ECI Defense Group, Inc.

ECI Defense Group, Inc., a small business subchapter S corporation based in Lyles, Tennessee, supplies electrical, mechanical, and electronic components to the Department of Defense and related federal agencies as a prime contractor on thousands of small purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides across the Defense Logistics Agency's supply chain.

The company's footprint is massive by transaction volume but modest by individual order size. Over the past two decades, ECI Defense Group has accumulated 17,662 prime federal awards worth $833.9 million in combined potential value (83% obligated). Activity has remained heavy—830 awards in 2025, 1,150 in 2024—though the pace declined to 201 awards in the first four months of 2026. The company operates almost exclusively as a prime contractor; sub-award volume is negligible (4 sub-awards total). Set-aside posture is characteristic: approximately 40 percent of the company's prime awards carry total small business set-aside designations, with the remainder competing full-and-open against larger firms. The company holds no SBA 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB certifications; it is registered in SAM.gov as a small business since March 2004.

Customer concentration is acute and defense-centric. The top five federal customers account for 97 percent of awards by count and 93 percent by potential value. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime component leads with 10,237 awards ($406.2 million), followed by DLA Aviation (4,130 awards, $210.1 million), Naval Supply Systems Command (630 awards, $94.8 million), DLA Construction and Equipment (920 awards, $48.5 million), and DLA Hardware (1,175 awards, $14.3 million). No other agency appears in the top five. This concentration reflects ECI Defense Group's specialization: the company does not pursue combat systems, IT services, or major platform work. Instead, it sources discrete components—relays, contactors, motors, valves, gaskets, seals, thermal heaters, shafts, pumps, and circuit cards—that populate military supply depots and field maintenance operations.

The top NAICS categories underline this commodity focus: Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (1,591 awards), Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing (1,084), Relay and Industrial Control Manufacturing (990), Industrial Valve Manufacturing (855), and Gasket/Packing/Sealing Device Manufacturing (759). Top PSC codes are Valves Nonpowered (1,835 awards), Electrical Control Equipment (1,162), Relays and Solenoids (1,014), and Miscellaneous Aircraft Accessories (934). The company procures and supplies these components largely through small purchase orders and delivery orders, not major integration contracts.

ECI Defense Group's parent vehicle footprint reflects this pattern. The company holds at least five active indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Land and Maritime (each capped at $350,000 and expiring in 2027), plus multiple single-award IDIQs with DLA Aviation and other DLA components. These vehicles are not national GWACs or multi-agency IDIQs; they are narrow-scope, single-agency contracts designed for routine component replenishment. The largest named vehicle is Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE7LX21D0048 (42 task orders, $2.9 million combined potential value), followed by SPE8E817D0001 (22 task orders, $1.5 million). Task order volume per vehicle is modest, suggesting the company places dozens of individual purchase orders annually rather than managing a handful of large delivery orders.

Sub-award volume is negligible—one named sub-award to Comperipherals Incorporated (prime unknown; $69.7 thousand of a $279 thousand total PO value for cable assembly). The source does not identify ECI Defense Group as a recurring subcontractor to major primes; the company operates as a direct supplier to government logistics depots rather than as a sub-tier supplier to system integrators.

Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is modest at $25.9 million across 299 awards, reflecting the short-term nature of small purchase orders and the rolling expiration of multiple $350,000 IDIQs. The company faces no cliff-risk from loss of a single large contract vehicle; instead, it must maintain win rates and responsiveness across thousands of routine component solicitations from DLA depots nationwide.

ECI Defense Group's business model is volume-driven, margin-managed component logistics. The company does not compete for engineering, integration, or services work. It succeeds by maintaining supply-chain agility, reliable quality, and cost competitiveness in low-dollar, high-velocity procurement categories where larger contractors do not bid. This positioning has generated $833.9 million in cumulative prime-contract value over twenty-two years, with steady cash flow from set-aside opportunities and open competition alike.