Soldier Systems D-Mil, LLC

Soldier Systems D-Mil, LLC, a Gilsum, New Hampshire–based veteran-owned small business certified as both VOSB and SDVOSB, operates exclusively as a prime contractor providing germanium scrap recycling and advanced materials processing services to the Defense Logistics Agency's Strategic Materials division. The company competes full-and-open, without set-aside designations, on the basis of specialized technical capabilities in high-purity germanium refining.

Soldier Systems D-Mil's capability portfolio centers entirely on collecting germanium scrap—including complex germanium-containing materials with specialized coatings such as diamond-like carbon or thorium tetrafluoride—and processing it through advanced zone-refining techniques to produce high-purity polycrystalline germanium ingots meeting military specifications of 99.999% minimum purity by mass. Work is performed at the contractor's primary facility in Gilsum, New Hampshire, and subordinate operations at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The company has delivered this service exclusively through a single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with DLA Strategic Materials valued at $10.2 million, established October 1, 2021, and running through September 30, 2026. Since award of the base BPA, DLA Strategic Materials has issued seven task orders totaling $7.9 million in obligated dollars, with individual call orders ranging from $155,312 to $2.23 million. Recent representative task orders include a $2.23 million germanium recycling call awarded February 10, 2025, with completion by September 30, 2026; a $1.36 million call awarded July 2, 2024, through January 31, 2026; and a $983,941 zone-refining task order awarded August 28, 2023, through April 1, 2025.

Customer concentration is complete: DLA Strategic Materials accounts for all eight awards in the vendor's footprint and the full $18.1 million in combined potential value. Activity is modest and episodic—one award per year in 2021 and 2022, three in 2023, one in 2024, and two in 2025—with $7.3 million obligated against $18.1 million potential value. Two awards (combined potential value $2.3 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore expose the vendor to recompete risk in that window. Soldier Systems D-Mil maintains no subcontractor footprint; all work is performed by the prime.

Germanium Reclamation, Strategic materials Reclamation, Tungsten