American Apparel, Inc.

American Apparel, Inc., a for-profit domestic manufacturer of military uniforms and textiles based in Selma, Alabama, delivers specialized military apparel to the Department of Defense and related agencies as a prime contractor on delivery orders and indefinite delivery contracts. The company competes predominantly full-and-open, though it holds multiple total small business set-aside indefinite delivery vehicles and has received several delivery orders under total small business set-aside designations—a posture that recurs across its recent prime footprint but does not dominate it.

American Apparel's customer concentration is extreme. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Clothing and Textiles accounts for 2,145 awards and $2.18 billion in combined potential value—98% of the top-customer coverage and by far the dominant funding source. The broader Defense Logistics Agency (parent agency of DLA Troop Support) adds 818 additional awards worth $65.2 million. The United States Marine Corps, Department of the Army, and Department of the Army Materiel Command Sustainment Command account for the remaining measurable activity. This concentration reflects American Apparel's core business: manufacturing camouflage-patterned uniforms, combat utility uniforms, all-weather protective coats, and specialized apparel (including maternity uniforms) across multiple service branches—all procured through DLA's clothing and textiles supply chain.

Concrete capability work is grounded in uniform component production. Representative recent delivery orders include a $10.14 million total small business set-aside for all-weather coats (March 2026), a $1.39 million firm fixed-price order for Improved Hot Weather Combat Uniform coats in Operational Camouflage Pattern (February 2025), a $856,353.60 delivery for desert Marine Raider Pattern trousers (March 2026), a $1.39 million award for Army Combat Uniform Type I Class trousers (March 2025), and a $518,814 order for woodland Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniform blouses with permethrin treatment (January 2026). The portfolio spans Army Combat Uniforms (multiple Type and Class configurations), Marine Corps Combat Utility Uniforms in woodland and desert camouflage, all-weather protective coats, and maternity-configured uniforms.

American Apparel holds seven active indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Troop Support and related Defense Logistics Agency components, ranging in ceiling value from $4 million to $82.9 million. The largest vehicle is a $82.9 million all-weather coat IDIQ awarded July 20, 2023 (total small business set-aside, term through July 2028), which has generated sustained task order activity including orders worth $10.14 million, $4.56 million, and $3.56 million issued in 2025 and 2026. A second large vehicle is a $71.6 million total small business set-aside IDIQ for maternity uniforms and Marine Corps utility apparel (awarded April 25, 2023, term through April 2028), with delivery orders spanning $254,000 to $1.09 million. A $31.7 million total small business set-aside IDIQ for all-weather coats (awarded November 8, 2023, term through November 2028) has generated ten delivery orders to date. An $11.1 million total small business set-aside IDIQ for Marine Corps Tactical Combat Uniform trousers in Woodland MARPAT camouflage was awarded October 31, 2024 (term through October 2029) and has already generated seven delivery orders. A $6.48 million single-award IDIQ for Army Combat Uniform coats in Operational Camouflage Pattern and Improved Hot Weather Combat Uniform configurations was awarded January 13, 2025 (term through January 2026). A $7.5 million women's Army Green Service Uniform all-weather coat IDIQ was awarded June 13, 2022 (term through June 2024). A $4 million all-weather coat IDIQ was awarded May 11, 2022 (term through May 2027).

Activity has remained steady but modestly variable. American Apparel received 46 awards in 2022, 80 in 2023, 62 in 2024, 63 in 2025, and 14 recorded as of early April 2026. The award count reflects the delivery-order model: each monthly or quarterly procurement under an indefinite delivery vehicle counts as a separate award in the source data. Thirteen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $17.2 million and represent near-term recompete exposure, though the vendor's multiple-year IDIQ ceiling values (totaling hundreds of millions) indicate established standing across the DLA's primary uniform procurement vehicles.

American Apparel operates as a parent corporation with one named subsidiary, American Apparel Inc Oneonta (also a for-profit manufacturer), suggesting a second production location or operational division, though the source does not detail the subsidiary's role or capacity contribution. All visible federal delivery orders specify performance in Selma, Alabama.

The vendor holds no subcontract awards in the source data; its entire $2.47 billion portfolio consists of prime contracts and delivery orders directly from federal agencies. This posture reflects American Apparel's status as a direct supplier to DLA's supply chain rather than a tier-one or tier-two subcontractor to large defense primes. The company's recurring presence on DLA Troop Support's indefinite delivery vehicles and its receipt of a $1.47 million Defense Production Act Title III cooperative agreement from the Department of Defense (cited in multiple award summaries as supporting domestic clothing and textile manufacturing expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic) underscore its role as a strategic domestic source for military apparel production.