Western Technology Inc.

Western Technology Inc., a veteran-owned small business manufacturer based in Bremerton, Washington, designs and manufactures specialized lighting equipment and explosion-proof fixtures for federal defense and civilian agencies as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), competing under both total small business set-asides and full-and-open procurement. The company operates under NAICS codes centered on commercial and industrial electric lighting fixture manufacturing (99 awards) and other lighting equipment manufacturing (50 awards), with PSC codes dominated by electric portable and hand lighting equipment (144 awards) and electric lamps (43 awards). Western Technology has held federal SAM registration since 2001 and maintains a lean footprint — 268 total prime awards over the past two decades with combined potential value of $3.3 million, though actual obligated dollars across the portfolio have reached $3.7 million.

Naval Sea Systems Command is overwhelmingly the dominant customer, with 130 awards worth $1.9 million combined potential value — roughly 49% of all awards and 58% of total potential value. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Construction and Equipment division ranks second with 78 awards worth $687 thousand, creating extreme concentration: these two customers alone account for 78% of Western Technology's award volume and 89% of customer coverage. The remaining customer base fragments across the Department of the Army (19 awards), the Defense Logistics Agency (9 awards), the Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command (5 awards), and the Bureau of Reclamation (2 awards worth $140 thousand). The rankings align — NAVSEA dominates both volume and dollars — with no meaningful divergence between award count and potential value concentration.

Recent capability work centers on specialized lighting for naval and shipyard operations: a $82.7 million award from Naval Sea Systems Command for Stringerlight Systems meeting NFPA Class I Division I hazardous-environment safety standards (June 2024), a $70.8 thousand award for Medusa 5-head lights (May 2023), a $97.2 thousand small-business set-aside from the Bureau of Reclamation for temporary portable LED work lights supporting Grand Coulee Power Office maintenance (June 2024), a $40.3 thousand small-business set-aside from NAVSEA for LED blast lights (July 2024), and a $19.7 thousand award from Naval Sea Systems Command to repair 34 hand-held LED sandblast lamps at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (June 2025). Western Technology also supplies explosion-proof lighting fixtures, LED blast lights, halogen bulbs, lenses, trigger lines, and work-site lighting through lower-dollar purchases from DLA Construction and Equipment.

Activity has declined year over year from seven awards in 2024 to two in 2025 and two through February 2026, signaling a sharp pullback in recent procurement volume. The vendor operates as a pure manufacturer with no subcontract footprint (0% of awards), placing no work under named parent vehicles of scale — the two IDVs in the portfolio (SP050001D0125 and SPM8E809D5018) carry minimal task-order activity. Western Technology does not compete for IT modernization, cloud, or managed-services work; its entire portfolio consists of tangible goods manufacturing and limited repair services, making it a supplier to, rather than a partner or competitor with, systems integrators and large platform contractors.