Spaulding Composites Inc.

Spaulding Composites Inc., doing business as Spaulding Acquisition Co Inc., manufactures precision composite and machined parts for military optical, thermal, and weapons systems as a subcontractor (85% of recent awards) on DoD platforms, with selective prime capability in small-business R&D. The company, headquartered in Rochester, New Hampshire, operates as a for-profit manufacturer under primary NAICS 334290 (Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing) and competes almost entirely outside set-aside vehicles — its single prime award was a small-business SBIR Phase I contract from the Defense Logistics Agency.

Spaulding's recent work centers on machined composite and metal components for fielded weapons systems. Its prime footprint is minimal: one $97,894.96 Small Business SBIR Phase I contract with the Defense Logistics Agency's Troop Support office, awarded August 2022, for development of the INSUROX T-768 spacer part (completion August 2023). Its subcontractor role dominates the portfolio — 28 awards (85%) since 2008, with explosive recent growth: one award in 2022, seven in 2024, and eighteen in 2025. Sub work consists almost entirely of five-year requirements contracts (LTC) for AN/PEQ-15 infrared illuminator chassis, gear faces, adjusters, and flexure assemblies; ENVG-B (Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular) thermal-objective housings, retainers, and focus stops; and binocular night-vision device spare parts and repair services.

Army Materiel Command at Detroit Arsenal accounts for 20 awards (61% of volume) with no disclosed dollar value. The Army's Program Executive Officer Soldier placed 6 awards. Navy Naval Air Systems Command placed 3 awards ($24 thousand combined potential value). The Defense Logistics Agency's single prime award ($98 thousand) sits at 78% of the company's disclosed potential value ($126 thousand total across all awards); obligated dollars ($2.8 million) far exceed potential value, indicating heavy baseline and option exercising on recurring-part requirements contracts. The gap between top-customers-by-count (Army-dominated) and top-customers-by-potential-value (DLA prime anchoring dollars) reflects Spaulding's role as a high-volume component supplier on Army programs with light contract ceilings and heavy operational invoicing.

Spaulding subcontracts to unidentified prime contractors on all 28 sub awards; the source does not name parent primes, though the specificity of the component SKUs (AN/PEQ-15 assemblies, ENVG-B optics, night-vision housings) and the concentration at Army Materiel Command suggest teaming with large defense primes in the optics and weapons-systems integration space. Activity is recent and accelerating — no awards between 2014 and 2022, then ramping sharply through 2025 — with all sub awards issued in the past eighteen months requiring two-year or longer completion horizons, indicating pipeline visibility into FY 2027 and beyond.