ASC Process Systems, Inc.

ASC Process Systems, Inc., a Valencia, California-based manufacturer of composite autoclaves and industrial thermal-processing equipment, operates as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) on full-and-open federal purchase orders and blanket purchase agreement calls across defense and research agencies, competing without small business set-aside protection despite occasional small-business awards. ASC is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation that has maintained SAM.gov registration since 2001 and operates across primary NAICS categories including Industrial Process Furnace and Oven Manufacturing (23 awards) and Commercial and Industrial Machinery Repair and Maintenance (20 awards).

ASC's federal footprint centers on autoclave equipment sales, maintenance, calibration, and specialized thermal-processing services to defense logistics and research organizations. Recent representative work includes a $546,380 purchase order from the Naval Air Warfare Center (April 2023) for delivery of a materials engineering autoclave to Patuxent River, Maryland; a $788,598 purchase order from the Department of the Air Force (September 2022) for an autoclave delivered to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; a $236,720 firm fixed-price purchase order from the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex (December 2025) for Autoclave Gold Year Support Package maintenance through 2029; a $157,950 Naval Sea Systems Command maintenance contract (July 2025) at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam running through August 2030; and an $80,424 Army Research, Development and Engineering Command upgrade contract (August 2025) to increase an Econoclave EC5X7's operating temperature capability at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

Customer concentration splits between Air Force logistics and Navy research. The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command's Ogden Air Logistics Complex anchors the dollar ranking with 9 awards and $4.4 million in combined potential value, followed by the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (4 awards, $2.9 million) and Naval Air Systems Command's Naval Air Warfare Center (4 awards, $848 thousand). The top five funding entities account for 73% of combined potential value. By award count, the Department of the Air Force leads with 21 awards ($795 thousand) and Army RDECOM follows with 9 awards ($475 thousand), reflecting a broader customer footprint across 28 distinct federal agencies. ASC maintains a $100,000 Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command, which has generated approximately $400,000 in cumulative orders for installation, relocation, repair, and modification services at Air Force locations. The FA822420A0018 BPA generated 5 task orders carrying $230 thousand in combined potential value.

Activity has fluctuated modestly over the past five years — two awards in 2021, three in 2022, five in 2023, two in 2024, and five through December 2025 — with combined obligated dollars ($20.7 million) exceeding combined potential value ($13 million), indicating a pattern of task-order takedowns and contract expansion. Only one award (combined potential value $54 thousand) reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete pressure in the near term. ASC subcontracts minimally (2% of awards), with recent sub roles including support to KBR Wyle Services on an EO14042 Space and Spacecraft Systems Design contract (August 2025) and to Lockheed Martin on PAC-3 missile production autoclave-cart work (January 2023). ASC's capability portfolio is tightly focused on composite-autoclave design, manufacturing, maintenance, and thermal-processing support services, with no horizontal diversification into unrelated federal service categories.

Manufacturer of econoclave, most popular composite curing autoclave.