Colt's Manufacturing Company, LLC

Colt's Manufacturing Company, LLC, a foreign-owned firearms manufacturer based in West Hartford, Connecticut, supplies small arms, carbines, rifles, and components to the U.S. Department of Defense and federal law enforcement agencies as a prime contractor on 542 awards totaling $1.48 billion in combined potential value. The company competes exclusively full-and-open, with no set-aside activity across its federal footprint.

Colt's manufacturing portfolio centers on M4 and M4A1 carbines, M16A4 rifles, and discrete small arms components including carbine barrels, breech bolts, firing pins, hand guards, and trigger assemblies. Representative recent work spans the Department of the Army's acquisition of $12.9 million in modified commercial M4A1 carbines with flash hiders and suppressors for Israel (awarded December 2025, firm fixed-price, Hartford, Connecticut performance), Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime $411,673.50 delivery order for carbine barrels (December 2025), and a $39.1 million Army Foreign Military Sales contract for Colt M4A1 carbines, suppressors, and flash hiders for Israel (May 2024, firm fixed-price). Colt also delivers specialized training—M16 rifle armorer certification and law enforcement firearms instruction to agencies including the Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Marshals Service Training Academy.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of the Army, which accounts for the largest share across both award count and dollars. The top five customers by potential value — the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Soldier ($525.1 million across 24 awards), Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command ($445.7 million across 31 awards), Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal ($311.8 million across 31 awards), the Department of the Army broadly ($87.6 million across 119 awards), and Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime ($46.6 million across 97 awards) — account for 96% of Colt's combined potential value. This concentration reflects Colt's role as a principal supplier of infantry rifle systems and components to the Army and DLA logistics operations; the two rankings track closely, indicating sustained high-value relationships with core Army customers rather than volume-heavy, small-dollar ordering from secondary agencies.

Colt holds five major IDVs. A $40.8 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract with PEO Soldier (awarded April 2026, completion March 2031) procures M4/M4A1 carbines for foreign military sales. A $9.3 million DLA Land and Maritime IDV (awarded June 2023, completion June 2028) supplies carbine barrels; Colt has issued multiple delivery orders under it, ranging from $200,000 to $840,000. An $1.9 million DLA Land and Maritime IDV (awarded August 2024, completion August 2029) covers breech bolts; six delivery orders have been issued, totaling approximately $1.89 million. A $1.2 million National Nuclear Security Administration five-year IDIQ (awarded September 2022, completion September 2027) procures Colt M4 replacement parts; one initial delivery order valued at $32,966.47 has been issued. A $250,000 DLA Aviation IDV (awarded January 2023, completion January 2028) for grooved, headless pins has generated eleven delivery orders totaling approximately $24,357.95. Colt also holds standing relationships under FBI contract 15F06720D0001362 (26 task orders, $7 million combined potential value) and Army IDVs W15QKN19D0116 (20 task orders, $68.7 million) and others, demonstrating persistent use of government contract vehicles for streamlined component and complete-system procurement.

Activity has grown modestly year over year from 27 awards in 2022 to 54 in 2024, before moderating to 39 in 2025; the most recent award came in April 2026. Within the next twenty-four months, five awards totaling $15.6 million in combined potential value complete and face recompete—a modest cliff relative to the company's overall portfolio and reflecting Colt's position in long-term, rolling indefinite-delivery relationships rather than discrete, time-bound procurements.

Category concentration is extreme: 377 of Colt's 542 awards sit under the Small Arms, Ordnance, and Ordnance Accessories Manufacturing NAICS code, with the remainder scattered across hardware, ammunition, and fabricated metal work. PSC coding aligns: 393 awards are classified under Guns Through 30mm, 65 under Miscellaneous Weapons, and 22 under Nails, Machine Keys, and Pins—a tight specialization in the firearms and small arms component space.

Colt operates as a subsidiary of Colt CZ Group North America, Inc., the parent entity, reflecting foreign ownership structure. The company has no subcontractor footprint in the source data; Colt competes as a prime manufacturer delivering complete systems and components directly to federal customers from Hartford-area manufacturing operations.