Space Machine & Engineering Corp.

Space Machine & Engineering Corp., a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation manufacturer of precision waveguide components and related RF communication equipment based in St. Petersburg, Florida, operates as a prime contractor on small-dollar purchase orders from defense and homeland security agencies, competing predominantly in the full-and-open market without set-aside designation. The vendor is a self-certified small disadvantaged business that has received 305 federal awards since 1982, of which 96 percent are prime contracts and four percent are subcontracts.

The company's capability portfolio centers on the design, manufacture, and repair of waveguide assemblies, seals, sections, couplers, and horns for radar, communications, and antenna systems. Representative prime work includes a $26,592 firm fixed-price purchase order from the U.S. Coast Guard for waveguide sections used on MH-60T helicopters (awarded October 26, 2023, ultimate completion February 3, 2025); a $6,700 repair order from Air Force Materiel Command Ogden Air Logistics Complex for waveguide horn components on the MUTES Program's AN/MST-T1A system (awarded July 21, 2025); a $10,901.84 Coast Guard purchase order for MH-60T waveguide (awarded February 6, 2025); and a $8,941 firm fixed-price order from NOAA for waveguide assemblies supporting the HAMMOND Replacement program (awarded September 12, 2024, set-aside for Total Small Business). Repair and refurbishment services are exemplified by a $4,800 Naval Sea Systems Command order for refurbishment and testing of external SPQ-9 waveguides for carrier task force systems (awarded September 16, 2025).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward two agencies. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for 94 awards valued at $778 thousand combined potential value, and the Army Materiel Command Communications Electronics Command accounts for 93 awards valued at $632 thousand. The Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard ranks third with 26 awards valued at $471 thousand, followed by Naval Air Systems Command with 11 awards valued at $473 thousand and Naval Supply Systems Command with 4 awards valued at $445 thousand. These five customers account for 79 percent of awards and 76 percent of combined potential value across the portfolio. The vendor's awards concentrate in the PSC code for Antennas, Waveguides, and Related Equipment (179 awards) and NAICS codes for Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (74 awards) and Related Electronic Component Manufacturing (49 and 33 awards respectively).

The vendor holds or has held multiple indefinite delivery contracts. The most active vehicle is an IDC with DLA Land and Maritime valued at $250,000 (established November 2020), which has generated dozens of small firm fixed-price delivery orders for waveguide seals to CONUS and OCONUS DLA depots; the source text explicitly references this IDC as anchoring much of the DLA relationship. Task orders under this and other IDCs typically range from $1,300 to $7,758 per order.

Activity has grown modestly. The vendor received six awards in 2022, seven in 2023, eleven in 2024, and twelve in 2025, with two awards through mid-April 2026. Combined potential value across all 305 awards stands at $3.7 million, though combined dollars obligated reach $5.2 million (143 percent of potential value), indicating order modifications and overrun. The source contains no recompete-cliff analysis; however, purchase-order completion dates cluster in the near term (most show ultimate completion dates in 2024 and 2025), suggesting continuous small-order recompete risk on the DLA IDC vehicle and recurring Coast Guard MH-60T helicopter support.

In its subcontractor role (13 awards, four percent of portfolio), Space Machine & Engineering Corp. supplies waveguide assemblies and RF components to Huntington Ingalls (CVN-80 aircraft carrier construction, LPD-32 amphibious transport dock design and construction, DDG-51 destroyer waveguide fabrication), BAE Systems (Instrumentation Range Support Program III, testing services and materials), Sierra Nevada Company (ACLS pedestals waveguide assemblies), Prism Maritime (ship combat systems installation and modification, RF testing), HX5 LLC (RF components for DOD line funding), Georgia Tech Applied Research Corp (Advanced Radar Threat Systems microwave monopulse comparator units), and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (Dragonfly extended phase-B mission aerospace research under the ARDES II vehicle). The subcontract work mirrors the prime portfolio—RF and waveguide components for defense platforms—with higher dollar values per task (often in the five-to-six-figure range) than typical prime purchase orders.