Planar Monolithics Industries, Inc.

Planar Monolithics Industries, Inc., doing business as PMI, is a Frederick, Maryland–based manufacturer of high-reliability radio frequency and microwave components that competes as a prime contractor (87% of recent awards) on full-and-open defense electronics procurements, with no SBA set-aside designations characteristic of its prime footprint, though isolated awards carry total small business designations. PMI manufactures specialized electronic components including video amplifiers, radio frequency switches, attenuators, transceivers, and control boards for naval, air force, and logistics command platforms.

PMI's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of the Navy. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) accounts for 27 awards worth $7.3 million in combined potential value, followed by the Office of Naval Research with 23 awards totaling $2.1 million. The Air Force Sustainment Center, Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, and the Federal Aviation Administration Technical Center comprise the remainder of the active customer set. Together, the top five customers represent 77% of all recent awards and 97% of combined potential value.

Recent representative prime awards include a $1.26 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Air Force Sustainment Center (September 2025) for manufacture of spare ALR-56M radio frequency line switches supporting F-16 Blocks C/D and C-130J electronic warfare systems, with two delivery orders already issued totaling $180,915; a $1.92 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with NAVSEA (December 2022) for supplies and services supporting the Multi-Agent Radio Frequency Path Simulator (MARPS) laboratory test system; and a $365,090 firm fixed-price purchase order from NAVSEA (September 2024) for Successive Detection Logarithmic Video Amplifiers in the 18-40 GHz frequency range designated as total small business and supporting Navy undersea warfare photonics mast programs. PMI also executes smaller purchase orders for video amplifiers, RF switches, and attenuators from DLA Land and Maritime in the $30,000–$240,000 range.

Activity has accelerated in 2025, with 14 awards posted that year compared to six in 2024 and four in 2022. However, recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal — only two awards with ultimate completion dates inside that window, combined potential value of $152,000. The two primary indefinite delivery contracts anchor PMI's prime footprint: the Air Force Sustainment Center IDC (September 2025, $1.26 million ceiling, five-year term through 2030) and the NAVSEA MARPS IDC (December 2022, $1.92 million ceiling, due for potential recompete in December 2025, though source data does not indicate recompete status).

As a subcontractor, PMI supplies microwave and radio frequency components to SRC Inc. on multiple Counter-Unmanned Aerial System Fixed Site Low, Slow, Small Integrated Defeat System (FS-LIDS / M-LIDS) task orders since 2023; to Lockheed Martin Corporation on RF amplifier production spares for Q-53 radars and terrestrial spectrum warfare filter banks; to Torch Technologies on GSA OASIS SB R Pool 5B attenuators for missile simulation support; to General Dynamics Mission Systems on Littoral Combat Ship Independence class engineering; and to Leidos on C5ISR systems research and sustainment. Top NAICS framing spans Other Electronic Component Manufacturing (35 awards) and Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (15 awards); top PSC codes are Amplifiers (25 awards), Antennas/Waveguides (15 awards), and Miscellaneous Electrical/Electronic Components (11 awards). PMI maintains federal registration since 2001 and competes on full-and-open basis without recurring small business set-asides across its prime portfolio, positioning it as a sole-source or competitive vendor for specialized components where proprietary technical data and established qualification requirements favor experienced manufacturers.