The Carpenter Group

The Carpenter Group American Rigging & Supply Division, doing business as American Rigging & Supply, manufactures and supplies specialized maritime rigging equipment, wire rope assemblies, mooring lines, safety nets, and related components to the U.S. Navy and Department of Homeland Security as a prime contractor (83% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to major shipbuilders. The division operates as a child entity of The Carpenter Group, a for-profit manufacturer based in Hayward, California, with operations in San Diego, California. American Rigging & Supply qualifies as a small business and competes across both total small business set-asides and full-and-open procurements, with roughly 47% of recent prime awards carrying small business set-aside designations.

The vendor's customer base centers overwhelmingly on naval operations and maintenance. The top five funding agencies account for 80% of recent awards, dominated by the Department of the Navy across three customer segments: U.S. Pacific Fleet Forces (167 awards, $1.3 million combined potential value), Naval Sea Systems Command (138 awards, $454 thousand), and Military Sealift Command (87 awards, $1.4 million). The Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard accounts for 19 awards valued at $359 thousand. Navy concentration runs deeper on the dollars side: Military Sealift Command and Pacific Fleet Forces together anchor the top two positions by potential value, reflecting the division's core role supplying consumable rigging and rope products for fleet maintenance, vessel repair, and ship modernization programs. Recent representative prime work includes a $9,145 firm fixed-price purchase order from Navy Aviation for wire rope assembly (January 2026), a $25,535 total small business set-aside from Pacific Fleet Forces for a 10-inch Hawser Pelican Hook Assembly (August 2025), a $19,300 total small business set-aside from Military Sealift Command for FUSION-X coated mooring lines for the USNS GRASP (July 2025), and a $64,230 total small business set-aside from the National Park Service for mooring lines at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park (September 2023).

American Rigging & Supply holds positions on multiple Navy indefinite delivery contracts anchoring recurring task-order flow. The top parent vehicles include Indefinite Delivery Contract N0002418D4331 (22 task orders), a Multiple Award Schedule (11 task orders, $202 thousand combined potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract N0002421D4103 (6 task orders), and the Complex and Non-Complex Maintenance on Surface Combatant and Amphibious Class Ships—San Diego vehicle (6 task orders). A single-award IDC with the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime for turnbuckle supply was awarded February 17, 2026, with a $350,000 ceiling running through February 17, 2027. The division also maintains significant standing IDCs with Naval Sea Systems Command for slings manufacturing and C4 safety nets, valued at approximately $3.2 million combined and running through June 2032.

Activity has accelerated substantially. Awards per year grew from 4 in 2022 to 12 in 2023 and 43 in both 2024 and 2025, though the source data captures only three awards in 2026 to date. The division's subcontractor footprint has expanded across major Navy shipbuilders and repair yards, particularly National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (multiple sub-awards for T-AO tanker construction, USS HARPERS FERRY maintenance, and USS AMERICA docking repairs), BAE Systems Maritime Solutions San Diego (USS ESSEX, USS HALSEY, and USS PAUL HAMILTON maintenance), HII Fleet Support Group (CVN elevator support and wire rope replacement on USS Theodore Roosevelt and USS Carl Vinson), and Vigor Marine (USS GABRIELLE GIFFORDS and USS CAPE ST GEORGE flight deck safety net work). The vendor also subs to Atlantic Diving Supply, Marinette Marine, Tidewater Distributors, Epsilon Systems Solutions, Metro Machine, Phoenix International Holdings, and East Coast Repair & Fabrication on specialized rigging and materials tasks.

The division's NAICS footprint reflects its product concentration: Ship Building and Repairing (152 awards), Other Fabricated Wire Product Manufacturing (111 awards), Rope, Cordage, and Twine Mills (63 awards), Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (39 awards), and Overhead Traveling Crane and Hoist Manufacturing (34 awards). Top PSC codes include Fiber Rope, Cordage, and Twine (80 awards), Miscellaneous Ship and Marine Equipment (77 awards), Chain and Wire Rope (64 awards), Rigging and Rigging Gear (56 awards), and Fittings for Rope, Cable, and Chain (47 awards). The division maintains broad federal reach across 34 distinct customer agencies, though Navy-centric procurement accounts for over 75% of award volume. Recent sub work with Leidos on autonomous systems design for Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific (May 2024) and with Atlantic Diving Supply on AMSTEEL-BLUE coated mooring line production (January 2025) signal selective expansion into non-traditional rigging categories, though the core footprint remains wire rope, cordage, slings, and maritime safety equipment for naval vessel operations and maintenance.

Wire rope and synthetic sling fabrication and repair. Overhead crane and hoist fabrication and repair.