Uusi, LLC

Uusi, LLC (doing business as Nartron), a veteran-owned, HUBZone-certified small business manufacturer based in Reed City, Michigan, supplies specialized electronic components and control systems to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on 99% of its federal awards. The company manufactures directional controls, remote control switches, indicator lights, switch assemblies, and relay horns for military aviation, land vehicle, and maritime platforms, delivered under firm fixed-price delivery orders and purchase orders issued by the Defense Logistics Agency.

Uusi's customer base is concentrated almost entirely within DLA. The top five customer entities account for 87% of recent awards, dominated by DLA Land and Maritime (206 awards, $65.3 million combined potential value) and DLA Aviation (155 awards, $61.2 million combined potential value), with DLA's broader component organization, DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment, and the Department of the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal rounding out the active set. The dollar concentration tracks the award count closely—DLA Land and Maritime and DLA Aviation together represent 82% of combined potential value at $126.5 million. Representative prime work includes a $2.68 million HUBZone Sole Source definitive contract from DLA Aviation in January 2025 for directional control components, a $1.17 million firm fixed-price delivery order from DLA Aviation in September 2025 for directional controls, and a $619.9 million delivery order from DLA Land and Maritime in October 2025 for remote control switches. Uusi holds five active single-award indefinite delivery vehicles with DLA, including a $12.3 million IDV for directional controls with DLA Aviation (awarded November 2023, running through November 2028) and a $25 million IDV for remote control switches with DLA Land and Maritime. Three smaller IDVs valued at $250,000 each cover indicator lights and directional controls on Total Small Business set-aside terms with DLA Aviation.

Activity has remained stable over the past five years—10 awards in 2022 through 15 in 2025—with 659 total prime and sub awards in the source portfolio. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $167.1 million, with $96.5 million (58%) obligated to date. Award scope is narrow by design: the vendor's top five NAICS codes center on vehicular lighting equipment manufacturing (95 awards), instruments manufacturing for industrial process variables (70 awards), motor vehicle electrical and electronic equipment manufacturing (66 awards), relay and industrial control manufacturing (58 awards), and miscellaneous manufacturing (38 awards). Top PSC codes are electric vehicular lights and fixtures (227 awards), relays and solenoids (136 awards), and electrical control equipment (97 awards).

As a subcontractor, Uusi delivers switch assemblies and directional control components to Lockheed Martin for M270A2 and M70A Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) production (turn signal assemblies and switch assemblies awarded in 2022, 2024, and May 2024), to AM General LLC for HMMWV production updates (awarded December 2024), and to Oshkosh Defense LLC for carwell applications and electrical components (awarded January 2025). Subcontract work represents 1% of the vendor's prime footprint, with seven sub-awards in the source data.

Uusi's competitive position sits on HUBZone and veteran-owned status rather than SBA set-asides per se. The vendor holds no set-aside IDVs with DLA except the three $250,000 Total Small Business vehicles for indicator lights and directional controls; the bulk of work—the $12.3 million directional controls IDV and the $25 million remote control switches IDV—carry no set-aside designation. Most individual delivery orders and purchase orders are issued full-and-open, though one January 2025 award from DLA Aviation for directional controls ($2.68 million) was a HUBZone Sole Source definitive contract, and one March 2025 purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime ($24.3 thousand for relay horns) carried a Total Small Business set-aside. The vendor competes predominantly in unrestricted procurements where HUBZone and veteran-owned status provide a competitive advantage in evaluation.

UUSI, doing business as Nartron and Ascencione, specializing in advanced electronic systems for defense and aerospace applications. With more than 58 years of experience, we design, engineer, and manufacture PCB assembly; cable and wire harnesses; maintenance kits; and advanced sensor, control, and vehicle electrical architectures. Our sensing technologies span capacitive, radar, magnetic, inductive, optical, proximity, and electromechanical systems. We manufacture a wide range of military and commercial products, including switches, flashers, vehicle starting systems, glow plug controllers, wire harnesses, and hydraulic generators. Nartron also provides full-spectrum of engineering, including testing and inspection, MIL-SPEC packaging, kitting, inventory management, and engineering support. A trusted supplier to the Defense Industry, Nartron has executed over 500 DLA contracts as a prime contractor. We design&manufacture mobile generator systems for the fire/rescue, municipal&special