R.m. Young Company LLC

R.M. Young Company LLC, a for-profit limited liability company and manufacturer of professional meteorological instruments based in Traverse City, Michigan, operates as a prime contractor supplying specialized weather monitoring equipment and sensors to federal civilian and defense agencies, competing predominantly full-and-open rather than under set-aside categories.

R.M. Young manufactures anemometers, wind monitors, radiation shields, propeller sensors, and replacement parts for meteorological measurement systems used in scientific research, environmental monitoring, and operational weather forecasting. The company's portfolio centers on two concrete capability areas: instruments (3-D sonic anemometers, ultrasonic anemometers, propeller anemometers, wind measuring sets, rain gauges, barometers, and weather transmitters) and replacement or repair components (bearings, nose cones, propeller assemblies, shafts, and sensor elements). Representative prime awards include a $375,886.90 delivery order from NOAA for radiation shields used in the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) sensor sustainment project (part of a $2.8 million single-award IDV running through June 2028), a $95,680.56 purchase order from NOAA for twenty-two 81000RE 3-D sonic anemometers with 1% wind speed accuracy, a $72,893 purchase order from NOAA for fifty CMAN refresh propeller anemometers for the National Data Buoy Center, and a $61,685 definitive contract from the Procurement Management Division for anemometers supporting the National Wind Erosion Research Network.

Customer concentration is extreme. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration dominates the footprint, accounting for 102 awards (27% of total prime portfolio) and $6.6 million (59% of combined potential value across all customers). The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation places 61 awards valued at $736 thousand, followed by the Department of the Army Test and Evaluation Command (31 awards, $589 thousand) and the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region (16 awards, $530 thousand). Together, these four customers account for 58% of awards and 76% of combined potential value. NOAA's concentration is driven by recurring ASOS sensor sustainment and National Data Buoy Center deliveries, while DLA Aviation awards are numerous but individually small (typically $3,000–$13,000 per delivery order for wind measuring sets). The vendor serves forty-five distinct federal agencies overall, reflecting broad access but narrow dollar concentration.

R.M. Young holds positions on multiple indefinite delivery vehicles. A $2.8 million single-award IDV with NOAA (awarded July 2023, running through June 2028) anchors TRH radiation shields procurement and has generated nine delivery orders totaling approximately $1 million in combined potential value. An unspecified single-award IDV with DLA Aviation (ceiling $250 thousand, valid through August 2026) has generated recurring delivery orders for wind measuring sets. The vendor also operates under a blanket purchase agreement (DOCQA133008BR0011) generating ten task orders and several other single-award IDCs with Army and Navy commands. All named vehicles are single-award, and the vendor does not appear on government-wide acquisition contracts or multi-agency vehicles.

Award activity has declined materially in recent years. The vendor recorded fourteen awards in 2022, ten in 2023, eleven in 2024, five in 2025, and two through mid-2026. Only two awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months are visible in the portfolio, carrying combined potential value of $157 thousand; minimal recompete exposure is evident at this scale. The vendor's award footprint spans 1991 to September 2026, with combined potential value of $11.2 million across 377 prime awards and $7.8 million obligated (70% of potential). Product concentration is concentrated in meteorological instruments (235 of 277 awards under NAICS 334516 Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing) and laboratory equipment supplies, with no significant defense prime exposure outside DLA and Army test-and-evaluation channels.