Survival Innovations, LLC

Survival Innovations, LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business based in Mills River, North Carolina, manufactures aviation life support equipment, advanced crew tether systems, and military textile products as a prime contractor (94% of recent awards) and subcontractor. The company competes predominantly full-and-open, with no set-aside designations on its largest contracts, though it holds SDVOSB status across its portfolio.

Survival Innovations' core capability centers on crew-specific tether kits, restraint systems, harnesses, and survival gear for military aviation platforms. Recent representative work includes a $16.2 million five-year IDIQ awarded by Army Aviation and Missile Command (PEO Soldier) on January 23, 2025, for crew-specific kits and personal restraint tethers in support of the Air Warrior program, under which four delivery orders totaling approximately $2.66 million have been issued (including a primary $2.43 million delivery order for crew kits, long tethers, short tethers, and first-article test reports due September 30, 2026, plus three Foreign Military Sales delivery orders to Egypt, Lithuania, and Brazil awarded in December 2025). The company also holds a $250 thousand single-award IDC with Defense Logistics Agency Aviation through July 2026 for pouch assemblies and related accessories. Additional work includes a $596 thousand Cost Plus Fixed Fee definitive contract from the Naval Air Warfare Center for ACTS (Advanced Crew Tether System) modified harnesses awarded September 2024 and a $50.3 thousand purchase order from Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex for a modified F-15 ACTS harness (fall arrest protection system) awarded November 2024.

Customer concentration sits firmly with the Department of Defense and its supply chains. The top five customers by award count represent 81% of recent awards, led by Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (21 awards, $796 thousand), DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (19 awards, $340 thousand), and DLA Troop Support Clothing and Textiles (15 awards, $896 thousand), with PEO Soldier (7 awards, $3.4 million) and Naval Air Warfare Center (3 awards, $732 thousand) rounding out the set. The top-customers-by-potential-value ranking diverges significantly: the $16.2 million Air Warrior IDIQ from Army Materiel Command Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (3 awards) and a $5.7 million award from Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (1 award) anchor 95% of combined potential value, indicating that Survival Innovations' DLA volume work carries lower individual order values than its Army platform contracts. The company serves 13 distinct federal agencies.

Activity has trended upward over five years — two awards in 2022 to seven in 2025 — with five awards (combined potential value $3.4 million) reaching completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore exposed to recompete. Survival Innovations also operates as a subcontractor: recent sub work includes adjustable tether assemblies and quick-release components to Atlantic Diving Supply under a $2 thousand sub-award (June 2024), systems analysis for autonomous vehicle engineering to KBR Wyle Services (February 2023 and February 2024), and F-15 FMS air vehicle development work to Boeing (March and October 2025). NAICS concentration reflects the manufacturing footprint — Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (24 awards), Special Die and Tool Manufacturing (17 awards), and Men's and Boys' Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing (8 awards) dominate the category mix. PSC coding mirrors capability: Production Jigs, Fixtures, and Templates (17 awards), Clothing Special Purpose (15 awards), and Miscellaneous Aircraft Accessories and Components (13 awards) lead the product-services classification. All work is performed at the contractor's Mills River, North Carolina facility.

Design, develope, build prototypes, test living saving devices