Thread-Craft, LLC

Thread-Craft, LLC, a for-profit small-business manufacturer based in Sterling Heights, Michigan, designs, manufactures, and overhauls precision mechanical components for naval radar systems as a prime contractor exclusively — all 65 awards in the portfolio are prime contracts with no subcontract work. The company operates under a single-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with the Naval Sea Systems Command, originally solicited as a 100 percent small business set-aside and valued at $3.19 million through March 21, 2028, but competes individual delivery orders under that IDIQ in unrestricted environments without set-aside designations.

Thread-Craft's capability footprint centers on evaluation, overhaul, and new manufacture of elevation drive ball screw assemblies and related components for the AN/SPS-49 naval radar system, a critical air-search radar deployed across the U.S. Navy fleet. Recent representative work includes a $50,195 delivery order issued January 29, 2026 for evaluation, overhaul, and new manufacture of AN/SPS-49 elevation drive ball screw assemblies; a $43,775 delivery order from April 21, 2025 for radar restoration and depot maintenance supporting the SPS-49 evaluation program; and a $50,350 delivery order from September 25, 2024 for assembly evaluation and new manufacturing. All work is performed at the company's Sterling Heights facility. Primary NAICS categories are Mechanical Power Transmission Equipment Manufacturing (36 awards) and Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing (24 awards); primary PSC is Radar Equipment, Except Airborne (27 awards).

Customer concentration is extreme and narrow. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command accounts for 52 awards (80% of total count) and $7 million combined potential value (57% of total dollars). The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation represents the second-largest customer at 3 awards and $5 million potential value, followed by the Naval Supply Systems Command at 5 awards and $148 thousand. Five agencies account for 98% of awards. Thread-Craft holds positions on four Navy IDIQs: Indefinite Delivery Contract N0016423DWP94 (the current primary vehicle with 8 task orders, $235 thousand potential value), N0016413DGR43 (20 task orders, $606 thousand), N0016405D8921 (23 task orders, $254 thousand), and N0016418DWP42 (5 task orders, $68 thousand).

Activity has contracted significantly from prior years. The source shows one award in 2022, four in 2023, three in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026 year-to-date — a steep decline from earlier volume. Only one award (potential value $50 thousand) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating minimal recompete exposure in that window. The combined potential value across all 65 awards is $12.2 million, with only $1.4 million obligated (12% execution rate), indicating a large backlog of unexercised task order capacity under the IDIQ structure. The company has a long federal history — first award in 2005 — but has become increasingly specialized in a narrow range of components and a single customer over the past three years.

Manufacturer of precision ballscrews and leadscrews, spindles, worm and worm gears. Precision industrial and aircraft/aerospace markets. In business since 1958, with world-class thread-grinding capabilities. Largest ballscrew repair facility in USA.