Defense Maritime Solutions, Inc.

Defense Maritime Solutions, Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturer based in Chesapeake, Virginia, supplies maritime propulsion system equipment, components, and maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services to the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, and Military Sealift Command as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to major defense shipbuilders.

The company is a foreign-owned, for-profit corporation with no SBA set-aside designations. Defense Maritime Solutions operates as an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) representative for Wartsila-made propulsion systems and delivers a concrete portfolio spanning stern tube seals, shaft seals, rudder seals, waterjet assemblies, propeller repair and overhaul, bearing components, and cylinder assemblies. Representative recent prime work includes a $5.28 million delivery order from Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) for six shaft assemblies (WLD 1500 and 1720) awarded September 2025 under Basic Ordering Agreement N64498-23-G-4000; a $5.89 million delivery order from NAVSEA for repair of four waterjets and four impeller shaft assemblies awarded September 2025; an $8.091 million purchase order from Defense Logistics Agency Aviation for plain spherical bearing manufacturing (NSN 3120-01-675-0959) awarded November 2025; and a $1.396 million delivery order from NAVSEA for propeller repairs under the Controllable and Fixed Pitch Propeller Repair and Refurbishment IDIQ awarded February 2025. The company also holds a $19.89 million single-award IDIQ from the Coast Guard (awarded June 2026) for monobloc propeller and controllable pitch propeller blade set overhauls, and a $40 million multiple-award IDIQ from NAVSEA (awarded March 2026) for manufacturing surface ship monobloc propellers and propeller caps for CVN-78, LHD-1, and LCC-19 classes.

Customer concentration is extreme and anchored entirely within the Navy and Coast Guard maritime ecosystem. The top five customers by award count account for 78% of all awards. NAVSEA leads decisively: 1,334 awards worth $4.48 billion in combined potential value—a 84% share of the vendor's entire portfolio. The Naval Supply Systems Command places 675 awards valued at $271.8 million; Military Sealift Command awards 705 orders for $195.4 million; the Coast Guard executes 825 awards for $171.6 million; and the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime rounds out the active set with 347 awards for $12.1 million. The vendor serves 37 customer agencies but delivers overwhelmingly to a single command: NAVSEA's propulsion system requirements dwarf all other buyers.

The vendor's position on parent vehicles reflects its role as a standing maritime component supplier. The $4 billion Navy SEAPORT-NXG multiple-award IDIQ (N0017825D7261, valid through January 2029) is the dominant vehicle, carrying task orders throughout the source. Beyond SEAPORT-NXG, the vendor holds multiple Basic Ordering Agreements (BOAs) with NAVSEA and Naval Supply Systems Command for specialized components—N6449823G4000 for waterjet and shaft assemblies (valid through August 2028), and several others—and participates in the Controllable and Fixed Pitch Propeller Repair and Refurbishment IDIQ (parent vehicle on multiple recent awards). The vendor also sits on older indefinite-delivery vehicles: IDCs N0010408GA757, N3220521D4126, N3220516D4500, HSCG4014D30023, and BOA N0010413GA757, collectively worth over $155 million in task order volume across the source's bounded lookback.

Award activity has grown year over year from 171 awards in 2022 to 286 in 2024, with 218 awards in 2025 and 37 recorded to date in 2026 (a partial-year snapshot). Thirty-eight awards representing $52.8 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating moderate recompete exposure for the vendor and corresponding competitive opportunity for suppliers capable of delivering NAVSEA-qualified maritime components.

The vendor operates predominantly as a prime contractor delivering its own work. Across the bounded subcontract awards in the source, Defense Maritime Solutions subcontracts to major defense shipbuilders—Huntington Ingalls Incorporated, BAE Systems Maritime Solutions (San Diego and Norfolk), National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, Vigor Marine LLC, and others—for work on LCS-class maintenance and repair, DDG-51 class construction, LPD and CVN platform sustainment, and auxiliary vessel modernization. The vendor appears in the subcontract roles as a propulsion system component and seal supplier, OEM technical representative, and specialist in waterjet and shaft assembly repair. SCI-reported service contract data is sparse and minimal: $518 thousand in FY2022 invoicing across 6 service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold, with zero FTEs recorded and no subcontractor engagement tracked in the SCI dataset. This indicates the vendor's federal revenue derives primarily from goods procurement and equipment repair (outside SCI's service-contract scope) rather than labor-intensive services, and that any workforce scaling does not appear in SCI records.

The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open across the Navy and Coast Guard rather than within set-aside categories. NAICS concentration runs across Ship Building and Repairing (1,139 awards), Gasket, Packing, and Sealing Device Manufacturing (841 awards), and Other Support Activities for Water Transportation (751 awards), reflecting the vendor's core mission as an OEM component and repair specialist for naval propulsion systems. The company's federal footprint is strategically narrow—maritime propulsion equipment for active warships and auxiliary vessels—and its market position depends on OEM authorization for Wartsila systems and demonstrated capability to meet NAVSEA's exacting component and repair standards across multiple vessel classes operating worldwide.