Scot Forge Company

Scot Forge Company, a Spring Grove, Illinois-based manufacturer of specialized forged steel and non-ferrous metal components, operates as a prime contractor and subcontractor to defense primes, delivering iron and steel forgings for naval propulsion, munitions, and aircraft platforms. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation with over 120 years of operational history, competing predominantly as a subcontractor (77% of recent awards) to large defense contractors rather than holding prime IDIQ vehicles; prime work is limited to definitive contracts and delivery orders, with no set-aside portfolio.

Scot Forge's customer concentration is heavily tilted toward Navy programs. The top five funding agencies account for 88% of awards by count. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) dominates the portfolio with 430 awards carrying $26.3 million in combined potential value, anchored by a single-award Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) with NAVSEA for INCONEL 625 forgings and castings extending through July 2029, from which Scot Forge issued a $3.55 million firm fixed-price delivery order in August 2025 for non-ferrous forging procurement supporting the Naval Foundry and Propeller Center. The Department of the Army Materiel Command's TACOM Life Cycle Management Command places 51 awards worth $26.5 million combined potential value, primarily muzzle brake forgings for the 155mm M776 and M284 cannons — representative awards include a $802 thousand definitive contract for 19 units of M776 muzzle brake forgings awarded April 2026 and a $1.1 million definitive contract for M284 muzzle brake forgings awarded January 2026. The Coast Guard, by contrast, places routine small-order purchases for forged steel components: an October 2025 Total Small Business order for six pieces of ABS Grade 2 round stock at $28.9 thousand and a February 2026 order for hydraulic flange couplings at $226.6 thousand.

Scot Forge's primary NAICS concentration is 332111 (Iron and Steel Forging), with secondary work in engineering services and ship building and repairing. The top three PSC codes reflect this: Iron and Steel Primary and Semifinished Products (45 awards), Guns 75mm through 125mm (28 awards), and Bars and Rods (26 awards). Recent prime work includes the August 2025 delivery order under the NAVIS BOA noted above and prime purchases from Coast Guard and Army across 2025 and 2026.

As a subcontractor, Scot Forge delivers forgings to Electric Boat Corporation (the dominant sub-prime relationship), Huntington Ingalls, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems Land & Armaments, Bell Textron, General Atomics, and Triad National Security. Electric Boat sub work centers on long-lead material for SSN-814, SSN-804, and SSBN-826 submarine construction, with recurring sub awards throughout 2024, 2025, and early 2026. Bell Textron sub work focuses on forged components (carrier, gear, and bevel forgings) for the Future Vertical Lift (FLRAA) program, with multiple sub awards issued in 2024 and 2025. Lockheed Martin sub work includes forged substrates for Precision Strike Missile (PRSM) development and Advanced Cruise Missiles. Space Launch System (SLS) booster work flows through Aerojet Rocketdyne and ATK Launch Systems. Triad National Security engages Scot Forge for industrial fixtures and design/construction services in support of Los Alamos National Laboratory operations under multiple sub awards from November 2024 through May 2025. Additionally, Scot Forge received a federal grant sub-award from the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences in June 2024 for work optimizing thermomechanical equipment reliability and maintainability.

Activity has accelerated sharply over the past five years, growing from 52 awards in 2022 to 301 awards in 2024 before a data-collection or reporting shift reduced the 2025 and 2026 counts (56 and 12 awards respectively). Notably, while Scot Forge reports $59.8 million in combined potential value across all 747 awards, obligated dollars total $288 million — a 482% ratio indicating substantial prior fulfillment and ongoing invoicing against existing contracts. Only four awards with a combined potential value of $5.5 million face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The broad sub-prime footprint and lack of large standalone IDIQs position Scot Forge as a deep-tier supplier to tier-one defense platforms — particularly naval and artillery systems — rather than as a direct customer-facing prime.

Scot Forge is an employee-owned, US manufacturer of forgings since 1893. As a small business, we serve multiple industries including national defense, ordnance, mining, aerospace, infrastructure, power generation and more. From ferrous and non-ferrous forgings, through heat treat, machining, metallurgical analysis, destructive and non-destructive testing to R&D, forge engineering, simulation modeling and conversions from castings and fabrications to forgings, our team has a proven track record in serving our military's toughest metal challenges, all while meeting budgetary and timeline deliverables.