Gateway Cable Inc.

Gateway Cable Inc., a Subchapter S Corporation manufacturer based in Lisle, Illinois, supplies military electrical components — connector receptacles, cable assemblies, wiring harnesses, and power distribution products — to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on 507 purchase orders and delivery orders (99% of recent awards), with limited subcontract exposure to Oshkosh Defense LLC.

Gateway Cable competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements; roughly one-third of its recent prime awards carry Total Small Business set-aside designations, while the remainder are unrestricted. The company is not certified under SBA programs such as 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB. Its registered SAM profile dates to May 2001, and it maintains an indefinite delivery contract with DLA Aviation (awarded June 2019, ceiling $250,000) for cable assembly power products — a vehicle that has generated 45 task orders under contract 1PIC405999 across the five-year portfolio window.

Customer concentration is steep and narrowly focused on defense logistics. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime commands 148 awards (29% of total volume) with $2.7 million in combined potential value, followed by the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons (86 awards, $2 million), and DLA Aviation (65 awards, $1.5 million). The top five customers account for 77% of award count. However, the dollar-concentration picture diverges: Bureau of Prisons holds $2 million of combined potential value despite representing fewer awards by count than DLA Land and Maritime, and two specific BOP facilities (Fairton Federal Correctional Institution and United States Penitentiary Marion) carry $412 thousand and $214 thousand respectively — signaling higher-value institutional orders in the prison supply chain. Recent prime awards include a $125,542.74 Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Aviation (May 2025) for 174 units of cable assemblies under NAICS 334419, a $41,678 Total Small Business order from DLA Land and Maritime (August 2023) for connector receptacles with completion through August 2025, and a $150,000 purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (August 2023) for connectors and receptacles.

Activity volume has been flat to declining: eight awards in 2022, declining to five in 2023, rebounding to nine in 2024, then seven in 2025, with one award logged so far in 2026. Combined potential value across all 514 awards stands at $12.4 million, though combined dollars obligated total $26.5 million — indicating significant invoicing velocity against these awards. Gateway Cable's product portfolio is tightly concentrated in electrical components: Electronic Connector Manufacturing accounts for 261 of 514 awards (51%), Other Electronic Component Manufacturing for 51 awards, and Current-Carrying Wiring Device Manufacturing for 17 awards. PSC concentration mirrors this: Connectors, Electrical dominate at 319 awards, Miscellaneous Electric Power and Distribution Equipment at 58 awards.

Gateway Cable holds a negligible subcontract footprint — only seven sub-awards (1% of total), all recent and all to Oshkosh Defense LLC for modification kits and installation kits related to the JLTV family of vehicles (awards spanning May 2024 through January 2025). These sub-awards describe electrical systems integration work under a long-term Oshkosh contract but carry no disclosed dollar ceiling. The vendor's prime footprint is substantially larger and more stable than its sub exposure, positioning it as a direct supplier to defense logistics agencies rather than as an embedded sub-tier provider.