Windward Enterprises, LLC

Windward Enterprises, LLC, a small business based in Ridgeland, South Carolina, supplies standardized components and specialized equipment to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on over 9,990 awards spanning heating systems, pneumatic valves, hose assemblies, vehicle covers, filters, and related defense logistics hardware. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open (no set-aside designation on the majority of awards), though a subset of recent delivery orders and purchase orders carry Total Small Business set-aside designations.

Windward Enterprises operates as a single-award and multiple-award indefinite-delivery contractor across Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) components. The company's capability footprint centers on standardized military parts procurement: space and water heating equipment, hardware components, vehicular brake and suspension systems, hose and tubing assemblies, and electronic components. Representative recent work includes a $205.5 million air-conditioning unit purchase order (February 2026, DLA Construction and Equipment); a $303.9 million modification kit for vehicles procurement (February 2026, DLA Land and Maritime); and a $223.7 million air-conditioning equipment award under Total Small Business set-aside (November 2025, DLA Troop Support). Dollar magnitudes on individual awards reflect both single-unit and batch orders; the vendor also executes numerous smaller component orders in the low thousands.

Customer concentration is extreme and DLA-dominated. The top five funding customers account for 95% of awards by count: DLA Land and Maritime (4,656 awards, $152.8 million combined potential value), DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (2,608 awards, $94.9 million), DLA Aviation (1,180 awards, $30.9 million), DLA Troop Support Hardware (635 awards, $5.2 million), and unspecified DLA (452 awards, $3.9 million). Of the combined $353.8 million potential value across all awards, DLA Land and Maritime and DLA Troop Support represent the plurality by both volume and dollars. A secondary customer—Department of the Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal—holds 130 awards with $26.9 million combined potential value, suggesting some Army direct procurement. Concentration by award count and by potential value align closely; the vendor has no meaningful civilian agency penetration.

Windward Enterprises holds at least ten single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA, each carrying a $350,000 ceiling and one-year terms expiring between February 2027 and April 2027. These IDCs cover recurring items such as gaskets, protective covers, metal tires, tygothane tubing, air duct sections, power transformers, wiring harness components, and knobs. The vendor also places task orders under five named parent IDCs (SPM75004D7976, SPM75005D7498, W56HZV04D0032, SPM75006D7470, SP075000D7773), which funnel smaller orders. This vehicle position reflects a vendor deeply embedded in DLA's recurring-requirement supply chain.

Activity has remained flat at approximately 730–800 awards per year over the past four calendar years (2022–2025), with 2026 year-to-date showing 150 awards (a partial-year snapshot). No recompete cliff signal is acute: 152 awards with completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry a combined potential value of $5.8 million, a modest recompete exposure relative to the annual award volume.

Subcontract footprint is negligible (45 sub-awards, 0.4% of total). Windward Enterprises subcontracts as a component supplier to BAE Systems Land & Armaments L.P. on Bradley A4 follow-on vehicle production (two sub-awards, January and February 2026) and to AMZ Alabama Inc. on air duct hose assembly procurement (March 2026). These represent subordinate roles on larger defense manufacturing contracts rather than strategic partnerships.

By NAICS concentration, the vendor's prime awards cluster in heating equipment manufacturing (804 awards), fastener and hardware manufacturing (661 awards), motor vehicle parts (439 awards), rubber and plastics hoses (371 awards), and electronic components (359 awards). By PSC, space and water heating equipment dominates (1,897 awards), followed by commercial hardware (737 awards), brake and steering components (671 awards), vehicular furniture (626 awards), and hose and tubing (401 awards). This NAICS and PSC profile underscores a vendor whose core competency is standardized, catalogued component supply to military depots rather than design, integration, or engineering services. Windward Enterprises' business model is recurring-purchase, high-volume, low-margin logistics supplier to DLA, with no meaningful presence outside the Defense Logistics Agency ecosystem.