Dcx-Chol Enterprises, Inc.

Dcx-Chol Enterprises, Inc., operating through its Masterite Division, is a Los Angeles-based small business manufacturer of electronic components, cable assemblies, connectors, backplane assemblies, and insulator contact parts for the U.S. Department of Defense, serving as a prime contractor on the vast majority of its federal awards (98% of 285 total awards) with minimal subcontract exposure. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation that competes across both Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open procurements, with set-aside work concentrated in Naval Sea Systems Command Vertical Launching System (VLS) programs and DLA blanket orders.

Masterite's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward naval and logistics supply chains. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command anchors the potential-value ranking with 26 awards worth $28.3 million combined — representing 73% of the vendor's total addressable value — driven by major VLS-related definitive contracts and purchase orders for forward closures, umbilical connectors, cable assemblies, and electronics boxes. The Defense Logistics Agency's Aviation and Land and Maritime divisions dominate award count (84 and 138 awards respectively, representing 91% of total awards) but carry comparatively lower dollar values ($3.9 million and $3.1 million respectively), reflecting a high-volume, small-order pattern typical of depot maintenance supply catalogs. The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command, Department of the Army, and Naval Supply Systems Command round out the active customer set at modest volumes. The two rankings diverge sharply: NAVSEA dominates dollars while DLA Aviation and Land and Maritime dominate order frequency, a pattern characteristic of vendors supplying both strategic naval programs and routine logistics replacement parts.

Recent activity shows contraction. The vendor held steady at 26 awards annually in 2022 and 2023, dropped to 11 in 2024, and fell to only 2 awards in 2025 and 5 in 2026 year-to-date. Four awards carrying combined potential value of $24 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating material recompete exposure — including a $429 thousand Naval Sea Systems Command VLS Forward Closure contract completing October 2026 and a $1.1 million Naval Sea Systems Command Vertical Launching System umbilical connector and cable assembly definitive contract completing May 2025.

Masterite holds three active indefinite delivery contracts: a $350 thousand Total Small Business single-award IDIQ with DLA Aviation for contact insulators running through January 2031 (awarded January 5, 2026), a $250 thousand Total Small Business single-award IDC with DLA Aviation for insulator contact parts (extended through February 2025, now likely expired), and a $0-ceiling Total Small Business circuit card assembly IDC with DLA Land and Maritime (completed February 2023). Work flows under a handful of named IDCs including SPE4A617D0035 (6 task orders, $352 thousand) and SPRWA112D0012 (2 task orders, $410 thousand). Representative prime awards include a $1.1 million firm-fixed-price definitive contract with Naval Sea Systems Command for VLS MK25 umbilical connectors, cable assemblies, and printed wiring assemblies (awarded February 2023, completing May 2025), a $429 thousand Naval Sea Systems Command VLS Forward Closure contract (March 2023, completing October 2026), a $246 thousand Army TACOM cable assembly order (September 2023, completing August 2025), and a $100 thousand DLA Land and Maritime backplane assembly purchase order (July 2023, completing January 2024).

Masterite's subcontract footprint is minimal — only 6 of 285 awards (2%) — with work flowing to Raytheon on SM-3 Block IIA and Patriot firing unit connector and electromechanical assembly requirements, and to Atlantic Diving Supply on contact small socket components. The vendor's core capability taxonomy clusters around electrical connectors (98 PSC awards), electrical and electronic assemblies, printed circuit boards, and miscellaneous electrical component manufacturing (NAICS 334417, 334418, 334419, 334490 framing), supporting aircraft, naval, and depot-maintenance supply chains. The company holds AS9100 and ISO 9001 certifications, reflecting aerospace and quality-management posture consistent with defense industrial base supplier requirements. Masterite is a division of parent Dcx-Chol Enterprises, Inc., also headquartered in Los Angeles, with no reported separate subsidiary structure.