Danko Arlington, Inc.

Danko Arlington, Inc., an SBA-certified HUBZone small business manufacturer based in Baltimore, Maryland, supplies precision military aluminum sand castings and machined components to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on 98% of recent awards and as a subcontractor on defense prime programs. The company, structured as a for-profit corporate entity with more than 100 years of manufacturing experience, competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements and HUBZone-set-aside vehicles; its award history shows recurring small-business and HUBZone set-aside designations that anchor its prime footprint.

Danko Arlington's capability portfolio centers on precision aluminum castings for aerospace and defense applications, including airframe brackets, control assemblies, bearing housings, duct assemblies, bell cranks, quadrants, fairlead sections, and structural support components used in military aircraft and weapons systems. Representative prime work includes a $2.1 million delivery order from the Air Force Sustainment Center (February 2024) for 30 MM entrance drum covers for A-10 aircraft under a $4.3 million IDC, a $1.3 million delivery order from Naval Sea Systems Command (September 2021) for new manufacture of MK-82 guided missile director sub-assemblies under a $14.6 million IDC, and a $347,500 purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime (January 2025) for vehicular brackets under a Total Small Business set-aside. Recent subcontract work includes castings for guided missile directors supplied to General Dynamics-OTS and housing components for the Abrams Advanced Multi-Purpose Round supplied to DRS Network & Imaging Systems.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-threaded. DLA Aviation dominates the portfolio with 698 awards (76% of the 914 total) carrying $31.2 million in combined potential value—a commanding 47% of all dollars. Naval Sea Systems Command ranks second with 31 awards but anchors the second-largest dollar share at $22.5 million (34% of total potential value), driven by the $14.6 million MK-82 IDC ceiling. The Air Force Sustainment Center accounts for four awards but $6.8 million in potential value (10% of total), concentrated in the $4.3 million A-10 entrance drum cover IDC. DLA Land and Maritime contributes 128 awards but only $2.9 million in potential value. Together, these four customers account for 97% of awards and 99% of potential dollars. This extreme concentration presents material recompete risk: DLA Aviation's IDVs and task orders represent the operational backbone of Danko Arlington's revenue stream.

Danko Arlington holds multiple active IDCs anchoring its prime contracting vehicle position. The most recent single-award IDC, awarded December 2025, carries a $350,000 ceiling and Total Small Business set-aside designation through December 2030 with DLA Aviation. The $4.3 million Air Force Sustainment Center IDC for 30 MM entrance drum covers runs through January 2029. The $14.6 million Naval Sea Systems Command multiple-award IDC for MK-82 guided missile director sub-assemblies extends through September 2026 and is not set-aside. A prior $2 million HUBZone-set-aside DLA Aviation IDC (mentioned in several award summaries as valid through May 2026) anchored delivery orders through mid-2025. Within these vehicles, Danko Arlington's delivery orders and purchase orders typically range from $3,600 to $347,500 in individual ceiling value, with the largest recent awards reaching $2.1 million (Air Force) and $1.3 million (Naval Sea Systems Command). The top parent vehicle by task-order volume is Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE4A217D0038, which carried 60 task orders valued at $861 thousand combined potential.

Activity has been steady but compressed. The source records 914 awards dating to June 1982, but recent volume shows variation: 42 awards in 2022, 23 in 2023, 30 in 2024, 38 in 2025, and 12 through April 2026 (partial-year data). Combined potential value across the full footprint reaches $66.4 million, with $27.3 million (41%) obligated to date. The recompete cliff over the next twenty-four months encompasses 35 awards with combined potential value of $1.5 million—a modest immediate exposure but undersized compared to the $31.2 million DLA Aviation concentration, suggesting most of that customer's IDC ceilings have runway beyond mid-2027. Award concentration by NAICS and PSC is consistent with the casting portfolio: Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing dominates with 620 awards, followed by Small Arms and Ordnance Manufacturing (42 awards), and mechanical transmission equipment (32 awards). Airframe Structural Components represent 401 awards under PSC classification.

Danko Arlington's subcontract footprint is minimal—only 19 sub-awards (2% of total) across the visible portfolio—but strategically placed. General Dynamics-OTS is the primary subcontracting partner, receiving Danko Arlington castings for guided missile directors on multiple sub-awards spanning 2023–2026. DRS Network & Imaging Systems has placed sub-awards for housing components supporting the Abrams AMP gunners auxiliary sight (GAS) unit in November 2024 and February 2025. General Dynamics Mission Systems and Northrop Grumman have used Danko Arlington for hardware and production components on submarine and Stryker cannon programs. KBR Wyle Services engaged Danko Arlington for material support on Air Force Life Cycle Management Center engineering tasks (May 2024). This sub-footprint reflects use by prime contractors as a specialty casting supplier rather than a full-service systems integrator.

Danko Arlington's HUBZone certification and small-business posture are recurring themes across the award record. Approximately 30–40% of recent purchase orders carry explicit HUBZone or Total Small Business set-aside designations, while the remainder compete full-and-open—a split consistent with a vendor leveraging its SBA status as a competitive advantage but not dependent on set-asides for market access. The company's manufacturing location in Baltimore, Maryland (a HUBZone-designated area) aligns with the certification, and performance statements consistently cite "Baltimore, Maryland" or "Arlington, Maryland" as place of performance, indicating on-site production capacity rather than drop-ship or overseas sourcing. Over 100 years of operational history and established relationships with DLA Aviation, Naval Sea Systems Command, and the Air Force Sustainment Center underscore Danko Arlington's institutional role in the defense industrial base for specialty castings.

Danko Arlington produces aluminum sand Castings, 3-D printing for aerospace, military and commercial applications. The company also has a complete in-house CNC machining facility. Family owned business since 1920.