Aero Industries, Incorporated

Aero Industries, Incorporated, a self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, supplies aviation turbine fuel (JP-8) and diesel fuel marine (F-76) to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor under full-and-open competition, competing without set-aside designations across a single-award indefinite delivery contract vehicle and predecessor IDIQ positions with the Defense Logistics Agency Energy.

Aero Industries operates exclusively as a prime contractor—100% of its 4,119 recent awards are primes with no subcontract footprint. The vendor's entire federal portfolio centers on a single concrete capability: petroleum product procurement and delivery logistics to military installations and commercial airport fueling points across the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast regions, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Canada. The company holds a current single-award IDC (SPE607-25-R-0201) awarded by DLA Energy on October 1, 2025, with a $4,677,827.89 ceiling and performance through March 31, 2029, covering both JP-8 and F-76 delivery across 19 geographically dispersed locations under the Into-Plane program. Delivery orders against this vehicle, issued from October 2025 through April 2026, range from sub-$100 transactions to orders exceeding $60,000. Prior to this award, Aero Industries held positions on three predecessor IDIQ vehicles: SPE60722D0009 (1,874 task orders, $3.8 million combined potential value), SPE60017D0130 (1,162 task orders, $2.4 million), and SP060013D0022 (848 task orders, $3.9 million).

Customer concentration is extreme: Defense Logistics Agency Energy accounts for 4,102 of 4,119 awards (100% of the meaningful footprint) and $25.9 million of combined potential value. The remaining two customer agencies—Defense Logistics Agency (9 awards) and the Department of the Air Force (1 award)—represent anomalies in an otherwise monolithic DLAE relationship. The vendor has served only three distinct agencies across its entire tracked award history.

Activity has declined sharply from recent peaks. The company recorded 403 awards in 2022, 583 in 2023, 499 in 2024, then dropped to 379 in 2025 and 139 through mid-April 2026. This trajectory reflects the natural outcome of rolling from high-velocity predecessor IDIQ vehicles to a new single-award contract in October 2025 that consolidates the same work. Category concentration is similarly absolute: 4,099 of 4,119 awards fall under NAICS 324110 (Petroleum Refineries), and 4,115 awards are classified under PSC 9130 (Liquid Propellants and Fuels, Petroleum Base). The vendor's combined potential value across all awards stands at $28.3 million, with $17.4 million obligated as of the source snapshot (62% obligation rate).

Aero Industries competes in a full-and-open environment against larger fuel logistics incumbents; no set-aside designations appear across the vendor's portfolio despite its small disadvantaged business certification. The single-award IDC structure concentrates recompete risk: the entire $4.68 million vehicle completes March 31, 2029, and the predecessor vehicles have similarly aged out. Work is performed exclusively at Richmond International Airport, Virginia, with fuel delivered across the 19-location service territory. The vendor has held federal contracts since at least August 1982, demonstrating sustained presence in DoD fuel logistics, but current footprint and trajectory indicate a supplier locked into a narrow, high-volume, transaction-heavy niche tied to DLA Energy's Into-Plane program operations.