Vector Controls Inc.

Vector Controls Inc., a Newton, Massachusetts-based manufacturer of marine propulsion and motion control systems operating as a Subchapter S Corporation, supplies vector steering system components as an original equipment manufacturer and provides watercraft training, technical services, and repair support to federal maritime and defense agencies as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards). The company competes predominantly in full-and-open federal procurements; recent activity shows no SBA set-aside designations on prime awards, though one active Coast Guard indefinite-delivery contract carries a Total Small Business set-aside designation.

Vector Controls' customer concentration is extreme and monoform. The Department of Homeland Security's US Coast Guard accounts for 149 of 184 prime awards (81% of all awards) and $15.9 million of the $19.4 million combined potential value across the prime portfolio — a dominance that appears across both award-count and potential-value rankings. The US Special Operations Command places 25 awards valued at $2.2 million, and the Department of the Navy (Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Special Warfare Command, and Office of Naval Research) rounds out the active set at roughly $1.8 million combined. This concentration reflects Vector Controls' role as sole original equipment manufacturer of steering control components for the Coast Guard's 45-foot Response Boat-Medium fleet and related cutter boat platforms.

Vector Controls operates under two significant indefinite-delivery vehicles. A $5.035 million single-award requirements contract with the Coast Guard (awarded August 25, 2025, Total Small Business set-aside, through July 31, 2030) procures vector steering system parts for the 45-foot RB-M, 26-foot Cutter Boat Over the Horizon IV, and 26-foot Cutter Boat Over the Horizon V, with recent delivery orders including a $534,735 order placed July 10, 2026, a $656,105 order placed December 12, 2025, and a $499,920 order placed September 8, 2025, all firm fixed-price. A $500,000 single-award indefinite-delivery contract with US Special Operations Command (awarded January 8, 2024, through January 7, 2029) provides courses of instruction and watercraft control training, with delivery orders ranging from roughly $30,000 to $77,000. Five additional Coast Guard requirements contracts and task-order vehicles (IDCs 70Z04019D57350B00, HSCG4013D51010, HSCG4016DP30777, H9224019D0003, and H9224015D0010) collectively carry 68 task orders valued at $3.6 million and support technical services, parts procurement, and onboard representative support across distributed Coast Guard stations.

Representative prime work includes a $249,000 purchase order from the Coast Guard (awarded August 13, 2025) for onboard technical representative services supporting the 45-foot RB-M fleet, performed in Newtonville, Massachusetts; a $60,761 delivery order from Naval Special Warfare Command (awarded January 5, 2026) for watercraft control trainings in Virginia Beach, Virginia; a $15,850 Total Small Business purchase order from the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex at Tinker Air Force Base (awarded December 4, 2025) for a Coriolis flow meter to measure fuel flow in test cells; and multiple smaller technical-services purchase orders at distributed Coast Guard stations (Pensacola, Honolulu, San Diego, Charleston, Staten Island, Lake Worth Inlet, and Sturgeon Bay) valued at $8,000 to $11,500 each, most now de-obligated and closed.

Activity has remained flat across the past five years — nine awards in 2022, ten in 2023, twelve in 2024, eleven in 2025, and four in 2026 (through mid-September) — with minimal recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months (one award worth $9 thousand reaching ultimate completion). Vector Controls subcontracts to Lockheed Martin Corporation on Naval Special Warfare Command maintenance-support and combat-craft medium upgrade tasks and to Bowhead Marine Support Services on clutch panels and joystick components. Combined obligated dollars across the prime portfolio stand at $11 million against $19.4 million in potential value, reflecting 55% draw-down on the portfolio's ceiling. Vector Controls' capability footprint is tightly bounded: original equipment manufacturer steering control parts, technical services and troubleshooting at Coast Guard facilities, onboard technical representation, and specialized watercraft control training for defense special operations personnel.