Coronet Machinery Corp.

Coronet Machinery Corp., a small business precision-machined components manufacturer based in Bethel, Connecticut, supplies firing pins, retaining clips, rod assemblies, machine gun bipods, warhead cases, and ordnance accessories to the Department of Defense and allied logistics agencies as a prime contractor on full-and-open and small business set-aside delivery orders and purchase orders, dominating the federal defense industrial base with 836 prime awards (99% of recent footprint) and competing across NAICS 332994 (Small Arms, Ordnance, and Ordnance Accessories Manufacturing).

Coronet competes predominantly under small business set-asides — Total Small Business designations recur across roughly half the prime contract portfolio, reflecting the vendor's consistent posture in the SB space — though it also wins full-and-open orders. Recent representative work includes a $40.6 million single-award indefinite delivery contract awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command on May 7, 2024, for manufacture of MK 152 warhead cases and bases running through May 7, 2029, with three delivery orders totaling $5.3 million issued to date; a $2.2 million single-award IDV for rod assembly driving components (DLA Land and Maritime, Total Small Business set-aside, July 2023–July 2028), against which fifteen delivery orders ranging from $17,000 to $81,000 have been issued since late 2025; a $1.4 million single-award IDV for machine gun bipods (DLA Land and Maritime, Total Small Business, November 2023–November 2028); and smaller $250,000 to $528,000 single-award IDVs with DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime for rod assembly operating components, firing pins, and miscellaneous machined parts. Subordinate performance locations include Torrington, Connecticut and Indian Head, Maryland.

Customer concentration sits heavily with naval ordnance and Defense Logistics Agency supply chains. The top five customers by award count and value account for 72% of recent awards and 96% of combined potential value: Naval Sea Systems Command leads both volume (156 awards, $136.3 million combined potential value) and dollars, followed by the Army Materiel Command Joint Munitions Command (39 awards, $27.4 million), DLA Land and Maritime (325 awards, $23.7 million), the Army PEO Ammunition office (20 awards, $7.5 million), and the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal (10 awards, $3.5 million). The divergence between volume and dollars is striking: DLA Land and Maritime places more than twice as many orders as NAVSEA but anchors far fewer dollars per award, while NAVSEA's 156 awards drive the majority of potential value through large warhead-case and bases-and-cases production contracts. Coronet has worked with 29 distinct customer agencies in recent years, but naval surface weapons and ammunition logistics dominate the revenue footprint.

The vendor holds seat on five named single-award indefinite delivery vehicles. The $40.6 million NAVSEA MK 152 warhead cases contract (May 2024–May 2029) is the largest vehicle in the portfolio; three delivery orders have been placed, the most recent in May 2026 for $3.3 million (bases and cases, Option Year 2). The $2.2 million DLA Land and Maritime rod assembly driving IDV (July 2023–July 2028, Total Small Business) has sustained fifteen orders since October 2025 with typical values between $20,000 and $81,000. The $1.4 million DLA Land and Maritime machine gun bipod vehicle (November 2023–November 2028, Total Small Business) has generated two orders of $88,000–$90,000. Two $250,000–$528,000 DLA vehicles (DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime) for miscellaneous mechanical parts and rod assembly operating components round out the named portfolio. Below these are numerous government-managed BPAs and other task-order vehicles that route smaller, high-velocity orders.

Activity has remained steady in recent years: 46 awards in 2022, 48 in 2023, 59 in 2024, 51 in 2025, and 19 through late September 2026. Sixteen awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $4.1 million—modest recompete exposure relative to the $205.9 million total portfolio, driven by the evergreen size and multi-year span of the major NAICS 332994 and warhead-case vehicles.

Coronet performs subcontract work for defense primes on ordnance and ammunition production. General Dynamics OTS (Wilkes Barre) has engaged Coronet as a supplier of M795 lifting plugs for 155mm artillery rounds supporting Ukraine since December 2023, with orders extending through September 2026. General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems Inc. sourced M1128 lifting plugs from Coronet in April 2025 for the same Ukraine munitions mission. Bowhead Avionics Manufacturing sourced M21 cutter cartridge housing components (springs, cases, firing pins, cotter pins) from Coronet in July 2024. These sub-awards total low single-digit millions and represent ancillary supply-chain work, not primary revenue.

Coronet's award footprint clusters tightly in small-lot, high-precision machining: the top NAICS categories are Small Arms, Ordnance, and Ordnance Accessories (321 awards), Machine Shops (94 awards), Bolt/Nut/Screw/Washer Manufacturing (87 awards), Hardware Manufacturing (49 awards), and Ammunition Manufacturing (45 awards). PSC codes reflect the same ordnance emphasis — Guns Through 30mm (310 awards), Miscellaneous Aircraft Accessories (48), Commercial Hardware (46), Guns 75mm–125mm (34), and Weapon System Hardware (34). The vendor does not appear on GWACs, civilian-focused agency IDIQs, or IT contract vehicles; the footprint is uniformly defense production.