BK Manufacturing Co Inc.

BK Manufacturing Co Inc., doing business as BK Aerospace, a minority-owned, woman-owned small business based in Arab, Alabama, manufactures precision-engineered components for guided missile systems and aerospace platforms as a prime contractor (86% of recent awards) and subcontractor to major defense primes. The company competes predominantly in full-and-open competitions without set-aside designations on its prime contracts, though it holds self-certified small disadvantaged business status.

BK Aerospace specializes in precision manufacturing of guided missile components including hooks, fairings, wings, fins, nuts, washers, and adaptors for advanced missile systems such as the AIM-120 AMRAAM, HELLFIRE, and Captive Air Training Missiles. Recent prime awards include a $5.66 million definitive contract from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) for AIM-120X and CATM-120X wings and fins (completion July 2027), a $154,308 definitive contract from Defense Logistics Agency for 66 guided missile fairings under total small business set-aside (completed May 2024), and a $99,340 sole-source purchase order from Naval Air Warfare Center for two AIM-120B Captive Air Training Missiles (completed June 2024). The company also received a $5,662,749 definitive contract from AFLCMC for AIM-120X and CATM-120X missile components in 2024 and continues to execute smaller purchase orders for missile hooks, fasteners, and adaptors across DLA and Air Force platforms.

Customer concentration sits heavily with Air Force sustainment and lifecycle management activities. The top customer by potential value, the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Air Force Sustainment Center, accounts for 33 awards carrying $49.5 million in combined potential value. AFLCMC Eglin Air Force Base ranks second with 11 awards and $12.7 million, followed by the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command with 11 awards and $9.1 million combined potential value. The top five customers by potential value represent 52% of combined potential across all awards; Air Force platforms dominate the portfolio by both award count (48 awards from AFLCMC Robins Air Force Base alone) and dollar concentration.

BK Aerospace maintains five primary parent indefinite delivery contracts: Indefinite Delivery Contract FA852006D0002 (30 task orders, $6.9 million), FA852010D0012 (24 task orders, $5.4 million), FA852017D0001 (11 task orders, $15.3 million), FA852005D0002 (17 task orders, $737 thousand), and F0960301D0085 (15 task orders). Most recently, on December 29, 2025, the Missile Defense Agency awarded BK Aerospace a multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity contract valued at $151 billion under the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, running through December 28, 2035. The initial delivery order under SHIELD carries a $500 ceiling value on a firm fixed-price basis. This vehicle represents a significant expansion of BK Aerospace's addressable market beyond traditional guided missile component supply into broader missile defense systems, research and development, prototyping, and modernization work.

Award activity has grown from two awards in 2022 to a peak of 20 in 2023, with 13 awards in 2025 and 4 to date in 2026. The recompete cliff over the next twenty-four months presents minimal exposure, with only one award (combined potential value $5.7 million) reaching ultimate completion in that window. The company's footprint spans 308 total awards since 1981 with $159 million in combined potential value across 28 distinct customer agencies.

In its subcontractor role, BK Aerospace performs precision manufacturing work on Boeing's Space Launch System (SLS) stages production and evolution contract, Ares I upper stage manufacturing and assembly, and International Space Station sustainment. The company also subcontracts to Defense Systems and Solutions on C-130 Improved Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (IMAFFS), MV-22 Osprey inventory management, UH-60M helicopter production for Australia, and ERCA pointing and control systems work, as well as to Raytheon on Saudi Arabian radar system assemblies. Across both prime and sub work, the vendor's capability portfolio centers on precision machining, welding, brazing, assembly operations, and component manufacturing for air-to-air and air-to-ground missile systems, with performance conducted at its Arab, Alabama facility.

Manufacturing Products and Services. Precision Machining and Fabrication. Integration and Testing. ISO 9001/AS9100 Certified. 3,4, 5 axis CNC mills, lathes. CMM's, paint, design,multi tasking mach, model based definition approved. Secret Clearance