Machine Specialties, LLC

Machine Specialties, LLC, a precision-manufacturing firm based in Whitsett, North Carolina, supplies aircraft landing gear components, fasteners, and machined parts to the Defense Logistics Agency, Air Force, and Navy as a prime contractor (82% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to major aerospace primes. The company is a for-profit limited liability company registered in SAM.gov since 2002, competing full-and-open on federal procurements with no set-aside designation on the majority of prime work, though certain awards carry Total Small Business set-asides.

Machine Specialties' customer base is heavily concentrated in defense logistics and aircraft sustainment. The top five funding entities account for 91% of recent awards by count and 100% by potential value, led by the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (114 awards, $7.1 million combined potential value) and the Air Force Materiel Command's Ogden Air Logistics Complex (134 awards, $20.9 million combined potential value). The Air Force Materiel Command's Air Force Sustainment Center places the third-largest volume (83 awards, $6.1 million combined potential value), followed by Naval Air Systems Command and the Army at smaller scale. The two rankings track closely — Ogden and DLA Aviation dominate both volume and dollars, with Ogden's potential-value share driven by its higher per-order ceiling structure relative to DLA Aviation's mix of smaller delivery orders and purchase orders.

The company holds positions on multiple indefinite delivery contracts under DLA and Air Force vehicles. Notable IDCs include an indefinite delivery contract (SPE4A721D5082) with 7 task orders and $53 thousand combined potential value, and single-award contracts (N0038319DU501 and N0038322DZV01) with 7 and 5 task orders respectively. A $250 thousand single-award IDC with DLA Aviation for specialized bolts, awarded February 28, 2023, and running through February 2028, serves as a primary vehicle for bolt and fastener task orders. Recent representative prime work includes a $40,329 delivery order from DLA Aviation for special bolts (December 1, 2023, completion May 4, 2026), a $44,170 firm fixed-price purchase order for special bolts from DLA Aviation (November 27, 2023, completion May 4, 2026), a $134,882 Total Small Business purchase order with economic price adjustment from the Ogden Air Logistics Complex for a retract assembly (January 17, 2023, completion August 30, 2027), and a $9,000 delivery order for piston main landing components from DLA Aviation (December 17, 2023, completion November 14, 2024).

Activity has grown sharply over the past four years, from 6 awards in 2022 to 37 in 2025, with only one award recorded in early 2026. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $52.5 million against a combined potential value of $34.6 million, indicating the company has exceeded its potential-value ceiling — a signal of consistent work performance and customer reorder behavior. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, valued at $135 thousand, creating minimal near-term recompete cliff exposure.

Machine Specialties serves as a subcontractor primarily to Bell Textron Inc. and Bell Boeing Joint Project Office for vertical-lift aircraft platforms, including the V-22 Osprey and the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) FLRAA development program. Recent sub work includes manufacturing of drag brace assembly clevises, pins, latches, fittings assemblies, support assemblies, horn assemblies, and balance package trays for Bell platforms. The company also subcontracts to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation for structural forgings and linear actuator pistons, to ES3 Prime Logistics Group Inc. for landing gear cylinders and pistons, to Sierra Space Corp for build-to-print machined parts supporting upper-stage engine development, and to The Boeing Company for aircraft components. The company's 72 sub-awards (18% of total) represent ongoing supply-chain relationships with major aerospace integrators, with Bell-related primes generating the highest recent activity volume.

Machine Specialties owns two named manufacturing subsidiaries: Cambridge Specialty CO. Inc. and Point Machine Co, both for-profit manufacturers of goods. The corporate structure indicates organic manufacturing capacity and likely capability diversification within the parent entity's portfolio, though the source does not specify subsidiary-level role or capability differentiation.

The vendor's award portfolio centers on aircraft landing gear components (221 awards, per top PSC category), aircraft hydraulic and vacuum system components (35 awards), bearings (18 awards), bolts and fasteners (13 awards), and miscellaneous power transmission equipment (13 awards). NAICS concentration sits with other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing (328 awards), aircraft manufacturing (41 awards), bolt and fastener manufacturing (14 awards), and gearing and transmission equipment (6 awards). Work is performed at the contractor's facility in Whitsett, North Carolina for all DLA and Air Force prime task orders, supporting military aircraft supply chain and logistics distribution operations across combat support, sustainment, and component procurement for fixed and rotary-wing platforms.

Contract manufacture of precision machined parts and sub assemblies. Specializing in Struts, Drag Braces, Krueger Doors, Actuators, Cargo systems components. Quality system ISO-9000 compliant.