Wamco, Inc.

Wamco, Inc., doing business as Wamco Inc., manufactures specialized lighting components and optoelectronic displays for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) as a prime contractor across full-and-open and small-business-set-aside procurements. Wamco is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation headquartered in Irvine, California, holding no SBA certifications and competing predominantly in full-and-open competition, though roughly 30% of its recent awards carry Total Small Business set-aside designations. The company represents a pure defense supplier with no civilian agency footprint—its customer base is almost entirely consolidated within the DLA.

Wamco's capability portfolio centers on incandescent lamps, lamp cartridges, optoelectronic displays, digital indicators, and light-emitting diodes—all consumable and replacement components that sustain military aircraft, maritime equipment, and ground vehicle systems. Recent representative prime awards include a $7.39 million single-award indefinite delivery contract from DLA Land and Maritime (November 26, 2025) for optoelectronic displays and digital indicators through November 2026; a $1.22 million IDC from DLA Aviation (August 23, 2024) for mixed lighting products extending through August 2029; a $306,332 purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (September 19, 2023) for 1,118 units of display indicator lights (source-controlled items, NSN 5980012039495); a $494,844 purchase order from DLA Aviation (September 18, 2023) for display indicator lights to Warner Robins; and a $299,268 purchase order from DLA Aviation (March 4, 2024) for approximately 8,313 incandescent lamps. Work is performed at Wamco's facility in Irvine, California, with delivery to multiple DLA depots and consolidation points across CONUS and OCONUS locations.

Customer concentration is extreme. DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime together represent 1,048 of Wamco's 1,306 awards (80%) and $82.4 million of the $84.6 million combined potential value (97%). Within DLA, the split is nearly balanced: DLA Aviation carries 512 awards ($50.6 million) and DLA Land and Maritime carries 536 awards ($31.8 million). The remaining 258 awards (20%) are split among DLA's general procurement office (126 awards, $546 thousand), the U.S. Coast Guard under the Department of Homeland Security (25 awards, $369 thousand), DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (26 awards, $236 thousand), and 15 other smaller federal customers. This concentration reflects Wamco's position as an approved incumbent supplier holding multiple indefinite delivery contracts across DLA's aviation and maritime logistics divisions.

Wamco's vehicle footprint is built on single-award IDCs, not GWACs or GSA Schedules. The top parent vehicles are five DLA indefinite delivery contracts: SPE4A615D7833 (62 task orders, $749 thousand), SPM4AX10D9001 (20 task orders, $1.9 million), SPE7MX25D0009 (16 task orders, $2.1 million), SPE4A620D5AR7 (17 task orders, $74 thousand), and SPE4A616D0180 (13 task orders, $460 thousand). Beyond these, Wamco holds at least six other active IDCs with DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime, including a $1.22 million vehicle through August 2029, a $7.39 million vehicle through November 2026, and multiple $250,000 to $350,000 vehicles. The IDC model allows DLA to issue task orders on-demand, and Wamco's primary revenue stream is delivery orders against these standing contract vehicles rather than discrete competitive procurements.

Activity has been stable to slightly declining. Wamco received 73 awards in 2022, 68 in 2023, 75 in 2024, 55 in 2025, and 32 in 2026 (through August). The most recent award is a $19,200 NASA purchase order for assets in support of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (August 7, 2026), which is an outlier—NASA is not a recurring customer. Within the next twenty-four months, 25 awards with combined potential value of $1.7 million reach ultimate completion dates and face recompete risk, concentrated in the DLA Land and Maritime portfolio of indicator lights and optoelectronic displays.

Wamco holds minimal subcontract presence. The source identifies only two sub-awards, both to Grimes Aerospace Company: a lamp incandescent lamp assembly award (December 18, 2024) and another lamp incandescent lamp assembly award (October 28, 2024). These suggest Wamco occasionally subcontracts as a supplier to larger aerospace primes rather than serving as a prime subcontractor itself.

NAICS and PSC concentration underscores Wamco's narrow specialization. The top NAICS codes are Electric Lamp Bulb and Part Manufacturing (348 awards), Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing (231 awards), and Totalizing Fluid Meter and Counting Device Manufacturing (142 awards). The top PSC codes are Electric Lamps (464 awards), Optoelectronic Devices and Associated Hardware (359 awards), and Electrical and Electronic Properties Measuring and Testing Instruments (237 awards). Across 1,306 prime awards, Wamco has never held an IDIQ on a government-wide vehicle, never appeared on a GSA Schedule, and shows no presence in civilian IT, professional services, or systems integration work—the entire portfolio is consumable lighting hardware sold exclusively to one customer (DLA) under standing IDC vehicles.