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Chumash Capital Acquires Small Defense Contractor Capco

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, July 8th, 2021

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Chumash Capital Acquires Small Defense Contractor Capco

Capco has produced over twenty five million cartridge actuated devices and propellant actuated devices for Department of Defense and law enforcement applications. Photo: Capco

The private equity firm Chumash Capital Investments last Friday acquired Capco, LLC, a small defense contractor with expertise in energetics, light weapons, and electromechanical devices. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Capco, which is based in Colorado, has more than 300 employees, including an engineering team of mechanical engineers, physicists and chemists. Capco’s energetic devices can be produced in high and low volumes and are used by most of the Defense Department’s fixed and rotary-wing aircraft. The company also…

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