Combined Systems Inc.

Combined Systems Inc., doing business as Combined Tactical Systems, manufactures tactical munitions and less-lethal weapons for law enforcement, corrections, and Department of Defense agencies as a prime contractor on 98% of its awards, competing predominantly in full-and-open (unset-aside) procurements. Headquartered in Jamestown, Pennsylvania, the company operates across ammunition manufacturing (NAICS 325920 — Ammunition Manufacturing, dominant), grenades, signal flares, less-lethal munitions, chemical irritant devices, foam rounds, and training equipment for federal customers. Combined Systems holds no SBA designations and competes full-and-open, though certain awards carry Total Small Business set-asides.

Customer concentration is defense-heavy and fragmented across 131 agencies. The top five customers by potential value account for 81% of combined dollars: the Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Ammunition (12 awards, $69.4 million), the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (29 awards, $55.4 million), the Department of the Navy broadly (34 awards, $30 million), the Department of the Army Materiel Command Joint Munitions Command (64 awards, $27.5 million), and the United States Marine Corps (13 awards, $13.9 million). The Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Headquarters Division ranks second by award count (54 awards, $8.9 million potential value) but trails DoD agencies in dollar magnitude. Awards cluster heavily in grenade procurement (183 awards), miscellaneous ammunition (119 awards), and ammunition through 30mm (77 awards), reflecting the company's position as a specialized munitions supplier rather than a broad-based defense contractor.

Activity has grown from 24 awards in 2022 to 57 in 2025, with 37 awards in the first ten months of 2026. The company manages two anchor IDVs: a $4.9 million single-award contract with the FBI Academy (awarded February 9, 2024, completing February 12, 2029) for flashbangs and training devices including single, two, and nine-bang variants, training fuzes, and bodies to support operations and training at Quantico, Virginia; and a $9 million single-award contract with the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (awarded September 29, 2021, completing September 29, 2026) for MK 20 MOD 0 grenades in live and training configurations with step-ladder pricing for 500 to 50,000 units over five years. The company also holds an 82-task-order indefinite delivery vehicle (W52P1J04D3009, $4.5 million combined potential value) and an N0016402D0037 IDC with the Navy (13 task orders, $16.9 million potential value). Twenty-two awards (combined potential value $13.1 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure.

In its subcontractor role (2% of awards), Combined Systems supplies components and finished munitions to General Dynamics Information Technology, General Dynamics-OTS (Hydra 70 production, most recent award March 14, 2025), and Battelle Memorial Institute (weapon-system integration and prototyping for Army ARMAMENTS, including explosive-casing components and fuze safety pins). Recent representative prime awards include a $7.514 billion delivery order from PEO Ammunition (March 1, 2025, Total Small Business set-aside) for 17,640 MK124 signal flares for Air Force and Navy requirements completing January 10, 2028; a $251.2 thousand Department of Justice purchase order for foam rounds (September 12, 2025); a $187.3 thousand Department of Justice delivery order for flashbangs (July 18, 2025); and routine small-dollar purchase orders from the Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities across 30+ correctional institutions for less-lethal munitions and chemical agents. Combined Systems Inc. has served as a federal prime contractor continuously since at least 1983 (first award in source data, September 15, 1983) and maintains a broad domestic supply chain with manufacturing centered in Jamestown.