Response Microwave, Inc.

Response Microwave, Inc., doing business as Response Microwave, is a small-business manufacturer of specialized radio frequency, microwave, and photonic components for federal defense and civilian agencies, operating as a prime contractor on 82% of recent awards and as a subcontractor on the remainder. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Devens, Massachusetts, with no SBA set-aside certifications; nine of eleven recent awards (82% coverage) flow to the Department of the Navy, the Department of Commerce, the Marine Corps, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Air Force, with concentrations in RF cable assemblies, laser diodes, and Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) components.

Response Microwave's capability portfolio centers on custom RF and photonic components for test, measurement, and operational radar systems. Representative prime work includes a $99,904 firm-fixed-price purchase order from the Federal Aviation Administration's Franchise Acquisition Services (awarded March 26, 2025, completion July 26, 2025) for TDWR transmitter control module RF klystron interface cables, a $40,300 total small business set-aside purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded April 25, 2025, completion July 31, 2025) for Anritsu brand laser diode modules specified at 1.4 micrometer wavelength in 400-milliwatt configurations, and a $28,500 firm-fixed-price purchase order from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (awarded July 15, 2026, completion January 15, 2027) for a wavelength swept light source for photonic thermometry. The company also holds a $59,500 total small business set-aside purchase order from the Air Force Test Center (awarded December 16, 2021, completion February 24, 2022) for chassis RF cables. Performance is distributed across Devens and Ayer, Massachusetts, with at least one delivery location in Japan.

The vendor's customer concentration is diffuse across small-dollar procurements. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 82% of recent awards, anchored by Naval Sea Systems Command (three awards, $55 thousand combined potential value) and NIST (two awards, $33 thousand), with the FAA Franchise Acquisition Services, the Air Force Materiel Command Test Center, and the FAA Headquarters rounding out the active set. By potential dollars, the FAA Franchise Acquisition Services leads at $100 thousand on a single award; the rankings between award count and potential value diverge modestly, reflecting the small-dollar nature of the vendor's order book. Response Microwave appears on one named indefinite-delivery contract vehicle (M6785420D2000) carrying two task orders. The vendor operates as a subcontractor to Gatr Technologies, Inc. on ngT production system and training sub-tasks (sub-awards dated February 2026 and July 2025).

Activity has been episodic rather than sustained — one award in 2017, one in 2021, one in 2024, then three in 2025 and two in early 2026 — with a total of eleven awards generating $268 thousand in combined potential value across all federal sources. Obligations to date exceed potential value ($423 thousand obligated against $268 thousand potential), indicating that some awards have been closed or overrun. One award (combined potential value $29 thousand) faces ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months and therefore poses recompete exposure. The vendor does not hold seats on government-wide acquisition contracts or large agency-wide IDIQs; work flows through individual purchase orders and small task orders on indefinite-delivery vehicles. NAICS concentration runs to electronic component and RF cable assembly manufacturing (335999, 334417, 334419, 334290, 334511), with secondary presence in telecommunications and navigation-system instrument manufacturing.

Innovative supplier of passive microwave components and connectivity assemblies for use in navigation, communication and radar system architectures. Primary focus on couplers, hybrids, power splitters/combiners