FN America LLC

FN America LLC's Columbia, South Carolina division manufactures small arms components, machine gun barrels, and complete weapon systems for the Department of Defense and federal law enforcement agencies as a prime contractor, competing without set-aside designation across open federal procurements. The division is a U.S. subsidiary of Belgium-based Herstal SA and operates as a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer of goods under NAICS 332994 (Small Arms, Ordnance, and Ordnance Accessories Manufacturing) and PSC 10 (Weapons).

FN America's customer concentration is heavily tilted toward Army and Defense Logistics Agency programs. The top five funding customers account for 79 percent of recent awards: Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime leads with 1,733 awards valued at $354.4 million combined potential value; Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center Program Executive Office Soldier follows with 95 awards carrying $1.15 billion; Department of the Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command holds 236 awards worth $927.1 million; Department of the Army posts 441 awards for $97.2 million; and Defense Logistics Agency standalone awarded 161 orders for $283 thousand. By dollar volume, PEO Soldier anchors the portfolio—the Army drives roughly 61 percent of combined potential value across the vendor's award base.

FN America operates under a multi-vehicle indefinite delivery strategy centered on the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime. The vendor holds a $39.6 million single-award IDC for M240 and M249 machine gun barrels extending through February 2030, under which 16 delivery orders have been executed as of recent data. A $1.53 million single-award IDC for M-249 breech bolts runs through July 2030. A $1.99 million multiple-award Other Transaction IDV with ARDEC at Picatinny Arsenal for precision grenadier system components was awarded September 2025. Additional single-award vehicles include a $350 thousand IDC for gun component retainers (November 2026 completion) and a $250 thousand IDC for gas cylinders (June 2026). Task order volume against the top five parent vehicles totals 432 orders with combined potential value of $21.3 million, driven by sustained demand for machine gun components and small arms accessories.

Representative capability delivery includes a $9.97 million delivery order from PEO Soldier (February 2026) for small arms and weapon system components; a $20 million Army delivery order (September 2025) for small arms and weapon systems; a $6 million PEO Soldier delivery order (April 2025) for small arms components and weapon systems; a $4.7 million Army delivery order (September 2024) for M240 coaxial and M240B machine guns for foreign military sales; a $4.65 million Air Force Sustainment Center delivery order (August 2024) for M240B machine guns; a $3.1 million Army delivery order (September 2025) for M249 Squad Automatic Weapons; and a $2.4 million Army delivery order (January 2025) for M249 Squad Automatic Weapons. Smaller components flow regularly through DLA Land and Maritime purchase orders: breech bolts, machine gun barrels, bipods, feed mechanism covers, cartridge ejectors, barrel assemblies, springs, retainers, and fasteners. FN America also supplies less-lethal munitions to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the U.S. Secret Service—a $1.03 million CBP delivery order (September 2025) for FN303 air-launched less-than-lethal supplies, and a $565 thousand CBP order (July 2024) for less-lethal munitions.

Activity has remained relatively stable—148 awards in 2022 declining to 21 year-to-date in 2026, but the portfolio carries 3,388 total awards since 1981 with combined potential value of $3.31 billion. Sixty-eight awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $48.6 million and therefore facing recompete risk. A single federal sub-award appears in the source: FN America subcontracted to Booz Allen Hamilton on an EDITS (Engineering Development Integration and Technology-based Solutions) program in February 2025. The vendor operates as 100 percent prime across its federal footprint—sub activity is negligible.

FN America competes full-and-open across all named awards with no set-aside designations, positioning itself as a standard commercial vendor in unrestricted procurements. The Columbia facility serves as the exclusive place of performance for all listed awards. The company's strategic suppliers role stems from manufacturing scale, established DLA and Army relationships, and technical expertise in precision small arms components supporting M240, M249, M240B, M240D, and M240L platform sustainment and fielding across active military branches and special operations commands.