X-Microwave, LLC

X-Microwave, LLC, based in Austin, Texas, designs and manufactures sophisticated microwave and radiofrequency (RF) components for federal agencies and prime defense contractors, operating as a prime contractor on roughly one-third of recent awards and as a subcontractor on two-thirds, with no reliance on small business set-asides across its footprint. The company, a for-profit limited liability corporation, specializes in RF amplifiers, detectors, filter banks, switches, oscillators, and custom microwave assemblies at frequencies up to 110 GHz, classified under NAICS 334419 (Other Electronic Component Manufacturing) and PSC codes spanning amplifiers, electronic modules, and specialized semiconductors.

X-Microwave's customer concentration centers on the Department of the Navy and defense research agencies. The top five funding agencies account for 76% of recent awards by count, led by the Office of Naval Research (11 awards, $194 thousand combined potential value) and the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (3 awards, $181 thousand), followed by Naval Sea Systems Command (8 awards), the Smithsonian Institution (6 awards, $76 thousand), and the Army's Acquisition Support Center for PEO Missiles and Space (9 awards). The Smithsonian represents the only consistent civilian customer; all other high-volume customers are defense or defense-research-aligned. Awards are structured as small-dollar firm fixed-price purchase orders, with combined potential value of $479 thousand across 49 awards but combined obligated dollars of $19.8 million — indicating heavy use of order-and-payment vehicles rather than ceiling contracts. Recent prime awards include a $68,475 Naval Information Warfare Systems Command sole-source acquisition for Quantic X-Microwave detectors, amplifiers, and filter banks (December 2025); a $37,405 Office of Naval Research order for autonomously switched filter bank and tunable filter prototype assemblies (August 2025); a $28,410 NASA PRIMA mission order for prototype plates supporting far-infrared telescope RF electronics (July 2025); and a $24,704 Smithsonian Institution order for processor assemblies (February 2025).

X-Microwave sits on two principal parent vehicles: the Army's Indefinite Delivery Contract W31P4Q20D0032 (counter-UAS fixed-site low-slow-small unmanned aerial vehicle integrated defeat system, with 9 task orders) and the Navy's Basic Ordering Agreement N0002419G5502 (3 task orders). Activity accelerated sharply from three awards in 2022 to seventeen in 2024, followed by fourteen in 2025; only one award with potential value of $17 thousand faces ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete exposure near-term.

In its subcontractor role, X-Microwave delivers custom RF and microwave assemblies to SRC Inc. (multiple C-UAS FS-LIDS hardware system task orders for modular RF circuit design and production-ready microwave assemblies), Lockheed Martin (RF front ends for distributed beamforming systems, terrestrial spectrum warfare development for Ukraine support, and detailed RF component design work), Laurel Technologies Partnership (electro-mechanical assemblies for AN/SPQ-9B anti-ship missile defense radar systems through fiscal year 2028), L3Harris Nexgen Communications (RF amplifiers and circuit card assemblies for Navy prototype electronic payload system units), and Northrop Grumman (block subsystem components). Across 33 sub-awards, X-Microwave's typical role centers on design, manufacturing, and component integration for RF and microwave subsystems in precision defense and space systems, with most sub work anchored to Navy and Army platforms rather than civilian research.