Ellwood National Forge Company

Ellwood National Forge Company, a subsidiary of Ellwood City Forge Company, manufactures precision-engineered metal forgings and assembled defense components as a prime contractor (87% of recent awards) and subcontractor on major military platform programs, competing full-and-open with no socioeconomic set-aside certifications across a $93.28 billion award footprint dominated by indefinite delivery contracts with the Army and Air Force.

Ellwood National Forge is a Pennsylvania-based manufacturer of goods structured as a for-profit limited liability company, with principal operations in Irvine, Pennsylvania. The vendor competes exclusively in full-and-open procurements without SBA designations. Its capability portfolio centers on iron and steel forging (78 awards), ammunition and ordnance component manufacturing (36 awards in ammunition ex–small arms, 18 in accessories), and ship propulsion system forgings. Representative prime work includes a $65.99 million delivery order from the Air Force Materiel Command for BLU-138 warhead production under the $92 billion Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC), awarded April 2023 with completion through July 2027; a $49.73 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Army's Program Executive Office Ammunition for BLU-109 bomb body assemblies and MHU-212B/E pallets running through February 2029, with a $9.04 million delivery order issued February 2024; and a $5.39 million delivery order in May 2025 for BLU-109 bomb case assembly and pallets under the same PEO Ammunition vehicle, completing December 2026. Recent smaller orders include a $465 thousand Naval Sea Systems Command purchase order in January 2026 for stainless steel forging qualification test articles and a $266 thousand Air Force delivery order for test assets and components under EWAAC.

Customer concentration skews heavily toward the Department of Defense, with concentration measured across two distinct rankings. By award count, the Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command dominates with 83 awards ($53.7 million combined potential value), followed distantly by Naval Sea Systems Command (15 awards, $465 thousand) and Army PEO Ammunition (13 awards). However, by potential value, the Air Force anchors the portfolio: the Department of the Air Force accounts for $92 billion in combined potential value across six awards, driven almost entirely by the single EWAAC vehicle. Army PEO Ammunition's 13 awards carry $802 million combined potential value, the second-largest share. The top five customer organizations account for 77% of all awards and 100% of combined potential value. Recent award trajectory shows growth: two awards in 2026 (through July), thirteen in 2025, and twelve in 2024, compared to five each in 2022 and 2023. Four awards carrying combined potential value of $72.1 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months.

Ellwood National Forge holds primary positions on two named indefinite delivery contracts: the $49.73 million single-award IDC with Army PEO Ammunition for BLU-109 production through February 2029, and a multiple-award seat on the $92 billion Air Force EWAAC through September 2031. Under EWAAC, the vendor has received three delivery orders totaling approximately $47.4 million. The vendor also places task orders against five Army-issued IDCs (W911PT09D0002, W911PT04D0003, W911PT05D0005, W911PT05D0008, and W52P1J16D0041), with the Joint Munitions Command vehicle W52P1J16D0041 carrying $379.9 million across six task orders. Across these vehicles, the vendor has issued 14, 12, nine, and six task orders respectively on the top four IDCs.

In its subcontractor role, Ellwood National Forge performs propulsion shaft forgings and assemblies for Huntington Ingalls Incorporated on multiple DDG 51 guided-missile destroyer construction contracts (seven sub awards between July 2024 and October 2025); supplies steelmaking, forging, and finish-machining services to Booz Allen Hamilton across multiple task order awards (five sub awards between February and April 2025); and provides forging and material support to BAE Systems Land & Armaments on MK 45 gun system upgrades (three sub awards, December 2024), to General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems on MK 82 bomb case assemblies, and to Electric Boat and L3 Technologies on submarine and photonics mast components. The vendor's product-focused subcontract portfolio reflects its core competency: Ellwood supplies forgings, shafts, and raw material to large platform integrators rather than engineering or technical services.

Ellwood City Forge Company, the parent entity, holds the same UEI structure and is also registered as a federal contractor prime and sub across the same customer base, suggesting integrated federal reporting across the corporate group; however, Ellwood National Forge Company maintains its own distinct federal footprint and appears in the source as the active prime on all named contracts.