General Dynamics OTS (Wilkes Barre), LLC

General Dynamics OTS (Wilkes Barre), LLC, doing business as Medico Industries, is a large prime contractor and subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation that manufactures ammunition and munitions components for the U.S. Army as a sole supplier on multiple single-award indefinite delivery contracts. The vendor competes full-and-open without set-aside designations across its entire prime footprint, and all 277 recent awards are prime contracts. Its core capability is production of large-caliber ammunition — 155mm M795 artillery projectile bodies, 60mm and 81mm mortar shell bodies, and 120mm mortar shell body cartridges — supplied from manufacturing facilities at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Customer concentration with the Army's Program Executive Office Ammunition is overwhelming. PEO Ammunition accounts for 120 awards worth $8.4 billion combined potential value (88% of awards, 84% of dollars), while the Department of the Army broadly (including TACOM, Materiel Command, and other Army offices) adds another 87 awards worth $691.6 million. The top five customer organizations cover 100% of the combined potential value across all 10 agencies served. This concentration reflects the vendor's critical role as the designated sole-source manufacturer for specific ammunition families under long-term production contracts.

The vendor holds three primary parent vehicles: a $3.552 billion single-award indefinite delivery contract (W52P1J24D0055, awarded September 27, 2024, completing September 27, 2027) for 155mm M795 artillery projectile body assemblies; a $211.98 million multiple-award indefinite delivery contract (W15QKN24D0030, awarded August 5, 2024, completing August 5, 2029) for 60mm and 81mm mortar shell bodies; and a $333.9 million multiple-award indefinite delivery contract (awarded September 24, 2025, completing August 31, 2030) for 120mm mortar shell body cartridges. Task orders under the 155mm and 60mm/81mm IDIQs carry economic price adjustment provisions and firm fixed-price structures. Recent representative work includes a $525.79 million delivery order (September 27, 2024) for 155mm M795 assemblies in support of Ukraine under the primary single-award IDIQ; a $19.65 million order (April 13, 2026) for 112,082 units of 60mm and 54,280 units of 81mm high-explosive high-fragmentation shell bodies; and a $22.6 million order (April 15, 2024) for 120mm mortar shell bodies in support of Ukraine with economic price adjustment. Delivery orders also fund facility infrastructure upgrades, production base support projects, and maintenance of inactive facilities at Scranton Army Ammunition Plant — work valued in the low millions to tens of millions per task order.

Activity has declined year over year from 19 awards in 2022 to 2 awards through April 2026, reflecting the shift from multiple smaller task orders to fewer, larger-value deliveries under consolidated IDIQs. Eighteen awards with combined potential value of $1.04 billion face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating material recompete exposure; the 155mm M795 single-award IDIQ completes September 27, 2027.

The vendor's subcontractor network reflects the material-intensive nature of ammunition manufacturing. Metallus Inc. (Timkensteel Corporation) supplies HF-1 steel for mortar and 155mm production across multiple contracts. Luvata Appleton LLC provides copper and brass weld wire for 155mm assemblies. Murdock Webbing Company, Inc. furnishes flexible band covers, and Coronet Machinery Corp. delivers precision-machined lift plugs and lift plug assemblies. Additional subs include Capital Steel & Wire Inc. and Steel Dynamics Inc. for specialized steel grades, Rex Heat Treat Lansdale Inc. for heat treating, Henkels & McCoy Inc. (minority-owned, utility construction) for electrical upgrade services, Cooper Electric Supply LLC for switchgear equipment, Belrick Corp (women-owned small business) for precision machining of smoke bodies, and Manufacturing Technology Inc. for metal plating services. The vendor manages a broad supply chain spanning steel mills, copper suppliers, machining shops, heat-treat facilities, and logistics providers to execute large-volume ammunition production schedules.

General Dynamics OTS entered federal contracting in 1981 and maintains SAM.gov registration since 2002. The company is a critical component of the U.S. defense industrial base for conventional ammunition production, with manufacturing footprint concentrated at a single government-owned facility in Wilkes-Barre that the vendor operates under long-term Army contracts.