Airborne Technologies, Inc.

Airborne Technologies, Inc., a Camarillo, California-based aerospace components manufacturer, operates as a prime contractor supplying precision-manufactured aircraft spare parts and structural components to the Department of Defense on a full-and-open, unrestricted-competition basis. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation with no SBA set-aside certifications; nearly all federal awards carry no set-aside designation, reflecting its competitive standing in the open federal aerospace market.

Airborne Technologies' capability footprint centers on design and manufacturing of critical aircraft structural and access components, including aircraft seats, access doors, structural panels, landing gear assemblies, brackets, hinges, dampers, fairings, skin sections, bulkheads, and specialized first-article testing services. The company has maintained System for Award Management registration since 2002 and specializes in serving military aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul operations across rotary and fixed-wing platforms. Representative prime contracts include a $396.8 thousand purchase order from Defense Logistics Agency Aviation for structural support items (April 2025), a $185.8 thousand delivery order for aircraft bulkhead components (January 2023), a $96.1 thousand purchase order for aircraft access doors (March 2022), and a $47.4 thousand delivery order for torque tube assemblies (June 2022). The company holds two active Indefinite Delivery Contracts: a $250,000 single-award IDC effective through September 4, 2030, and a $749,999.99 single-award IDC that ran through December 1, 2026 (now expired), both with DLA Aviation for recurring aircraft spare parts procurement.

Customer concentration is extreme and narrow. The top five funding agencies account for 90% of recent awards, overwhelmingly dominated by Defense Logistics Agency Aviation with 2,530 awards totaling $81.6 million in combined potential value—roughly 81% of the entire portfolio. DLA Land and Maritime ranks second with 92 awards and $6.3 million, followed by the Defense Logistics Agency (general account) with 369 awards and $3.9 million, the U.S. Coast Guard with 134 awards and $919 thousand, and DLA Troop Support Hardware with 53 awards and $405 thousand. This concentration reflects Airborne Technologies' role as an approved vendor on DLA Aviation's single-award indefinite delivery vehicles, which serve as the delivery mechanism for the vast majority of orders. Nearly all awards are small purchase orders or delivery orders issued under these parent IDCs, typically in the range of $2,000 to $40,000 per order.

Activity has declined significantly. The company received 66 awards in 2022, 42 in 2023, and 27 in 2024, before a partial recovery to 59 awards in 2025 and only 9 recorded awards in the first quarter of 2026. Only 17 awards (combined potential value $539 thousand) carry ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, representing modest recompete exposure relative to the portfolio's historical scale. The $250,000 IDC awarded in September 2025 represents the most recent large vehicle award and extends Airborne Technologies' DLA Aviation position through 2030.

In its subcontractor role, Airborne Technologies manufactures aircraft structural and access components for two primary primes: Derco Aerospace, Inc., which accounts for the majority of sub-awards and sources specialized fuselage, panel, beam, and structural assembly components, and Lockheed Martin Corporation and S & K Logistics Services LLC, which source bulkhead and hinge assemblies. Sub-work mirrors the prime focus on airframe structural manufacturing for defense aircraft programs.

Airborne Technologies' competitive posture is exclusively full-and-open, unrestricted federal procurement, with no SBA set-aside participation. All awards are issued under firm fixed-price terms, typically in relatively small lot sizes under DLA Aviation's established single-award IDC vehicles. The company's federal footprint is almost entirely dependent on its standing as a qualified supplier on two consecutive DLA Aviation indefinite delivery contracts, making it highly vulnerable to IDC recompete or non-renewal.