DLA Aerospace LLC

DLA Aerospace LLC, a woman-owned small business (WOSB) and economically disadvantaged woman-owned small business (EDWOSB) based in Northridge, California, supplies electrical and mechanical components to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor on purchase orders, with 100% of its recent federal awards structured as firm fixed-price orders against DLA's divisional procurement authority rather than parent vehicles. The company operates as a limited liability partnership and competes both on full-and-open and set-aside bases, with woman-owned small business set-asides representing the majority of its award volume.

DLA Aerospace's footprint is entirely concentrated within a single customer — the Defense Logistics Agency — across five of its operating divisions. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime accounts for 377 awards (65% of the recent prime portfolio) with $8.3 million in combined potential value; DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment issued 81 awards worth $3.3 million; and DLA Aviation awarded 102 orders totaling $1.3 million. DLA Troop Support Subsistence and DLA Troop Support Hardware round out the customer set with smaller volumes. This extreme concentration (99% of awards funded through DLA) reflects the company's positioning as a transactional supplier of spare parts rather than a strategic partner across broader federal programs. The vendor's award portfolio spans 576 purchase orders since first registration in June 2019, with activity accelerating in 2025 (181 orders) after a slower 2023 (36 orders), suggesting either deeper penetration of DLA's procurement network or inventory build-out in response to military readiness priorities.

DLA Aerospace's capability portfolio centers on electrical and mechanical components: connectors and receptacles (163 awards across PSC code 59 — Electrical/Electronic Equipment), wiring devices, hardware, hose and pipe fittings, capacitors, switches, pumps, valves, filters, fan impellers, and ancillary military-specification spare parts. Individual award sizes range from under $650 to over $700,000, with the bulk of transactional orders falling between $5,000 and $100,000. Representative recent work includes a $728,399 DLA Land and Maritime total small business set-aside for radio frequency filters (awarded May 2025), a $248,763 DLA Aviation woman-owned set-aside for 101 terminal box units (January 2026), a $220,500 DLA Construction and Equipment set-aside for 45 stationary urinals (January 2026), and numerous $15,000–$150,000 orders for connectors, backshells, mast sections, power supplies, and hydraulic components. The company also draws work outside electrical/mechanical categories—plumbing fixtures (urinals, water closets, flush valves), safety equipment (respirators, rescue bags, steamblock gloves), and office/maintenance equipment (coffee makers, disk drive units, memory cards)—reflecting its role as a general parts broker rather than a specialist vendor.

Set-aside posture is mixed: roughly 60–65% of visible awards carry woman-owned small business or total small business set-aside designations, while the remainder compete on open (non-set-aside) basis. This split suggests DLA leverages both set-aside vehicles to support small business goals and full-and-open orders when set-asides are unavailable or when urgent procurement timelines favor sole-source awards to existing vendors. The company holds two active indefinite delivery contracts (IDCs) with DLA Land and Maritime, each valued at $250,000, awarded in February 2025 (shipping and storage drums under WOSB set-aside) and May 2022 (military-specification connectors and receptacles, open competition). These IDCs enable flexible ordering of recurring stock without recompete, though the source indicates the IDCs themselves are single-award vehicles rather than seats on government-wide frameworks. Five subsidiary IDCs shown in the top parent vehicles list carry combined values of $137,000 and support similar procurement flow.

Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is modest: seven awards with completion dates through mid-2027 carry combined potential value of $320,000. This low recompete cliff reflects the transactional, short-term nature of DLA purchase orders, which typically complete within three to six months of award and do not renew as a bloc. Instead, DLA places continuous individual orders against standing authority, meaning revenue stream risk is distributed across dozens of small procurements rather than concentrated in a handful of expiring vehicles.

DLA Aerospace operates exclusively as a prime contractor with no subcontractor footprint visible in the source data. The company performs all work at its Northridge, California facility; no offshore or multi-site performance is documented. Obligated dollars total $12.1 million against $13 million potential value across 576 awards, indicating a 93% execution rate and mature cash flow from these transactions. The vendor competes on price and availability in a space where DLA procurement offices maintain standing purchase authority and source from pre-qualified small business vendors; differentiation is thin, and switching costs to alternative suppliers are low given the commodity nature of most line items.