Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company (California Llc)

Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company (California Llc), doing business as Pacific Scientific, manufactures specialized pyrotechnic and energetic material solutions for military aircraft, ordnance systems, and defense platforms as a prime contractor with no set-aside designations across a full-and-open competitive posture. The company is a child entity within a larger parent organization (Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Co California LLC), based in Hollister, California, and operates across NAICS 325920 (Explosives Manufacturing) and PSC 1377 (Cartridge and Propellant Actuated Devices and Components), with primary work in detonators, detonating cords, initiators, shaped charges, and aircraft egress system components for Navy and Air Force platforms.

Pacific Scientific's customer concentration sits overwhelmingly with the Department of the Navy and Department of the Air Force. The Naval Sea Systems Command leads by award count with 299 awards ($299.7 million combined potential value), while the Air Force Materiel Command's Ogden Air Logistics Complex dominates by dollar value with 86 awards carrying $382.1 million combined potential value—together these two customers account for 96% of combined potential value. Naval Supply Systems Command, Naval Air Systems Command, and Hill Air Force Base round out the top tier. The vendor serves 39 distinct customer agencies overall, though the concentration with Navy and Air Force ordnance and aircraft sustainment is pronounced.

Pacific Scientific holds three major indefinite delivery vehicles anchoring its prime footprint: a $99 million single-award contract with Ogden Air Logistics Complex (awarded September 2025) for egress components supporting B-1 bombers, C-17 cargo aircraft, T-6 trainers, and Navy platforms running through December 2031; a $93 million single-award IDV with Ogden for F-35 Transparency Removal System parts (awarded September 2021, completion January 2028); and a $1.69 million energetics research and test services contract with Naval Sea Systems Command (awarded September 2022, completion September 2025). Recent task orders under these vehicles include a $24.5 million September 2025 delivery order from Ogden for C-17 and T-6 egress systems, a $13.2 million January 2026 order for T-6 aircraft egress systems, and a $12.4 million September 2025 order supporting C-17 and T-6 platforms. The top parent vehicle by task order count is the Tri-Services Aircrew Escape Systems LCMS with 43 task orders generating $5 million combined potential value. Beyond these vehicles, Pacific Scientific also places work under Indefinite Delivery Contract FA821317D0009 (15 task orders, $10.4 million combined potential value) and several other Air Force and Navy IDV arrangements.

Recent definitive contracts underscore Pacific Scientific's specialization in explosive ordnance components. Naval Sea Systems Command awarded a $19.8 million contract in April 2025 for AH-64 Apache canopy severance assemblies (MS94, MS95, MS96, MS97 models), a $6.7 million September 2025 contract for shielded mild detonating cord sets, a $7.5 million March 2025 contract for ordnance components (WB54, WB55, WB56), a $4.7 million January 2022 contract for T-6 trainer mechanically actuated initiators, and a $5.8 million September 2022 repair contract for shielded mild detonating cords. Ogden Air Logistics Complex awarded a $2.6 million September 2024 contract for F-15 shielded mild detonation cord lines and a $2.99 million May 2023 contract for F-35 Transparency Removal System parts. A $1.29 million March 2026 award from Naval Sea Systems Command covers specialized explosive ordnance components (MD33, MD36, SS45, SS46 configurations) with delivery through January 2029.

Pacific Scientific subcontracts with precision machining and composite firms to support production. Swissmetric Inc., a HUBZone-certified woman-owned and veteran-owned small business, supplies machined components including damping shafts, locking pistons, release housings, initiator shafts, and rod ends across multiple contracts. North Alabama Composite Company Inc., a woman-owned small business, and Performance Polymer Technologies LLC provide composite fabrication and polymer components on the AH-64 canopy severance contract. Additional subs include Southwest Precision Machining (service-disabled veteran-owned), Nor-Cal Supply Co., Bay Precision Machining (woman-owned), Heinz Engineering (minority-owned), and IMG Companies for safe and arm housings. As a subcontractor to primes, Pacific Scientific delivers energetic materials and ordnance components to Lockheed Martin, The Boeing Company, Raytheon Company, Northrop Grumman, Peraton Inc., Aerojet Rocketdyne, Nammo Defense Systems, and Bell Textron on weapons system integration, PAC-3 missile production, THAAD sustainment, Apache and T-7 development, and NASA sounding rocket operations.

Activity has grown substantially from 35 awards in 2022 to 45 in 2024, with 32 awards in 2025 and 4 recorded in the first months of 2026. Twenty awards with combined potential value of $74.2 million face completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting significant recompete exposure. The parent entity's award footprint spans 861 total awards (766 prime, 95 sub) valued at $778.5 million combined potential value, with 111% of potential value already obligated, indicating strong dollar execution and sustained customer demand. Pacific Scientific competes exclusively full-and-open, with no set-aside utilization, reflecting the specialized and often sole-source or limited-competition nature of pyrotechnic and ordnance manufacturing for defense platforms.