Frontline Engineering, Inc.

Frontline Engineering, Inc., doing business as Frontline Controls, Inc., is a minority-owned, veteran-owned, Black American-owned small disadvantaged business that provides programmable logic controller (PLC) installation, programming, upgrade, and repair services to federal agencies as a prime contractor under small business set-asides. Headquartered in Pontiac, Michigan, the firm competes exclusively as a prime across a diversified federal customer base rather than through parent vehicles or as a subcontractor — all twenty-two awards in the source record are prime contracts, predominantly small-dollar purchase orders under total small business set-asides.

Frontline Engineering's capability portfolio centers on industrial control system modernization and emergency repair for federal infrastructure and detention facilities. The largest recent award—a $627.9 thousand purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command dated January 6, 2025—involved upgrading seven existing PLC-5 racks to ControlLogix systems and replacing two human-machine interfaces at Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division, with performance in Pontiac and completion by July 31, 2026. A $410.8 thousand firm fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District (June 18, 2025) covered replacement of programmable logic controls for eight sluice gates at Tygart Lake Dam in Grafton, West Virginia, including demolition of the remote-control enclosure, installation of a new PLC processor with Rockwell Automation equipment, and operator interface upgrade, due September 19, 2026. A $157 thousand purchase order from the Army Corps of Engineers (December 17, 2021) addressed installation and programming of PLC units on the Dredge Goetz. Smaller work includes a $23.5 thousand purchase order from Defense Logistics Agency ENDIST St. Paul (August 3, 2026) for PLC reprogramming in Fountain City, Wisconsin.

Customer concentration spans federal detention and military infrastructure. The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Metropolitan Detention Center Brooklyn accounts for four awards ($167 thousand combined value) covering emergency PLC repairs and routine maintenance; the Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command holds four awards ($308 thousand); and the Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command, Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District, and various Bureau of Prisons facilities round out the active customer set. The top five customers by potential value account for 82% of combined dollar exposure, with the Navy contract representing the single largest award. Activity has remained sparse and episodic—one to two awards per year in recent cycles—with only one award ($24 thousand) scheduled for completion within the next twenty-four months, placing minimal near-term recompete pressure. The source characterizes recent work under NAICS 238210 (Electrical Contractors) and 541519 (Other Technical and Scientific Consulting Services), though the award portfolio reflects broader classification under machine tool manufacturing and industrial process measurement and control device categories.