Cascade Aviation Services Inc.

Cascade Aviation Services Inc., a Marysville, Washington-based manufacturer of structural aircraft components and aviation hardware, operates as a prime contractor supplying the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation with specialized spare parts and components for military aircraft maintenance and readiness operations across all service branches. The company is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation with no SBA set-aside designations on its prime footprint, though it qualifies for and receives Total Small Business set-aside awards on a subset of its contracts. Cascade competes full-and-open on the majority of its work, with roughly one-third of recent awards (by count) carrying small business set-aside designations.

Cascade's customer concentration is extreme and decision-defining: DLA Aviation accounts for 5,342 of 5,348 total awards (99.9% by count) and $63 million of $63.3 million combined potential value (99.6% by dollars). Three minor awards from Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, one from Naval Air Systems Command, and one from DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment represent token diversification. This monolithic customer relationship means Cascade's entire federal footprint hinges on DLA Aviation's purchasing appetite and recompete cycles. Within DLA Aviation, Cascade sits on five primary single-award indefinite-delivery contracts (IDCs): one valued at $2.5 million with a Total Small Business set-aside (May 2026–May 2031), one at $350 thousand with no set-aside (June 2026–June 2031), and one at $349,999.99 also with Total Small Business set-aside (June 2026–June 2031), plus two additional vehicles. These IDCs serve as parent vehicles for the vast majority of Cascade's task orders; the top five IDCs alone anchor 70 task orders carrying $202 thousand in potential value. Cascade's actual award category stack is dominated by airframe structural components (5,308 awards by PSC), a narrow slice of DLA Aviation's total procurement landscape.

Cascade's capability portfolio is surgically focused: the company manufactures and delivers aircraft structural parts, access doors, panels, skins, frames, brackets, stiffeners, fairings, ribs, fittings, and related aviation hardware for military aircraft. Recent representative contracts include a $120.1 million Total Small Business set-aside for government first-article testing (Dec 2025), a $98.2 million Total Small Business set-aside for first-article testing (Oct 2025), a $76.3 thousand Total Small Business set-aside for aircraft structural panels (May 2026), and a $75 thousand Total Small Business set-aside for aircraft skins (Sep 2025). Most awards are firm fixed-price purchase orders ranging from under $500 to $120 thousand, with performance in Marysville and ultimate completion dates typically 6–24 months out. Cascade also executes delivery orders and serves as a subcontractor: one sub-award to The Boeing Company in April 2025 provided aerospace support valued in undisclosed amount.

Activity has been stable to declining: 458 awards in 2025, but only 110 in 2026 (a snapshot year); 393–424 awards annually in 2022–2023. The recompete cliff shows 234 awards reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $4.1 million—a material recompete exposure for the vendor but relatively modest given Cascade's $63.3 million total footprint. Cascade holds no government-wide acquisition contracts (GWACs), no GSA Schedules, and no agency-wide IDIQs; its entire posture is single-award IDC vehicles with DLA Aviation. The company registered as a federal contractor in August 2000 and has accumulated 5,348 awards since then, with the vast majority issued after 2010. Obligated dollars total $40.2 million (64% of potential value), suggesting substantial work in execution or near-complete.

Cascade Aviation's federal footprint is operationally and strategically simple: a small-business-eligible structural parts manufacturer with deep, long-term penetration into one customer's supply chain (DLA Aviation) and no meaningful diversification across other agencies or contract vehicles. The monolithic customer relationship presents both stability (DLA Aviation's consistent aviation readiness demand) and risk (zero alternative federal revenue streams and full dependence on DLA Aviation's small-business set-aside carve-outs and purchase-order volume).