NVE Corporation

NVE Corporation, a woman-owned small business based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, manufactures custom magneto-resistive sensors and semiconductor devices for federal defense and research customers, operating predominantly as a prime contractor (94% of recent awards) with a secondary subcontractor footprint supporting major defense primes. The vendor competes in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations in recent activity.

NVE's capability portfolio centers on custom sensor design and semiconductor manufacturing for defense applications. Recent prime work includes a $135,897 purchase order from the National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded May 18, 2026, for custom magnetoresistive sensors operating from DC to 100 kHz to support NIST's 3D Thermal Imaging of Advanced Packages project under the CHIPS Metrology Program, with firm fixed price terms and ultimate completion January 25, 2027. The vendor's subcontractor presence spans advanced defense platforms: NVE supplies semiconductor and related device manufacturing to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation for the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Aircraft and E-2D Multiyear Production II programs (awards October 27, 2025, and January 15, 2025), delivers processor target low-technology components to The Boeing Company (awards March 1, 2024, and April 24, 2024), and supplies sensor open system architecture plug-in cards for the NGSS Suite to General Dynamics Mission Systems, Inc. (award October 9, 2025).

Customer concentration skews to defense and military research. The top five customers by award count (Department of the Air Force, Department of the Army, Army Materiel Command Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command, Department of the Navy, and Office of Naval Research) account for 47% of awards. By potential value, the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory leads with three awards valued at $2.8 million, followed by Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management with eight awards at $1.8 million combined potential value. NASA and the Navy's Office of Naval Research round out the top value customers at $670 thousand and $627 thousand respectively. The vendor works across 28 distinct federal agencies, with primary concentration in defense R&D and systems engineering categories — 11 awards carry primary NAICS 541710 (Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences), and 14 awards map to PSC R&D-Defense Other (Applied Research/Exploratory Development).

Activity has been sporadic in recent years (three awards in 2025, two in 2024, one in 2026), with a combined potential value of $11.4 million across 79 total awards since 2000. Obligated dollars ($28 million) exceed combined potential value, indicating substantial task order execution against standing vehicles. One award with completion inside the next twenty-four months carries $136 thousand in potential value and faces recompete exposure. NVE maintains a Basic Ordering Agreement (N0001921G0006) with the Navy, which has generated two task orders. The vendor's subcontractor work flows through tier-one defense primes rather than direct agency relationships, positioning NVE as a specialty component supplier within larger platform development and sustainment programs.