Metro Machine Corp.

Metro Machine Corp., doing business as General Dynamics NASSCO-Norfolk Division, is a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation that provides naval ship repair, maintenance, and modernization services as the sole operator of Norfolk Naval Shipyard's private-sector operations, competing as a large business prime contractor (98% of awards) without set-aside designation across Naval Sea Systems Command indefinite delivery contracts. The vendor operates across five major Navy IDIQs with a combined ceiling value exceeding $3.2 billion and has delivered 428 awards (418 prime, 10 sub) worth $10.59 billion in combined potential value and $6.72 billion obligated, driven almost entirely by surface and subsurface combat vessel maintenance and modernization work performed in Norfolk, Virginia and subordinate Hampton Roads homeports.

Metro Machine's customer concentration is extreme and singular: Naval Sea Systems Command accounts for 143 awards carrying $10.28 billion in combined potential value, representing 97% of the vendor's dollar footprint. The Department of Transportation Maritime Administration holds nine awards valued at $45 million for Ready Reserve Force layberth services at Portsmouth and Norfolk, and the Navy's Pacific Fleet Forces carries three awards valued at $218.8 million, predominantly for carrier-class maintenance. This concentration reflects Metro Machine's exclusive operational role at Norfolk Naval Shipyard and the Navy's capital-intensive carrier and surface combatant maintenance cycle.

Concrete representative work spans aircraft carrier, destroyer, and amphibious assault ship maintenance. Recent major awards include a $185.1 million firm fixed-price definitive contract (June 2026) for USS TRUXTUN (DDG-103) Fiscal Year 2026 depot modernization encompassing AEGIS system upgrades, hull and propulsion work, and command-and-surveillance modernization at Portsmouth, Virginia with completion targeted for June 2028; a $414.3 million definitive contract (March 2024) for USS BATAAN (LHD-5) FY24 docking selected restricted availability including hull, mechanical, electrical, and propulsion system modernization across an 18-month execution window; a $135.3 million delivery order (September 2026) for USS MAHAN (DDG-72) maintenance and modernization under a cost-plus-fixed-fee structure with completion by December 2027; and a $2.66 million delivery order (July 2026) for Maritime Administration Ready Reserve Force layberth services on Cape Race and Cape Rise. The vendor also holds a $762.4 million multiple-award IDIQ (awarded September 2025, extending through September 2033) for Chief of Naval Operations fast attack submarine critical systems engineering and a $847.2 million single-award IDIQ (through December 2030) for CVN-68 and CVN-78 class aircraft carrier maintenance and modernization.

Metro Machine's primary parent vehicles are five Naval Sea Systems Command IDIQs supporting aircraft carrier, surface combatant, amphibious assault ship, and fast attack submarine maintenance. The largest single vehicle, Indefinite Delivery Contract N0002485H8187, carries 71 task orders; N0002416D4408 holds 35 task orders valued at $331 million; N0002416D4413 carries 28 task orders valued at $169.1 million; and N0002423D4100 holds 27 task orders valued at $342.7 million. A multi-award IDIQ for complex and non-complex maintenance on surface combatant and amphibious class ships in Norfolk has generated seven task orders valued at $29.4 million. The Maritime Administration single-award IDIQ for Ready Reserve Force layberth operations carries a $3.79 million ceiling through 2027.

Activity growth has accelerated year over year from nine awards in 2022 to 19 in 2024 and 18 in 2025, with ten awards delivered through September 2026. Within the next twenty-four months, 12 awards carrying combined potential value of $1.05 billion reach ultimate completion and face recompete exposure, anchored by major surface combatant and carrier availabilities entering their final execution phases.

Metro Machine subcontracts to Marine Hydraulics International on USS MESA VERDE (LPD-19) FY24 Selected Restricted Availability work, with multiple sub-awards for hydraulic and propulsion system components, thermal wells, lube oil assemblies, and gauge calibration issued across 2024 and 2025. The vendor's broader subcontractor network for prime work includes Fairbanks Morse for propulsion systems, Rolls-Royce Marine North America for marine equipment, Epsilon Systems Solutions Inc. for engineering and maintenance services, Tecnico Corporation for hull and mechanical systems, and specialized maritime suppliers spanning equipment rental (Sunbelt Rentals, Crofton Construction Services), hydraulic systems (Marine Hydraulics International, Rocky Mountain Hydrostatics), painting and corrosion repair (Marine Specialty Painting Inc., Imia LLC), and diving support (Crofton Diving Corporation). These subcontractors flow materials and labor into Metro Machine's prime-ship-repair integration model across major docking selected restricted availabilities, continuous maintenance availabilities, and emergent maintenance work.

Metro Machine also holds a $285,000 federal grant from Naval Sea Systems Command under the Improvement of Navy Ship Repair or Alterations Capability Program (CFDA 12.031, awarded September 2025, extending through September 2026) to procure precision accuracy control equipment—a Leica Geosystems RTC360 laser scanner and Creaform Handyscan measurement systems—to improve pre-availability compartment documentation and reduce CAD modeling design cycles at the Norfolk facility.

Activity is concentrated in NAICS 336611 (Ship Building and Repairing), which carries 167 of Metro Machine's 428 awards. PSC codes emphasize Non-Nuclear Ship Repair (East) across 285 awards and Maintenance/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment-Ships across 88 awards. The vendor competes exclusively in full-and-open procurements without set-aside protections, positioning Metro Machine as a large-business, non-set-aside provider of capital-intensive naval industrial services.