Global Advanced Metals USA Inc.

Global Advanced Metals USA Inc., a foreign-owned manufacturer headquartered in Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania, supplies high-purity strategic metals—tantalum and niobium ingots—to the Defense Logistics Agency Strategic Materials for the National Defense Stockpile as both a prime contractor (56% of recent awards) and subcontractor on defense platforms. The vendor competes full-and-open with no set-aside designation across its prime footprint, and operates under NAICS 331410 (Nonferrous Metal Smelting and Refining).

Global Advanced Metals' recent activity concentrates almost entirely on Defense Logistics Agency Strategic Materials. Seven prime awards across two single-award indefinite-delivery contracts account for the full $420.6 million in combined potential value: a $100 million IDIQ for tantalum ingots (ASTM B364-18 Type R05200 standards) awarded September 5, 2025, with a five-year term through September 30, 2030, and a $150 million IDIQ for high-purity niobium metal ingots (ASTM B391 Type R04200 standards) awarded October 1, 2025, also running through September 30, 2030. The tantalum IDIQ spawned a $108.81 million delivery order issued September 11, 2025, due for completion by September 9, 2028; the niobium IDIQ generated a $20.985 million delivery order awarded September 29, 2025, with September 28, 2026 completion. A third niobium delivery order (ceiling $20.315 million, completion March 22, 2029) was awarded March 23, 2026, and a tantalum order (ceiling $15.07 million, completion April 5, 2029) closed on April 6, 2026. All manufacturing and packaging occur at Global Advanced Metals' Boyertown, Pennsylvania facility, with deliveries directed to the DLA Strategic Materials Scotia Depot in New York. Only one award (a $28,500 purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center for spherical tantalum powder in May 2023) lies outside the Defense Logistics Agency relationship.

The vendor holds a secondary subcontract footprint under major defense primes. Global Advanced Metals supplies tantalum and niobium materials to Raytheon (multiple washers and parts orders, 2024–2026), Lockheed Martin (tantalum plate and bar stock for the MK21A re-entry vehicle engineering and manufacturing development, March 2025), and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (tantalum powder for Sentinel systems research and development, June 2024). A single-award cooperative agreement under the Defense Production Act Title III program (funding from DOD Washington Headquarters Service, awarded September 20, 2024, completion December 20, 2028) supports low-cost domestic production of high-purity niobium for defense applications. Only one award reaches ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months (the September 2026 niobium delivery order, $21 million potential value), indicating limited recompete cliff exposure through mid-2028. The vendor's customer concentration is extreme: Defense Logistics Agency Strategic Materials represents 100% of dollar value and 44% of recent award count, with the remaining four agencies (Navy, Air Force, NASA, and DOD Washington Headquarters) representing small-dollar ancillary work. Combined dollars obligated total $98.7 million against $420.6 million in potential value, reflecting the long performance tails on multi-year IDIQs.

Manufacturer of Tantalum and Niobium products customized to customers' needs.