Abrams Airborne Manufacturing Inc.

Abrams Airborne Manufacturing Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Tucson, Arizona, manufactures precision small arms components, ammunition accessories, and measurement tools for the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor (84% of recent awards) and supplies ultraprecision machined parts for missile systems and airborne electronics to Raytheon and General Dynamics as a subcontractor. The company competes full-and-open across most of its prime footprint, with no recurring set-aside designations, though individual task orders have occasionally carried total small business or woman-owned small business set-asides. Abrams Airborne is registered as a Subchapter S corporation and owns Milkor USA Inc.

The vendor's prime capability portfolio centers on small arms components and ordnance accessories—grenade launcher sights, gun cleaning kits, cylinder assemblies, buttstock subassemblies, firing pin tools, and precision measurement gages including headspace and bore-size gages—delivered under firm fixed-price purchase orders and delivery orders to the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime division. The company holds multiple single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts (IDCs) with DLA Land and Maritime, each with ceilings of $250,000 to $350,000, and has issued recent awards for gun cleaning kits ($350,000 IDC awarded January 2026; $12.7 million delivery order June 2025, $19.5 million delivery order August 2025), grenade launcher sights ($250,000 IDC awarded August 2025; six delivery orders totaling $154.1 million since August 2024), and stow-and-go kit components ($250,000 IDC awarded May 2025). In its subcontractor role, Abrams Airborne delivers ultraprecision machining and electromechanical assemblies to Raytheon for Stinger missile production, AIM-9X air-to-air missile manufacturing, and Advanced Technology Support Program work, and supplies precision machined components and baseband group interfaces to General Dynamics for DMR production radios and supporting hardware.

Customer concentration is heavily DLA-skewed. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime division represents 386 awards (87% of the top-customer tally by count) with $8.7 million combined potential value, making it the dominant customer by far. The remainder of the top-five customer set—Naval Air Systems Command (47 awards), DLA Troop Support Hardware (46 awards, $50 thousand potential value), DLA Aviation (42 awards, $112 thousand potential value), and Army PEO Missiles and Space (38 awards)—together account for less than 200 awards, signaling extreme concentration. The disparity between award count and dollar value at DLA Land and Maritime reflects the small average size of purchase orders and delivery orders for individual small arms components, whereas Raytheon and General Dynamics sub work is concentrated in fewer, higher-value tasks.

Vehicle position across the prime footprint is dominated by DLA single-award IDCs. The source names seven active or recently closed IDCs: $350,000 ceiling for gun cleaning kits (awarded January 2026, expiring January 2027); $250,000 for grenade launcher sights (awarded August 2025, expiring August 2026); $250,000 for stow-and-go kits (awarded May 2025, expiring May 2026); $250,000 for gun cleaning kits (awarded February 2025, expiring February 2026); $250,000 for grenade launcher sights (awarded August 2024, expiring August 2025); $250,000 for stow-and-go kits (awarded November 2023, expiring November 2024); and $250,000 for gun bolt hold open components (awarded October 2023, expiring October 2024). Beyond DLA vehicles, Abrams Airborne places task orders under three other IDCs held by Army (W31P4Q21D0007, 24 task orders), the Advanced Technology Support Program IV (14 task orders), and two additional DLA IDCs (6 and 5 task orders respectively).

Activity has grown from 43 awards in 2022 to 93 in 2025, with only 5 awards recorded through early 2026. Combined potential value across all 646 awards (prime and sub) stands at $259.3 million, though obligated dollars are only $21 million (8%), reflecting the typical full-and-open nature of DLA small purchases. Several DLA IDCs are expiring or have expired in the 2024–2026 window, creating recompete exposure, though the source does not quantify the dollar value of awards completing in the next twenty-four months.

In its subcontractor footprint, Raytheon is by far the dominant prime, with over eighty sub awards dated 2024–2026 spanning Stinger missile production (ultraprecision machining, electromechanical assemblies, seals, fasteners and hardware), AIM-9X Lot 21–23 production (ultraprecision machining), and Advanced Technology Support Program work on counter-unmanned-aircraft-system enhancements and interceptor improvements (precision machining, electromechanical assemblies, sensors, structural assemblies). General Dynamics Mission Systems accounts for a smaller but steady stream of sub awards for DMR production radios (precision machined components, baseband group interface work) awarded 2024–2025. Abrams Airborne's role across both primes centers on machine work, fabrication, and assembly of components meeting tight aerospace and missile-production tolerances.

Abrams Airborne has been active in federal contracting since SAM.gov registration in 2002, with the earliest award in the source data dated March 2005. The company's posture is characteristic of a precision job shop serving DLA's small arms inventory replenishment needs (the core profit driver) while supplying specialized machining capacity to tier-one defense contractors on high-value missile and avionics programs. No evidence of vehicle holdings (GWACs, BPAs, government-wide IDIQs) beyond DLA single-award IDCs and Army and other-agency IDCs appears in the source.

PRECISION SHEETMETAL FABRICATION; COMPUTER NUMERICALLY CONTROLLED (CNC) PUNCHING AND MACHINING; ALUMINUM DIP BRAZE, PAINTING, PLATING, AIRBORNE ASSEMBLIES, PANELS, CHASSIS, ANTENNAS AND SILK SCREENING.