SAI Industries

SAI Industries Standard Armament Inc. Division, doing business as Standard Armament, manufactures specialized ammunition handling equipment and components for military logistics and weapons systems as a prime contractor on 1,145 recent awards (99% of activity) and as a subcontractor on defense platforms operated by BAE Systems and Boeing. The company is a for-profit manufacturer based in Glendale, California, with over seventy years of experience in the firearms and defense industries. Standard Armament competes across the full spectrum of small business set-asides—Total Small Business, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, and HUBZone—and holds a portfolio of single-award indefinite delivery contracts, predominantly set-aside vehicles, that anchor recurring task order activity.

Standard Armament's capability footprint centers on precision ammunition handling components and assembly: ammunition chutes, chute sections and assemblies (40mm variants included), end fittings (exit and ejection styles), adapters, track assemblies, latch assemblies, feed chute links, box end assemblies, automatic feeders, and related ordnance accessories. Representative prime work includes a $1.255 million definitive contract from TACOM Life Cycle Management Command for 292 ammunition chutes with option (awarded April 2026), a $1.111 million definitive contract from TACOM for 536 ammunition chutes in support of Ukraine (awarded June 2024), and a $385,900 delivery order from TACOM for ammunition chutes (awarded June 2023). Recent small purchase orders from Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime range from $1,610 to $163,350 and cover discrete requirements for chute assemblies, track assemblies, adapters, and automatic feeders. In the subcontractor role, Standard Armament supplies electro-hydro-mechanical components to Boeing on Apache helicopter advanced procurement and production lots and to BAE Systems on Bradley A4 follow-on production; these sub relationships span from 2024 through October 2025.

Customer concentration is extreme: Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for 775 awards (67% of recent count) valued at $20.2 million combined potential, dominating both volume and dollars by a margin that dwarfs other customers. The top five funding agencies by count—DLA Land and Maritime, DLA (consolidated), Department of the Navy, Department of the Army, and TACOM—cover 83% of awards. By dollar value, DLA Land and Maritime and TACOM account for $31.5 million combined (59% of total potential value), followed by Department of the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal ($12.1 million), and naval commands Navy Sea Systems Command and Naval Air Systems Command (combined $5.6 million). This concentration reflects Standard Armament's embedded role as a critical supplier within DLA's ammunition handling supply chain.

Standard Armament holds a portfolio of over thirty active indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Land and Maritime and DLA Aviation, primarily single-award vehicles valued at $250 thousand to $350 thousand each, set aside for Total Small Business, Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business, or Woman-Owned Small Business. Recent IDCs awarded include contracts on May 27, 2026 ($350 thousand, Total Small Business, ammunition chutes); April 20, 2026 ($350 thousand, no set-aside, chute sections); April 14, 2026 ($350 thousand, Total Small Business, chute sections); and March 31, 2026 ($350 thousand, Total Small Business, box end assemblies). Task orders issued against these vehicles range from sub-$1,000 to $65,010 and are issued on firm fixed-price basis multiple times per year per vehicle (estimated frequency from three to twelve orders annually depending on the specific IDC). All performance occurs in Glendale, California, with delivery to DLA depots throughout CONUS and OCONUS consolidation points.

Activity has contracted modestly year over year—from 57 awards in 2022 to 14 in 2026 (through late May), reflecting the natural variability of small task-order purchasing patterns rather than a sustained decline. Only one award faces recompete within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $1.3 million), indicating Standard Armament's contracts are predominantly in early or mid-term of their performance periods. The preponderance of awards cluster under NAICS 332994 (Small Arms, Ordnance, and Ordnance Accessories Manufacturing) and PSC code Guns, Through 30mm, with secondary concentration in Other Ordnance and Accessories Manufacturing, reflecting the vendor's core business in ammunition component supply.

Standard Armament's federal footprint is entirely ammunition-handling and ordnance-focused, with no IT, professional services, or engineering work in the visible award record. The vendor operates as a direct supplier into DLA's logistics network and as a subsystem component supplier to large primes on tactical vehicle and rotary-wing platforms. Competitive positioning favors small business set-asides and DLA's recurring task-order cadence rather than full-and-open competition or large prime integrator relationships.