Airglas, Inc.

Airglas, Inc., doing business as Airglas Inc., manufactures precision cold-weather aerospace components and aircraft mechanical assemblies for military platforms, operating as a prime contractor on 571 of 572 recent federal awards, competing predominantly under full-and-open (no set-aside) solicitations with occasional small-business set-aside work. A for-profit Alaska-based small business headquartered in Anchorage, Airglas specializes in ski assemblies, wheel assemblies, adapter plates, cable and shock assemblies, fasteners, and related landing-gear and structural components engineered for extreme subarctic operational environments; the company has held SAM registration since 2001 and works under primary NAICS 336413 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing).

Airglas' customer base concentrates heavily on Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, which anchors the portfolio at 297 awards and $10 million in combined potential value—52% of the vendor's recent award count and 39% of dollars. The second-tier customer ranking splits by agency mission: the Army Materiel Command Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (13 awards, $5.3 million potential value) dominates dollars through larger delivery orders for UH-60M Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache components, while the Army Pacific Command (41 awards, $4.5 million) generates sustained volume through blanket purchase agreements for cold-weather ski sets and repair kits at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. DLA Troop Support Hardware, DLA Land and Maritime, and the Department of the Interior account for the remaining top-five customer share. The concentration pattern reflects Airglas' niche positioning: DLA Aviation drives baseline ordering through high-frequency small purchase orders for individual components (fasteners, bolts, adapter plates, assemblies), while Army commands anchor larger delivery orders and BPA calls for integrated systems like main ski assemblies and survival equipment.

Airglas holds a portfolio of active indefinite delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements anchored at approximately $3.25 million across five DLA IDCs and multiple Army BPAs. The top parent vehicles include a $2.2 million blanket purchase agreement (W912D015A0005) with 22 task orders, a $920 thousand BPA (W912D020A0009) with nine orders, and an $821 thousand Indefinite Delivery Contract (SPE4A721D0179) with five delivery orders. A recently awarded single-award IDC from DLA Land and Maritime with a $250 thousand ceiling and performance through August 12, 2026 establishes the vehicle for mounting brackets and related cold-weather components; one delivery order ($4,600) has been issued to date. Representative named work includes a $1.85 million aggregate delivery order from AMCOM for UH-60M Black Hawk components (awarded June 2022, completed February 2023), a $337,350 DLA Aviation delivery order for main ski assemblies (April 2023), a $210 thousand AMCOM delivery order for UH-60M support (June 2022), and two $138 thousand to $203 thousand Army Pacific Command BPA calls for AH-64 Apache ski sets (August 2023 and August 2025). Recent smaller-dollar work includes purchase orders from DLA Aviation for flutter dampeners ($2,600–$20,160 range), cable and shock assemblies ($4,160–$35,670), wire rope assemblies ($2,070–$5,760), and fasteners ($182–$2,420), all firm fixed-price firm fixed-price structures with 17-day delivery expectations.

Activity shows decline over the past five years—20 awards in 2022, 49 in 2023, 42 in 2024, 35 in 2025, and 23 through mid-2026—reflecting contraction from peak ordering. Nine awards with combined potential value of $2.1 million face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and therefore represent recompete exposure. The vendor operates exclusively as a prime contractor on the visible footprint; a single sub-award surfaces in the source (May 2026 under prime Defense Systems And Solutions for UH-60M components at Redstone Arsenal), confirming that Airglas' revenue model centers on prime production contracts rather than subcontracting relationships.

Airglas' geographic concentration is extreme: all work is performed in Anchorage, Alaska, where the company manufactures and ships components to DLA distribution centers (San Joaquin, California; Ogden, Utah) and to Army installations worldwide, primarily supporting Alaska-based operations at Fort Wainwright. The product footprint spans PSC codes for Aircraft Wheel and Brake Systems (183 awards), Hardware Commercial (75), Airframe Structural Components (65), Aircraft Landing Gear Components (58), and Aircraft Hydraulic/Vacuum/De-Icing System Components (30), indicating Airglas' role as a specialized supplier of modular and commodity aerospace parts rather than integrated systems or platform-level work.