Bowmar LLC

Bowmar LLC, doing business as Bowmar Instrument Corp, manufactures precision electronic and mechanical components for military and aerospace applications, operating as a prime contractor on 95 percent of recent federal awards and a subcontractor on defense primes including Electric Boat Corporation, The Boeing Company, and General Dynamics. The Fort Wayne, Indiana-based limited liability company competes predominantly under full-and-open solicitations with no small business set-aside designations across most of its prime footprint, though several recent awards carry total small business set-aside designations.

Bowmar's customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Defense Logistics Agency. The top five funding agencies account for 96 percent of recent awards. DLA Land and Maritime dominates the portfolio with 87 prime awards valued at $5.6 million combined potential value, followed by DLA Aviation with 37 awards valued at $3.5 million. The Department of the Navy's Naval Supply Systems Command (50 awards, $1.3 million) and Naval Sea Systems Command (13 awards, $200 thousand) round out the active set, with the Air Force Materiel Command's Ogden Air Logistics Complex contributing 6 awards valued at $2.1 million. DLA's dollar concentration is anchored by two single-award indefinite delivery contracts: a five-year $1,198,686.96 motor control IDC (2020) and a newer $1,363,634.40 rounds limiter and totalizer IDC awarded November 2025 running through November 2030, along with a $250,000 competitive motor control IDC running August 2024 to August 2025.

Bowmar's recent capability work centers on discrete component supply under DLA's motor control, gear, counter, and electronic assembly requirements. Representative prime awards include a $1,044,632.66 definitive contract with Air Force Materiel Command for F-16 manual trim panel spares (awarded February 2025, completion June 2026); a $308,275.28 firm fixed-price purchase order from Ogden Air Logistics Complex for eight F-16 manual trim panels (awarded April 2026, completion September 2027); a $442,022.90 Naval Supply Systems Command purchase order for data boxes and cable assemblies (awarded September 2024, completion April 2025); a $276,297.60 DLA Aviation order for 80 synchro and gear transmission units (awarded February 2025, completion November 2026); and recurring motor control orders with DLA Land and Maritime valued at $40,000 to $70,000 per delivery order. The sourcing profile splits across NAICS codes 332994 (Small Arms, Ordnance, Accessories), 335314 (Relay and Industrial Control Manufacturing), 334511 (Aeronautical and Nautical Instruments), and 336350 (Motor Vehicle Transmission and Power Train Parts), with PSC concentration in electrical and electronic assemblies (63 awards), motors (31 awards), and gears and transmission components (16 awards).

Activity has grown materially from eight awards in 2022 to thirty in 2024, with thirty-two awards in 2025. Eight awards carrying combined potential value of $1.3 million are scheduled for ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting near-term recompete exposure. As a subcontractor, Bowmar supplies aerospace support materials and ordnance-related components to Electric Boat Corporation (multiple cable tensioning and weapon launcher sub-awards 2023–2024), Boeing (three aerospace support task orders 2024), General Dynamics-OTS (machining support 2024), and Fairwinds Technologies (cable data box procurement 2025). The vendor holds a position on five task-order-generating indefinite delivery vehicles with DLA and the Navy, though award frequency and dollar magnitude per vehicle remain modest relative to the prime IDC portfolio.