Enlightened Equipment LLC

What they make

• plate carriers
• cummerbunds
• chest rigs
• belts
• pouches
• packs
• medical
• apparel
• weapon support
• breaching
• replacement parts
• brands

NAMED ON THE COMPANY’S OWN WEBSITE, READ SEP 9, 2026

Open positions

Openings read from Enlightened Equipment LLC’s own job board on BambooHR, last checked OCT 25, 2026. FactoryRegistry does not host applications — each title opens the posting where the company published it.

• Sewing Machine Operator
  Winona, Minnesota · EE Production

Where it is

Other plants nearby

No other listed facility within 40 km shares this one’s four-digit industry code, or this record has no coordinates to measure from.

Also at this address

No other federal record shares this street address.

Where this record comes from

4 sources hold this plant, and 12 fields on this page come from them. Each line is one agency’s own record of it: the identifier it is filed under, whether that record shows the plant operating or only that it exists, and when the register first and last saw it there.

• The company’s own websiteOPERATING
  first seen SEP 2026 · last seen OCT 2026
• SAM.gov entity registrationOPERATING
  Record YYLFAE4LSRC6 · first seen AUG 2026 · last seen AUG 2026
• DOL Form 5500 retirement plan filingsOPERATING
  Record 472544319|MN|55987|1124 w 5th st · first seen DEC 2024 · last seen DEC 2024
• SBA Paycheck Protection Program loan recordsEXISTENCE
  Record MN|winona|1124 w 5th st · first seen APR 2020 · last seen APR 2020

What each source says

Every field below, as each source filed it. The value this page shows is marked; where the sources disagree, the field says so. Status is computed from independent sources; nothing here is self-reported unless marked Claimed.

Name

SAM.gov: ENLIGHTENED EQUIPMENT LLC · AUG 2026

Street address

SAM.gov: 1124 W 5TH ST · AUG 2026

City

SAM.gov: WINONA · AUG 2026

State

SAM.gov: MN · AUG 2026

Coordinates

Census geocoder: 44.054005305407,-91.666612618957 · SEP 2026

Employees (band)

DOL: 20-99 · DEC 2024

Website

SAM.gov: defensemechanisms.com · AUG 2026

CAGE code

SAM.gov: 243F3 · AUG 2026

Retirement plan filing (Form 5500)

DOL: 62 active participants, plan year ending 2024-12-31, 1 plan(s) · DEC 2024

PPP loan

SBA PPP: PPP loan x1, approved 2020-04-13, 48 jobs reported · APR 2020

SAM registration expires

SAM.gov: 2027-08-13 · AUG 2026

State business registration

TX Comptroller: ENLIGHTENED EQUIPMENT, LLC, registered with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts; Limited liability company; active