RS Microwave Co Inc.

RS Microwave Co Inc., a Butler, New Jersey-based manufacturer of specialized RF and microwave filters, operates as a prime contractor (94% of recent awards) supplying band pass filters, diplexers, notch filters, low pass filters, high pass filters, and related electronic components to the U.S. Department of Defense and its subordinate Navy commands. The company competes full-and-open with no SBA set-aside designations across the vast majority of its prime footprint, though it holds two small-business set-aside IDCs with the Defense Logistics Agency.

RS Microwave's customer concentration is heavily weighted to DLA Land and Maritime, which accounts for 291 awards (77% of all awards) with $64.2 million combined potential value—a dominant relationship anchored by two significant IDCs. The top five Navy customers (Information Warfare Systems Command, Naval Supply Systems Command, Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Air Warfare Center, and Navy commands broadly) account for roughly 107 awards with approximately $11.2 million combined potential value but represent fragmented demand across smaller individual buys. The two rankings are essentially coterminous: DLA drives both volume and dollars, while Navy customers are secondary by order of magnitude.

RS Microwave holds a newly awarded single-award IDC from DLA Land and Maritime valued at $9.8 million (ceiling) with an ultimate completion date of March 15, 2031, covering fixed notch and band pass filters, awarded March 16, 2026 without competition under FAR 6.302-1(a)(2) due to manufacturer-specific sourcing. Prior IDCs supporting the vendor's footprint include SPE7MX21D0015 (27 task orders, $5.6 million combined potential value), SPE7LX17D0073 (25 task orders, $5.8 million), and SPM7MX10D7023 (23 task orders, $1.3 million). The vendor also holds a Navy IDC (N6600105D0048) carrying 21 task orders worth $7.7 million combined potential value. Representative recent work includes a $442.5 million delivery order from DLA Land and Maritime for band pass filters (February 2025), a $429.6 million delivery order for band pass filters (November 2024), and a $76.7 million sole-source purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command for 20 diplexers (December 2024).

Activity has remained steady across the past five years, ranging from 19 to 24 awards annually, with 481 total awards in the source portfolio. Only three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $143 thousand), indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The vendor's subcontract footprint is modest (29 awards, 6% of the total), with RF and microwave filter components supplied to Boeing on F-15 and F/A-18 platforms, Lockheed Martin on MH-60R and CV-22 aircraft, Raytheon on APG-79 radar systems, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on the Dragonfly mission, and L3Harris Technologies on Air Force electronic systems. NAICS concentration centers on electronic component manufacturing codes (Other Electronic Component Manufacturing dominates at 166 awards), and PSC concentration is overwhelming: Filters and Networks (PSC 5915) accounts for 339 of 481 awards (71%), reflecting the company's core product focus. RS Microwave has maintained federal contractor registration since January 2002 and operates exclusively from its Butler, New Jersey facility.

MANUFACTURE OF RF AND MICROWAVE FILTERS AND MULTIPLEXERS FROM 1 MHZ TO 40 GHZ. TYPICALLY, NSN 5815, 5915 AND 5985 CLASS DEVICES.