Taylor Devices Inc.

Taylor Devices Inc., a small business manufacturer headquartered in North Tonawanda, New York, supplies precision shock absorbers, hydraulic buffers, resilient mounts, and related motion control components to the Department of Defense and NASA as a prime contractor (95% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to major defense primes. The company competes predominantly under full-and-open procurement, though it holds multiple Total Small Business set-aside IDIQs with the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation and has received a modest number of Total Small Business set-aside purchase orders from DLA Land and Maritime.

Taylor Devices' federal footprint is heavily concentrated in Navy and DLA logistics. The top five customer agencies account for 70% of awards by count: DLA Land and Maritime leads with 190 awards ($4.8 million combined potential value), followed by DLA Aviation with 67 awards ($6.9 million), Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command with 33 awards ($10.4 million), Naval Sea Systems Command with 47 awards ($6 million), and Naval Sea Systems Command with an additional grouping. By potential-value ranking, Naval Supply Systems Command dominates at $10.4 million across 33 awards, with DLA Aviation at $6.9 million and Naval Sea Systems Command at $6 million. The concentration signals deep embedded relationships in Navy platform sustainment and military aircraft and vehicle maintenance. Representative prime work includes a $1.465 million definitive contract from Naval Supply Systems Command (July 2025) for resilient weapon mounts, a $1.087 million purchase order from NASA Kennedy Space Center (May 2024) for dampers and energy absorbers on the Vehicle Damper System for the Space Launch System Mobile Launcher 2, and a $938.5 thousand Naval Supply Systems Command definitive contract (September 2024) for resilient mounts supporting naval and aerospace applications.

Taylor Devices holds two single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation: a $2 million Total Small Business set-aside IDC awarded January 29, 2025, running through January 21, 2030 for shock absorbers and motion control components (with two delivery orders totaling $257.4 thousand issued to date), and a $1,999,999.99 Total Small Business set-aside IDC awarded August 9, 2023, with ultimate completion January 30, 2025, under which three shock absorber delivery orders (totaling $220.1 thousand) have been executed. These vehicles anchor the company's streamlined procurement relationship with DLA Aviation for military platform sustainment. The broader top-parent-vehicle footprint includes five additional IDCs and a Basic Ordering Agreement, though the source carries limited detail on scope and utilization rates for those vehicles.

Activity has averaged 19 awards annually over the past five years, with notable growth in 2025 (29 awards) following lower levels in 2023–2024. Only three awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $1.9 million — a relatively modest recompete exposure reflecting the company's reliance on large, longer-duration contracts and standing IDIQs rather than numerous near-term delivery orders.

As a subcontractor, Taylor Devices supplies shock absorbers, hydraulic assemblies, springs, buffers, and damper systems to major defense primes including BAE Systems Land & Armaments, Electric Boat Corporation, Raytheon Company, General Atomics, Northrop Grumman Systems, and Boeing. Named sub work includes shock absorber and vibration isolation components for General Atomics' unmanned aerial vehicle landing gear programs, hydraulic assemblies for Raytheon's guided missile launcher systems, fluid spring dampers for the Orion spacecraft program through a NASA contractor, and specialized buffering systems for submarine and ground-based missile applications through Electric Boat and BAE Systems contracts.

The company's primary NAICS concentration sits in Motor Vehicle Body Manufacturing (108 awards) and fluid power and guided missile component manufacturing (40 awards each), reflecting its specialization in aerospace and defense platform motion control components. The top PSC codes track similarly: Vehicular Cab, Body, and Frame Structural Components (174 awards), Hardware and Weapon System codes (46 and 29 awards), and Guided Missile Components (29 awards). Combined obligated dollars across all awards exceed potential value by 63 percent, signaling mature, fully-funded execution across the portfolio. First award in the source data traces to 1980, indicating decades of embedded supplier relationships with military logistics and platform sustainment organizations.

Incorporated in 1955, Taylor Devices, Inc. is the leading manufacturer of Shock

Absorbers, Liquid Springs, Shock Isolation Systems, Seismic Isolators,

Vibration Dampers, Powerplant Snubbers, and other types of Hydro-

Mechanical Energy Management Products. Our products form the cutting

edge of technology in our marketplace, and are backed by our 60+ years of

successful experience in the shock and vibration control field. Our products

offer a turn-key solution to shock and vibration problems, with Taylor Devices

providing full analysis, development, manufacturing and testing capabilities to

satisfy the most exacting customer requirements.