United Tactical Systems, LLC

United Tactical Systems, LLC, doing business as Pepperball Technologies, manufactures and supplies less-lethal pressurized air launching systems, projectiles, ammunition, and related accessories to federal law enforcement, border security, and correctional agencies as a prime contractor exclusively—803 awards across 123 customer agencies with combined potential value of $201.2 million. The company is a self-certified small disadvantaged business organized as a limited liability partnership, headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois, competing under Total Small Business set-asides on roughly 40% of its prime awards and full-and-open on the remainder.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of Homeland Security's border security and law enforcement components. DHS Customs and Border Protection leads by potential value with 43 awards worth $30.7 million; Immigration and Customs Enforcement follows with 21 awards worth $3.2 million. Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons facilities account for substantial volume—21 awards to Federal Correctional Complex Allenwood and 20 to United States Penitentiary Hazleton among them—but in small dollar increments per facility. Together, the top five customer entities represent 19% of combined potential value across the vendor's portfolio. The DHS Chief Procurement Officer aggregates 65 awards (mostly small-dollar facility purchases) for $2.9 million. United Tactical Systems serves correctional institutions, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Marshals Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Federal Protective Service among others.

The vendor holds two primary contract vehicles anchoring recent federal work. A $9 million single-award Total Small Business Indefinite Delivery Contract with CBP, awarded September 18, 2025, through September 17, 2030, covers less-lethal pressurized air launching systems with accessories, projectiles, and parts for use across DHS components including CBP, ICE, and the U.S. Secret Service; recent delivery orders issued under this IDC include a $1.249 million ICE order in February 2026 and a $174.4 thousand ATF order in July 2026. A $140 million Federal Supply Schedule contract with the General Services Administration (47QSMS25D00B0), awarded August 7, 2025, through August 6, 2030, covers less-lethal security products and law enforcement personal equipment under Special Item Number 332999; the schedule supports deliveries to correctional facilities, law enforcement training centers, and tactical operations units nationwide, with minimum orders of $100, maximum of $250,000, and Net 30 payment terms. The Multiple Award Schedule accounts for 445 task orders with $5 million combined potential value, dominated by small facility purchases. An older Indefinite Delivery Contract (70B06C20D00000028) generated 24 task orders worth $6.7 million before expiring; another (70B06C25D00000019) placed 16 task orders worth $5.7 million.

Award activity has remained stable over the past five years—averaging 19 awards annually from 2022 through 2026—with modest fluctuation from a high of 25 in 2022 to a low of 12 in 2024. Only five awards worth $3.8 million combined reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete exposure on the vendor's footprint. Work is performed at Lake Forest, Illinois (the company's primary manufacturing facility) and subordinate performance locations including Miami, Florida (Federal Detention Center) and field sites supporting Coast Guard and Marshals Service operations. The vendor's NAICS concentration reflects its product focus: 456 awards fall under All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing, 205 under Small Arms, Ordnance, and Ordnance Accessories Manufacturing, and 80 under Ammunition (except Small Arms) Manufacturing. PSC coding emphasizes Miscellaneous Ammunition (274 awards) and Miscellaneous Weapons (181 awards).

Pepperball Technologies' capability portfolio centers exclusively on less-lethal tactical equipment—pepperball launchers operating on 3000 PSI high-pressure air, .68-caliber projectiles in live, inert, PAVA (oleoresin capsicum with capsaicin), and powder training variants, ammunition, maintenance kits, and operator certification training. Recent representative contracts include a $3.53 million CBP delivery order for pepperball launchers and accessories (September 2026), a $1.249 million ICE order for less-lethal weapon options supporting crowd control training at Fort Benning, Georgia (February 2026), a $129.4 thousand ICE order for launchers and supplies supporting Detention and Removal Operations, Enforcement and Removal Operations, and Homeland Security Investigations (July 2026), and routine sub-$50,000 facility restocks across Bureau of Prisons locations for live rounds, inert projectiles, and launcher maintenance. The company manufactures minimum of 300 launchers per quarter under its CBP IDC and maintains operational temperature tolerances from -30 to 150 degrees Fahrenheit, supporting deployment across CONUS and overseas DHS components.