Knight's Armament Company

Knight's Armament Company, a veteran-owned manufacturer based in Titusville, Florida, supplies small arms components, suppressors, optical sights, and related ordnance accessories to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts, competing full-and-open without set-aside designation. The company operates as a for-profit sole proprietorship and competes in the open market across defense logistics, Army soldier systems modernization, and naval programs.

Knight's Armament's footprint is heavily concentrated in small arms manufacturing. The company holds recurring delivery orders against multiple Defense Logistics Agency indefinite delivery contracts for shim sets, suppressors, flash hiders, triggers, bolt assemblies, magazines, stock extensions, compensators, sight mounts, and dust covers — the backbone of its revenue. Beyond standard DLA parts work, Knight's Armament has delivered larger production runs to the Marine Corps, including a $621,577.53 delivery order (April 2023) and a $1.2 million delivery order (February 2022) for sound suppressor kits in tan finish, and a recent $492,224.10 delivery order from the Marine Corps (March 2026) for small arms suppressors with completion required by July 31, 2026. The company also manufactures night optics; a $1.248 million purchase order from the National Nuclear Security Administration (August 2021) covered 100 units of AN/PVS-30LW lightweight inline night optics, with delivery through September 2025. A $211,544.42 sole-source purchase order from Naval Special Warfare Command (September 2021) procured PVS30LW sights. Knight's Armament supplied rifle sights to the Bureau of Industry and Security under a $52,100 small-business set-aside purchase order (September 2021). An outlier Army contract for foreign military sales — a $125,025 delivery order for M110 systems (September 2021) — signals occasional engagement in higher-value Army programs.

Customer concentration reflects the defense small arms supply chain. Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime dominates by award count (858 awards, $57.6 million combined potential value), but by dollar magnitude the Army's PEO Soldier (Acquisition Support Center) leads decisively at 32 awards carrying $310.7 million combined potential value — a signal that Knight's Armament holds at least one large indefinite delivery contract anchored to Army modernization programs. The Navy Naval Sea Systems Command accounts for 173 awards and $40.7 million. The Marine Corps trails at 31 awards but carries $48.1 million in potential value, reflecting the larger suppressor kit contracts. This split reveals two distinct business streams: high-volume, low-unit-price DLA consumables (shim sets, triggers, small springs priced under $1,000 each) and occasional larger production contracts from service branches.

Knight's Armament places work through five primary indefinite delivery contract vehicles. The largest by task-order count is IDC SPE7LX19D5002 (171 task orders, $1.9 million combined potential value); IDC DAAE2003D0027 carries 79 task orders valued at $29.2 million; IDC W15QKN12D0029 includes 37 task orders for $23.9 million; IDC SPE7LX14D0011 holds 84 task orders for $5.5 million; and IDC N0010403DL004 accounts for 44 task orders worth $6.6 million. These vehicles span DLA Aviation, DLA Land and Maritime, and Army TACOM, providing multiple on-ramps for task order competition.

Award activity has contracted sharply in recent years. The vendor received 42 awards in 2022, declining to 29 in 2023, then falling to 4 in 2024, 1 in 2025, and 1 in 2026 to date. This trajectory suggests either a shift in federal procurement patterns away from small individual delivery orders (consolidation to fewer, larger contracts) or loss of market position. The recompete cliff within the next twenty-four months is minimal: only one award (combined potential value $492 thousand) completes in that window, indicating most of Knight's Armament's active IDCs have completion dates beyond 2028 and therefore face no imminent recompete pressure.

Across 2,172 total federal awards, Knight's Armament operates as a prime on 100% of contracts (2,170 awards) with negligible subcontractor exposure — only two sub-awards appear in the source, both from Lockheed Martin for small arms rail and barrel assemblies (May 2023 and June 2025). The company does not use subcontractors for core production; it manufactures in-house. Primary NAICS concentration aligns with the product portfolio: 1,447 awards under Small Arms, Ordnance, and Ordnance Accessories Manufacturing; 111 under Optical Instrument and Lens Manufacturing; and 48 under Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing. PSC codes track similarly, with 1,490 awards under Guns Through 30Mm and 81 under Night Vision Equipment.

The combined potential value across all awards stands at $711.8 million, with $526.8 million obligated (74% draw-down rate). This mix of large Army soldier systems contracts and high-volume DLA consumables represents a stable but commodity-heavy customer base. Knight's Armament competes in the full open market for most work, with no material set-aside posture; the one visible small-business set-aside (RIFLE SIGHTS, Bureau of Industry and Security, $52,100) represents a data anomaly or misclassification, as the vendor's structure (sole proprietorship, no SBA certification evident) does not align with small-business reserve eligibility in recent federal procurement.