Surface Technologies Corporation

Surface Technologies Corporation, a Jacksonville, Florida-based small business prime contractor, delivers maritime maintenance and preservation services to the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, with 97 percent of recent awards issued as prime contracts under predominantly small-business-set-aside IDIQ vehicles. The company specializes in non-skid deck coating removal and application, interior decking removal and installation, deck preservation, and exterior surface painting for active naval vessels and Coast Guard cutters.

Surface Technologies operates almost exclusively under Total Small Business set-aside IDIQ contracts with Naval Sea Systems Command, U.S. Fleet Forces Command (Atlantic Fleet), and the Coast Guard. The company's award portfolio spans more than four thousand prime contracts and awards since the mid-1980s, with 2025 activity reaching 178 awards and the most recent prime award dated May 18, 2026. Combined potential value across the prime footprint is $745.5 million, with $386.7 million obligated to date. Capability delivery centers on concrete vessel classes and preservation work: non-skid alterations on aircraft carriers (USS George H.W. Bush CVN-77, USS Carl Vinson CVN-70, USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71, USS Abraham Lincoln CVN-72, USS Gerald R. Ford CVN-78); guided-missile destroyers (USS Donald Cook DDG-75, USS Mason DDG-87, USS Lassen DDG-82, USS Gonzalez DDG-66, USS Cole DDG-67, USS Farragut DDG-99); amphibious assault and transport dock ships (USS Iwo Jima LHD-7, USS Kearsarge LHD-3, USS Arlington LPD-24, USS San Antonio LPD-17); littoral combat ships (USS Indianapolis LCS-17, USS Oakland LCS-24, USS Jackson LCS-6); and Coast Guard cutters (CGC Resolute, CGC Thetis, CGC Vigorous, CGC Alert, CGC Mohawk). Representative prime awards include a $3.5 million Coast Guard multiple-award IDIQ for preservation maintenance on West Coast and Hawaiian cutters through September 2026; a $5.28 million single-award U.S. Fleet Forces Command IDIQ for interior decking repair and replacement on Jacksonville-homeported vessels through June 2025, under which Surface Technologies executed thirty-two delivery orders valued at approximately $963 thousand; an $8.17 million Naval Sea Systems Command multiple-award IDIQ for interior decking services within 50 miles of Norfolk through September 2029; a $17.66 million NAVSEA multiple-award IDIQ for interior decking removal and installation services through January 2028; and a $400 thousand NAVSEA definitive contract for vinyl tile and wet deck covering system removal and replacement at Portsmouth, Maine, set aside for total small business.

Customer concentration is acute. Naval Sea Systems Command drives the portfolio: 2,360 awards (48 percent of all awards) with $506.6 million combined potential value (68 percent of total dollars). U.S. Fleet Forces Command (Atlantic Fleet) accounts for 753 awards and $99 million; the Coast Guard for 167 awards and $73.9 million; U.S. Pacific Fleet Forces for 135 awards and $8.5 million. The top five customer organizations cover 95 percent of recent award count and 93 percent of combined potential value. Within that concentration, NAVSEA dominates both volume and dollars—the single largest driver of Surface Technologies' business—while Fleet Forces Command supplies steady, recurring delivery orders on Atlantic Fleet destroyers.

Parent vehicles anchor execution across NAVSEA and Fleet Forces. The company places delivery orders under five primary IDIQs: Indefinite Delivery Contract N0024408D0031 (582 task orders, $12.6 million), N0024404D0005 (236 task orders, $11.6 million), N4002506D6004 (165 task orders, $14.8 million), and historical vehicles including "Non-Skid Deck Covering Installation and Repairs 2010–2015" (158 task orders, $23.7 million) and "Navy Vessel Non-Skid Decking 2011–2016" (149 task orders, $12.8 million). All four active primary IDIQ vehicles carry Total Small Business set-asides, reflecting Surface Technologies' status as a qualified small business entity competing under 8(a)-equivalent protections. Award values range from approximately $2,500 to over $1.2 million per delivery order, with most structured as firm fixed-price contracts on compressed completion timelines (one to six weeks typical).

In its subcontractor role, Surface Technologies provides deck and interior decking services to Huntington Ingalls Incorporated (DDG 1000/1001 modernization period planning, LHA 8 detail design and construction deck covering and non-skid work, LPD 30 long-lead-time material non-skid), BAE Systems Jacksonville Ship Repair (littoral combat ship post-shakedown availability labor), BAE Systems Maritime Solutions (destroyer and amphibious ship docking selected restricted availability direct subcontract costs), East Coast Repair & Fabrication (incremental selected repair availability on destroyers at Mayport), National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (USS America LHA-6 docking selected restricted availability repairs), and Epsilon Systems Solutions (USS Billings LCS-15 work order). Recent sub work dates from April 2026 and spans flight deck and recovery assist, securing and traversing (RAST) system preservation; nonskid replacement on Arleigh Burke and Zumwalt-class destroyers; interior electrical-grade deck covering matting replacement; and deck covering systems on amphibious and littoral platforms. Surface Technologies operates as a specialized sub on major shipyard team awards, performing the non-skid and interior decking scope while larger primes manage overall program integration.

Activity has grown modestly year-over-year, from 83 awards in 2022 to 178 in 2025, with only 34 awards recorded through May 2026. The recompete cliff is minimal—only 2 awards complete within the next 24 months with combined potential value of $2 thousand. Surface Technologies' IDIQ portfolio extends through 2029 on its largest vehicles, providing multi-year revenue visibility and reducing near-term recompete exposure, though the $3.5 million Coast Guard contract expires September 2026.

Surface Technologies Corporation competes in a single segment: small-business-set-aside maritime preservation and deck maintenance. The company does not appear in full-and-open competitions and holds no GSA Schedules or government-wide vehicles. It operates as a prime on dedicated Navy and Coast Guard preservation IDIQs and as a specialized labor provider on major shipyard repair team contracts. Its competitive posture and customer concentration—90 percent-plus reliance on Navy (NAVSEA and Fleet Forces) and Coast Guard work—positions the vendor as a mission-critical provider of deck preservation capability within the naval maintenance ecosystem but also as highly concentrated in a single commodity and customer base.