Aero Metal Forms Inc.

Aero Metal Forms Inc., a veteran-owned small business manufacturer headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, delivers precision-fabricated aerospace components and structural aircraft parts to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor, competing predominantly under total small business set-asides across a portfolio of approximately 24 active indefinite delivery contracts.

Aero Metal Forms manufactures standardized aircraft components to military specifications for major weapon systems including the B-52 Stratofortress and F-15 Eagle. The company's concrete product portfolio encompasses aircraft skins, duct assemblies for air conditioning and bleed air systems, access doors, fairings, firewall frames, window panels, trailing edges, brush fairing seals, fireseal components, box assemblies, strap assemblies, and various structural support components. Representative recent work includes a $150,374 delivery order (awarded September 24, 2025) for air conditioning duct assemblies under a non-set-aside vehicle with ultimate completion October 14, 2027; a $172,550 total small business set-aside delivery order (awarded November 16, 2021) for duct assembly air components with completion May 30, 2026; and a $256,500 non-set-aside delivery order (awarded February 20, 2025) for aircraft duct assemblies completing April 3, 2026. All manufacturing occurs at the company's Wichita facility with no identified subcontractors.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for 1,194 awards ($63.2 million combined potential value), representing 66% of the total award count and 83% of combined potential value. The broader Defense Logistics Agency (inclusive of Aviation and Troop Support components) accounts for 91% of awards in the source dataset. Aero Metal Forms serves nine distinct federal agencies, but the remaining eight account for approximately 9% of awards collectively. Activity has been consistent at 46–53 annual awards across 2022–2024, declining to 28 awards in 2025 and 6 awards in the first quarter of 2026, suggesting a potential slowdown or data recency artifact.

Aero Metal Forms holds approximately 24 single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Aviation with ceiling values ranging from $249,999.99 to $1,999,999.99 and performance periods extending through 2029–2030. The top parent vehicles by task order count include Indefinite Delivery Contracts SPE4A718D0058 (18 task orders, $478 thousand), SPM47003D1197 (13 task orders, $158 thousand), SPE4A722D5487 (12 task orders, $59 thousand), SPE4A721D5487 (11 task orders, $89 thousand), and SPE4A715D5083 (10 task orders, $132 thousand). Approximately 18 of the 24 active IDVs carry total small business set-aside designations; the remainder are full-and-open or unrestricted vehicles. Recent IDV awards include a $349,999.99 total small business set-aside single-award contract (awarded December 17, 2025, through December 15, 2030), a $1,999,999.99 total small business set-aside for aircraft skins (awarded May 29, 2024, through May 16, 2029), and a $1,999,999.99 total small business set-aside for dup assembly air components (awarded August 9, 2023, through August 8, 2028).

Combined potential value across all awards is $76.1 million, with $49 million obligated (64% utilization). The recompete cliff exposes 32 awards ($2.4 million combined potential value) with ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months. The vendor's NAICS footprint is concentrated in Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (1,168 awards) and Aircraft Manufacturing (312 awards); PSC codes cluster on Airframe Structural Components (1,429 awards) and Aircraft Air Conditioning, Heating, and Pressurizing Equipment (284 awards). The company does not hold prime positions on GWACs, agency-wide IDIQs, or GSA Schedules; all work flows through DLA Aviation single-award IDV vehicles.

MANUFACTURER OF AIRCRAFT / AEROSPACE PARTS