Westmoreland Mechanical Testing & Research, Inc.

Westmoreland Mechanical Testing & Research, Inc. (doing business as Wmt&R), a Pennsylvania-based small business subchapter S corporation, provides advanced materials testing and metallurgical evaluation services to the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Army, and NASA as a prime contractor (76% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on defense and space programs. The company does not compete under set-aside programs; its prime awards span full-and-open and total small business designations, and its customer base and dollar concentration are anchored to a single-award blanket purchase agreement with Naval Sea Systems Command valued at $249,375 that runs through December 2023, alongside a newer $7.5 million multiple-award BPA for specimen fabrication and testing services awarded September 30, 2025, and a $218 thousand single-award indefinite-delivery contract with TACOM issued April 27, 2026.

Wmt&R's core capability is specialized mechanical, tensile, fatigue, and fracture-toughness testing of naval and aerospace-grade materials, including high-strength steels (HY80, HY100, 10Ni Steel, V-Aus Steel), aluminum alloys, and welded specimens. The company operates testing facilities in Youngstown and Latrobe, Pennsylvania, with secondary performance locations in Portsmouth, Virginia and Washington, DC. Representative prime work includes a $50,400 firm-fixed-price delivery order from TACOM for pre-cracked, side-grooved fracture toughness specimen metallurgical testing per MIL drawing standards (April 27, 2026, completion December 31, 2026); a $48,060 BPA call from Naval Sea Systems Command for tensile testing (March 3, 2023, completed September 30, 2023); a $36,150 purchase order from TACOM for fracture testing of pre-cracked specimens (February 7, 2024, completed March 29, 2024); and a $21,600 Office of Naval Research purchase order for v-notch cryogenic testing (February 9, 2024, completed March 30, 2024).

The Navy dominates Wmt&R's customer concentration, accounting for 71% of recent awards (52 of 106 total awards) and 99% of combined potential value by dollar magnitude. Naval Sea Systems Command alone placed 41 awards with $8.3 million combined potential value, primarily through the $249,375 single-award BPA mechanism covering mechanical and chemical testing of metal test bars for shipbuilding and maintenance programs. The Naval Air Warfare Center placed 11 awards worth $1.1 million combined potential value. The Army's TACOM Life Cycle Management Command and Contracting Command Picatinny Arsenal together account for 9 awards and $1.033 million in combined potential value. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and the Shared Services Center, along with the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration, round out the active customer set. Across all customers, Wmt&R has served 21 distinct federal agencies over the source period.

Wmt&R holds positions on three parent IDV vehicles: a single-award blanket purchase agreement (N6833514A0054) with 8 task orders generating $52 thousand in combined potential value; a single-award blanket purchase agreement (N0016722A0002) with 4 task orders and $70 thousand in combined potential value; and an indefinite-delivery contract (N0016718D0002) with 10 task orders carrying $103 thousand in combined potential value. The $7.5 million multiple-award BPA with Naval Sea Systems Command (September 30, 2025 through September 30, 2030) for specimen fabrication and testing services and the $218 thousand TACOM indefinite-delivery contract (through December 27, 2029) represent the company's largest parent vehicles by ceiling value and extend the recompete horizon; only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, reducing near-term recompete pressure.

Activity has fluctuated moderately year over year — five awards in 2022 to twelve in 2024, declining to six in 2026 to date — reflecting the episodic nature of testing orders and the bundling of work into larger parent vehicles. Across the recent award portfolio, $2.7 million (25% of the combined $10.8 million potential value) has been obligated, indicating substantial unexercised ceiling on the $7.5 million Navy BPA and the TACOM indefinite-delivery contract.

In its subcontractor role, Wmt&R delivers materials testing and metallurgical evaluation to defense primes including Fluor Marine Propulsion (on Naval Nuclear Laboratory and Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program support with multiple awards for hydrogen charging process tensile testing and stress-assisted hydrogen migration testing), Aerojet Rocketdyne (on RS-25 production restart for the Space Launch System with high-cycle-fatigue testing, recertification, and manufacturing support), Lockheed Martin (on aluminum alloy retardation testing), Raytheon (on hypersonic missile systems), Boeing, Huntington Ingalls (on reactor overhaul advanced planning), and the University of Dayton (on additive manufacturing and cold spray research support). These sub-awards span NASA, DoD, and Department of Energy work.

Wmt&R's NAICS concentration is in Testing Laboratories and Services (46 awards) and related R&D and machine-shop classifications, with the bulk of procurement activity falling under PSC codes for equipment and materials testing of marine, aircraft, and metal materials. The company has been registered as a federal contractor since 2002 and operates with no SBA set-aside certifications, competing exclusively in full-and-open and total small business unrestricted categories.