Coastal Seat Cushions Inc.

Coastal Seat Cushions Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business headquartered in Port St. Lucie, Florida, manufactures aircraft seat cushions, seat backs, headrests, armrests, boom operator couches, and related interior components for military aircraft as a prime contractor on 528 of its 529 recent federal awards. The company operates manufacturing facilities in Port St. Lucie and Scappoose, Oregon, and competes under both Total Small Business and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business set-asides on roughly one-third of its awards, with the remainder flowing through full-and-open competition.

Coastal Seat Cushions' customer base is heavily concentrated with the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, which accounts for 455 awards (86% of the portfolio) and $60.5 million in combined potential value. The remaining customer set—primarily the Department of the Army Materiel Command Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (7 awards, $7.1 million), the Air National Guard (9 awards, $1 million), and the Air Force Global Strike Command (6 awards, $689 thousand)—represents 14% of awards and 3% of potential dollars, creating significant concentration risk. The vendor's award portfolio spans 31 distinct agencies, but DLA Aviation dominates both volume and value by a decisive margin.

Coastal Seat Cushions holds a portfolio of 14 active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation, valued between $250 thousand and $3.5 million each, with combined ceilings exceeding $20 million and performance periods extending through 2031. Recent IDVs include a $3.5 million Total Small Business set-aside (awarded July 23, 2025, completion July 22, 2030) for seat back cushions and aircraft accessories, a $750 thousand full-and-open vehicle for aircraft seat cushions (awarded January 10, 2025, completion January 9, 2030), and several $250 thousand IDVs for specialized components including armrests, headrests, boom operator couches, and cushion assemblies. The top five IDV vehicles by task-order count are SPE4A715D5828 (20 orders, $1.4 million), SPE4A715D5826 (19 orders, $901 thousand), SPE4A715D0166 (18 orders, $554 thousand), SPE4A720DC007 (15 orders, $1.1 million), and SPE4A715D0411 (13 orders, $379 thousand). These vehicles enable rapid procurement against firm fixed-price task orders, typically 60 to 90 days in duration, supporting platforms including the UH-60 Black Hawk, C-130 Hercules, C-17 Globemaster, and B-52.

Award activity has grown materially: 29 awards in 2022 climbing to 58 in 2024 before moderating to 48 in 2025 (through October) and 14 in 2026 to date. The company has invoiced $24.4 million against its $71.9 million combined potential value ceiling—34% utilization across the portfolio. Approximately $42.7 million in potential value faces recompete or completion within the next twenty-four months, concentrating 59% of the portfolio in that window and presenting significant near-term recompete exposure.

Coastal Seat Cushions' award footprint is overwhelmingly concentrated on aircraft interior components. The top NAICS category is 336413 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing, 492 awards), followed by aircraft manufacturing (15 awards) and motor vehicle seating and interior trim (12 awards). The PSC profile aligns identically: Miscellaneous Aircraft Accessories and Components dominates with 506 awards, with headsets and airframe structural components representing minor outliers.

The vendor has received one documented subcontract sub-award: a $X (amount not specified) sub-award from Defense Systems and Solutions in September 2023 for Apache support kits and spares packages supporting foreign military sales to Australia and Egypt. Prime work remains the overwhelming operating model.

Recent representative contract examples illustrate the transaction profile: a $3.5 million Total Small Business IDV from DLA Aviation (July 2025) for seat back cushions and aircraft accessories (performance Port St. Lucie and Scappoose, completion July 2030); a $750 thousand full-and-open IDV from DLA Aviation (January 2025) for aircraft seat cushions (performance Scappoose, completion January 2030); a $295.5 thousand Total Small Business purchase order from the Air National Guard (September 2025) for 200 KC-135 seat cushions (completion February 2026); and a $202.8 thousand Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business sole-source purchase order from Air Education and Training Command (January 2024) for KC-135 seat cushions (completion May 2024). Delivery orders under existing IDVs typically range from $1,200 to $350 thousand, with firm fixed-price terms and completion windows of 60 to 180 days.