Product Innovation And Engineering LLC

Product Innovation And Engineering LLC, doing business as Pine, is a woman-owned and minority-owned small business based in St. James, Missouri that delivers aerospace and defense research, development, test, and evaluation services to the Navy as a prime contractor on 100% of its recent awards. Pine holds SBA certifications as a Woman-Owned Small Business and is minority-owned (Asian-Pacific American) and structured as a limited liability company; the vendor competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides and federal research-phase programs (SBIR and STTR).

Pine's customer footprint is concentrated almost entirely within the Department of the Navy. The Naval Air Warfare Center (under Naval Air Systems Command) accounts for 15 of 23 awards and $10.2 million of the combined $10.5 million potential value across all recent activity. The Office of Naval Research holds two additional awards valued at $272 thousand, while the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy Office of Science each contribute secondary activity with no specified individual award ceilings in the source. Recent representative work includes a $1.385 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive research and development contract awarded by Naval Air Warfare Center on December 4, 2025 (set-aside Total Small Business, completion scheduled December 20, 2028); a $1.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee research and development contract awarded January 19, 2024 by Naval Air Warfare Center (Total Small Business set-aside, completion March 31, 2027); and a $32,500 firm-fixed-price purchase order from the Office of Naval Research on February 4, 2026 for the purchase and installation of a laser safe enclosure (completion March 30, 2026). Pine's work sits within NAICS 541712 (Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) and historically spans SBIR Phase I and II awards, STTR Phase I awards, and applied research focused on aviation capabilities and aerospace technologies for Navy and Marine Corps missions.

Activity has been sparse and volatile — one award in 2021, two in 2022, no activity in 2023, two in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026 — with only one award (the $1.3 million Naval Air Warfare Center contract) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and facing recompete risk. Combined obligated dollars ($13.6 million) exceed combined potential value ($10.5 million), indicating that some awards have drawn down their ceiling or received option exercises beyond their original award value.

The Product Innovation and Engineering, LLC (or PINE) is an advanced rapid manufacturing system provider. Our main focus has been on providing industries who desperately need to cut down their total cost of manufacturing procedures.