Young Brothers LLC

Young Brothers LLC, a Honolulu-based maritime transportation company and subsidiary of Foss Maritime Company LLC, provides ocean and intermodal cargo transportation services to the Department of Defense and federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor on multiple federal indefinite-delivery vehicles, competing exclusively in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations.

Young Brothers operates across two dominant parent vehicles: the Ocean and Intermodal Cargo Transport 2019 IDIQ (56 task orders, $39.6 million combined potential value) and the Universal Services Contract-10, a $4 billion multiple-award IDIQ (19 task orders, $7.9 million combined potential value). The company also holds a Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement (VISA) contingency services contract extending through September 30, 2034, under which it commits U.S. flag vessel capacity to support Department of Defense worldwide logistics operations. Young Brothers issued a definitive contract with the National Park Service Pacific West Region on July 14, 2026, for $2.386 million in annual barge service to Kalaupapa National Historic Park on Molokai, Hawaii, running through June 30, 2030, with firm fixed-price structure covering one base year plus three option years. The work requires a single-deck, drive-on/drive-off barge capable of accommodating two government transport trucks, approximately 15 large closed containers, 10 open-deck stackable containers, 15 dump containers, two fuel trucks, and 150–200 government-provided 55-gallon drums of fuel per round-trip, with full compliance with federal, state, and local hazardous materials and waste disposal regulations.

Customer concentration centers on the Department of the Army Materiel Command Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (72 awards, $164 million combined potential value) and the Department of the Air Force (17 awards, $4.01 billion combined potential value), accounting for the overwhelming majority of the vendor's pipeline. The Department of the Air Force Air Mobility Command places recurring monthly or near-monthly task orders averaging $500 thousand to $2.5 million per order under both the Ocean and Intermodal Cargo Transport 2019 and USC-10 vehicles. The Department of Interior National Park Service Pacific West Region anchors the civilian agency footprint (9 awards, $6.5 million combined potential value). Across 203 prime awards spanning 1986 to July 2026, the vendor's recent activity (2022–2026) shows growth from 9 awards in 2022 to a peak of 19 in 2024, with 15 awards in 2025 and 4 awards year-to-date in 2026. Award types are predominantly fixed-price delivery orders with economic price adjustment provisions, reflecting the maritime transportation service model in which fuel and operational costs fluctuate.

The vendor's capability portfolio is narrowly concentrated: 163 awards fall under NAICS 482111 (Deep Sea Freight Transportation), with 22 awards under coastal and Great Lakes freight transportation and marginal activity in ship building and inland water freight. PSC coding reflects the same narrowness — 174 awards under PSC code for Vessel Freight, with 4 under Vessel Towing and 3 under Stevedoring. Concrete work spans consolidated ocean and intermodal cargo transportation shipments between Hawaiian islands (Honolulu, Waimea, Lihue, Hilo) and mainland and international destinations supporting Department of Defense supply chain operations. Young Brothers also operates infrastructure assets enhanced by two federal grants: a $267,300 U.S. Maritime Administration project grant awarded March 15, 2024 (CFDA 20.816, United States Marine Highway Grants), funding procurement and installation of approximately 99 forklift scales in the Hawaii Commercial Harbors System through November 30, 2029; and a Federal Emergency Management Agency Port Security Grant Program award (September 15, 2022, with ultimate completion August 31, 2025) for port security improvements in Honolulu.

Service Contract Inventory reporting reveals minimal SCI-reportable activity — only $925 thousand invoiced across FY2022–FY2024 under 4 prime service contracts above the $150,000 threshold, with 0.2 FTEs reported in FY2022–FY2024 and zero FTEs in FY2025. SCI-tracked government-paid hourly rates on those prime contracts ran a median of $612.86/hr, with rates spanning from a 10th percentile of $592.31/hr to a 90th percentile of $683.88/hr. The SCI dataset carries no sub-engagement; all work is performed in-house. This narrow SCI footprint reflects the vendor's business model: most federal revenue flows through fixed-price vessel charter and transportation delivery orders (not labor-reportable as service contracts above threshold) rather than through hourly T&M or cost-plus-fee service contracts. Young Brothers operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontract activity in the source data, delivering all logistics services with its own maritime assets and personnel.