U.s. Foam & Etch, Inc.

U.s. Foam & Etch, Inc., doing business as Aviation And Industrial Tool Supply, is a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) based in Goldsboro, North Carolina that manufactures customized tool control kitting, laser-etched tools, deployment toolkits, foam inserts, and specialty foams as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) supplying defense and federal civilian agencies. The vendor operates primarily under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) and holds two significant blanket purchase agreements with the Naval Air Warfare Center, one valued at nearly $5 million through November 2027 for aviation and industrial supplies including aircraft sealants, adhesives, abrasives, lubricants, and specialty foams, and a second BPA for cutting tools and related items.

U.s. Foam & Etch competes across a mixed set-aside and full-and-open portfolio. Recent awards carry predominantly total small business set-asides, though a meaningful fraction carry no set-aside designation and compete full-and-open against unrestricted vendors. The vendor's NAICS footprint centers on hand and edge tool manufacturing (299 awards) and saw blade and handtool manufacturing (30 awards), with principal PSC codes aligned to hand tools nonedged nonpowered (211 awards), tool kits and outfits (43 awards), and tool and hardware boxes (35 awards). This concrete portfolio — customized toolboxes with laser-etched tool identifiers, foam inserts and deployment kits, and related maintenance supplies — surfaces in representative work: a $205,351 purchase order from U.S. Pacific Fleet Forces in September 2025 for shadow box tool assemblies with foam cushion components; a $170,398 delivery order from the Air Force in September 2023 for 55 AMXS deployment toolkits; a $137,038 purchase order from the Air Force in September 2022 for five foamed toolboxes with etched tools; and a $126,108 purchase order from the Coast Guard in May 2023 for 200 cartridge cutters used in H-65 aircraft aerial deployment systems. The vendor also supplies point-items such as individual hand tools, gauges, and fastening equipment across GSA MAS and agency-specific BPAs.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Department of the Navy Naval Air Warfare Center, which represents 11 awards carrying $20.5 million combined potential value — roughly 58% of total potential value in the source window. The GSA Federal Acquisition Service follows distantly with 80 awards but only $8.8 million combined potential value, reflecting a high-volume / low-dollar-per-order pattern typical of GSA MAS ordering. The top five customer agencies by potential value account for roughly 90% of recent dollars, but the top five by award count (GSA FAS, Army Forces Command, Air National Guard, Air Combat Command, and Veterans Affairs) account for only 59% of awards, indicating that the Naval Air Warfare Center work is concentrated in a smaller number of high-value agreements while most other customers place numerous small orders.

The vendor sits on the GSA Multiple Award Schedule with 296 task orders generating $3.1 million combined potential value, the primary vehicle for broad federal access. The two Naval Air Warfare Center BPAs — valued at approximately $10 million combined and carrying a March 2026 refresh date — anchor the majority of potential-value concentration. A third vehicle, Basic Ordering Agreement N6833524G0021, carries one recorded order. Activity has been flat to modestly declining in recent years (10 awards in 2022, down to 5 in 2026 year-to-date), with only four awards reaching ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and carrying $293 thousand in combined recompete risk. The vendor obligated $7 million of its $35.6 million combined potential value across all awards, indicating significant unfilled ceiling on existing contracts — typical of BPAs and MAS vehicles where ceiling exceeds execution.

U.s. Foam & Etch subcontracts minimally, with only two recorded sub awards: a sub task under Bowhead Avionics Manufacturing for PAPI lighting modifications and optical equipment (October 2024), and a sub task under General Dynamics Information Technology for global security and supply chain services (August 2024). The SDVOSB designation and the core competency in tool control kitting and foam fabrication position the vendor primarily as a prime contractor rather than a supplier to large integrators. A GSA Federal Supply Schedule contract awarded March 5, 2026, with a $4.8 million ceiling through March 4, 2031, extends the MAS footprint and enables direct ordering across federal civilian and defense agencies.

U.S. Foam & Etch specializes in customized tool kitting and laser identification services. We offer several methods of tool identification, along kitting solutions which include; foam sheets, rolls, and custom cut foam toolbox inserts for FOD control.