Vacco Industries

Vacco Industries, a subsidiary of Esco Technologies Inc., manufactures precision fluid control components, valves, filters, and mechanical parts for the U.S. Department of Defense and naval agencies as a prime contractor under firm fixed-price purchase orders, with no SBA set-aside designations and competing in full-and-open federal procurement.

Vacco operates from El Monte, California and delivers discrete component-level hardware—valve seats, valve disks, springs, bearings, fasteners, filter elements, and fluid control assemblies—to support military logistics, naval shipyard operations, and aircraft maintenance. Recent representative work includes a $464,292 complete inlet/bypass valve assembly for Naval Supply Systems Command (January 2026), a $382,500 SEPA disk assembly for NAVSUP (January 2026), a $311,584 fluid filter element procurement for Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (November 2025), a $260,000 socket head cap screw order from Naval Supply Systems Command (February 2026), and $244,218 in fluid filter elements for DLA Land and Maritime (November 2025). The company also performs subcontract work on Boeing's Space Launch System Ares I Upper Stage development effort, supplying electro-hydro-mechanical hardware for NASA launch vehicle production.

Customer concentration is acute and defense-weighted. Naval Supply Systems Command and Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime together account for the vast majority of Vacco's recent awards—NAVSUP generates 1,093 awards valued at $168 million combined potential, while DLA Land and Maritime generates 2,977 awards valued at $87.7 million. These two customers alone cover 85 percent of the award count. The top five customer agencies (NAVSUP, DLA Land and Maritime, DLA Aviation, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, and Naval Sea Systems Command) account for 95 percent of combined potential value. No set-asides appear in the footprint; all awards are competed full-and-open.

Vehicle position is primarily purchase-order based rather than IDIQ-anchored. Vacco places task orders under several Naval Supply Systems Command Basic Ordering Agreements and Indefinite Delivery Contracts—BOA N0010484G0220 carries 181 task orders, IDC N0010404GA767 carries 57 task orders valued at $3.3 million, BOA N0010488G0112 carries 45 task orders, and IDC N0010493GA017 carries 40 task orders. The bulk of awards are discrete, small-to-medium-value purchase orders flowing directly from DLA Aviation, DLA Land and Maritime, and NAVSUP rather than task orders rolled up under government-wide contract vehicles.

Activity is high-volume and growing. Vacco averaged 106 awards per year over 2022–2024 and accelerated to 444 in 2025. The source captures 136 awards in 2026 year-to-date (through mid-April). Combined potential value across all 6,737 awards is $291.9 million, though combined obligated dollars are $637.7 million, indicating substantial invoice runoff against prior ceilings. Within the next twenty-four months, 213 awards (combined potential value $61.3 million) will reach ultimate completion, creating moderate recompete exposure concentrated in valve seats, filter elements, fasteners, and mechanical assemblies.

Product concentration by NAICS reflects the valve and spring manufacturing core: Industrial Valve Manufacturing dominates (1,804 awards), followed by Other Metal Valve and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing (488 awards), Bolt/Nut/Screw/Rivet/Washer Manufacturing (430 awards), and Spring Manufacturing (392 awards). By PSC, Valves Nonpowered (3,934 awards) overwhelm other categories; coil/flat/leaf/wire springs, screws, powered valves, and packing/gasket materials round out the next tier.

Vacco operates as a subsidiary of Esco Technologies Inc., headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Esco Technologies is a for-profit public-company-structure entity with diversified subsidiaries serving defense, aerospace, and industrial sectors. Esco itself holds multiple substantial indefinite delivery contracts with Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Supply Systems Command, and DLA, and has also received prime awards and grants from NASA. Vacco's parent-company affiliation provides access to complementary manufacturing capabilities and broader federal customer relationships across the defense and aerospace supply base.

Vacco's subcontract footprint is thin. The source lists recent sub-awards under Boeing on Space Launch System Ares I Upper Stage manufacturing and assembly work (multiple awards in 2025 and 2026), plus several miscellaneous supply purchases with unnamed primes. Vacco operates primarily as a prime direct to DLA and NAVSUP rather than as a depth subcontractor to large integrators. The company does maintain historical relationships with Electric Boat Corporation, Boeing, and Huntington Ingalls Inc. for subcontract support on naval and aerospace programs, though the source does not enumerate current sub-awards to those primes.