American Felt And Filter Company Inc.

American Felt And Filter Company Inc., a self-certified HUBZone joint venture manufacturer based in New Windsor, New York, supplies specialized aerospace thermal protection system materials and textile products to the federal government primarily as a prime contractor (89% of recent awards), competing predominantly in full-and-open solicitations without set-aside designation. The company operates under NAICS 313230 (Nonwoven Fabric Mills) and related textile manufacturing codes, with demonstrated ISO 9001 certification and flight-qualified production capability for advanced aerospace composites.

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward NASA. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center accounts for six prime awards with $801 thousand in combined potential value — the single largest customer by both volume and dollars — with recent work including a $350 thousand modular cleanroom design, procurement, and installation for the MERINO thermal protection systems program at NASA Ames (awarded April 21, 2026); a $200 thousand equipment upgrade order for cleanroom facility improvements (awarded June 10, 2026); a $83.1 thousand rayon felt procurement for Starfall mission CPICA fabrication (awarded April 30, 2026); and multiple builds of rayon thermal protection system billets at $44 thousand to $44.3 thousand per order. The Defense Logistics Agency places the most awards (17) but dollar data is not stratified; the Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Missiles and Space accounts for four awards in ammunition and ordnance categories. NASA Ames Research Center and the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command round out the active customer set at smaller volumes.

American Felt operates under multiple Defense Logistics Agency indefinite delivery contracts, principally IDC W31P4Q20D0023 (five task orders), with subsidiary exposure on IDCs DLA10083C0312, DLA10083C0784, DLA10084C0391, and DLA10084C0765. Recent activity declined from two awards in 2025 to three in 2026 (calendar year to date), with two awards totaling $550 thousand reaching completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete exposure. The company's product portfolio centers on textile fabrics (32 awards by PSC code), nonwoven fabric mills, and ammunition ordnance casings, with specialized depth in flight-qualified rayon and carbon-phenolic thermal protection billets for Mars exploration and deep space missions. As a subcontractor, American Felt supplies Hydra 70 rocket motor components to General Dynamics-OTS, with three purchase orders placed between January 2022 and December 2023 in support of ordnance production.

MANUFACTURER OF NON- WOVEN TEXTILES