Boone Aerospace, Inc.

Boone Aerospace, Inc., doing business as Proponent Helicopter Services, is a small business subchapter S corporation supplying aerospace hardware components and aircraft spare parts to the Defense Logistics Agency and the U.S. Coast Guard as a prime contractor on full-and-open federal procurements. The company is based in Mineral Wells, Texas, with operational facilities in Burbank and Santa Clarita, California, and competes predominantly on non-set-aside awards across a portfolio of 790 federal prime contracts awarded since 2015.

Boone Aerospace specializes in procurement and delivery of discrete aerospace hardware—mechanical fasteners, duct assemblies, compressor components, hydraulic system parts, control assemblies, and specialized aircraft structural and mechanical parts used in military aviation maintenance and sustainment. Recent representative awards include a $553,644 firm fixed-price purchase order from Defense Logistics Agency Aviation in December 2024 for air conditioning duct assemblies; a $246,521 total small business set-aside purchase order in February 2025 for 15 units of air conditioning duct assembly components; a $345,508.52 delivery order in April 2025 for compressor duct tube manufacture; and a $234,452.21 delivery order in September 2025 for compressor duct tube assembly, the latter two performed in Burbank, California. Smaller task orders typical of the portfolio range from several hundred dollars for individual fasteners, seals, and brackets to tens of thousands of dollars for assembled components and manufactured subassemblies.

The vendor demonstrates extreme customer concentration within DLA. Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for 439 awards (56% of award count) worth $11.1 million combined potential value (87% of total dollars). DLA Troop Support Hardware follows with 174 awards valued at $285 thousand, and DLA Land and Maritime with 148 awards valued at $1.2 million. The U.S. Coast Guard accounts for 7 awards worth $129 thousand. The vendor holds three primary Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation: a $2 million single-award IDC awarded December 11, 2024, expiring December 10, 2026; a $1,999,999.99 single-award IDC awarded December 6, 2024, expiring December 5, 2027, with two compressor duct tube delivery orders already issued; and a smaller $249,999.99 total small business set-aside IDC extending through August 2029. These IDCs are the foundation for the vendor's task-order-driven business model. The top product service categories are hardware, commercial (152 awards); nuts and washers (71 awards); and electrical hardware and supplies (69 awards), with top NAICS codes centered on hardware manufacturing, aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing, and fastener manufacturing.

Activity has grown significantly over the past five years—from 69 awards in 2022 to 97 in 2024 to 160 in 2025—but 2026 shows only 24 awards in the source data as of mid-April. Thirty-six awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $4.5 million and face recompete risk. The vendor does not currently hold positions on government-wide vehicles or agency-wide IDIQs beyond its DLA-specific contracts; all activity flows through DLA and Coast Guard direct procurement channels. Boone Aerospace competes solely as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source. The company's posture is full-and-open competition—while it has received a small number of total small business set-aside awards, the large majority (approximately 90% of awards by count) carry no set-aside designation, indicating competitive positioning in unrestricted procurements.