Abston Machine Shop, Inc.

Abston Machine Shop, Inc. (doing business as Abston Machine Shop Inc.), a for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Taft, Tennessee, supplies precision-engineered hardware components and equipment parts to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on full-and-open purchase orders, with minimal subcontract activity (98% prime, 2% sub across 111 total awards).

The vendor's customer base centers on Defense Logistics Agency divisions. The DLA Land and Maritime division accounts for 31 awards ($216 thousand combined potential value) and anchors 76% of award volume. DLA Aviation follows with 12 awards ($56 thousand combined potential value), and the Department of the Army Materiel Command rounds out the active customer set with 29 awards. A single $500 thousand award from GSA Federal Acquisition Service represents the largest dollar magnitude on record and accounts for 96% of the vendor's combined potential value across all awards, though this outlier sits outside the vendor's core DLA supply footprint. The vendor competes consistently without small business set-aside designations across all named awards.

Abston's capability portfolio reflects DoD equipment-component manufacturing. Recent representative work includes a $19,219.20 firm-fixed-price purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (August 2024) for remote control levers; a $13,738.40 order (August 2024) for blast protection links; a $6,323.20 order (January 2025) for connector receptacles; and a $3,239.50 order (March 2026) for strike and catch components. The top product categories by award count span hardware manufacturing (14 awards), guided missile launchers (21 awards by PSC), wireless communications equipment manufacturing (13 awards), and ordnance and ordnance accessories (10 awards), indicating a broad supply role across multiple defense equipment platforms rather than concentration in a single system or commodity class.

Activity has remained flat over the past five years, with one to three awards annually since 2022 and a combined potential value of $997 thousand across all recorded awards. The vendor carries two recent subcontract awards as a supplier to Dynetics, Inc. under undisclosed statement-of-work contracts dated November 2025 and December 2025, indicating growing participation in larger prime-contractor supply chains. Place of performance for all named work is Taft, Tennessee.