Defense Maritime Solutions, Inc.

Defense Maritime Solutions, Inc., a foreign-owned maritime propulsion system component manufacturer headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor delivering marine seals, shaft assemblies, waterjet systems, propeller repair and overhaul, bearing components, and related propulsion equipment maintenance services to the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, and Military Sealift Command across full-and-open competitions with no SBA set-aside designations.

The vendor competes exclusively in full-and-open procurements and holds no minority, women-owned, disadvantaged, or other set-aside certifications. Defense Maritime Solutions operates principally under NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing), 339991 (Gasket, Packing, and Sealing Device Manufacturing), and related categories aligned with propulsion equipment manufacturing and marine component repair. The company delivers Original Equipment Manufacturer support for Wartsila-made propulsion systems and specialized maritime maintenance services positioned primarily at its Chesapeake facility and subordinate service locations in San Diego, Philadelphia, Norfolk, and overseas ports including Japan and Germany.

Naval Sea Systems Command dominates Defense Maritime Solutions' customer base by both award volume and dollar magnitude. The top five funding agencies—Naval Sea Systems Command (1,353 awards, $4.49 billion combined potential value), Naval Supply Systems Command (676 awards, $273.5 million), Military Sealift Command (711 awards, $197.1 million), the U.S. Coast Guard (833 awards, $172.7 million), and Naval Facilities Engineering Command (13 awards, $128.1 million)—account for 78 percent of recent awards and 98 percent of combined potential value. Naval Sea Systems Command's dominance reflects Defense Maritime Solutions' standing as a primary supplier across multiple vessel classes including Littoral Combat Ships, guided-missile destroyers, submarines, and auxiliary vessels. Recent representative work includes a $5.28 million delivery order for six shaft assemblies (WLD 1500 and WLD 1720 variants) issued September 2025, a $5.89 million delivery order for repair of four waterjets and four impeller shaft assemblies issued September 2025, a $8.091 million bearing manufacture contract awarded by DLA Aviation in November 2025, and two single-award indefinite-delivery contracts established with the Coast Guard in June 2026—one valued at $19.89 million for monobloc propeller and controllable pitch propeller blade set overhaul through June 2031, and a second at $12.48 million for in-service submarine propeller and propulsor on-site repairs through June 2031.

Defense Maritime Solutions sits on five named parent vehicles, with Indefinite Delivery Contract N3220521D4126 (136 task orders, $44.9 million combined potential value) and Basic Ordering Agreement N0010413GA757 (73 task orders, $43.4 million) anchoring the largest task order portfolios. The vendor also holds a $4 billion Navy SEAPORT-NXG multiple-award IDIQ contract and multiple Basic Ordering Agreements with Naval Sea Systems Command and Naval Supply Systems Command extending through 2028, which provide standing authority for competitive task order issuance across Navy systems commands for maritime equipment and specialized maintenance services. These vehicles enable streamlined procurement aligned with the vendor's core competency in propulsion system components.

Activity has expanded substantially year over year, from 171 awards in 2022 to 286 in 2024, though 2025 contracted to 220 and 2026 year-to-date shows 78 awards (reflecting incomplete calendar data). The vendor faces a $50.6 million recompete cliff across 54 awards completing in the next twenty-four months, concentrated in Naval Sea Systems Command and Coast Guard task orders that will require competitive renewal or re-bid. The award portfolio spans thirty-seven distinct customer agencies, with Naval Sea Systems Command accounting for approximately 84 percent of potential value.

Defense Maritime Solutions operates as a prime contractor on 95 percent of recent awards and subcontracts on 5 percent. The SCI dataset captures minimal activity, showing $518 thousand in invoiced revenue recorded in FY2022 across six prime records; no subsequent SCI reporting is evident for FY2023 and FY2024, and FY2025 reflects only two named subcontractor records at 0.3 FTEs total. This sparse SCI footprint reflects the vendor's work profile—goods procurement and repair services often fall below the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold, and contract values may be classified or proprietary. The vendor subcontracts to major defense primes including BAE Systems Maritime Solutions San Diego and Norfolk, Huntington Ingalls Incorporated, National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, Vigor Marine LLC, Crowley Government Services, and Lockheed Martin Corporation, delivering waterjet seals, stern tube shaft seals, propeller components, and technical representative services supporting ship construction, maintenance, and modernization. The subcontract work typically involves engineering and planning support, long-lead materials, propulsion system components, and maintenance labor for LCS-class ships, destroyers, landing platform docks, and amphibious assault ships homeported in San Diego, Norfolk, and Jacksonville.

Recent acquisition activity reflects broad maritime logistics engagement beyond core propulsion systems, including a $371.8 million sole-source Wartsila FT125 transverse thruster procurement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Portland District in September 2025, propeller blade sets for the Coast Guard, bearing and cylinder assembly repairs for Naval Supply Systems Command, and electrical and mechanical component support for amphibious and surface combatant vessels. The vendor's competitive posture remains full-and-open across all major contract vehicles, with no apparent reliance on set-aside competition or small business preferences, positioning Defense Maritime Solutions as a specialized OEM supplier in a consolidated maritime propulsion support ecosystem dominated by larger defense integrators.