Zitec, Inc.

Zitec, Inc. (doing business as Zitec), a service-disabled veteran-owned small business headquartered in Milton, Florida, manufactures specialized defense equipment—munitions handling equipment, ground support machinery, aircraft components, and toolkits—as a prime contractor on defense vehicle programs, with 98% of recent awards as prime and 2% as subcontract work.

Zitec is a veteran-owned, service-disabled veteran-owned small business organized as a for-profit corporation. The company competes predominantly under set-aside vehicles, with roughly half of recent prime awards carrying Total Small Business or Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) designations; the remainder compete full-and-open on larger indefinite delivery contracts and schedule vehicles. Place of performance is concentrated in Niceville, Florida (company headquarters), with subordinate work performed at customer sites including Eglin Air Force Base, Barksdale Air Force Base, Kuwait, Italy, and Germany.

Zitec's capability footprint centers on manufacturing and field support for munitions materiel handling equipment (MMHE), aircraft ground support equipment, and specialized toolkits for major weapon systems. Representative work includes a $428,870 Total Small Business delivery order (awarded September 18, 2025, under the Air Force's new $30 million Munitions Materiel Handling Equipment IDIQ) for a MAC III First Article Build; a $1,827,407.94 delivery order (awarded September 18, 2023, from Naval Air Warfare Center) for 47 production units of Multi-Role Sensor Systems supporting the F-35 Lightning II program; a $641,982 delivery order under the Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC) for ground support equipment, spares, assessment and repair services, and training across weapon systems; and a $465,025 delivery order for specialized toolkits supporting various Air Force weapon systems. Zitec also manufactures and supplies pylon stands, loading adapters, gun maintenance stands, trailer chock sets, cushioning pads, and mobile power conditioning units across the Air Force, Navy, and Defense Logistics Agency.

Customer concentration is extreme and represents recompete risk. The Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center at Eglin Air Force Base accounts for 90 awards with $46.03 billion combined potential value—a placeholder ceiling on the $46 billion EWAAC vehicle that dominates the dollar figures. The Department of the Navy Naval Air Warfare Center (14 awards, $27.9 million potential value) and the Air Force Defense Finance and Accounting Service (9 awards, $30.3 million potential value, anchored by the new $30 million MMHE IDIQ) are the only other material customers by dollar share. Excluding the EWAAC placeholder, actual obligated dollars across the footprint total $27.7 million across 351 awards. Award activity has moderated from 22 awards in 2023 to 5 in 2026 year-to-date, and only 2 awards (combined potential value $608 thousand) face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal near-term recompete exposure outside the EWAAC and new MMHE IDIQ vehicles.

Vehicle position is anchored to the Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC), a $46 billion multiple-award IDIQ with the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center running through 2031. Zitec also holds a newly awarded $30 million Total Small Business IDIQ (issued June 30, 2025) with Air Force DFAS for Munitions Materiel Handling Equipment through June 30, 2030. Additional vehicles include Federal Supply Schedule GS07F0497U (24 task orders, $797 thousand combined value), an Indefinite Delivery Contract FA248721D0028 (24 task orders, $2.4 million combined value), and multiple single-award and multiple-award IDCs with Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime ($250 thousand cushioning pads IDIQ). The EWAAC and MMHE IDIQ vehicles constitute Zitec's primary procurement channels for task order work across Air Force programs.

Subcontract footprint is minimal. Zitec subcontracts to L3Harris Technologies Integrated Systems on Armed Overwatch aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing (delivery orders awarded November 15, 2023, and May 27, 2026) and to Atlantic Diving Supply on F-35 mobility storage rack and manually operated lift truck (MOLT) production (awards January 2024 through February 2025). Subcontract work is occasional and tactical rather than strategic to Zitec's business model.

Top NAICS categories are bolt, nut, screw, rivet, and washer manufacturing (53 awards); all other miscellaneous fabricated metal product manufacturing (47 awards); and other metal container manufacturing (28 awards). Top PSC codes include hardware commercial (48 awards), weapons maintenance and repair shop specialized equipment (26 awards), and material handling equipment nonself-propelled (23 awards), reflecting Zitec's identity as a precision metalworking and equipment manufacturing supplier to defense logistics and munitions operations.