John Johnson Company

John Johnson Company, doing business as Detroit Cover, manufactures fitted vehicle covers, tarpaulins, storage bags, and related protective fabric solutions for the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency. The company competes full-and-open with no set-aside posture on the vast majority of awards, though one $250,000 IDC carries a Total Small Business set-aside designation.

Detroit Cover is a for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Romulus, Michigan, with manufacturing and operational facilities in Brownstown Township, Michigan. The vendor's federal footprint is almost entirely concentrated with the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (205 awards, $9.2 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Army (179 awards, $10 billion combined potential value), accounting for 81% of recent awards. The scale disparity between these two customers is stark: the Army's $10 billion potential value dwarfs DLA Land and Maritime's $9.2 million, signaling that Detroit Cover holds at least one large Army vehicle-protection IDC that anchors the customer concentration and likely represents a multi-year, high-volume supply arrangement. DLA's role centers on smaller, more frequent purchase orders and delivery orders for tarpaulins and fitted covers distributed through Defense Logistics Agency depots to support global military logistics requirements.

Detroit Cover's recent work under DLA Land and Maritime includes a $1.86 million firm fixed-price delivery order awarded May 14, 2026, for fitted vehicle covers; a $40 thousand Total Small Business purchase order for 77 tarpaulin units awarded July 29, 2025; a $10.3 thousand purchase order for fitted vehicle covers awarded June 26, 2025; and a $124.6 thousand purchase order for 254 tarpaulin units awarded December 13, 2022. The vendor currently holds five active IDCs with DLA Land and Maritime, each valued at $250,000 with performance periods running through 2026, under which delivery orders are issued on an as-needed basis. The oldest IDC (contract 4610094028) spans September 2022 to September 2023; the newest (contract 4610125382) runs August 2025 through August 2026 and anticipates approximately 12 delivery orders annually with a guaranteed minimum of 3 units per order.

Activity has remained modest and relatively flat — one to six awards annually from 2022 through 2026 — with a recent uptick in 2025 (six awards). The combined potential value of $10.01 billion reflects the Army IDC holding; combined dollars obligated stand at $86.7 million, representing only 1% of potential value and indicating that the majority of ceiling authority remains unexercised. Place of performance for all named awards is Brownstown Township, Michigan. The vendor operates as a full-and-open prime with no subcontractor footprint in the source data, relying entirely on internal manufacturing capacity to fulfill delivery orders and IDC task orders across domestic and overseas Defense Logistics Agency distribution centers.

MISCELLANEOUS CANVAS ITEMS, FLAT TARPAULINS, AWNINGS, TRUCK TARPAULINS, STRAPS AND STRAP WEBBING, MILITARY PRODUCTS (CARGO COVERS, BOW& COVER KITS, HMMWV ACCESSORIES, CUSHIONS), AUTOMOTIVE PACKAGING AND ANTI-MUTILATION PRODUCTS.