Leadway Design Corp.

Leadway Design Corp., a Taiwan-based limited liability company and manufacturer of goods, operates exclusively as a subcontractor to Sierra Nevada Company on Department of the Army cryptographic and tactical radio component contracts, with no prime awards and no participation in federal set-aside programs.

Leadway's federal footprint is narrow and specialized. The vendor manufactures plastic and metal assemblies for Simple Key Loader cryptographic devices and tactical radio systems, including shell assemblies, battery charger assemblies, and plastic components. All eight subcontract awards over the past two-plus years flow from Sierra Nevada as the prime contractor under the Indefinite Delivery Contract W15P7T20D0030, with recent work including a December 2025 delivery order for SKL cryptographic device shell assemblies, a January 2026 order for plastic product manufacturing, and earlier modifications in December 2024 and September 2024 addressing line-of-accounting corrections and delivery-schedule adjustments tied to government delays in device specifications.

Customer concentration is absolute within Army procurement. Both the Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Command Control Communications-Tactical (six awards) and the Department of the Army Materiel Command Communications Electronics Command (two awards) account for 100% of recent awards. All work sits under a single parent vehicle, the W15P7T20D0030 IDIQ, which generated eight task orders totaling $10.6 million in combined obligated dollars. The primary NAICS category is Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing across all awards.

Activity has declined year over year — five awards in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026 — signaling either saturation of demand for these components, completion of prior-year task orders without renewal, or potential supply-chain transition by Sierra Nevada. The vendor's foreign location (Tamsui District, New Taipei City, Taiwan) may impose compliance friction on future growth, particularly for cryptographic device components subject to ITAR or export-control review. Leadway operates with no federal credentials, no SBA designations, and no presence outside the Sierra Nevada supply chain; competitive displacement or prime consolidation by Sierra Nevada would immediately eliminate the vendor's federal footprint.