Stumptown Research & Development, LLC

Stumptown Research & Development, LLC, a small-business manufacturer based in Black Mountain, North Carolina, designs, fabricates, and maintains specialized blast simulation equipment and advanced research instrumentation for the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs as a prime contractor (91% of recent awards), with particular depth in advanced blast load simulator systems serving military research and medical institutions.

Stumptown's customer footprint centers on Army and VA research organizations. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center anchors the portfolio with five awards valued at $1.8 million combined potential value, accounting for 69% of dollars across the vendor's active base. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 1 places the second-largest order—a $486 thousand purchase order for design and fabrication of an Advanced Blast Simulator for medical blast-trauma research at White River Junction, Vermont, with installation and operational training included and completion scheduled for June 2027. The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences places both repair and fabrication work, and the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Integrated Service Network 23 holds a smaller award. The Department of the Navy appears in recent activity as a minor customer. This concentration—91% of awards across six distinct agencies, with the Army Corps of Engineers alone representing 45% of current awards by count—reflects Stumptown's narrow but deep specialization in blast simulation systems rather than broad-spectrum federal IT or professional services.

Stumptown holds two primary vehicles with the Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center: a $1 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract awarded February 24, 2026, for Advanced Blast Load Simulator preventive maintenance and engineering support services running through February 23, 2031, and a $568 thousand Other Transaction IDV from September 1, 2022, for retrofit of an existing Blast Load Simulator for gaseous detonation capabilities and concurrent development of a Virtual Blast Load Simulator. Representative prime work includes a $486 thousand firm-fixed-price definitive contract from Army Medical Command (awarded May 3, 2022) for design and fabrication of a compressed gas-driven advanced blast simulator for the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, a $129 thousand purchase order from the Army Corps of Engineers (December 3, 2026) for a C2SQ component for the Structural Mechanics Branch, and a $38 thousand delivery order (February 25, 2026) under the ERDC Other Transaction IDV for ABLS preventive maintenance and engineering support. Award volume has accelerated in 2026 (six awards) following lower activity in prior years. Four awards (combined potential value $722 thousand) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure. NAICS profile runs across Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (4 awards), Electronic and Precision Equipment Repair and Maintenance (3 awards), and Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (2 awards), with PSC coverage spanning Maintenance/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment—Instruments and Laboratory Equipment, Medical and Surgical Instruments and Equipment, and Laboratory Equipment and Supplies. Stumptown carries one subcontract role as a fabrication specialist to ManTech TSG-2 Joint Venture on a Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Enterprise cyber operations support task involving tac-clamp assembly and extrusion fabrication (awarded January 4, 2024). The vendor competes in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations across its footprint.