WPA Works LLC

WPA Works LLC, a woman-owned small disadvantaged business based in Elgin, Illinois, manufactures precision mechanical components and specialty parts for Naval Sea Systems Command and the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor on Total Small Business set-aside purchase orders.

WPA Works is structured as a for-profit corporation with self-certified small disadvantaged business (SDB) and woman-owned small business (WOSB) designations. The company competes exclusively under Total Small Business set-asides; all ten awards in the source data carry that designation. Primary NAICS categories align with the company's core manufacturing focus: Machine Shops (five awards), Mechanical Power Transmission Equipment Manufacturing (two awards), and Iron and Steel Forging, Fastener Manufacturing, and Metal Valve and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing (one award each). Top PSC codes reflect the same precision-parts specialization — gears, pulleys, sprockets, and transmission chain; commercial hardware; bolts; and hose and pipe fittings.

Capability work centers on precision manufacturing of naval and defense components. Representative awards include a $85.1 thousand insert cable reel production contract (NAVSEA, ultimate completion February 2027) for Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport in Washington; a $97.5 thousand cap housing firing pin chamber replication order (NAVSEA, September 2025); a $48.5 thousand shoulder bolt production award (DLA Aviation, October 2024, 369 units plus one unit within 120 days); a $28.5 thousand cable drive unit casing contract (NAVSEA, September 2025, three units); and a $19 thousand retaining cup procurement (NAVSEA, December 2024, ten first-article-test units and 3,000 production units supporting Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division). WPA Works also supplies spur gears, coil forms, and sensors support coils parts to Naval Sea Systems Command and DLA.

Customer concentration is highly concentrated among Department of Navy and Defense Logistics Agency buying offices. Naval Sea Systems Command dominates by both volume and dollars — six awards carrying $255 thousand in combined potential value (84% of all awards and 84% of combined potential value). Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for three awards ($48 thousand), and DLA Aviation holds one award. All ten awards are prime contracts with zero subcontract footprint. Combined potential value across all awards is $303 thousand; $247 thousand has been obligated (82% of potential value). Activity is rising — two awards in 2024 and eight in 2025 — but the portfolio is narrowly focused on small purchase orders under $100 thousand. One award ($85.1 thousand) reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and faces recompete exposure in that window. WPA Works performs work at its Elgin, Illinois facility and at customer sites including Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport, Washington; Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, Rhode Island; and Boulder City, Nevada.

WPA Works is a CNC manufacturing facility located in the heart of Chicagoland. We are AS9100 and ISO 9001:2015 certified. We perform the machining, fabricating, assembling, processing, and laser work for many different industries. The industries we support are; Aerospace, Space, DoD, DoE, and Medical.

Brief Capability Information:

- 5-Axis Milling Machines

- 4-Axis Milling Machines

- 3-Axis Milling Machines

- Dual Spindle Turning Lathes

- Swiss Machining

- EDM process

- Additive manufacturing partners

- Additive processing partners