Action Manufacturing Company

Action Manufacturing Co, a Bristol, Pennsylvania-based manufacturer of precision munitions components and fuze systems, operates as a prime contractor on 132 of 148 recent federal awards (89%), competing full-and-open across the Department of Defense without set-aside designation. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation registered as a domestic manufacturer since 2002 and holds a self-certified Small Disadvantaged Business designation through its named subsidiary, Action Manufacturing Company.

Action Manufacturing's capability footprint centers on the design, manufacture, assembly, testing, and delivery of safety-critical fuze systems and energetic components for military ordnance. The company's work spans fuzes and primers (63 awards), cartridge and propellant actuated devices (22 awards), ammunition manufacturing (55 awards under NAICS 4922—Ammunition except Small Arms Manufacturing), and related ordnance accessories. Representative prime work includes a $412.755 million five-year multiple-award IDIQ awarded by Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Picatinny Arsenal in March 2023 for production of M734A1 multi-option and M783 point detonating/delay mortar fuzes for 60mm, 81mm, and 120mm high explosive and white phosphorous smoke cartridges through March 2028. Against this vehicle, Action has placed delivery orders valued at $10.1 million (March 2026, M783 production quantities), $25.4 million (July 2024, M734A1 and M783 fuze manufacture), $20.9 million (June 2025, M739A1 PD/DLY fuzes for Presidential Buyback), and $67.4 million (June 2024, M739A1 fuzes for Ukraine Presidential Buyback Effort). The company also holds delivery orders under a second Army IDIQ (W15QKN18D0083) carrying 14 task orders worth $369.2 million combined, and has delivered burster assemblies and turbine alternators under Army CORNERSTONE Other Transaction Agreements totaling approximately $4.7 million.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of the Army. The top five customers by potential value account for 100% of combined potential value across all awards; the Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Ammunition dominates with 24 awards and $1 billion in combined potential value, while Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Picatinny Arsenal accounts for 2 awards worth $413.3 million. Across both award-count and potential-value rankings, the Army represents the overwhelming majority of Action's federal footprint—57 direct Army awards carry $161.5 million in combined potential value, and subordinate Army commands (PEO Ammunition, Picatinny Arsenal, RDECOM) collectively anchor over $1.4 billion. The Navy accounts for 19 awards, though Naval Sea Systems Command carries only $7.7 million in combined potential value.

Activity has grown sharply in recent years. Awards per year jumped from 5 in 2023 to 15 in 2024, though 2025 shows only 3 awards year-to-date. Combined potential value across all 148 awards reaches $1.62 billion, with $689.1 million obligated (42% of the potential ceiling). Six awards worth $160 million combined face ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, representing near-term recompete exposure.

In its subcontractor role, Action manufactures battery initiators, fuze turbine alternators, and glide-munitions support components as a sub to BAE Systems Information & Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (with multiple modifications spanning battery initiator and test-fixture work through 2026), Dynetics Inc. (small glide munitions support and EWAAC delivery order work), and Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (M782 Multi-Option for Artillery ammunition manufacturing and FMS Volcano explosives manufacturing). The source identifies Action as a qualified critical supplier of complex fuze systems within the broader defense industrial base.