Barber-Nichols, LLC

Barber-Nichols, LLC is a for-profit limited liability company and subsidiary of Graham Corp. headquartered in Arvada, Colorado, that has been registered as a federal contractor since July 2, 2001. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of custom turbomachinery and critical naval components, with expertise spanning aerospace, cryogenic, defense, and energy applications. Barber-Nichols serves as a prime contractor and subcontractor to the federal government, providing specialized components and engineering services primarily to the Department of Defense and NASA through both prime contract awards and subcontractor relationships with major defense primes including Raytheon, Boeing, United Launch Alliance, Science Applications International Corporation, and Peraton.

Barber-Nichols has demonstrated substantial technical capability through diverse federal contract awards totaling tens of millions of dollars across multiple agencies and program requirements. The company's primary customer has been the Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Supply Systems Command, and U.S. Pacific Fleet Forces, for which it has manufactured and repaired critical undersea warfare components including torpedo ejection pumps (MK17, MK19), centrifugal pumps, bearing cartridge assemblies, seal assemblies, rotary pumps, coolant pumps, alternator units, and connector assemblies. Notable recent prime awards include firm fixed-price definitive contracts valued at $816,291 (August 2025) for torpedo ejection pump repair, $1,890,000 (May 2025) for bearing cartridge manufacturing, $1,640,769 (September 2021) for turbine ejection pump modifications, $4,542,845 (September 2023) for bearing cartridge production, and multiple other contracts ranging from purchase orders of $12,550 to definitive contracts exceeding $4.2 million. The company has also received a $2,491,219 contract from NASA's Johnson Space Center for design, development, manufacturing, and testing of ventilation loop fans for the Exploration Portable Life Support System supporting lunar missions, and a $166,936.27 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I award from the U.S. Army's Research, Development and Engineering Command. Most of these awards were not designated as set-asides, with the exception of a $69,820 total small business set-aside purchase order for seal assembly delivery and the Army SBIR Phase I award. As a subcontractor, Barber-Nichols has provided pumps, blowers, fans, machined components, engineering support, and technical maintenance services to prime contractors supporting naval undersea warfare programs and space exploration initiatives.

Barber-Nichols holds a substantial multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $245,932,500 with the Naval Sea Systems Command, awarded on March 12, 2024, with an ultimate completion date of January 23, 2029. This IDC supports the Undersea Weapons and Undersea Defensive Family of Systems and encompasses the supply of specialized components, engineering services, and technical support for naval undersea warfare and defensive systems. The contract was not designated as a set-aside and contemplates delivery orders for component manufacturing, repair services, post-award activities, and related technical support to sustain the Navy's undersea warfare operational readiness. This contract builds upon Barber-Nichols' previously held $73.7 million similar IDC with Naval Sea Systems Command and demonstrates the company's critical role as a provider of turbomachinery components such as torpedo ejection pumps, centrifugal pumps, bearing assemblies, seal assemblies, and alternator units for submarine systems including the TRIDENT Planned Equipment Replacement Program. The underlying solicitation established requirements for distribution of classified data to the Department of Defense and its contractors under the oversight of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division in Newport, Rhode Island, with strict compliance obligations under export control laws including the Arms Export Control Act and the Export Administration Act of 1979. Initial activation of this IDC included a representative $2,500 firm fixed-price delivery order issued March 15, 2024, for undersea weapons and defensive family of systems post-award kickoff activities, reflecting the contract's tasking structure and the company's ongoing strategic importance to Navy submarine maintenance and modernization initiatives.

Barber-Nichols provides design, engineering and manufacturing specializing in turbopumps, turbines, compressors, fans, blowers, heat engines and pumps for aeronautic, cryogenic, defense, power generation, fuel cell, and space flight applications.