Florida Armor LLC

Florida Armor LLC, a HUBZone-certified small business joint venture and manufacturer of ballistic protection systems based in Miami Lakes, Florida, supplies body armor, enhanced side ballistic insert plates, and vital torso protection equipment to the U.S. military and federal law enforcement agencies as a prime contractor on two major IDIQs. The company operates as a child entity of Carter Enterprises LLC and competes across both total small business set-aside and full-and-open delivery orders, with 100% of its recent award footprint as a prime contractor across two parent vehicles.

Florida Armor's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward defense and military modernization programs. The Department of the Army's Program Executive Office Soldier dominates by dollar value, holding 10 awards worth $380.9 million combined potential value, primarily for full-rate production of Enhanced Side Ballistic Insert (ESBI) plates and lightweight enhanced body armor systems under the Vital Torso Protection - Body Armor IDIQ. The Customs and Border Protection body armor IDIQ anchors the second-largest dollar pool at $128.2 million across 2 awards, though the U.S. Coast Guard places the highest volume of task orders — 38 awards totaling $388 thousand in combined potential value across dozens of small-quantity delivery orders for Level IIIA body armor to Coast Guard stations nationwide. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Clothing and Textiles division and the Food and Drug Administration round out the active set. The tension between the two rankings is acute: PEO Soldier accounts for 74% of combined potential value via 10 awards, while the Coast Guard issues 69% of all orders but represents less than 0.1% of the total dollar pool.

Florida Armor holds two primary parent vehicles. The CBP Body Armor - Level IIIA 2023-2030 IDIQ, a $128 million multiple-award vehicle set aside for small businesses and running through June 9, 2030, anchors 38 Coast Guard task orders alongside orders from Customs and Border Protection, the Transportation Security Administration, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Railroad Retirement Board. The Vital Torso Protection - Body Armor IDIQ with the Department of the Army carries 11 task orders valued at $75.3 million combined, structured as delivery orders for production of ESBI plates, lightweight enhanced body armor, and related protective systems. Representative work includes a $12.5 million firm fixed-price delivery order from PEO Soldier awarded July 31, 2025, for full-rate production of VTP Enhanced Side Ballistic Insert plate variants with performance at Miami Gardens, Florida through February 1, 2027; a $7.3 million partial small business set-aside delivery order from PEO Soldier in November 2024 for ESBI plate production through April 8, 2026; and a $4.3 million delivery order from the Army's Clothing and Textiles division awarded April 28, 2025, for lightweight enhanced body armor systems.

Award activity has grown sharply — 2 awards in 2022 to 27 in 2025 — with 4 awards carrying $14.5 million in combined potential value facing completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore subject to recompete. The capability portfolio centers on ballistic protection manufacturing: body armor carriers (Level IIIA soft armor and hard-plate systems), enhanced side ballistic inserts for vital torso protection, scalable carrier systems, and identification placard systems for armor. Work is performed primarily at Florida Armor's Miami Gardens, Florida facility, with task orders placing work at Coast Guard stations, Army manufacturing locations, and customer sites across North America. The company's NAICS footprint is concentrated in Apparel Accessories and Other Apparel Manufacturing (40 awards) and All Other Miscellaneous General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing (12 awards), with PSC coding aligned to Armor, Personal (36 awards) and Clothing, Special Purpose (14 awards). Florida Armor competes under a mixed set-aside posture — roughly two-thirds of Coast Guard orders carry total small business set-asides, while PEO Soldier and most Army work is full-and-open. The combined obligated value across all awards stands at $76.1 million against a $515.8 million combined potential value, reflecting the early-stage performance of recent Army awards and routine Coast Guard replenishment ordering.