NES Bearing Co Inc.

NES Bearing Co Inc., a small business precision-bearing manufacturer based in Olean, New York, operates as a prime contractor (91% of recent awards) supplying custom and standard bearings to the Defense Logistics Agency, NASA, and the Department of the Navy, with sporadic subcontract work serving Rolls-Royce Marine North America on gas turbine engine bearing components. The company is structured as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation competing predominantly under total small business set-asides across DLA purchases and Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I and Phase II contracts, though it also wins full-and-open purchase orders from DLA Aviation and other agencies.

NES Bearing's footprint concentrates almost entirely on Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, which accounts for 26 awards (89% of the award count across the top five customers) and $2.5 million in combined potential value. A $1.4 million Small Business SBIR Phase II definitive contract with DLA Troop Support for B-1 bomber platform bearing design development (ultimate completion December 23, 2026) anchors the value side; it represents NES Bearing's single largest prime award. NASA appears across two centers: Glenn Research Center (5 awards, $405 thousand combined potential value) and the Shared Services Center (3 awards, $196 thousand combined potential value). The Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command and Naval Air Systems Command round out the active set. Recent concrete awards include a $49,058 firm fixed-price purchase order from NASA's Shared Services Center (March 20, 2026) for 16 custom InRoDES bearings featuring Silicon Nitride rolling elements and Cronidur 30 ring materials with AS9100 Rev. D certification; DLA Aviation purchase orders totaling $57 thousand for cylindrical roller bearings and roller journal bearings (December 2025 and November 2025); and a $100,070 SBIR Phase I award from DLA for bearing design research and development (March 26, 2024). The company holds seats on two Navy basic ordering agreements (N6449823G4001 with 3 task orders and N0002419G4108 with 1 task order).

Activity has accelerated recently — one award in 2023, three in 2024, seven in 2025, and one through March 2026 — but the combined potential value across all 44 awards (prime and sub) stands at $4.9 million against $6.9 million obligated, indicating obligations outpacing potential ceiling values. Two awards totaling $1.4 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. NES Bearing's award taxonomy clusters heavily within ball and roller bearing manufacturing (30 awards, primary NAICS 333311) and antifriction unmounted bearings (28 awards, PSC 3510). The vendor subcontracts to Rolls-Royce Marine North America on four tracked sub-awards (October 2024, January 2025, March 12, 2025, and March 27, 2025) supplying bearing components for MT30 and 501-K34 gas turbine engines. Across prime and sub engagement, NES Bearing delivers precision-engineered bearings and bearing assemblies meeting aerospace and defense manufacturing standards including ISO 9001:2015 and AS9100 certification, with demonstrated capability in SBIR-driven advanced bearing technology development for military platforms.

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