CEN TEX Defense Industries LLC

CEN TEX Defense Industries LLC, a minority-owned, Hispanic American-owned small disadvantaged business based in Fredericksburg, Texas, manufactures precision-engineered mechanical components and hardware for the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor, competing full-and-open across 148 recent awards totaling $1.2 million in combined potential value. The company operates as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and holds SBA self-certification as a small disadvantaged business; it competes predominantly without set-aside designations, though occasional Total Small Business set-asides appear in the award record.

CEN TEX's customer footprint is entirely within the Defense Logistics Agency's three operational divisions. Defense Logistics Agency Aviation dominates both volume and dollars: 110 awards (75% of total count) carrying $918 thousand in combined potential value. Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for 26 awards worth $235 thousand, and Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Hardware contributes 11 awards worth $57 thousand. The concentration is extreme — DLA as a whole represents 100% of named customer agencies and awards, with Aviation alone exceeding three-quarters of all volume.

CEN TEX's product portfolio centers on standard mechanical components and fasteners across five primary categories by award count: bolt, nut, screw, rivet, and washer manufacturing (40 awards); ball and roller bearing manufacturing (29 awards); hardware manufacturing (18 awards); metal stamping (13 awards); and aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment (13 awards). By PSC code, the company delivers bearings, plain unmounted (30 awards); nuts and washers (24 awards); bushings, rings, shims, and spacers (23 awards); fastening devices (12 awards); and pipe, tube, and rigid tubing (8 awards). Recent named awards include a $72 thousand purchase order for dee rings (November 2025), a $94.5 thousand order for flat washers (November 2024), a $31 thousand order for metal tube assemblies to DLA Land and Maritime (September 2022), a $28.8 thousand order for surge suppressor sleeves (November 2023), and multiple smaller orders for bushings, shims, retaining rings, and studs priced between $867 and $20 thousand. All work is performed at CEN TEX's Fredericksburg facility on firm fixed-price basis.

Activity has remained relatively flat to declining over the past five years: 19 awards in 2022, climbing to a peak of 28 in 2024, then dropping to 18 in 2025 and 9 in the first four months of 2026. Eight awards (combined potential value $132 thousand) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore represent near-term recompete exposure. CEN TEX has received no federal contracts as a subcontractor; all 148 awards are prime contractor engagement. The company maintains active SAM.gov registration and has held federal contract award authority since at least February 2018, establishing it as a long-standing DLA supplier of component-level mechanical hardware essential to military equipment maintenance and operational readiness.

Aircraft Manufacturing, Bolts, Bushings, Washers, Rings, Covers, Seals, Discs, Restraints, Aerospace, Precision, Small Tolerance, Lathe, Mill, Tube, Hose, Breathing systems, Seats, Maintenance Shops