Flight Source Inc.

Flight Source Inc., a for-profit small business based in Halifax, Pennsylvania, supplies standardized aviation and vehicular mechanical components—fasteners, bushings, bearings, hoses, seals, gaskets, and related hardware—to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) and subcontractor. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open, with no SBA set-aside certifications; two of its awards in the source carry Total Small Business set-aside designations, but Flight Source does not hold or market 8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB status.

Flight Source's customer base concentrates heavily within the Defense Logistics Agency and the Department of the Army. The top five funding agencies account for 79% of recent awards, led by DLA Aviation (471 awards, $996 thousand combined potential value) and DLA Land and Maritime (144 awards, $583 thousand combined potential value), followed by the Naval Supply Systems Command (131 awards, $221 thousand), Naval Air Systems Command (47 awards, $74 thousand), and Naval Sea Systems Command (42 awards, $186 thousand). By dollar magnitude, the Department of the Army and its Materiel Command Contracting Command Detroit Arsenal dominate, anchoring $3.2 million and $2.4 million in combined potential value respectively, despite placing fewer awards than DLA Aviation. The divergence between award count and dollar volume reflects Flight Source's role as a high-velocity supplier of small-ticket standardized parts (individual purchase orders routinely valued at $100–$7,000) rather than a prime on large-dollar development or integration programs.

Flight Source holds two Blanket Purchase Agreements with the Department of the Army. The primary vehicle (W51B2824AJ013, $3 million ceiling, running through January 2025) carries 17 task orders worth $58 thousand combined potential value; a second BPA (W56HZV21AJ014) generated 29 task orders worth $241 thousand. Beyond these, Flight Source places orders through ASTRO (12 task orders), the Indefinite Delivery Contract W912JC06D5213 (3 task orders, $165 thousand), and subordinate indefinite delivery vehicles. The vendor does not hold seats on government-wide acquisition contracts or GSA Schedules; its work flows through single-award and multiple-award BPAs, direct purchase orders, and call orders against standing agreements with the Army and DLA.

Activity has remained consistent: 60 awards in 2022, rising to 94 in 2023, falling to 78 in 2024, then recovering to 81 in 2025. Year-to-date 2026 shows nine awards, a pace that would yield a flat or slightly reduced annual total if sustained. The source does not disclose a recompete cliff window; however, the Army BPA ceiling carries an expiration of January 2025, and the vendor's historical awards show recurring small purchase orders and call orders rather than multi-year prime contracts with discrete end dates, reducing discrete recompete risk from large individual vehicles.

In its subcontractor role, Flight Source supplies vehicle parts and consumable supplies under task orders placed by Mantech Advanced Systems International against the ALECS (Advanced Logistics Evaluation and Control System) program; seven sub-awards span April 2025 through April 2026. This engagement suggests Flight Source's inventory and distribution model serve as a source of supply for primes fulfilling supply-chain requirements on larger programs.

Flight Source's capability portfolio centers narrowly on mechanical fasteners, structural components, and aircraft support hardware. The top five NAICS categories driving award volume are Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (144 awards), Bolt/Nut/Screw/Rivet/Washer Manufacturing (137 awards), Hardware Manufacturing (118 awards), Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing (69 awards), and Aircraft Engine and Engine Parts Manufacturing (63 awards). The corresponding PSC breakdown reinforces this: Hardware/Commercial (75 awards), Nuts and Washers (67 awards), Bearings/Plain/Unmounted (60 awards), Miscellaneous Vehicular Components (59 awards), and Bolts (56 awards). Recent representative contracts include a $100.9 million purchase order for shear bolts (DoD Aviation, July 2025), a $115 thousand contract for cylinder assemblies from Army Contracting Command Warren (October 2024), a $106 thousand small-business-set-aside for automotive axle assemblies (ACC Warren, August 2024), and a $90.4 thousand Naval Supply Systems Command order for solenoid valves (April 2024). The vendor has operated as a federal contractor since 2002, with total awards across all federal sources reaching 1,062 since that date and $10.5 million in combined potential value and $6.3 million in obligated dollars in the source snapshot.

Supplier of New US Government Surplus, aircraft, military vehicle, tank, and naval equipment.