Ashcroft Inc.

Ashcroft Inc., doing business as Heise, is a foreign-owned manufacturer of precision measurement instruments—primarily pressure gauges, dial indicators, and sensor assemblies—that sells to the Department of Defense and Navy as a prime contractor exclusively on full-and-open purchase orders and definitive contracts with no set-asides. The company manufactures goods in Stratford, Connecticut, and competes across primary NAICS 541512 (Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables) and PSC 40 (Pressure, Temperature, and Humidity Measuring and Controlling Instruments).

Customer concentration is acute and stable within naval and defense logistics. Naval Supply Systems Command dominates the portfolio with 116 awards valued at $5.7 million combined potential value, followed by Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (29 awards, $2 million) and Naval Sea Systems Command (42 awards, $687 thousand). These three customers account for 86% of all awards and 97% of combined potential value. Ashcroft engages across twenty distinct federal agencies, but work is heavily routed through Navy and DLA supply chains rather than distributed across civilian or multi-agency customer sets.

Recent activity shows growth in 2025: two awards in 2024 expanded to eleven in 2025, with the portfolio accelerating into 2026. Representative work includes a $1.935 million definitive contract awarded by Naval Supply Systems Command in September 2025 for system assembly manufacturing (NSN 7H-6605-009351303, seventeen units, completion September 2027); a $908 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from DLA Aviation in September 2025 for systems assembly components (part number 378D118-01, completion April 2027); and a $139 thousand purchase order from DLA Aviation in May 2022 for assembly and delivery of seven systems (NSN 6605009082410). Recent smaller orders cluster around pressure dial gauges in the $6 thousand to $31 thousand range across Naval Supply Systems Command and DLA Aviation, with completion dates ranging from mid-2025 through mid-2026. Three awards carrying combined potential value of $2.9 million face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure.

Ashcroft holds no seat on major government-wide acquisition contracts or blanket purchase agreements; the source identifies one IDC (Indefinite Delivery Contract SP044001D5470) with one task order. The company operates exclusively as a prime contractor—zero sub-award activity in the source data—and does not teaming as a subcontractor to larger primes in the federal base, though source narrative mentions historical subcontract engagement with Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation on defense programs. The vendor's footprint is narrow, specialized, and concentrated: measurement instrumentation for maritime and naval platforms, sourced through transactional purchase orders from Navy supply command and DLA supply chains rather than through competitive vehicle task orders or system integrator partnerships.