Defense Technology Equipment, Inc.

Defense Technology Equipment, Inc., a minority-owned, woman-owned small business headquartered in Sterling, Virginia, manufactures and supplies specialized aviation components, spare parts, and aircraft accessories to the Department of Defense, Coast Guard, and related federal logistics agencies primarily as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards). The company operates as a Subchapter S Corporation under primary NAICS 336413 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing) and competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements with no systemic reliance on set-aside vehicles, though the vendor's socioeconomic designations position it to compete for total small business set-asides when agencies deploy them.

Defense Technology Equipment's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward maritime aviation logistics. The top five funding agencies account for 73% of awards by count and 90% by combined potential value, led decisively by the Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard (293 awards, $9.7 million combined potential value) — predominantly for MH-65 Dolphin and MH-60T helicopter components — followed by the Department of the Army ($3.2 million across 14 awards), the Army Materiel Command's Detroit Arsenal facility ($1.8 million across 23 awards), the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation division ($908 thousand across 30 awards), and the Department of the Navy's Naval Supply Systems Command ($17 thousand across 10 awards). Within the Coast Guard's 293 awards, the vendor has supplied landing gear axles, thermostats, bearing sleeves, window panels, loop clamps, torque shafts, shock mounts, and miscellaneous spare parts — with individual purchase orders ranging from sub-thousand-dollar routine procurements to orders exceeding $200,000.

Vehicle positioning reflects the vendor's role as a call-order supplier under standing BPAs. The Department of the Army Contracting Command holds a multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (W56HZV21AJ004) valued at up to $3 million through November 2026, against which the vendor has placed 27 task orders totaling $1.9 million in combined potential value. Call orders under this vehicle have historically ranged from $248 to over $350,000 for miscellaneous supplies and technology equipment. The Coast Guard's Indefinite Delivery Contract HSCG3812D202059 anchors 10 task orders valued at $45 thousand, and additional IDCs (HSCG3812D505044, others) support routine component acquisitions. Notably, the vendor operates as a subcontractor to Amentum Services, Inc., Atlantic Diving Supply, Inc., S & K Logistics Services LLC, and AAR Government Services on aircraft maintenance and parts-supply task orders, delivering engine turbine controllers, lubricating oil coolers, bearing units, speed brake and rudder components, and hydraulic support assemblies.

Activity has plateaued recently. The vendor received 14 awards in 2022, 14 in 2023, and 19 in 2024 — the peak year — followed by a decline to 12 in 2025 and 3 in the first two months of 2026 (through mid-February). Across the entire portfolio, the vendor has executed 509 prime and sub awards since 2004, accumulating $17.6 million in combined potential value with $13.4 million obligated (76% drawdown). Award density in the last five years indicates sustained but not growing engagement; the most recent prime award dated February 12, 2026, was a $12,873 purchase order from DoD Aviation for a spacer-sleeve component. The top five categories by NAICS and PSC confirm the vendor's narrow specialization: 401 awards fall under Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing; the top PSC codes are Miscellaneous Aircraft Accessories and Components (65 awards), Airframe Structural Components (39 awards), and Switches (34 awards). The vendor holds no GWAC or governmentwide contract vehicles; all work flows through direct award or call against agency-specific BPAs, which constrains cross-agency visibility and limits the vendor's ability to seed larger prime relationships outside aviation logistics channels.

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