J & N Metal Products, LLC

J & N Metal Products, LLC is a woman-owned small business manufacturer of precision metal components and assemblies for the Department of Defense, operating as prime contractor (98% of recent awards) across multiple contract vehicles with the Defense Logistics Agency and Naval Sea Systems Command. Based in Brazil, Indiana, the company is structured as a Limited Liability Partnership and holds ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100D certifications, competing across both full-and-open and total small business set-aside categories in roughly equal measure across its recent footprint.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on specialized metal fabrication for military ordnance, vehicle systems, and aerospace platforms. Representative prime work includes a $343,909.50 purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime for 22 recoil booster units (awarded January 2026), a $396,129.41 total small business set-aside for aircraft structural support components with completion extending to June 2027 (awarded April 2025), and a $64,431.38 award for BMA inlet chute assemblies from DLA Aviation (February 2025). Typical components span gun mount assemblies, ammunition storage racks and boxes, vehicular brackets, ejection chutes, access covers, wear plates, and specialized ordnance components. The vendor also manufactures fasteners, pins, washers, and machine-shop services on call against standing BPAs with Naval Sea Systems Command.

Customer concentration is extreme and anchored by a single relationship. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command dominates potential value at $259.8 million across 77 awards (91% of total combined potential value), driven by a $50 million Blanket Purchase Agreement (N0016425A5002) running through September 2027 and several subordinate IDIQs valued at $2 million and lower. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime division represents the next tier at $16.5 million across 566 purchase orders and delivery orders (90% of award count), followed by DLA Aviation at $2.9 million across 188 orders. The concentration by dollars is nearly monolithic: Naval Sea Systems Command accounts for approximately 91% of potential value, while DLA Land and Maritime and Aviation combined represent roughly 7%. This posture reflects J & N Metal Products' historical role as a recurring subcontractor and BPA supplier for naval sonar and weapons system support, with newer growth in Army and broader DLA logistics procurement.

The vendor holds an extensive portfolio of Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime division. The source identifies eleven active single-award IDIQs with $250,000 to $350,000 ceiling values each, awarded between March 2025 and December 2025, supporting vehicular brackets, ammunition adapters, tube assemblies (eject components), ejection chutes, guard assembly seats, access covers, and vehicular fenders. The parent vehicle analysis shows Build-To-Print Machine Shop Requirements (26 task orders, $1.4 million) and multiple Blanket Purchase Agreements with Naval Sea Systems Command (42 task orders combined across two BPAs, $998 thousand). The $50 million Naval Sea Systems Command BPA towers over all other vehicles and carries multiple nested delivery orders for machine shop services, PSSE ladder assemblies, roller strand components, and similar precision metal work. Task orders against the Naval Sea Systems Command BPA have been issued as recently as August 2025 ($195,666.57 for machine shop services). This IDIQ portfolio architecture means the vendor is positioned to respond rapidly to DLA and Navy urgent requirements without formal resolicitation, lowering friction on small orders typical of military spare-parts procurement.

Activity trajectory shows volatility year-over-year but net decline after 2025. The vendor received 169 awards in 2025 (up from 106 in 2024, 102 in 2023, and 162 in 2022), but the source reflects only 22 awards in 2026 year-to-date as of mid-July—suggesting a significant deceleration. Within the next twenty-four months, 57 awards (combined potential value $1.7 million) reach ultimate completion and face recompete. This recompete exposure is modest in absolute terms but represents renewal risk on the DLA IDIQ portfolio, where the vendor currently holds approximately eleven active single-award vehicles that will expire in phases through 2027. The source shows expirations clustering in mid-2026 (multiple IDIQs expiring March–October 2026) and extending through April 2027, creating a recompete cliff.

The vendor's subcontractor footprint is minimal (2% of awards by count) and weighted toward Science Applications International Corporation. Named sub-awards include custom metal fabrication for the Modern Vehicle Fielding integration and fielding support program (October 2025), production support for Palletized Equipment Group metal fabrication (August 2025), and enclosure rack and frame assemblies for the Virginia-class submarine common radio room program (June 2025). These subs reflect J & N Metal Products' role as a downstream supplier of metal components and fabrication labor to larger prime defense contractors, not a strategic partnership arrangement; no exclusive or long-term relationship is evident in the source.

J & N Metal Products is almost exclusively a Department of Defense prime and sub vendor, with 98% of recent awards from DoD and its military departments. The company has not worked with civilian agencies (GSA, HHS, Interior, et al.) at any material scale within the source window. Its total award count of 983 since 2007 is skewed by high transactional volume from DLA purchase order ordering patterns—566 Land and Maritime awards alone, many for sub-$50,000 components. This structure reflects the vendor's position in DLA's spare-parts supply chain, where the agency issues numerous small purchase orders and delivery orders against standing IDCs rather than large single procurements.

Set-aside posture across the prime footprint splits between full-and-open and total small business designations, with total small business awards predominating on ordnance, ammunition, and specialized components. The vendor competes successfully in both categories, indicating price competitiveness and technical qualification at DLA and Naval Sea Systems Command regardless of set-aside status. Woman-owned small business designation recurs across all award summaries in the source but is not always leveraged for explicit set-aside advantages; many recent awards carry "No Set-Aside Used" language despite the vendor's WOSB eligibility.

The company manufactures in-house at its facility in Brazil, Indiana, and is registered in SAM.gov since 2006, holding continuous federal contractor status for nearly two decades. The scale and tempo of production is modest compared to large prime integrators—award values cluster in the $5,000 to $50,000 range for individual purchase orders, with larger awards (above $100,000) typically representing either multi-unit procurements or Blanket Purchase Agreement solicitations. The vendor's position in the defense industrial base is specialist rather than prime system integrator: it provides manufactured components on call to meet DLA logistics and Naval Sea Systems Command sonar and strategic systems maintenance requirements, functioning as a reliable, certified supplier of repeatable metal fabrication rather than as a systems architect or program integrator.

Laser cutting, 3D laser cutting, 5-Axis laser cutting, machining, forming, coatings, welding, detailed aerospace assemblies,