NWI Precision Tube Ulc.

NWI Precision Tube ULC, a Canadian manufacturer of precision aircraft components, operates as a subcontractor (75% of recent awards) on U.S. Navy rotorcraft platforms, with a smaller footprint of direct DoD prime contracts. The company is a for-profit corporate entity headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with manufacturing at 2323 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, Ontario.

NWI Precision Tube ULC supplies precision-welded and machined tube assemblies, connectors, and mast components for defense rotorcraft. Recent prime work includes a $712,112 definitive contract awarded by Naval Supply Systems Command on June 8, 2026, for barrel assembly air components (completion June 8, 2027), and an earlier $537,600 purchase order from the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime division for piston connectors (awarded November 18, 2021, completed February 26, 2024). The company's substantive volume flows through subcontracts with Bell Boeing Joint Project Office and Bell Textron Inc. on V-22 Osprey production and sustenance — NWI supplies main rotor mast assemblies, mast poles, and long-lead-time mast subassemblies. Twenty-one of twenty-eight total awards (75%) are sub-awards concentrated on V-22 platforms; sub-work awards cluster in mid-2024 through mid-2026, with contract modifications and task orders across V-22 production lots and performance-based logistics sustainment.

Customer concentration is narrow and defense-focused. The Department of the Navy (via Naval Supply Systems Command and Naval Air Systems Command) and the Defense Logistics Agency (Aviation and Land and Maritime divisions) account for all twenty-eight awards. NAICS concentration aligns with the product mix: Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (17 awards) and Aircraft Manufacturing (9 awards) dominate the portfolio; PSC coding reflects aircraft launching and landing equipment. The top parent vehicles are an indefinite delivery contract (N0038322DZV01) supporting 11 task orders and two basic ordering agreements (SPRPA121G001W with 6 task orders and N0001922G0002 with 1 task order), all within the Navy and DLA ecosystem.

Activity accelerated notably between 2021 and 2026 — one award each in 2020 and 2021, then 7 in 2024 and 12 in 2025 — reflecting increased V-22 production and sustainment volume. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $2.3 million, but combined obligated dollars reach $16.4 million (726% of potential value), indicating that invoice-to-ceiling ratios on task orders and purchase orders substantially exceed initial ceiling estimates. Only one award ($712 thousand) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete exposure. The subcontracting relationship with Bell Boeing and Bell Textron anchors NWI's federal business; there is no discernible full-and-open or set-aside prime pipeline beyond the two named NAVSUP and DLA direct awards.