Vibration Research Corp

Vibration Research Corp, a Jenison, Michigan-based small business manufacturer, supplies vibration control systems, shaker test equipment, and related components to defense and aerospace agencies as a prime contractor (92% of recent awards), competing predominantly under full-and-open solicitations with no set-aside designations applied to its awards. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and manufacturer of goods with a twenty-year presence in federal procurement dating to 2006.

Vibration Research Corp's customer base spans defense and space agencies with significant concentration in naval and Air Force requirements. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 58% of recent awards: the Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center (4 awards, $69 thousand combined potential value), the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (4 awards, $4 thousand), the Army Materiel Command TACOM Life Cycle Management Command (2 awards, $10 thousand), the Air Force (2 awards, $64 thousand), and the Air Force Air Education and Training Command (2 awards, $43 thousand). By potential value, the Naval Air Warfare Center and Air Force remain anchors ($69 thousand and $64 thousand respectively), but NASA Glenn Research Center emerges as a significant customer with a single $61 thousand award, and the Office of Naval Research contributes a $54 thousand award. Recent representative work includes a $63.6 thousand firm-fixed-price purchase order from the Air Force for a high-frequency vibration test shaker system (May 2026, performance in Jenison through August 2026), a $53.8 thousand total-small-business-set-aside purchase order from the Office of Naval Research for a shaker system unit (February 2024), and a $25.8 thousand purchase order from CDC for vibration research hardware (September 2024). The vendor's work clusters in other measuring and controlling device manufacturing (8 awards) and analytical laboratory instrument manufacturing (5 awards), with PSC activity dominated by maintenance/repair/rebuild of instruments and laboratory equipment (6 awards).

Activity has been sporadic, with two awards in 2021, one in 2022, three in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026 — no sustained trajectory. The combined potential value across all 24 awards in the source data is $384 thousand, but obligated dollars total $594 thousand, reflecting actual invoicing above contract ceilings on completed work. The vendor holds one task-order slot under Air Force indefinite delivery contract FA865020D5211. In its subcontractor role, Vibration Research Corp delivered a shaker system unit to Sierra Nevada Company for the Survivable Airborne Operations Center program (October 2024) and provided metals performance and uncertainty prediction engineering services to the University of Dayton (February 2025). The vendor's prime footprint is predominantly transactional purchase-order work for specialized vibration testing hardware and components; defense and space engineering primes use the company as a component or equipment supplier rather than as a systems integrator or program-level contractor.