FDH Aero, LLC

FDH Aero, LLC, a Commerce, California-based aerospace and defense fastener and hardware supplier, operates as a prime contractor competing predominantly in full-and-open federal procurements without set-aside designations, delivering specialized aviation hardware and mechanical components to the Department of Defense with 3,573 prime awards spanning the past twenty years.

FDH Aero's core capability is the supply of specialized aviation fasteners, bolts, rivets, and aerospace hardware components to support military logistics operations. The vendor's award portfolio reflects deep concentration in discrete hardware categories: bolt, nut, screw, rivet, and washer manufacturing accounts for 2,143 awards (60% of prime work), hardware manufacturing for 580 awards, and fabricated pipe and pipe fitting manufacturing for 198 awards. Representative work includes a $193.5 million firm fixed-price purchase order from Defense Logistics Agency Aviation for close tolerance bolts (December 2025, delivery through November 2027); a $139.9 million DLA Aviation order for self-locking nuts (October 2025, completion December 2027); and a $118.2 million DLA Aviation procurement for self-locking nuts (April 2026, completion July 2028). Smaller transactional awards dominate the footprint—the median award value sits in the $1,000–$5,000 range—but larger single orders for source-controlled components reach six figures. FDH Aero also holds a $250,000 single-award indefinite delivery contract with DLA Land and Maritime for self-locking nuts (awarded March 2025, through March 2026) and three additional single-award IDCs with DLA Aviation, each valued up to $250,000, for panel fasteners, close tolerance bolts, and turnlock receptacles, with completion dates extending through August 2028.

Customer concentration is acute and DLA-centric. The top five DLA customers account for 95% of awards by count: Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Hardware (1,665 awards, $3.8 million potential value), DLA Aviation (1,215 awards, $12.1 million), DLA Land and Maritime (368 awards, $4.3 million), DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (81 awards, $646 thousand), and the Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard (63 awards, $232 thousand). By potential value, DLA Aviation leads ($12.1 million across 1,215 orders), followed by DLA Land and Maritime ($4.3 million) and DLA Troop Support Hardware ($3.8 million). The two rankings track closely—DLA Aviation anchors both volume and dollars. The company competes in full-and-open markets; no set-aside categories characterize the prime footprint, though one single-award DLA Land and Maritime IDC carries a small-business set-aside designation.

FDH Aero's activity trajectory shows stability with cyclical variation. Awards per year ranged from 190 (2024) to 281 (2023) across the past five years, with 2025 capturing 272 awards and 2026 (partial year) showing 117. The vendor faces modest recompete exposure: 73 awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $1.6 million. The combined potential value across the entire 3,585-award portfolio is $1.08 billion, though only $16.2 million (2%) has been obligated to date—a signal that most awards are firm fixed-price purchase orders with ceiling values that exceed actual invoicing, typical of DLA supply contracts issued in tranches over extended performance periods.

The top five parent indefinite delivery contracts are DLA-managed vehicles: IDC SPE4A622DC002 (33 task orders, $111 thousand), IDC SPM5AY10D0021 (30 task orders, $464 thousand), IDC SPE4A723D0113 (23 task orders, $226 thousand), IDC SPE7MX22D5016 (23 task orders, $284 thousand), and IDC SPE4A623D0140 (16 task orders, $39 thousand). FDH Aero holds no positions on government-wide acquisition contracts or civilian agency IDIQs; its business model centers entirely on task orders and purchase orders drawn against DLA single-award indefinite delivery contracts.

FDH Aero operates as a subsidiary within a corporate structure anchored by parent Fastener Distribution Holdings, LLC, and alongside a named subsidiary, Arlington International Aviation Products, LLC. The Service Contract Inventory dataset contains minimal SCI activity—one FY2022 record showing 0.2 FTEs as a named subcontractor—indicating that the overwhelming majority of FDH Aero's federal work is goods procurement, not labor-intensive services. The vendor performs subcontractor work on large aerospace programs: recent sub-awards include Space Launch System Booster Production and Operations Contract work (Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet and Washer Manufacturing, January 2025) and Three Future LCAC 100 Class Craft Long Lead Time Material procurement under Textron Systems Corp (July 2025). FDH Aero's sub-award share is negligible (12 out of 3,585 total awards, or 0.3%), confirming a prime-centric posture with limited teaming activity.