awards) and Semiconductor Devices and Associated Hardware (5 awards).

Customer concentration is extreme and concentrated in civilian research infrastructure. The National Institute of Standards and Technology dominates the portfolio with 13 awards valued at $1.6 million combined potential value, reflecting NIST's ongoing reliance on MPI America for specialized probe stations and measurement systems that support standards development, the CHIPS program initiative, and radio-frequency metrology. The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory accounts for 2 awards valued at $1.2 million, the Office of Naval Research for 2 awards totaling $177 thousand, and the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command for 1 award at $115 thousand. These five customer organizations account for 99% of combined potential value. Representative recent work includes a $293 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from NIST in September 2025 for a thermo-reflectance probe station to enable automated temperature distribution measurements of semiconductor devices, a $611 thousand purchase order from the Air Force Research Laboratory in September 2023 for an automated wafer probe test system to support materials characterization at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and a $151 thousand Office of Naval Research purchase order in September 2024 for an advanced semiconductor test system with thermal control and automated impedance tuner accommodation.

Activity has grown modestly—two awards in 2022 to six in 2024—but flattened in 2025 and 2026 with only three awards per year. One award valued at $107 thousand reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete exposure in the near term. In its subcontractor role, MPI America supplies test equipment and specialized probe systems to Valkyrie Enterprises (MIT Lincoln Laboratory research and development test equipment, November 2024), Atlantic Diving Supply (automated microscope systems, February 2024), and KBR Wyle Services (devices and components analysis for the Air Force Research Laboratory Sensing Branch, October 2023). MPI America operates a named subsidiary, Celadon Systems Inc., also registered as a foreign-owned manufacturer. The vendor's federal footprint is narrowly tailored to NIST, defense research laboratories, and naval research institutions seeking specialized semiconductor test and measurement equipment manufactured or procured from Taiwan, with no presence on GWACs, IDIQs, or other multi-award federal vehicles.