Avlite Aviation, Inc.

Avlite Aviation, Inc., a woman-owned small business based in Paso Robles, California, manufactures and supplies specialized aircraft lighting components and assemblies to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor, operating entirely in the full-and-open competitive space with no set-aside designation across the majority of its recent awards.

Founded in 1975, Avlite Aviation specializes in aircraft lighting products critical to military aviation readiness, including navigational lights, cockpit lights, signal lights, taxiing lights, light panels, light assemblies, lens assemblies, and light traps. The company maintains an active indefinite delivery contract with DLA Aviation valued at $250,000 for aircraft lighting components, against which it receives regular purchase orders and delivery orders. Representative recent awards include a $50,350 Total Small Business set-aside purchase order from DLA Aviation (September 2024) for 106 units of navigational lights; a $50,700 firm fixed-price purchase order for taxiing aircraft lights (December 2023); a $38,990 purchase order for taxiing aircraft lights (October 2024); and a $36,900 Total Small Business set-aside purchase order for panel lighting equipment (December 2025). Smaller awards span light traps, power supplies, cockpit lights, and lens assemblies ranging from $3,297 to $17,950 each. Work is performed entirely at the vendor's Paso Robles facility with delivery to DLA distribution depots.

Avlite's customer concentration is extreme and singular. DLA Aviation accounts for 845 of the vendor's 1,177 total prime awards (72% of the portfolio) and $10 million of the $11.9 million combined potential value (84% by dollars). The next-largest customer, DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment, represents 165 awards and $1 million — a material tier below. DLA Troop Support Hardware (28 awards, $184 thousand), DLA Land and Maritime (22 awards, $94 thousand), and generic DLA (83 awards, $31 thousand) round out the active set. Together, the top five DLA components account for 1,143 of 1,177 awards (97% by count) and approximately $11.3 million of $11.9 million in combined potential value (95% by dollars).

The vendor operates under five named indefinite delivery contracts with DLA, none of which carry meaningful dollar ceilings in public records; task-order activity clusters around purchase orders and delivery orders issued against these vehicles. The top five parent vehicles show six, six, six, five, and five task orders respectively, with combined potential values ranging from $15 thousand to $47 thousand — typical of spot-buy or replenishment ordering patterns rather than large program vehicles.

Activity has remained flat over the past five years (five to seven awards annually from 2022 through 2026), with $11.9 million in combined potential value and $11.7 million obligated (99% of potential), indicating reliable cash conversion. The vendor's NAICS footprint clusters on electric vehicular lighting and aircraft parts manufacturing (NAICS 336321, 336322, 336413, 335129); PSC coding emphasizes electric vehicular lights and fixtures (PSC 6240) and indoor/outdoor electric lighting fixtures (PSC 6250). Avlite operates as a 100% prime contractor with no subcontractor presence in the award record — all work is performed in-house. The vendor does not appear on any government-wide acquisition contracts or centralized buying vehicles outside DLA's own indefinite delivery contracts.