Murdock Webbing Company, Inc.

Murdock Webbing Company, Inc., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Central Falls, Rhode Island, manufactures narrow woven textile products for military and defense applications as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on munitions-assembly programs. The company competes full-and-open; across its prime footprint, it holds no set-aside designations on its largest vehicles, though it has won smaller purchase orders under Total Small Business set-asides from the Defense Logistics Agency's Clothing and Textiles division. Murdock Webbing specializes in webbing assemblies, tape assemblies, and flexible band covers used in aircraft launch and recovery systems, body armor, protective gear, and munitions production.

Customer concentration is extreme and agency focus is narrow. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for 149 awards carrying $72.7 million in combined potential value — representing 75% of the company's total portfolio volume and 75% of its dollar value. The broader Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) ecosystem — including DLA Clothing and Textiles and DLA general — comprises another 120 awards worth $4.8 million. The Department of the Army's Materiel Command Joint Munitions Command ranks third with eight awards valued at $8.6 million; the Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command has nine awards worth $6.2 million. DLA Land and Maritime is not just the customer — it is Murdock Webbing's entire federal business.

Murdock Webbing operates under two primary indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Land and Maritime. The older IDC (SPE7MX17D0090, awarded April 2022) carries a $9.38 million ceiling with an April 2025 expiration and has supported 67 task orders worth $9.5 million in combined potential value. A replacement IDC (awarded March 13, 2026) carries a $19.4 million ceiling running through March 2031. These vehicles frame the company's operational posture: the April 2025 expiration of the first IDC represents a recompete cliff, though the March 2026 award of the successor contract substantially mitigates near-term risk. Across all prime awards, six contracts (combined potential value $2.9 million) complete within the next twenty-four months.

Representative capability work spans webbing assemblies for barrier aircraft applications — including a $204,270 Total Small Business set-aside for DLA Land and Maritime awarded April 2026 for barrier aircraft equipment, a $1.16 million definitive contract from July 2024 for purchase tape assemblies, and a $766,220 firm fixed-price purchase order from June 2025 for webbing assemblies. The company also received coated and uncoated webbing orders from the Naval Air Warfare Center and textile webbing contracts from DLA Clothing and Textiles, the latter typically ranging from $11,000 to $195,000 per order.

In its subcontractor role, Murdock Webbing supplies flexible band covers and rotating flex bands to General Dynamics OTS (Wilkes-Barre) for 155-millimeter M795 artillery round production, with awards dating from December 2023 through December 2025 covering incremental purchases of flex band covers for ongoing munitions manufacturing in support of military stockpile replenishment and Ukraine supply initiatives. The company also supplied purchase tape assemblies to Bowhead Avionics Manufacturing as a sub.

Activity has remained relatively steady — between 11 and 28 awards annually over the past five years — with 393 total awards recorded since 1980. Combined potential value stands at $96.5 million, with $71.4 million obligated (74% of total). The company's NAICS concentration centers on Broadwoven Fabric Mills (140 awards), with secondary codes in Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing and Textile Finishing Mills. PSC codes cluster around Aircraft Landing Equipment (218 awards) and Textile Fabrics (150 awards), reflecting its defense textile manufacturing specialization. Beyond federal contracts, Murdock Webbing received a $682,771 Rural Energy for America Program grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in August 2023 to install renewable energy systems (solar and wind) at its Rhode Island facility through August 2025, demonstrating commitment to operational sustainability at scale.