Astral Air Parts LLC

Astral Air Parts LLC, a small business limited liability company based in Elmwood Park, New Jersey, supplies aerospace fasteners and hardware components to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor, operating across nearly 3,300 federal awards with no subcontract footprint. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open rather than under set-aside categories, though it holds multiple Total Small Business set-aside IDCs with DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime.

The company's capability portfolio centers on high-strength fasteners and specialized aerospace hardware for military aircraft maintenance and repair operations. Representative work includes thousands of individual purchase orders and delivery orders for machine screws, socket head cap screws, shear bolts, close tolerance screws, self-locking nuts, bushings, sleeves, retaining rings, gaskets, nonmetallic seals, and related components. Orders span from sub-$1,000 consumable procurements to delivery orders exceeding $60,000. Astral holds ISO 9001 and AS9120 certifications, demonstrating quality management standards required for aerospace and defense supply chain participation. The vendor has been registered in SAM since 2016 and registered as a small business throughout its contracting history.

Customer concentration is extreme and monolithic. The Defense Logistics Agency accounts for 99.9% of all awards and 100% of combined potential value across its three divisions: DLA Troop Support Hardware (1,800 awards, $24.1 million), DLA Aviation (1,231 awards, $18.4 million), and DLA Land and Maritime (265 awards, $12 million). Two Navy commands represent rounding errors ($2,160 combined across two awards). This customer concentration exposes the vendor to single-agency recompete and budget risk and leaves virtually no pipeline diversification.

Astral holds six active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA: four IDCs with Aviation valued at $349,999.99 each (awarded January 2026, February 2026, April 2026, and June 2026, all extending through 2030–2031 as Total Small Business set-asides), one IDC with Land and Maritime valued at $350,000 (March 2026, one-year term), and one Land and Maritime IDC for non-set-aside plain encased seals (March 2026, one-year term). The top five parent vehicles are individual IDCs and BPA mechanisms under the DLA contracting structure; SPE5EY19D0568 carries 190 task orders valued at $4.7 million. Astral operates as the sole awardee on all its contracts and performs directly—the source identifies no subcontractor relationships across the entire footprint.

Activity has contracted sharply over five years. The vendor executed 348 awards in 2022, declining to 287 in 2023, 175 in 2024, 124 in 2025, and 79 in 2026 through mid-July. Within the next twenty-four months, twenty-nine awards carrying combined potential value of $441 thousand reach ultimate completion and face recompete. The award volume decline and narrow recompete cliff reflect the transactional, consumable-driven nature of the fastener supply business rather than large multi-year contract wins; most Astral awards are purchase orders and delivery orders under $10,000. Combined potential value across all 3,298 awards stands at $54.5 million, with only $12.4 million obligated to date (23% of ceiling), indicating government utilization remains well below contracted capacity across most IDVs. The vendor's work concentrates on bolt, nut, screw, rivet, and washer manufacturing (2,445 awards) with secondary depth in nonferrous forging, gasket and sealing devices, and hardware manufacturing, aligned entirely with DLA's consumable aviation and ground equipment logistics mission.