The Hiller Companies LLC

The Hiller Companies LLC, doing business as Hiller Investments, supplies fire protection equipment and technical services to federal maritime agencies as a prime contractor, with a specialized focus on fire detection systems, fire suppression components, self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) services, and commissioning support for Coast Guard and Navy vessels. The company is a small business based in Chesapeake, Virginia, operating as a subsidiary of The Hiller Companies, LLC parent entity headquartered in Mobile, Alabama. Hiller Investments competes predominantly in full-and-open federal procurements with no set-aside designations across its prime portfolio.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward maritime defense agencies. The Department of the Navy Military Sealift Command anchors the portfolio—614 awards valued at $71.4 million combined potential value (69% of dollars across the top five customers)—reflecting Hiller's established role as a preferred supplier for fire safety equipment and SCBA services aboard MSC's global vessel fleet. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Construction and Equipment follows with 712 awards but only $6.9 million combined value, indicating high transaction volume with much smaller individual procurements. The Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard (121 awards, $5.9 million), Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (453 awards, $3.5 million), and Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (202 awards, $1.5 million) round out the active set. Together these five agencies represent 62% of award count and 86% of combined potential value.

Hiller holds two primary indefinite-delivery vehicles anchoring its MSC work: a $7.1 million multiple-award IDIQ established November 2023 running through November 2028 for worldwide self-contained breathing apparatus services (inspection, testing, repair, and certification in accordance with American Bureau of Shipping standards), and a $1.885 million single-award IDIQ from the Coast Guard awarded July 2023 through July 2033 for fire and smoke alarm systems on 175-foot Waterway Lifeboats. Delivery orders flow from these vehicles regularly—representative recent work includes a $482 thousand delivery order from MSC in March 2026 for fire protection annual services at Trenton, Carson City, and Newport facilities; a $279 thousand purchase order from US Fleet Forces Command Atlantic Fleet in May 2026 for TSV fire detection system design covering three vessels (Prevail, Hunter, Narragansett); and a $131 thousand delivery order from the Department of the Navy in June 2026 for firefighting systems service aboard the USNS T-AO in South Korea. The company also places orders under Defense Logistics Agency Multiple Award Schedule (435 task orders, $4.9 million combined value) and several specialized MSFSC vehicles.

Activity has declined year over year—131 awards in 2022 to 38 in 2026 (through September)—but the decline reflects a shift in contract structuring rather than customer loss; the majority of work now flows through larger delivery orders under the two primary IDIQs rather than discrete purchase orders. The recompete exposure window is minimal: only four awards with completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $199 thousand, indicating stable incumbent relationships across the MSC and Coast Guard vehicles driving the portfolio.

The company operates primarily as a prime contractor (99% of awards) with minimal subcontractor engagement. When subcontracting, Hiller supplies fire protection components and technical services to major defense shipbuilders including Huntington Ingalls, BAE Systems Maritime Solutions (Norfolk and San Diego), Crowley Government Services, and Metro Machine Corp. on Navy vessel availabilities and maintenance work—examples include fire system components supplied to Huntington Ingalls for CVN 80 work, firefighting annual support to Crowley for government-owned maritime prepositioning force vessels, and fire protection system repairs aboard USS Carter Hall (LSD 50) for BAE Systems Maritime Solutions Norfolk.

Hiller's capability portfolio is narrowly focused on fire safety infrastructure for federal maritime operations. The company supplies standard fire protection equipment—fire extinguishers, CO2 and halon cylinders, detection and alarm panels, sprinkler heads, valves, and related components—sourced through Defense Logistics Agency supply channels and fulfilled against spot purchase orders. More significantly, Hiller delivers specialized maritime fire system services: SCBA inspection, testing, repair, and certification for MSC fleets worldwide; fire detection system design and engineering (TSV class vessels); commissioning and technical training for fire alarm installations on Coast Guard cutters; and annual fire system maintenance and grooming aboard active vessels operating in foreign ports (Spain, Philippines, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Sweden). The company's NAICS concentration (957 awards in All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing, 451 in Ship Building and Repairing) and PSC concentration (1,415 awards in Fire Fighting Equipment, 320 in Non-Nuclear Ship Repair, 228 in Miscellaneous Alarm/Signal/Security Detection Systems) reinforce a maritime-first, fire-protection-specialized positioning.

Service Contract Inventory reporting shows minimal federal service contract revenue captured above the $150,000 threshold—only one SCI record in FY2025 as a named subcontractor, yielding 1.3 reported FTEs. This figure does not represent Hiller's total federal services workforce; SCI is a partial and conservative view of federal service-contract activity, excluding goods and product sales that dominate this vendor's portfolio. The company's actual federal engagement is substantially larger than SCI figures reflect, concentrated in goods procurement and technical services for maritime fire protection.