Progressive Surface Inc.

Progressive Surface Inc., doing business as Progressive Technologies Inc., is a manufacturer of specialized industrial surface-treatment machinery and equipment serving the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on 159 of 161 recent federal awards, with no SBA set-aside designations across its primary portfolio and minimal subcontractor activity. Based in Kentwood, Michigan, the company competes full-and-open, with its footprint anchored by defense depot maintenance and sustainment operations across Air Force, Navy, and Army logistics commands.

Progressive Surface's customer concentration is heavily weighted to Air Logistics Complex operations. The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex dominates both volume and dollars — 28 awards carrying $16.4 million combined potential value — while Naval Air Systems Command accounts for 36 awards at $860 thousand combined value, and the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation places 19 awards worth $6.8 million. These three customers represent 68% of awards across 19 distinct federal agencies. The top-five customer group by potential value — OKLC, DLA Aviation, Air Force Sustainment Center, Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command, and Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex — accounts for 88% of combined potential value ($28.9 million of $32.8 million).

The company's concrete capability portfolio centers on shot peening machines, water jet stripping systems, robotic ceramic and steel peening equipment, CNC machine upgrades, grit blasting systems, and thermal spray equipment, along with preventative maintenance and retrofit services for those systems. Recent representative work includes a $4.28 million firm fixed-price purchase order from OKLC (June 2025) for procurement and installation of three ultra-high-pressure waterjet stripping machines for aircraft engine component maintenance; a $2.824 million March 2026 purchase order from OKLC for a cubic boron nitride waterjet system to strip maskings from integrated blade rotors; a $1.663 million DLA Aviation order (June 2022) for a gantry robotic ceramic peening system with installation and training; a $1.177 million DLA Aviation order (January 2022, set as Total Small Business) for a wet ceramic robotic shot peening machine; and a $651,803.46 definitive contract from OKLC (March 2023) for shot peen machine preventative and remedial maintenance at Tinker Air Force Base running through March 2031 under sole-source justification as the original equipment manufacturer. The company holds primary NAICS codes in general purpose machinery manufacturing (41 awards) and commercial/industrial machinery repair and maintenance (36 awards), with PSC concentration in maintenance and repair shop equipment and metal finishing equipment categories.

Activity has contracted sharply — seven awards in 2022 declining to two in 2023, stabilizing at three to five annual awards in 2024–2026 — placing the company on a flattened posture. Six awards (combined potential value $9.6 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. The company subcontracts minimally: one Space Launch System booster production and operations sub-award and one thermal spray chiller installation sub-award to STS Systems Support, LLC under an Air Force Materiel Command task order. Progressive Surface operates across five named indefinite delivery contracts as a task-order vehicle, though none carries more than two orders in the source data.