Federal contractor · NORTH ANDOVER, MA

MICROWAVE ENGINEERING CORPORATION

MICROWAVE ENGINEERING CORPORATION received $4.3M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 81 awards (−34% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $46M. Its largest customer was Defense Logistics Agency ($2.8M).

Obligations · FY2026
$4.3M
New awards
81
Sole-source
35%
Single offer
13%
UEI
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Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 5.7MFY2017
  2. 4.8MFY2018
  3. 7.9MFY2019
  4. 3.3MFY2020
  5. 3.5MFY2021
  6. 3MFY2022
  7. 2.5MFY2023
  8. 4.6MFY2024
  9. 6.5MFY2025
  10. 4.3MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Defense Logistics Agency$2.8M65%
    79 awards
  2. Department of the Air Force$1.5M34%
    1 awards
  3. Department of the Navy$17.6K0.4%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Other equipment & supplies$2.7M64%
  2. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$1.6M36%

Where the work was performed

  1. Essex County, MA$4.3M100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition47%
    US 39% · $2M
  • Sole-source awards35%
    US 30% · $1.5M
  • Single-offer competitions13%
    US 8.8% · $534.1K
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

  1. Department of the Air Force$1.5M
    Department of Defense · 1 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$17.6K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. OMT WAVEGUIDE,AIRCR$1.6M
    Defense Logistics Agency· Essex County, MA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Feb 9, 2026 – Mar 27, 2026· SPRPA126CYA07
  2. FEED HORN ASSEMBLIES$1.5M
    Department of the Air Force· Essex County, MA· Other equipment & supplies· Jan 5, 2026 – Jun 8, 2026· FA822226CB005
  3. 8511924079!ANTENNA$242.9K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Essex County, MA· Other equipment & supplies· Feb 17, 2026 – Feb 17, 2026· SPE7M126V6194
  4. 8511701328!ANTENNA$133.3K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Essex County, MA· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 20, 2025 – Oct 20, 2025· SPE7M126P0705
  5. 8511830664!ANTENNA$96.7K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Essex County, MA· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 22, 2025 – Dec 22, 2025· SPE7M126V4084
  6. 8512077929!ANTENNA$72K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Essex County, MA· Other equipment & supplies· Apr 29, 2026 – Apr 29, 2026· SPE7M526F0648
  7. 8511667487!WAVEGUIDE ASSEMBLY$70.4K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Essex County, MA· Other equipment & supplies· Oct 9, 2025 – Apr 15, 2026· SPE7M126P0038
  8. 8511746154!WAVEGUIDE ASSEMBLY$32.1K
    Defense Logistics Agency· Essex County, MA· Other equipment & supplies· Nov 7, 2025 – Nov 7, 2025· SPE7M126V1905

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-contracts: $3.1M (13 subawards)

9 primes

  1. RAYTHEON COMPANY$2.7M87%
    MARLBOROUGH, MA · 4 subawards
  2. SIERRA NEVADA CORPORATION$911.9K29%
    SPARKS, NV · 2 subawards
  3. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$136.8K4.4%
    ROLLING MEADOWS, IL · 1 subaward
  4. SAAB INC$70.6K2.2%
    EAST SYRACUSE, NY · 1 subaward
  5. RAYTHEON COMPANY$59.4K1.9%
    TUCSON, AZ · 1 subaward
  6. BOEING COMPANY, THE$57.4K1.8%
    SAINT LOUIS, MO · 1 subaward
  7. NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION$54.5K1.7%
    MCLEAN, VA · 1 subaward
  8. BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INTEGRATION INC.$32.8K1.0%
    GREENLAWN, NY · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $3.5M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $362.8K received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $2.6M received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $1.8M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $4.3M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $3.1M received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

16 companies · $15.7M reported

  1. RAYTHEON COMPANY$6.1M
    TUCSON, AZ · 33 subawards · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  2. SIERRA NEVADA COMPANY, LLC$3.4M
    SPARKS, NV · 9 subawards · Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing
  3. BAE SYSTEMS LAND & ARMAMENTS L.P.$1.8M
    YORK, PA · 7 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing

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Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 19 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. CONVEYOR HANDLING COMPANY, INC.$6.7M+235% in FY2026
    ELKRIDGE, MD · 35% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Other general purpose machinery manufacturing
  2. S&H PRODUCTS, LLC$7.7M−82% in FY2026
    ARVADA, CO · 35% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Other general purpose machinery manufacturing
  3. JOHNSON BRASS & MACHINE FOUNDRY INC$5.7M+8.5% in FY2026
    SAUKVILLE, WI · 30% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDefense Logistics Agency · Other general purpose machinery manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Aerospace product and parts manufacturingDefense Logistics Agency · Other miscellaneous manufacturing+1 more

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Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.