Beta Engineering, Inc.

Beta Engineering, Inc., a veteran-owned small business manufacturer based in Arlington, Texas, supplies specialized aviation, maritime, and land-based vehicle components to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor on over 4,100 federal awards, operating predominantly under small business set-asides and full-and-open competitions on single-award indefinite delivery contracts.

Beta Engineering manufactures precision-engineered defense hardware including control tube assemblies, torque tube assemblies, vortex generators, connecting link rigging, structural aircraft plates, fasteners, brackets, bushings, and specialized hydraulic and mechanical power transmission components. Representative recent work includes a $875,160 Total Small Business set-aside purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (November 2025) for 320 units of connecting link rig components; a $215,940 unrestricted purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (December 2025) for 122 mounting brackets; and a $160,747 unrestricted purchase order from DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (August 2025) for 23 aircraft towbar units. The company also holds multiple single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA, including a $2.5 million total small business set-aside IDIQ with DLA Aviation (January 2026) for control tube assemblies through January 2031, and several $250,000 to $350,000 IDIQs across DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime divisions running through 2026–2031.

Customer concentration is stark and defense-focused: DLA Aviation accounts for 1,945 awards valued at $61.1 million combined potential value (57% of total), and DLA Land and Maritime accounts for 1,327 awards valued at $38.8 million (36% of total). Together, these two DLA divisions represent 93% of the award count and over 97% of the combined potential value. The remaining customer base—DLA Troop Support Hardware, DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment, and DLA proper—collectively account for less than 4% of potential value. No other federal agency appears in the top customer rankings.

Beta Engineering sits on multiple single-award IDIQs with DLA Aviation and Land and Maritime, with recent vehicle awards including contract SPE7LX21D0094 (17 task orders, $1.6 million combined potential value), SPE4A220D5021 (22 task orders, $90 thousand), SPE4A722D5098 (16 task orders, $22 thousand), and SPE4A722D5566 (15 task orders, $91 thousand). These represent the primary vehicles through which the company places orders; no GSA Schedules, government-wide acquisition contracts, or civilian agency vehicles appear in the footprint.

Award activity has grown modestly—257 awards in 2022 to a peak of 308 in 2024—and has declined to 268 in 2025 and only 59 through April 2026, reflecting a slower start to the current fiscal year. Notably, 103 awards (combined potential value $3.1 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing material recompete exposure. The company maintains a sub-footprint of minimal scale: two sub-awards on record, both prime-vendor relationships with larger defense contractors (General Dynamics Information Technology as the sole named prime sub-partner for crypto rack shelves in January 2026).

Set-aside posture is mixed across the prime portfolio. While Beta Engineering competes in both Total Small Business set-asides and unrestricted full-and-open procurements, the data shows recurring use of both designations across recent awards—roughly equal split between set-aside and non-set-aside delivery orders and purchase orders from DLA divisions. The company's award history since registration in SAM.gov in 2002 spans four decades of continuous engagement with DLA across aviation, maritime, and troop support supply chains, positioning it as an embedded vendor in the Defense Logistics Agency's responsive supplier base for low-to-moderate-value component manufacturing rather than a competitor in larger prime contract vehicles or civilian agency work.