Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc.

Hi-Test Laboratories, Inc., an SBA-certified HUBZone small disadvantaged business headquartered in New Canton, Virginia, provides environmental qualification testing, shock and vibration testing, and specialized maritime equipment qualification services to the U.S. Navy as a prime contractor (93% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to major defense primes. The company competes without set-aside restrictions in the full-and-open market, though it maintains SBA certifications that qualify it for small business and HUBZone set-aside opportunities when agencies choose to use them.

Hi-Test Laboratories operates multiple testing facilities across Virginia and Maryland, including specialized shock-testing platforms in Arvonia, Virginia; Westlake, Maryland; and St. Inigoes, Maryland. The company's core capability is environmental qualification testing—shock, vibration, electromagnetic compatibility/interference (EMC/I), and related testing—aligned to military standards including MIL-DTL-901D, MIL-DTL-901E, MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-167-1, and MIL-S-901D. Recent representative prime awards include a $338 thousand Naval Sea Systems Command purchase order for vibration and shock testing of the Navy Ultraviolet Ballast Water Treatment System (April 2024, with no-cost extension through December 2026), a $250 thousand NAVSEA contract for lease of a floating shock test platform at Lake Glendora Test Facility in Sullivan, Indiana (June 2023), and a $211.450 thousand NAVSEA order for shock tests (November 2022). Hi-Test also performs facility preparation, installation, fixture fabrication, and test procedure development; a $202 thousand Naval Air Warfare Center award in March 2024 covered prep and installation work with ancillary services through January 2026.

Customer concentration is extreme and singular. The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) accounts for 91 of 184 total awards and $72.56 billion in combined potential value—effectively 100% of the vendor's dollar footprint. The remaining customer base comprises other Navy commands: Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (26 awards, $2.2 million), Naval Air Warfare Center and Naval Air Systems Command combined (20 awards, $1.86 million), and the Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research (3 awards, $1.7 million). Hi-Test serves no non-Navy federal agencies in the award record; 90% of awards are accounted for by Navy entities alone.

Hi-Test places work under the Federal Supply Schedule (25 task orders, $701 thousand combined value), multiple Navy-specific IDIQs including N0016708D0004 (11 task orders, $727 thousand), and the SeaPort-e vehicle, which anchors the $72.55 billion potential value. The vendor's award category mix reflects its specialization: 70 awards are categorized under Engineering Services (NAICS 541330), 69 under Testing Laboratories and Services (NAICS 541380), with smaller volumes in R&D services and marine systems manufacturing. The top PSCs align accordingly—46 awards fall under Support–Professional: Engineering/Technical, and 15 under Equipment and Materials Testing–Ship and Marine Equipment.

Activity has remained modest and relatively flat over the past five years—6 awards in 2022, 9 in 2023, 12 in 2024, 5 in 2025, and 2 in 2026. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying a combined potential value of $151 thousand, indicating minimal recompete exposure in that window. The vendor's overall combined potential value of $72.57 billion is heavily skewed by the SeaPort-e placement; combined dollars obligated across all awards total $26.9 million, representing actual invoiced revenue at less than one percent of the stated potential ceiling.

Hi-Test operates as a subcontractor to major defense primes on naval construction and modernization programs. Recent sub-awards include work under BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services (pre-test engineering, facility preparation, and shock and vibration testing, August 2025), Huntington Ingalls Inc. (CVN 80 shock and vibration testing, August 2025), Fluor Marine Propulsion on Naval Nuclear Laboratory work (MIL-S-901D shock testing, December 2024), Raytheon Company (testing support, September 2024), HII Mission Technologies Corp (counter-explosive hazard research shock platform, September 2024), and Battelle Memorial Institute (vibration testing for emerging CBRN defense technology, September 2024). The vendor also has sub relationships with Electric Boat Corporation and Advanced Acoustic Concepts, LLC. Subcontract work mirrors the prime footprint—shock, vibration, and environmental qualification testing in support of naval systems, equipment, and materials qualification for production and R&D programs.

MANUFACTURE HEAVY STRUCTURES, PERFORM SHOCK, VIBRATION, NOISE TESTING OF EQUIPMENT FOR NAVY SHIPS. COLLISiON AND GROUNDING TEST OF OCEAN GOING TANKERS. FULL SCALE TESTS OF SHIPS AT SEA.