Thrustmaster Of Texas, Inc.

Thrustmaster Of Texas, Inc., a Houston-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation and small business manufacturer of heavy-duty marine propulsion and thruster systems, operates as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards) supplying dynamic positioning systems, Z-drive thrusters, seal assemblies, fluid coolers, and related maintenance and overhaul services to federal maritime agencies. The company holds a named subsidiary, Floatmaster, Inc., also a small disadvantaged business. Thrustmaster competes predominantly under full-and-open solicitations and Total Small Business set-asides on individual delivery orders; its two primary IDIQs with the Coast Guard carry small-business set-aside designations, but most task orders issued against them do not.

The U.S. Coast Guard dominates Thrustmaster's customer concentration, accounting for 50 awards (68% of award count) valued at $24.8 million in combined potential value. The second and third rankings by dollar value reflect a different portfolio profile: the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering Division Transatlantic carries 2 awards at $26.2 million potential value, anchored by high-value fixed-plant propulsion equipment contracts, while the Naval Sea Systems Command accounts for 15 awards at $1.2 million. Across the top five customer agencies by award count, Thrustmaster serves the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (18 awards, $737 thousand), Naval Sea Systems Command (15 awards), the Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center and Engineering District Memphis (combined 7 awards at $1.6 million), and the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (12 awards, $36 thousand). The concentration signal is stark: Coast Guard maintenance and overhaul work dominates volume, but high-value Corps of Engineers vessel propulsion equipment manufacturing anchors the potential-value portfolio.

Thrustmaster holds two primary Coast Guard IDIQs. The first, a $2.56 million single-award indefinite-delivery contract awarded April 16, 2024, runs through March 22, 2033, and covers design, manufacture, and installation of dynamic positioning systems for the 175' WLM Service Life Extension Program. Recent delivery orders under this vehicle include a $142,726 firm fixed-price order for dynamic positioning system installation on Coast Guard Cutter Ida Lewis (awarded July 12, 2024, completion May 31, 2025) and a $142,726 order for the same system on Coast Guard Cutter Abbie Burgess (awarded September 10, 2025, completion January 12, 2026). The second IDIQ, a $12.79 million Total Small Business single-award contract awarded December 23, 2021, runs through December 22, 2026, and covers maintenance, overhaul, and technical support of Ulstein Aquamaster Model 1350H Z-drive thrusters on Coast Guard 175 WLM class inland buoy tenders; this vehicle has generated 35 delivery orders valued at $7.1 million in combined potential value, ranging from $6,800 technical representative services to $824,905 comprehensive Z-drive repair efforts. Recent task orders include a $683,364 firm fixed-price Z-drive repair delivery order for Coast Guard Cutter Henry Blake (awarded July 8, 2026, completion July 27, 2027), a $919,949 Z-drive repair order for multiple Coast Guard vessels (awarded September 18, 2025, completion December 15, 2025), and a $230,364 seven-seal prop kit order (awarded September 10, 2026). Thrustmaster also places work on a Corps of Engineers IDC (70Z04024D62401B00) covering 4 task orders and a GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract (GS07F0204J) covering 4 task orders, though neither carries the dollar significance of the Coast Guard vehicles.

Capability concentration reflects the vendor's market position as a specialized marine propulsion equipment manufacturer and service provider. Work spans Other Engine Equipment Manufacturing (42 awards), Mechanical Power Transmission Equipment Manufacturing (14 awards), Ship Building and Repairing (14 awards), and Fluid Power Pump and Motor Manufacturing (8 awards) across NAICS categories. PSC coding aligns: Ship and Boat Propulsion Components (33 awards) and Maintenance/Repair/Rebuild of Ship and Marine Equipment (21 awards) account for the majority of the sourcing. Representative named work includes a $863,320 firm fixed-price definitive contract from the Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center (January 31, 2024) for delivery of two Thrustmaster OD150N Standard Integrated Hydraulic Outboard Propulsion Units with 150-horsepower diesel engines and four years of on-site maintenance support to the Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory in Vicksburg, Mississippi; a $208,480 Naval Sea Systems Command purchase order (September 18, 2025, completion January 27, 2026) for a heat exchanger shell and tube assembly for the USS G. Gifford, performed in San Diego, California; a $756,672 Coast Guard delivery order (August 26, 2024, completion May 2, 2025) for overhaul of port and starboard marine propulsion units; and multiple Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime component purchase orders ranging from $2,018 storage batteries to $296,350 standard overhaul of an inland towboat Z-drive thruster (awarded July 30, 2025, completion July 29, 2026, performed in Russellville, Arkansas).

Activity has held relatively flat in recent years — 12 awards in 2022, 18 in 2023, 20 in 2024, 12 in 2025, and 7 awards in 2026 (source data current through October 15, 2026) — suggesting stable Coast Guard maintenance ordering cycles offset by sporadic high-value Corps of Engineers equipment procurement. Five awards with ultimate completion dates inside the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $1.1 million and face recompete exposure; the two large Coast Guard IDIQs do not approach recompete dates in the near term. Thrustmaster's subcontract footprint is minor: 6 sub-awards (4% of total) flow to Marinette Marine Corporation for detail design and construction of FFG(X) Guided Missile Frigate Auxiliary Power Unit work (sub-awards dated August 2022 through December 2024), indicating secondary participation in Navy shipbuilding modernization rather than a meaningful sub engagement strategy.

Manufacture marine propulsion units from 35 - 3000hp, including deck-mounted, thru-hull, & retractable thrusters, outdrives, z-drives, l-drives, tunnel thrusters, jet thrusters, azimuthing thrusters, portable dynamic positioning systems.