NSN Specialty LLC

NSN Specialty LLC, a woman-owned small business based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, manufactures and supplies aviation-related hardware, components, and electromechanical equipment to the Department of the Navy as a prime contractor under total small business set-asides, with 100% of recent awards concentrated in a single customer.

NSN Specialty is a for-profit limited liability partnership and Subchapter S corporation operating under woman-owned small business (WOSB) designation. The vendor competes exclusively under total small business set-aside vehicles and holds no full-and-open awards in the source data. Its product portfolio spans fiber optic adapter sets, radar transit cases, transit secure automated system (TSAS) transit cases, heat exchanger leak check test set cases, battery storage units, forward payload support bracket cases, cabling assemblies, check valves, swivel connectors, and specialized containers. Work is performed at the Myrtle Beach location, with some performance at Lakewood, New Jersey and other Navy locations as directed.

Customer concentration is extreme and atypical for a federal vendor. The Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center accounts for 635 awards (99% of total awards) and $179.2 million of the $179.4 million combined potential value across NSN Specialty's portfolio. Five secondary customers—the U.S. Coast Guard, Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, the Bureau of Reclamation, and Naval Sea Systems Command—generate only $51 thousand combined across nine awards. This near-total concentration in a single customer command represents recompete risk: if the Naval Air Warfare Center transitions procurement away from NSN Specialty or consolidates spend, the vendor faces loss of substantially all revenue.

NSN Specialty sits on four primary vehicle platforms, all established by Naval Air Warfare Center. The $4.999 million Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA N6833514A0004) has generated 320 task orders with $4.2 million in combined potential value since its January 2023 award through January 2028. The $93,113 Indefinite Delivery Contract (N6833509A0026) supports fiber optic adapter sets and has issued 233 task orders ($2.1 million combined potential). A second BPA (N6833523A0049) with a $150 million ceiling carries 31 task orders, representing the single largest vehicle. A third BPA (N6833519A0010) carries 11 task orders ($1.1 million combined). Ordering patterns show consistent monthly government purchase card calls under these vehicles, with each call carrying the full ceiling on firm fixed-price basis—a pattern that demonstrates active, sustained demand from Naval Air Warfare Center but also vendor lock-in characteristic of small business set-asides on preferred-supplier relationships.

Activity has grown modestly. The vendor recorded 2 awards in 2022, 6 in 2023, 15 in 2024, 10 in 2025, and 6 through July 2026—a sustained but not accelerating trajectory. Combined potential value of $179.4 million substantially exceeds combined dollars obligated ($8.4 million, or 5% of potential)—typical for Naval Air Warfare Center indefinite-delivery and blanket-purchase vehicles with full ceilings on standing authority to order. Because 635 of 658 awards are monthly purchase card calls under small business set-asides that roll over on fixed dates, the recompete cliff is distributed across the vendor's four primary vehicles through 2028. Substantial recompete activity is embedded in the 2023–2026 period.

The vendor's NAICS footprint reflects its product mix: Hardware Merchant Wholesalers (NAICS 423730) dominates with 557 awards, Machine Shops (3118) accounts for 46 awards, and smaller shares in plastics manufacturing, aircraft parts manufacturing, and metal container manufacturing. PSC coding shows Screws (320 awards) and Bolts (236 awards) as the highest-volume line items, followed by aircraft ground servicing equipment and maintenance shop specialized equipment. This classification pattern captures routine consumables and specialized components for aircraft maintenance and platform sustainment operations, indicating NSN Specialty functions as an authorized vendor for recurring small-dollar replenishment ordering rather than a development or integration contractor.