Penn State Tool & Die Corp

Penn State Tool & Die Corp, a for-profit precision-manufacturing small business based in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, manufactures machined metal components and hardware for federal defense customers as a prime contractor on 91% of recent awards, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides. The company has been registered as a federal contractor since 2001 and holds a $5.5 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command established in August 2021, running through August 2026, for miscellaneous hardware under Federal Supply Class 5340.

Penn State Tool & Die's customer concentration is entirely Navy-centric. The top five customer agencies account for 84% of recent awards by count and 100% by combined potential value, led by the Naval Supply Systems Command (34 awards, $12.4 million combined potential value), the Department of the Navy broadly (20 awards, $6.3 million), the Naval Air Warfare Center (4 awards, $5.7 million), the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (14 awards, $3 million), and the Naval Sea Systems Command (7 awards, $138 thousand). The two rankings track identically — the Naval Supply Systems Command dominates both volume and dollars — reflecting the company's deep specialization in Navy component supply.

The capability portfolio centers on aircraft carrier and naval equipment manufacturing: retractable deck sheaves for CVN-80 ($3.9 million definitive contract, May 2023), aircraft cylinder covers ($2.8 million definitive contract, May 2023), shaft assemblies for aircraft launch and recovery equipment ($759 thousand purchase order, January 2026), fairleads and sheaves ($476 thousand, May 2024), and miscellaneous hardware components including gland volumes, O-rings, and fasteners. Representative recent awards include a $759 thousand total small business purchase order from the Defense Logistics Agency for shaft assemblies with delivery through March 2027, a $476 thousand DLA purchase order for fairleads and sheaves completing December 2026, and a $100 thousand total small business purchase order from DLA for tube couplings completing September 2027.

Activity has contracted modestly — seven awards in 2024 declining to three in 2026 year-to-date — with six awards (combined potential value $4.3 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and facing recompete exposure. Penn State Tool & Die subcontracts as a machining and assembly supplier to Curtiss-Wright Electro-Mechanical Corporation on motor refurbishment and alternating current motor components, with eight sub-awards since February 2024. The company's work operates under Navy-specific indefinite-delivery vehicles, including Indefinite Delivery Contract N6833503D0002 (3 task orders, $6.3 million combined potential value) and multiple basic ordering agreements, rather than government-wide acquisition contracts or civilian agency vehicles.