Kaeper Machine, Inc.

Kaeper Machine Inc., a minority-owned, Asian-Pacific American-owned small disadvantaged business based in Mentor, Ohio, manufactures precision-machined defense components — primarily small arms, ordnance accessories, and weapons-system hardware — as a prime contractor exclusively, with 100% of recent awards issued without subcontractor involvement.

Kaeper Machine operates as a Subchapter S Corporation and has held federal contractor registration since August 2001. The vendor's capability portfolio centers on small-batch precision machining across NSN-controlled inventory: recoil mechanism buffers, rear sights, stock gun shoulder components, latch and back plates, cover assemblies, pins, handles, locks, track rotors, and related ordnance support items. The company competes in full-and-open procurements; recent awards carry no set-aside designation across most DLA Land and Maritime and DLA Aviation purchase orders, though it also holds total small business set-aside positions on Army Materiel Command contracts. Representative recent work includes a $1.72 million delivery order from TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (awarded May 1, 2025, under a $3.16 million total small business set-aside IDC running through March 2030) for M240 stock gun shoulder buttstocks; a $88,920 total small business set-aside purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (July 1, 2025) for 235 units of recoil mechanism buffers; a $72,437 total small business set-aside purchase order from Army Contracting Command-Detroit Arsenal (December 14, 2023) for sear stop and pin assemblies with delivery through July 2028; and a $73,250 total small business set-aside purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (January 15, 2024) for 196 rear sight components.

Customer concentration is heavily concentrated in Army platforms and logistics. The top five Army customer nodes account for 84% of award count, led by TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (43 awards, $15.3 million combined potential value), DLA Land and Maritime (38 awards, $792 thousand), PEO Soldier (13 awards, $33.7 million), and Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal (11 awards, $12.9 million). By potential-value ranking, PEO Soldier anchors the portfolio with $33.7 million across 13 awards, followed by TACOM ($15.3 million across 43 awards) and Detroit Arsenal ($12.9 million across 11 awards). The two rankings diverge significantly: TACOM places many small individual purchase orders while PEO Soldier concentrates dollars in fewer, larger delivery orders. Combined potential value across all 135 recent awards sits at $71.5 million, with $38.8 million (54%) obligated.

Kaeper Machine holds positions on five named IDCs. The highest-volume vehicle is Indefinite Delivery Contract W15QKN11D0133 with 12 task orders carrying $12.8 million combined potential value, followed by DAAE2003D0154 (9 task orders, $4.9 million), DAAE2003D0146 (9 task orders, $1.1 million), SPRDL117D0083 (4 task orders, $2.6 million), and DAAE2003D0081 (5 task orders, $93 thousand). Award activity grew year over year through 2025 — five awards in 2022, four in 2023, thirteen in 2024, and seventeen in 2025 — though only three awards have appeared in 2026 as of the source snapshot. The recompete cliff in the next twenty-four months is modest: six awards with combined potential value of $2.8 million reach ultimate completion in that window. The vendor's category concentration is heavy in NAICS 332994 (Small Arms, Ordnance, and Ordnance Accessories Manufacturing) with 110 of 135 awards, and PSC code 10 (Guns, Through 30mm) with 91 awards, reflecting its role as a specialized ordnance-support supplier rather than a diversified manufacturer.

Kaeper Machine, Inc. is a full service CNC manufacturing firm that specializes in the planning, production, manufacturing, and assembly of many small arms parts like the M240, M249, M2, MK19, MK93, and others.