CPI Aerostructures Inc.

CPI Aerostructures Inc., doing business as CPI Aero, manufactures airframe structural components, aircraft fasteners, and related aerostructure parts for the Department of the Air Force and the Department of the Navy as a prime contractor on 98% of its federal awards, competing predominantly under the Total Small Business set-aside. The Brentwood, New York-based for-profit manufacturer holds a subsidiary in Welding Metallurgy, Inc. and operates across primary NAICS categories in aircraft parts manufacturing (1,198 awards under Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing) and aircraft structural assembly.

CPI Aero's award footprint is concentrated in Defense Logistics Agency Aviation channel procurement for routine T-38 Talon jet trainer aircraft maintenance and repair parts. The top five customer entities account for 84% of all awards by count: Defense Logistics Agency (687 awards, $10.4 million combined potential value), Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (535 awards, $122.4 million), the Department of the Air Force (186 awards, $2.9 million), the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Air Force Sustainment Center (68 awards, $38.3 million), and the Naval Air Systems Command (40 awards, $499 thousand). Dollar concentration diverges sharply from award count. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Hill Air Force Base dominates the potential-value ranking with 34 awards carrying $194.8 million combined potential value — nearly all driven by six large delivery orders under the T-38 PACER CLASSIC III Phase III/TALON Repair Inspection and Maintenance (TRIM) program. Representative prime awards include a $7.88 million Total Small Business delivery order from AFLCMC Hill for T-38 structural improvement modification kits (September 2025, ultimate completion August 2027), a $4.88 million Total Small Business delivery order from AFLCMC Hill for TRIM structural and fastener kits (January 2023, completion July 2027), and a $498 thousand Total Small Business delivery order from Naval Air Systems Command for T-38 structural improvement kits (July 2024, completion November 2025). The remaining award volume flows through Defense Logistics Agency Aviation as purchase orders and delivery orders for individual fastener line items (nuts, inserts, clamps, valve cartridges) at sub-$10 thousand each, with completion dates spanning 2022 through early 2024.

CPI Aero holds five named indefinite delivery contracts. The two largest parent vehicles by combined potential value are an Air Force Materiel Command IDC (FA822019D0002) with 18 task orders valued at $64.6 million and a second AFMC IDC (FA852404D0003) with 38 task orders at $32.8 million. A third, the Defense Logistics Agency indefinite delivery contract SPE4AX15D9405, carries 315 task orders valued at $8.9 million combined — representing the high-volume, low-value fastener and component ordering pattern characteristic of DLA Aviation supply-chain procurement.

Award activity declined year over year from 35 awards in 2022 to 13 in 2024, with 15 awards in 2025 showing modest recovery. Five awards with ultimate completion dates inside the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $34.6 million and face recompete risk. CPI Aero subcontracts for major defense primes on aerostructure and precision-machined components: Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft manufacturing and structural assemblies, multiple sub awards through 2025), The Boeing Company (A-10 Thunderbolt II advanced-wing continuation kit major structures, July 2025), Raytheon Company (F-22 sensor enhancements and Next Generation Jammer-Multimission Bus production lot 4 precision machining and structural assemblies, multiple sub awards through 2025), Lockheed Martin Corporation (aircraft fixed-wing drive shaft and lock assemblies, primarily 2022–2023), Goodrich Corporation (MS-110 reconnaissance pod components for Taiwan foreign military sales, June 2025), and L3 Technologies (Next Generation Jammer Low Band strongback manufacturability and fabrication, December 2024). The subcontract footprint indicates CPI Aero's role as a mid-tier supplier of fabricated structures, sheet metal details, and precision-machined subassemblies to prime integrators on current-production defense aircraft and electronic warfare systems.

US Mfr of structural assys for fixed wing aircraft, helicopters and airborne Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance(ISR)pod systems in both the commercial and defense aerospace markets. CPI is either a Tier 1 supplier to aircraft OEMM's or a Tier 2 subcontractor to major Tier 1 mfr's. CPI is a prime contractor to the US Dept of Defense, primarily the Air Force. In conjunction with its assy operations, CPI provides eng'g, program management, supply chain management and MRO services. Key defense programs that CPI supplies are the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye surveillance acft, A-10 Thunderbolt attack jet, UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, MH-53/CH-53 variant helicopters, MH-60S mine countermeasure helicopter, AH-1Z ZULU attack helicopter, the DB-110 reconnaissance pod and the ALMDS mine detecting pod. Commercially CPI supplies products for the Gulfstream G650 business jet, the HondaJet advanced light Jet, the Embraer Phenom 300 business jet, the new Cessna Citation Ten and the S-92 helicopter.