Control Products Corporation

Control Products Corporation, doing business as Control Products Corp, is a for-profit manufacturer based in Grand Prairie, Texas that supplies electronic components, lighting assemblies, optical equipment, and specialized hardware to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) and subcontractor. The company competes predominantly on open, full-and-open basis across Defense Logistics Agency indefinite delivery contracts; recent awards show limited set-aside activity, with the vast majority of prime work issued without small business set-aside designations despite the company's small business profile.

Control Products manufactures defense-specific lighting and electronic components for military aviation, maritime, and ground systems. Representative prime work includes navigational lights (delivered on a $174,756.54 DLA Aviation delivery order in February 2026), infrared filters ($285,991 purchase order awarded January 2026), flexible shafts ($115,669.20 delivery order under total small business set-aside, August 2025), lamp modules and indicators, cockpit lighting assemblies, and electronic switches. The company also delivers interior components and structural fittings as a subcontractor to Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Bell Textron, and other major primes on platforms including the F-15EX, KC-46, MH-60R, and Future Vertical Lift aircraft. Recent sub work includes push-button interiors for Boeing (September 2025), structural fitting assemblies for Bell Textron on FLRAA (October 2025), and HIMARS components for Lockheed Martin.

Customer concentration is extreme and highly specialized. The top five funding agencies account for 91% of recent awards by count and 97% of combined potential value. DLA Aviation dominates the portfolio with 2,070 awards valued at $106.2 million combined potential—78% of all dollars. DLA Land and Maritime places a distant second with 371 awards at $22.6 million. Naval Air Systems Command and Naval Supply Systems Command together add $2.7 million across 45 awards. The remaining 18 customer agencies (Army, Navy, Air Force components, other DoD offices) account for less than 3% of portfolio value. This customer concentration reflects Control Products' positioning as a dedicated supplier of stock components through DLA's global supply chain.

Control Products holds multiple single-award indefinite delivery contracts (IDCs) with DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime that anchor the award portfolio. The largest is a $5.76 million DLA Land and Maritime IDC for flexible shafts, awarded September 2023, extending through August 2028, against which 27 delivery orders totaling $2.58 million have been issued. A $1.75 million DLA Aviation IDC for navigational lighting (awarded April 2023, extending through April 2028) has seeded numerous task orders. A $1.62 million DLA Aviation IDC for light assemblies (awarded April 2023, completion September 2023) and a $750,000 DLA Aviation IDC for aircraft lighting components (awarded November 2025) support ongoing procurements. Smaller $250,000 IDCs with DLA cover light panels, knobs, electronic floodlight hoods, and other components. The company also holds named IDCs SPE4A621D0109 (64 task orders, $6.8 million combined potential), SPE7LX17D0080 (41 task orders, $3.1 million), and SPE7LX23D5057 (31 task orders, $2.9 million). Task order velocity is high but declining: 79 awards in 2022, 88 in 2024, but only 19 through mid-April 2026, suggesting potential recompete pressure or demand fluctuation.

The portfolio is heavily weighted toward motor vehicle and aircraft lighting equipment and electronic components. NAICS codes concentrate in vehicular lighting manufacturing (669 awards), other lighting equipment (247 awards), and aircraft parts (214 awards). PSC coding shows 1,479 awards under electric vehicular lights and fixtures, 408 under combination and miscellaneous instruments, and 331 under indoor and outdoor electric lighting fixtures. This specialization reflects Control Products' core capability: sourcing, manufacturing, and supplying high-reliability lighting assemblies and associated electronic components that DLA distributes to maintain military aircraft and vehicle readiness.

Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is modest: 21 awards totaling $2 million face ultimate completion between July 2026 and July 2027, with the largest being the expiring $250,000 light-panel IDC (completion August 2027). The $5.76 million flexible-shaft IDC and the $1.75 million navigational-lighting IDC do not recompete until 2028, providing portfolio stability through 2027.

Control Products has a subsidiary, Rheaco, Inc., though the source does not characterize its operations or current scope within the corporate structure. The company has been registered in SAM.gov since 2001 and maintains an active federal contracting presence. As a small business without named certifications in the source (no 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB indicators), Control Products competes full-and-open on DLA vehicles, winning through technical capability and pricing on lighting and component requirements rather than set-aside advantage—a posture that has delivered sustained, high-volume work with a single customer ecosystem.

LIGHTING SYSTEMS FOR AIRCRAFT, CONTROL PANELS & FULL MACHINE SHOP SERVICES. INTERIOR & EXTERIOR AIRCRAFT LIGHTING.