Milwaukee Valve Company, LLC

Milwaukee Valve Co, Inc., operating through its Milwaukee Valve Company, LLC division and doing business as Hammond, manufactures and supplies industrial valves and valve-related components to the Defense Logistics Agency and U.S. Navy as a prime contractor on firm fixed-price purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts, competing full-and-open without set-asides. The company is a subsidiary of Nibco Inc., headquartered in New Berlin, Wisconsin, with secondary manufacturing operations in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin.

Milwaukee Valve's federal footprint centers on valve manufacturing for defense logistics and naval fleet maintenance. Recent representative work includes a $209.1 million firm fixed-price purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (January 28, 2026) for 300 gate valves (NSN 4820015695855) with 150-day delivery; a $168.754 million order (January 9, 2026) for 20 gate valve units (NSN 4820005415697) to DLA Distribution San Diego with 90- to 413-day delivery windows; and a $156.850 million order (January 9, 2026) for 583 gate valves (NSN 4820015502881) with 158-day delivery to a DLA Distribution facility. The company also holds two single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Land and Maritime—one for $350,000 (awarded December 1, 2025) covering protective dust caps (NSN 5340008373711) with approximately 10 orders annually, and a predecessor IDC for $250,000 (awarded December 13, 2024) under which three delivery orders totaling $22.3 million have been placed since December 2024. Milwaukee Valve also serves Naval Supply Systems Command directly on valve procurements and the Department of Defense Aviation branch on fastener components.

Customer concentration is extreme and defensive-focused. DLA Land and Maritime dominates the portfolio—8,575 awards (74% of all awards) carrying $145.9 million in combined potential value. Naval Supply Systems Command accounts for 1,156 awards and $65.9 million. These two customers together represent 95% of awards and 95% of combined potential value. The remaining customer base (DLA main, DLA Troop Support, DoD Aviation) is negligible by comparison. The award distribution is transactional: the vast majority are small purchase orders under $200,000, not strategic contracts, reflecting the nature of military supply-chain replenishment ordering.

The company competes full-and-open on DLA and Navy BPAs and IDIQs. Top parent vehicles include Blanket Purchase Agreement N0010416A7000 (390 task orders, $4.8 million), Indefinite Delivery Contract SPRMM109DP005 (288 task orders, $3.4 million), Indefinite Delivery Contract SPM7MX07D7508 (230 task orders, $3.2 million), and Blanket Purchase Agreement N0010421AVZ01 (218 task orders, $3.2 million). These vehicles position Milwaukee Valve as a standing supplier on DLA and Navy inventory-replenishment vehicles rather than as a strategic partner on longer-duration consolidation contracts.

Activity has declined year over year. Awards per year fell from 915 (2022) to 793 (2024) to 567 (2025), with only 125 awards in 2026 year-to-date. Combined obligated dollars ($190.1 million) represent 83% of combined potential value across all awards, signaling consistent order flow. Within the next twenty-four months, 386 awards (combined potential value $12.7 million) reach ultimate completion, creating recompete exposure for both the vendor and its competitors on those DLA and Navy vehicles.

Milwaukee Valve subcontracts to Huntington Ingalls Incorporated on naval shipbuilding programs, with recent sub awards on LPD 30 amphibious transport dock (January 6 and November 18, 2025), CVN 80 aircraft carrier (September 8, 2025), and DDG 51 destroyer construction (July 25, 2025). The sub work focuses on valve and valve-component supply to major defense primes rather than systems integration.

The vendor's capability footprint is narrow and specialized: gate valves, globe valves, check valves, angle valves, stop-check valves, ball valves, disk valves, Y-valves, STEM fluid valves, valve seats, gaskets, packings, protective dust caps, and associated fasteners—all manufactured to federal specifications for naval and defense logistics applications. The company holds no civilian commercial contracts in the source data and no work with civilian agencies, making it a single-customer-segment supplier dependent on DLA and Navy replenishment ordering. NAICS concentration is 6,901 awards in Industrial Valve Manufacturing (PSC Valves, Nonpowered: 9,958 awards).

As a Nibco subsidiary with over 50 years of naval supplier history, Milwaukee Valve carries established credibility within the defense supply base but faces structural vulnerability: customer concentration, declining award velocity, and dependence on low-margin transactional purchase orders rather than strategic vehicles or long-term contracts. The recompete cliff of $12.7 million in the next twenty-four months is modest relative to the portfolio but material to cash flow given the small-order-value profile.