Mazak Corporation

Mazak Corp, a foreign-owned manufacturer of computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools and precision lathes headquartered in Florence, Kentucky, supplies equipment and maintenance services to federal defense and civilian agencies as a prime contractor (87% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on defense programs. Mazak does not compete under small business set-asides; it pursues full-and-open and sole-source equipment procurements, with occasional Total Small Business awards in maintenance and repair roles where Mazak qualifies as the original equipment manufacturer. The company has maintained an active federal contracting presence since 2002 and operates a subsidiary, Mazak Megastir Corporation, focused on advanced manufacturing processes.

Mazak's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward Army industrial base modernization. The top two customers — the Army Materiel Command's TACOM Life Cycle Management Command and the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Comptroller (Legacy) — account for 59% of recent awards by count and 92% of combined potential value. TACOM dominates both metrics with 54 awards valued at $36.4 million combined potential value, reflecting sustained investment in CNC turning centers, bridge mills, and maintenance services at Army manufacturing facilities including the Rock Island Arsenal Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center. The Navy ranks third by count with nine Naval Sea Systems Command awards worth $1.4 million, followed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology with eight awards valued at $2.4 million and the Army with six smaller awards. The concentration in Army industrial base work is pronounced and structural — TACOM's 54 awards represent one-third of Mazak's total prime contract footprint.

Representative recent capability work includes a $3.55 million sole-source bridge mill delivered to Rock Island Arsenal (August 2022), a $1.28 million procurement of two multi-tasking 5-axis mill turning centers to NIST's Fabrication Technology Office with place of performance in Japan (June 2024), a $732 thousand Mazak Quick Turn 450M KY turning center sold to US Fleet Forces Command (September 2024), and a $346 thousand CNC machine service contract with Naval Sea Systems Command at Kittery Naval Shipyard running through January 2030 (January 2026). Mazak also delivers field maintenance and equipment repair through smaller purchase orders — a $204 thousand annual maintenance contract with NAVSEA (September 2022), a $27 thousand 12-month repair services agreement with the Army (August 2022), and a $10 thousand teardown and evaluation service for the Air Force Sustainment Center (April 2025). These contracts span NAICS codes 333517 (Machine Tool Manufacturing), 811310 (Commercial and Industrial Machinery Repair and Maintenance), and related machinery categories.

Activity has moderated recently. Awards per year declined from 10 in 2024 to 6 in 2025 and 4 year-to-date in 2026, reflecting the front-loaded nature of large capital equipment procurements and the absence of new high-value Army orders since mid-2024. Only two awards (combined potential value $308 thousand) face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, reducing near-term recompete exposure. Mazak sits on one army-wide IDIQ (W56HZV21D0085, six task orders) and several NASA and other agency IDIQs (80MSFC20D0004, 80JSC022DA035, 80SSC025D0001), though most recent work has flowed through direct purchase orders rather than task order vehicles.

In its subcontractor role, Mazak provides CNC machining centers and milling machines to Lockheed Martin on multiple contracts including Precision Strike Missile engineering and manufacturing and PAC-3 missile production (awards in January 2024, May 2022, December 2024), to General Dynamics Land Systems on armor work studies and manufacturing capacity projects (multiple awards 2022–2023), to Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory on the Dragonfly extended-phase-B aerospace mission (June–July 2024), to Northrop Grumman on manufacturing capacity enhancement (August 2025), and to Beyond New Horizons on test operations and sustainment II (September 2025). Subcontract work accounts for 13% of the award footprint by count but typically involves lower-dollar component supply or equipment leasing rather than primary capability delivery.