Young Diversified Industries

Young Diversified Industries' Vehicle System Support Operations Division, based in Southfield, Michigan, manufactures and supplies military vehicle components and parts to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards), operating as a minority-owned, black American-owned small disadvantaged business with self-certified SDB status. The division competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides—roughly half of recent awards carry that designation—and holds multiple single-award indefinite delivery contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency across its Land and Maritime, Aviation, and Construction and Equipment divisions.

YDI's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Defense Logistics Agency. The top five customers account for 92% of recent awards by count and 77% by combined potential value, dominated by DLA Land and Maritime (258 awards, $6.7 million combined potential value), which alone represents over 56% of the award footprint. Department of the Army (31 awards, $2.6 million) and DLA Aviation (43 awards, $1.5 million) follow, with DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment and Army Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal rounding out the active set. This customer concentration reflects YDI's embedded role in military vehicle sustainment supply chains rather than competition across civilian or broader defense IT markets.

YDI's core capability portfolio centers on discrete vehicular components: door lift parts kits (the largest product line by award frequency and dollar value), serpentine belts, light warning systems, signaling horns, alternator generators, engine starters, windshield wiper motors, and cylinder assemblies. Recent representative awards include a $114,341 Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime in December 2025 for approximately 1,050 door lift kits with expedited and standard delivery timelines to DLA Distribution Barstow, a $166,720 order in March 2026 for 521 electric engine starters (521 units) under no set-aside from DLA Land and Maritime, and a $84,750 purchase order from DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment in September 2023 for 1,500 signaling horns. All work is performed at YDI's Southfield, Michigan manufacturing facility with no identified subcontractors.

YDI maintains three active single-award indefinite delivery contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency: a $1.8 million IDV with DLA Land and Maritime for door lift parts kits running through January 2026 (the largest and most frequently drawn-against vehicle), a $250,000 serpentine belt IDV with DLA Land and Maritime awarded August 2024 through August 2025 (11.4 percent utilized as of March 2025), a $250,000 light warning systems IDV with DLA Aviation running through October 2027, and a newly awarded $350,000 light warning systems IDV with DLA Aviation through November 2030. These IDVs establish the framework under which most purchase orders and delivery orders flow; the source identifies five named parent vehicles (SPE7LX21D0067, SPM7M110D5A44, SP075099D7525, SPM7LX06D7084, W56HZV04D0223) generating between 7 and 21 task orders each.

Award activity has remained consistent year-over-year: ten awards in 2022, sixteen in 2023, twenty-one in 2024, thirteen in 2025, and four in 2026 (through early April). The combined potential value across all 454 awards sits at $15.6 million, though obligated dollars total $21.6 million—a 139% ratio indicating that task orders against existing IDVs frequently exceed ceiling expectations or that the vendor's invoiced work routinely surpasses contract value ceilings. YDI competes across discrete NAICS codes reflecting its manufacturing footprint: Military Armored Vehicle, Tank, and Tank Component Manufacturing (39 awards), Hardware Manufacturing (37 awards), and All Other Motor Vehicle Parts Manufacturing (28 awards) lead by frequency, with primary PSC coding in Miscellaneous Vehicular Components (53 awards), Electric Vehicular Lights and Fixtures (38 awards), and Vehicular Brake, Steering, Axle, Wheel, and Track Components (37 awards). The vendor has served eight federal agencies but operates almost exclusively within DLA and Army supply chains, establishing it as a specialized supplier rather than a broad-based defense contractor.

VEHICLE MODIFICATION KIT, VEHICLE SPARE PARTS, PARTS KIT, RETROFIT KIT, VEHICLE COMPONENTS AND ASSEMBLY,TECHNICAL SUPPORT, VEHICLE HARDWARE, CLAMPS, HOSES, BRACKETS.