CM Manufacturing Inc.

CM Manufacturing Inc., based in Missoula, Montana, manufactures precision-machined aerospace components and fasteners for military aviation platforms as a small business prime contractor, holding 99% of awards across federal sources and competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements. The vendor holds no SBA certifications but operates across NAICS 332722 (Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing) and related aerospace manufacturing categories, with a 35-year federal registration history dating to 2001.

CM Manufacturing's customer concentration is extreme and decision-defining: DLA Aviation alone represents 94% of the vendor's federal contract portfolio by award count (1,861 awards, $71 million combined potential value) across 3,228 total prime and sub awards. The remaining customer base—DLA Troop Support Hardware, DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment, DLA Land and Maritime, and three other minor DLA sub-offices—accounts for 6% of awards and $13.9 million in potential value. This concentration around a single customer and single functional area (aerospace spare parts procurement) creates both a substantial revenue anchor and a recompete risk cliff: 48 awards worth $2.3 million are due for completion within the next twenty-four months.

CM Manufacturing's product line is narrow and precisely targeted: lock pins, caster tail landing components, shoulder bolts, trunnion pins, hollow pins, bushings, bearings, shims, spacers, dampers, actuator pistons, and related precision fasteners specified by National Stock Number (NSN) for military rotorcraft, fixed-wing platforms, and ground support equipment. Representative prime awards include a $521.3 million purchase order from DLA Aviation (February 2025, Total Small Business set-aside) for plain round nuts; a $335.3 thousand order (September 2025, no set-aside) for pin trunnion components; and a $229.8 thousand purchase order (February 2025, no set-aside) for piston heads. The vendor holds at least seventeen single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime, with ceiling values ranging from $150 thousand to $2 million, awarded between March 2024 and June 2025. IDC awards use mixed set-aside postures—some designated Total Small Business, others open full-and-open—and the vendor competes against all responsible sources on full-and-open awards while leveraging small business set-aside vehicles where available.

Activity has declined modestly: 107 awards in 2022, peaking at 137 in 2023, then declining to 121 in 2024, 100 in 2025, and 42 through July 2026 (partial year). All delivery is performed in Missoula, Montana, with firm fixed-price pricing across purchase orders and delivery orders, typically ranging from sub-thousand-dollar orders to individual awards in the $200 thousand to $500 thousand range. Combined potential value across all awards is $116.9 million, with $83.3 million already obligated (71% execution rate).

CM Manufacturing subcontracts to The Boeing Company across aerospace support and supply programs—including C-17 Globemaster III total sustainment, performance-based logistics (PBL) material support, and G3 Phase II ordering periods—with sub-awards dating from January 2026 through July 2026. These represent a minor part of the vendor's footprint (37 sub-awards, 1% of total) and reflect material supply and parts support roles under Boeing's larger sustainment contracts rather than design or integration work.

The vendor operates with minimal vehicle diversification: the top five parent IDCs account for only a small fraction of the award universe (98 task orders combined), indicating that most work flows through long-standing single-award DLA indefinite delivery relationships. The vendor does not appear on government-wide vehicles (GWACs) or GSA schedules in the source data. Recompete exposure concentrates on the March 2027 expiration of a $2 million IDC (awarded March 22, 2024) and multiple smaller $150 thousand–$250 thousand vehicles maturing in mid-2025 through mid-2026, representing routine refresh opportunities rather than cliff risk for a vendor with this DLA penetration.

CM Manufacturing Inc. has been in business since 1984, Missoula since 1997. Owners, Richard Johnson and Ken Johnson have been in the Aerospace industry for over 20 years. CM Manufacturing, Inc. works on a daily basis with extensive non-destructive testing requirements, chrome plated, cadmium plated and painted parts, and we are accustomed to working with all the major aircraft manufactures specifications. You can count on CM Manufacturing for all of your precision machining needs.

CM is proud of the team of hard working employees and managers who are dedicated to manufacturing critical landing gear parts to our customers on time.