Johnson Brass & Machine Foundry Inc.

Johnson Brass & Machine Foundry Inc., a Saukville, Wisconsin-based manufacturer of metal castings and precision machined components, operates as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) supplying specialized defense components to the Department of Defense through direct purchase orders and single-award indefinite delivery contracts with no SBA set-aside designations on most awards, though several individual purchase orders and IDIQs carry Total Small Business set-asides.

The vendor's customer concentration centers entirely on DoD logistics and naval operations. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime division accounts for 220 awards worth $14.5 million combined potential value, representing approximately 63% of Johnson Brass's recent award portfolio by dollars. The Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command (56 awards, $5.2 million) and Naval Sea Systems Command (24 awards, $1.1 million) comprise the next tier, with DLA Aviation (48 awards, $593 thousand) and DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (13 awards, $881 thousand) rounding out the top five customer agencies. These five agencies account for 97% of Johnson Brass's combined potential value across all awards. The vendor holds no seats on government-wide vehicles such as GWACs or GSA schedules; all work flows through direct DLA or Navy single-award IDIQs or firm fixed-price purchase orders.

Johnson Brass's primary capability footprint centers on precision metal castings and machined defense components. Representative prime work includes four large drum assembly purchase orders from DLA Land and Maritime (totaling $1.69 million combined value awarded April–October 2025 under Total Small Business set-asides), multiple piston guide assembly orders (including a $700,284 award in October 2025 for 69 units), choke ring components ($149,872 and $68,280 awards in March and June 2025), and a $200,980 bearing shim order from Naval Sea Systems Command in February 2023. The vendor also holds four active indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Land and Maritime: a $1.1 million single-award IDIQ (awarded September 2022, running through September 2026 under Total Small Business set-aside) for retainers, seats, and valves; a $350,000 single-award IDIQ for FOLLOWER components (awarded May 2026 under Total Small Business set-aside, running one year); a $250,000 single-award IDIQ for FOLLOWER components (awarded May 2025 under Total Small Business set-aside); and a $250,000 single-award IDIQ (awarded August 2025, no set-aside). Work is performed entirely at the Saukville facility with delivery to DLA depots across CONUS and OCONUS locations.

Activity has remained relatively flat across the five-year window in the source—30 to 35 awards per year from 2022 through 2024, declining to 21 in 2025 and 8 in the first half of 2026. Ten awards worth $3.3 million combined potential value are scheduled for ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting moderate recompete exposure. In its limited subcontractor capacity, Johnson Brass supplies metal components to Curtiss-Wright Electro-Mechanical Corporation (actuator and motor supplies), Metro Machine Corp. (USS Arlington detail work), and Huntington Ingalls Incorporated (LPD 32 detail design and construction), though these represent fewer than 2% of the vendor's total award footprint and occupy a minor role relative to its dominant prime posture with DLA.

Johnson Brass was founded in 1905 and competes as a small business across most of its prime work, though it does not hold certifications in SBA programs such as 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB according to the source. The company operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and does business under the trade name Johnson Centrifugal Technology on some awards. Its federal footprint is highly specialized and concentrated: DLA Land and Maritime logistics procurement of metal components for military vehicles, aircraft, and naval systems, with product categories dominated by gasket and sealing device manufacturing, aircraft parts, bushings and spacers, deck machinery, and related fabricated metal products.