C.e. Machine Co., Inc.

C.e. Machine Co., Inc., a Wichita, Kansas-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, manufactures precision-machined aerospace and defense components for the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor (88% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to major defense primes, competing full-and-open without set-aside designations on most of its work. The vendor qualifies as a small business and has held small business set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation, but the bulk of its recent activity flows through non-set-aside vehicle purchases and delivery orders.

C.e. Machine Co., Inc. manufactures bushings, sleeves, bearings, fasteners, structural supports, and related precision-machined components for military aviation platforms. Representative prime work includes a $65,728.08 delivery order from DLA Aviation for link attachment components (July 2026), a $17,197.91 delivery order under a small business set-aside IDC for plunger components (March 2026), a $15,448.97 delivery order for plunger components under a total small business set-aside (June 2026), and a $15,549.00 purchase order for adapter AAI units under a total small business set-aside with completion extending to September 2026 (February 2025). The vendor also holds a $250,000 single-award small business set-aside Indefinite Delivery Contract with DLA Aviation for bushings and sleeves running through February 26, 2030, and a $350,000 non-set-aside single-award IDC for flat washers awarded June 25, 2026.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-agency dependent. DLA Aviation accounts for 1,412 awards (55% of the prime-contract portfolio by count) and $11.5 million combined potential value, with DLA Land and Maritime adding 312 awards for $1.3 million and DLA Troop Support Hardware contributing 242 awards for $780 thousand. Together, the Defense Logistics Agency in all forms accounts for 87% of recent awards and 81% of combined potential value. No other agency reaches 6% of award count or dollar share.

The vendor places work under five named IDCs: an automated indefinite-delivery vehicle (FA863420D2704) with 142 task orders from DLA Aviation; SPE4A614D5780 with 18 task orders carrying $19 thousand combined potential value; SPE4A616D5566 with 15 task orders for $49 thousand; SPM41205D1037 with 15 task orders for $90 thousand; and SPE4A714D5769 with 13 task orders for $57 thousand. The first vehicle dominates order volume; the others are secondary.

Activity has grown materially in 2024 and 2025 (272 and 208 awards respectively, compared to 116–117 annually in 2022–2023) but declined in 2026 year-to-date (30 awards in the first eight months), suggesting either seasonality or a change in customer demand. The recompete cliff is minimal: only four awards with ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months carry a combined potential value of $87 thousand.

As a subcontractor, C.e. Machine Co., Inc. supplies structural assemblies, machined parts, and support components to The Boeing Company (dominant sub-prime, represented across F-15EX, F/A-18 Block III, MQ-25 EMD, B-52 commercial engine replacement, KC-X modernization, and P-8A programs), Bell Textron Inc. (Future Vertical Lift FLRAA program components), Bell Boeing Joint Project Office (CMV-22 production support), and related large integrators. Sub work spans long-lead items, purchased-outside-production components, and assembly support for major DoD and international military sales programs.

The vendor's capability profile centers on high-precision machining and component manufacturing for aerospace platforms: bushings, sleeves, and bearings (the largest category by award count at 404 awards); structural airframe components (480 awards); fasteners and hardware (283 hardware awards plus 204 in bolt-nut-screw categories); and custom mechanical assemblies. NAICS concentration runs through Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (659 awards), Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing (404 awards), and Aircraft Manufacturing (357 awards). PSC alignment matches: Airframe Structural Components (480 awards), Bearings, Plain, Unmounted (421 awards), and Hardware, Commercial (176 awards) lead the taxonomy.

The vendor's federal footprint reflects an integrated defense supply-chain play. DLA Aviation's responsive procurement model—frequent small-dollar, short-lead purchase orders and delivery orders under standing IDCs—drives the preponderance of activity. Boeing, Bell Textron, and related integrators route component procurements through the vendor as part of their own supply chain, broadening the effective customer set beyond DLA while preserving administrative relationship with a single dominant agency. Combined obligated dollars ($58.3 million) exceed combined potential value ($17.8 million), indicating substantial invoicing velocity against ceiling contracts.