Erie Forge & Steel Inc.

Erie Forge & Steel Inc., a Pennsylvania-based subsidiary of Park Corporation, manufactures naval propulsion shafts and shaft components for the U.S. Navy as a prime contractor on indefinite delivery and firm fixed-price definitive contracts, competing on a full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations across its portfolio. The division operates under the doing-business-as name Efs and specializes in fabricating propeller shafts, stern shafts, intermediate shafts, and submarine propulsion shafts for destroyer, amphibious, and submarine platforms; recent work includes a $7.8 million delivery order from Naval Supply Systems Command on May 22, 2026, for DDG 51 stern shaft manufacturing under the Waterborne Surface Shafts IDIQ, a $40.3 million small-business-set-aside definitive contract awarded September 13, 2024, for submarine shaft procurement, and a $17.0 million total small business set-aside definitive contract from September 13, 2023, for submarine shaft manufacture.

Erie Forge & Steel holds two cornerstone IDIQ vehicles with Naval Supply Systems Command: a $137 million five-year multiple-award contract (awarded July 28, 2023, expiring July 27, 2028) for waterborne surface shaft procurement and manufacturing supporting DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, LHD and LSD amphibious vessels, LPD 17 amphibious transport docks, LHA 6/LHD 8 amphibious assault ships, and DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers; and a $323.7 million five-year multiple-award contract (awarded May 25, 2023, expiring May 25, 2028) for waterborne surface shaft repair services across the same ship classes. Ninety-six percent of the vendor's recent award portfolio traces to the Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command (86 awards, $674.7 million combined potential value) and Naval Sea Systems Command (41 awards, $27.6 million), with marginal exposure to the U.S. Coast Guard and Defense Logistics Agency. Primary NAICS concentration sits in Ship Building and Repairing (82 awards) and Iron and Steel Forging (24 awards), with all work under PSC 2530 (Ship and Boat Propulsion Components) or allied categories.

Activity has contracted markedly—five prime awards in 2022, nine in 2023, but only two in 2024 and three in 2025—reflecting reliance on the underlying IDIQs as the engines of task-order volume rather than new prime wins. The top five parent vehicles generated 87 task orders across Naval Supply Systems Command contracts (N0010492GA034 with 24 task orders; N0010400GA103 with 21 task orders totaling $14.5 million; N0010404GA762 with 16 task orders totaling $9.8 million; N0010408GA751 with 15 task orders totaling $8.1 million; N0010409GA753 with 11 task orders totaling $16 million). Erie Forge & Steel subcontracts as a supplier of shaft assemblies, engineering efforts, and steel components to Huntington Ingalls on CVN 80 aircraft carrier construction (four sub awards through October 2025). Combined potential value across all awards reaches $702.8 million, with $274.5 million (39%) obligated; place of performance is Erie, Pennsylvania.