Materials Engineering And Technical Support Services Corp.

Materials Engineering And Technical Support Services Corp., doing business as Metss, is a small business based in Westerville, Ohio that operates as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) delivering materials engineering, chemistry-based solutions, and applied research and development to Department of Defense agencies, primarily under total small business set-asides. Metss competes across SBIR and STTR phases as well as firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery orders, with nearly all work anchored to federal R&D and CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear) defense initiatives.

Metss's capability portfolio centers on aircraft and sensitive equipment survivability against CBRN threats, including vapor mitigation, chemical agent persistence studies, lubricants formulation, energetic materials production, and materials engineering for defense applications. Representative work includes a $16 million single-award SBIR Phase III IDV from the Office of the Secretary of Defense (awarded December 2021, extending through December 2028) for aircraft and sensitive equipment CBRN survivability capability development and transition; a $6.04 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order under that IDV from Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (awarded December 2021, completing June 2027) for vapor purge and chemical agent persistence research in aircraft; a $1.68 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract from Naval Sea Systems Command for Space-Based Infrared System High (SBIRS High) research (awarded May 2024, completing May 2027); a $1.31 million firm-fixed-price STTR Phase II contract from Army Research, Development and Engineering Command for a collapsible and protective portable canine shelter (awarded April 2024, completing March 2026); and a $246,065 SBIR Phase I contract from Naval Air Warfare Center for CBRN defense research (awarded June 2025, completing June 2026).

Customer concentration sits heavily with Department of Defense air operations and Navy research commands. The top five funding agencies account for 63% of recent awards by count and the same share by potential value, with Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory leading (40 awards, $69.4 million combined potential value), followed by Naval Air Systems Command's Naval Air Warfare Center (19 awards, $8 million), Naval Sea Systems Command (17 awards, $6 million), Marine Corps (12 awards, $3.2 million), and Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (9 awards, $2.7 million). The Air Force's dominance is both volume and dollars, anchored by delivery orders under Metss's four largest parent IDCs: Indefinite Delivery Contract FA865007D6739 (8 task orders, $20.1 million combined potential value), FA865013D6405 (6 task orders, $9 million), FA865022D6295 (1 task order, $6 million), and FA865019D6933 (1 task order, $3.4 million). A Basic Ordering Agreement with Naval Air Warfare Center (N6833521G0015) carries one task order valued at $1.5 million.

Activity has declined year over year — five awards in 2022 down to two in 2025 and two in 2026 — with only three awards (combined potential value $7.7 million) facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete. Metss also holds a $13.815 million Cooperative Agreement from Washington Headquarters Service under the Defense Production Act Title III program for critical chemicals production (awarded January 2024, completing March 2028). Across work by NAICS concentration, research and development in physical, engineering, and life sciences dominates (46 awards), with petroleum lubricating oil and grease manufacturing appearing as a secondary line (9 awards), and biotechnology research (8 awards). Metss's only recorded subcontract work is a single lubricating oil purchase order under Asrc Federal Facilities Logistics, LLC (awarded December 2023).