Aeropanel, LLC

Aeropanel, LLC, a small business manufacturer of aircraft panels, lights, and cockpit components, operates as a prime contractor to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Defense Department, and Navy, with 99 percent of recent awards issued as direct prime contracts. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Aeropanel Corp, headquartered in Boonton, New Jersey, and registered as a for-profit Limited Liability Company. Aeropanel competes predominantly in the full-and-open market without set-aside designation on most individual task orders, though the vendor holds multiple Total Small Business set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation that structure the relationship.

Aeropanel's capability portfolio centers on manufacturing specialized aviation components for military aircraft: indicating panels, light transmitters (NVIS and standard), navigational lights, control panels, instrument bezels, blank panels, and related cockpit instrumentation. The vendor delivers these components through both discrete purchase orders and delivery orders issued against standing IDC vehicles with DLA. Representative prime work includes a $59,989 Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Aviation awarded December 15, 2025, for ten aircraft control panels; a $95,352.90 purchase order from DLA Aviation for 31 navigational lights awarded June 18, 2025; and an $83,872.60 Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Aviation for 14 electrical control panels awarded October 15, 2025. The combined potential value across all awards in the source reaches $20.9 million, with $12.1 million obligated to date.

Customer concentration is extreme. DLA Aviation accounts for 809 awards (69 percent of all awards) valued at $16.5 million (79 percent of combined potential value). The remaining DLA divisions—Troop Support Construction and Equipment (127 awards, $795 thousand), Land and Maritime (79 awards, $1.7 million), and the parent DLA agency (61 awards)—collectively represent 267 awards ($2.5 million), bringing total DLA exposure to 1,076 awards (91 percent of volume) valued at $19 million (91 percent of dollars). Minor volume includes Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command and Naval Air Warfare Center (22 awards, $1.5 million combined) and Army Communications Electronics Command (17 awards, $74 thousand). This concentration creates material recompete risk: eleven awards totaling $169 thousand in combined potential value reach completion inside the next twenty-four months.

Aeropanel holds approximately fifteen active single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation, Land and Maritime, and Army Contracting Command Warren. Recent IDV vehicles include a $2.5 million Total Small Business IDC with DLA Aviation through October 30, 2030 (awarded October 31, 2025); a $350,000 single-award IDC with DLA Aviation through April 9, 2027 (awarded April 9, 2026); multiple $250,000 Total Small Business IDCs with DLA Aviation extending through 2028–2030; a $350,000 single-award IDC with DLA Land and Maritime through December 10, 2026 (awarded December 10, 2025); and a Basic Ordering Agreement for Class IX supplies with Army Contracting Command Warren through April 1, 2031 (awarded April 3, 2026). Task orders under these vehicles historically range from $1,200 to $63,837, with typical values between $2,400 and $15,500. The top five parent vehicles issued 61 task orders valued at approximately $950 thousand combined.

Aeropanel's subcontract footprint is minimal at 1 percent of awards. Named prime contractors include Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (electrical control panels, awarded February 6, 2026), Lockheed Martin Corporation (illuminated panel assemblies and aircraft parts, awarded October 3, 2024 and July 24, 2024), The Boeing Company (indicating panels for avionics systems, awarded September 4, 2024), and Science and Engineering Services, LLC (materials supporting H-60 infrared countermeasure kits, awarded September 5, 2024 and January 9, 2024). The subcontract role is consistent with Aeropanel's positioning as a specialized component manufacturer serving primes on aircraft modernization and sustainment programs.

Activity has remained relatively flat over the past five years—68 awards in 2022, 84 in 2023, 58 in 2024, 91 in 2025, and 13 in 2026 year-to-date through early April—reflecting the transactional nature of DLA's purchase-order-based procurement model for aviation spare parts. The vendor's award history extends to 1990, and SAM.gov registration dates to 2001. By product classification, the portfolio skews heavily toward electric vehicular lights and fixtures (717 awards by PSC), motor vehicle electrical and electronic equipment manufacturing (446 awards by NAICS), and miscellaneous aircraft accessories (112 awards). This taxonomy reflects Aeropanel's core business: cockpit and aircraft panel lighting, indication, and control equipment serving Department of Defense aviation maintenance and operations globally.