Eltee Tool & Die LLC

Eltee Tool & Die LLC, doing business as Eltee Tool & Die Co, manufactures precision aerospace components and structural elements for military aircraft as a prime contractor to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), holding over 1,500 federal awards and competing predominantly under small business set-asides as a veteran-owned small business. The Johnson City, New York-based limited liability company is 100% veteran-owned and has maintained continuous federal contracting registration since 2002, with recent annual award counts averaging 61 awards per year across DLA Aviation and subordinate Defense Logistics Agency components.

Eltee's capability portfolio centers on aircraft structural and skin components, doors, fairings, firewalls, floors, trailing edges, ribs, airfoils, turbine parts kits, and related assemblies for military aircraft sustainment. Representative work includes a $56,250 total small business set-aside purchase order from DLA Aviation (December 2025) for aircraft skin components delivering 15 units to DLA Distribution Depot Oklahoma by April 2026; a $1,999,999.99 total small business set-aside indefinite delivery contract awarded October 15, 2025, for aircraft fairings through October 2028; and a $81,000 total small business set-aside purchase order (November 2024) for turbine parts kits, 20 units, delivering to DLA Distribution Depot Oklahoma by August 2025. Eltee also holds seven active single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Aviation with ceiling values ranging from $250,000 to $2 million, with performance periods extending through 2030, covering aircraft skins, fairings, doors, ribs, airfoils, firewalls, and bracket assemblies.

Customer concentration is pronounced and stable. DLA Aviation accounts for 1,373 awards (88% of total awards) with $32.3 million in combined potential value, anchoring 99% of the vendor's award portfolio by dollar magnitude. The remaining prime customers—Defense Logistics Agency, DLA Land and Maritime, Department of the Air Force, and Air Force Materiel Command Ogden Air Logistics Complex—represent 124, 16, 14, and 4 awards respectively, with negligible concentration. The top five parent vehicles are single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Aviation ranging from $85 thousand to $357 thousand combined potential value across 7 to 12 task orders per vehicle. Eltee competes almost entirely under total small business set-asides (approximately 60% of recent awards carry this designation), with the remainder awarded under no set-aside or competitive 8(a) mechanisms; full-and-open competition is rare in the award record.

Activity shows contraction after peak volume. Award counts declined from 95 in 2022 to 18 in 2026 year-to-date, a 81% drop. Combined potential value across all 1,558 awards stands at $34.3 million, with $21.8 million (64%) obligated. Forty-nine awards (combined potential value $952 thousand) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating immediate recompete exposure. The vendor holds no parent GWACs, no positions on government-wide vehicles outside DLA-specific IDCs, and no reported subcontract footprint (1 sub-award from Boeing in May 2024 for aerospace support materials represents negligible engagement in the sub tier).

Eltee operates exclusively in aircraft structural manufacturing for military logistics, with DLA Aviation as the sole meaningful customer. The company has not transitioned into broader federal markets, civilian aerospace, or IT services. A single subsidiary relationship or teaming arrangement with a prime integrator is absent from the award record. Performance concentration at the Johnson City facility, the stated willingness to maintain precision manufacturing for individual order values ranging from $3,000 to $81,000, and the high incidence of total small business set-aside designations position Eltee as a specialized tier-one supplier deeply embedded in the military aviation parts supply chain rather than a growth-oriented federal contractor or a candidate for large platform integration roles.