Lockheed Martin Sippican, Inc.

Lockheed Martin Sippican, Inc., a division of Lockheed Martin Marion operating as Lockheed Martin Sippican Inc. and headquartered in Liverpool, New York, manufactures oceanographic instrumentation, missile components, and specialized maritime defense equipment as a large prime contractor competing full-and-open across 2,565 federal awards carrying a combined potential value of $5.77 billion. The company does not compete under set-asides; it operates as an established large contractor subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation. The vendor's award footprint spans a 43-year history dating to 1982, with recent activity declining—from 25 awards in 2021 to 7 in 2025—though the portfolio carries a recompete cliff of $612.2 million in awards completing within the next twenty-four months.

Lockheed Martin Sippican's capability portfolio divides sharply between oceanographic instrumentation and defense ordnance systems. The oceanographic line includes bathythermographs and probe bathythermographs (devices measuring water temperature and depth profiles for naval and scientific operations), radiosondes and LMS test devices for atmospheric data collection, and related oceanographic sensors; these instruments flow primarily to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA Land and Maritime and DLA Aviation) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The defense ordnance line centers on Stinger missile fuzes and warhead body assemblies for Army programs, with recent examples including a $12.941 million delivery order for Stinger fuzes and warhead bodies to Program Executive Office Missiles and Space (awarded November 21, 2024, completing October 31, 2029), a $14.123 million order for GFE Stinger missile fuze replacement to the Marine Corps (awarded September 28, 2023), and a $9.66 million delivery order for Stinger M934E6 fuze and warhead body assemblies to PEO Missiles and Space (awarded September 23, 2021, completing March 31, 2026). Oceanographic instrument orders cluster in the $60,000 to $400,000 range per delivery order; bathythermograph orders from DLA Land and Maritime have dominated the portfolio in volume, with roughly 415 recent awards accounting for $57.4 million in combined potential value.

Customer concentration is extreme and driven by a single platform: Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command accounts for 95% of combined potential value across the entire portfolio ($4.62 billion on 159 awards), while Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Missiles and Space contributes $101.2 million on 4 awards. By award count, concentration is more distributed but still Navy-centric: DLA Aviation (659 awards, $29 million), DLA Land and Maritime (415 awards, $57.4 million), Department of the Navy unspecified (389 awards), Navy Naval Supply Systems Command (220 awards, $28.7 million), and NOAA (207 awards, $196 million) together account for 74% of recent awards. The divergence between dollar rankings and award-count rankings signals that the vendor places high-volume, low-dollar bathythermograph orders with DLA but derives most of its dollar value from a small number of Navy NAVSEA and Army Stinger missile work.

Vehicle position is tied to these customer relationships. The top five parent contracts include indefinite delivery contracts SP044003D4080 (107 task orders, $4.1 million), SPE7MX15D0157 (71 task orders, $5.3 million), SPM4A508D0007 (65 task orders, $1.6 million), Basic Ordering Agreement N0010485G0308 (59 task orders), and SPM44003D4080 (48 task orders, $620 thousand). The source identifies a $500,000 IDC with Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command for LMS testing equipment and a $9.999 million single-award BOA with DLA Aviation, though the DLA Aviation BOA has not generated task orders in the available data. The vendor holds a $6.952 million indefinite delivery contract with DLA Land and Maritime running through June 2026 for bathythermographs and probe bathythermographs, consistent with its role as a repeated DLA supplier.

Activity has contracted sharply in recent years. The vendor received 25 awards in 2021, declined to 9 awards per year in 2022–2023, grew slightly to 13 in 2024, then fell to 7 in 2025. The next twenty-four months present a recompete cliff of $612.2 million across four awards—primarily driven by the Army Stinger fuze work and related Navy platforms completing by late 2025 through mid-2026. Loss of the largest NAVSEA contract would represent a catastrophic revenue event for a competitor seeking to displace Lockheed Martin Sippican, or a major risk factor for the vendor itself if recompeted.

Service Contract Inventory data provides limited visibility into Lockheed Martin Sippican's service-contract activity. SCI captured $13.5 million in invoiced federal service revenue in FY2022 across 92 FTEs, with no SCI-reportable service contracts appearing in FY2024—a dramatic collapse that reflects the vendor's shift toward goods manufacturing (bathythermographs, missile components, test equipment) and product delivery rather than service provisioning. Across the FY2022 SCI records, median government-paid hourly rates ran around $69.46/hr, indicating lower-cost technical labor aligned with instrumentation manufacturing and test support roles. No subcontracting was reported in SCI data, and only 2 named subcontractors appeared in the sub-award records: L3 Technologies (design, development, testing, and production of submarine photonics masts ESM electronics assembly, awarded December 6, 2023) and Atlantic Diving Supply (ASW targets, awarded November 29, 2023). The vendor's subcontractor footprint on Stinger fuze work names Eaglepicher Technologies LLC (actuator arming components) and R. Stresau Laboratory, Inc. (detonators and explosive components).

Lockheed Martin Sippican operates as a pure prime contractor (100% of 2,565 awards are prime awards; 2 sub-awards represent 0.08% of the portfolio) with minimal reliance on subcontractors. The company manufactures its core products—bathythermographs and Stinger fuze assemblies—in-house at Marion, Massachusetts and Liverpool, New York locations, and brings in specialized subs only for mission-critical ordnance (detonators, arming mechanisms) and advanced electronics (photonics, ESM) where external capacity or certification advantages exist. This vertical-integration posture distinguishes Lockheed Martin Sippican from system integrators or service firms that sub-engineer large portions of their work. The vendor's corporate structure nests under Lockheed Martin Corporation's Rotary and Mission Systems division (headquartered Owego, New York), leveraging parent-company scale and defense industrial base access without operating as an autonomous competitor.