Newark Corporation

Newark Corporation, doing business as Newark, An Avnet Company, supplies electronic components, test equipment, and specialized hardware to federal agencies as a prime contractor on full-and-open purchase orders. The company is a for-profit subsidiary of Avnet Inc., headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, with operations across multiple US locations including Chicago, Illinois and Temecula, California.

Newark operates across 109 distinct federal customer agencies as a prime contractor (81% of recent awards), with a secondary role as a subcontractor (19%) on defense and aerospace development programs. The vendor competes exclusively in full-and-open categories with no SBA set-aside designations across its recent award footprint. Recent prime work spans electrical and mechanical components for aviation infrastructure, laboratory test equipment for civilian research agencies, and specialized electronics for military modernization. Representative prime awards include a $40.6 thousand Federal Aviation Administration purchase order for ASR-9 antenna control box motor starters (July 2026), a $29.9 thousand CDC Pittsburgh order for LabVIEW software (September 2026), a $33.2 thousand GSA order for Edge Programmable Industrial Controller equipment supporting the Universal Monitoring and Control (UMAC) program (April 2026), and a $13.3 thousand Federal Aviation Administration purchase order for rack-mounted processors supporting the Brand New Air Traffic Control Systems (BNATCS) program (November 2025).

Customer concentration is extreme and asymmetric. By award count, the top five customers account for 30% of recent awards, led by the Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard (35 awards, $96 thousand combined potential value) and the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (33 awards, $329 thousand combined potential value). By potential value, however, GSA Federal Acquisition Service dominates with five awards carrying $314.6 million combined potential value—98% of the vendor's entire potential-value footprint. This concentration reflects Newark's position on the Federal Supply Schedule GS06F0044M, where 164 task orders carry $1.2 million in combined potential value. The vendor also maintains a $1.8 million Blanket Purchase Agreement (6973GH20A00018) with the Federal Aviation Administration and a $9.4 million historical FAA BPA through July 2025 documented in recent award descriptions.

Activity has grown sharply: six awards in 2022 scaling to 39 in 2024, then moderating to 33 in 2025 and 12 year-to-date in 2026. Only two awards face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $48 thousand), presenting minimal recompete exposure in the near term. Most awards are small-dollar purchase orders; combined dollars obligated across the entire portfolio total $9.4 million (3% of combined potential value), indicating that many ceiling values remain unused.

In its subcontractor role, Newark supplies electronic components, test equipment, and development boards to major defense primes. Named sub relationships include Lockheed Martin Corporation (receiving electronic load modules, power distribution hardware, RF evaluation kits, and chassis equipment across dozens of weapon-system development and missile-production programs); Defense Systems And Solutions (providing materials and components for engine test cell upgrades and fire control system testers at Redstone Arsenal); Dynetics, Inc. (defense systems procured goods in support of Guam operations); The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (supplying materials for maritime theater missile defense, dragonfly missions, and electronic warfare development); and Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems (providing spares and electrical components for unmanned systems). Additional sub work routes through Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, The Boeing Company, Raytheon Company, Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC, and numerous smaller primes, typically in the form of component procurement or test-equipment supply.

Newark's top procurement categories reflect its hardware distributor profile. Hardware Stores NAICS (165 awards) and Other Electronic Parts and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers NAICS (66 awards) dominate the prime footprint, followed by Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (28 awards) and Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (17 awards). Top PSC categories include Miscellaneous Electrical and Electronic Components (45 awards), Hand Tools (43 awards), Connectors (28 awards), Laboratory Equipment and Supplies (24 awards), and Measuring and Testing Instruments (23 awards). This PSC and NAICS distribution confirms Newark's core function as a component and equipment distributor rather than a systems integrator or service provider. The vendor's customer roster spans civilian research agencies (National Institutes of Health, CDC, NOAA, NASA, Smithsonian Institution), transportation (Federal Aviation Administration, Coast Guard), and defense (Navy, Army, Air Force), with particular strength in supporting the FAA's National Airspace System modernization and legacy defense production programs.