Forrest Machining LLC

Forrest Machining LLC, operating as FMI Aerostructures, manufactures machined aircraft structural components and precision aerostructures for defense and federal customers as a prime contractor (27% of recent awards) and predominantly as a subcontractor to major aerospace primes (73% of awards). The company, a limited liability corporation headquartered in Valencia, California, competes across both small business set-aside and full-and-open categories, with recent prime work concentrated under Total Small Business set-asides on Defense Logistics Agency Aviation procurements.

FMI Aerostructures' customer base centers on naval aviation and DLA sourcing. The Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command leads by award count with 201 awards, while the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation anchors the potential-value ranking with 76 awards valued at $8 million combined. Together these two agencies account for 97% of recent awards. Recent prime capability work includes a $1.2 million definitive contract awarded October 2025 for machined aircraft structural components (longerons) under Total Small Business set-aside, a $485 thousand purchase order from DLA Aviation for longeron components awarded in October 2025, and a $30 thousand government first-article test purchase order from DLA Aviation awarded in August 2021. The company's capability portfolio spans machined fuselage and wing components, brackets, shafts, bearings, and structural assemblies across multiple aircraft platforms.

Subcontract work dominates FMI Aerostructures' federal footprint. Lockheed Martin serves as the primary prime contractor, with the vendor delivering machined bulkhead assemblies, wing spars, longerons, and cradle subassemblies for F-35 aircraft lot procurements across numerous sub-awards dated through January 2024. Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation is the second-largest prime relationship, with sub-awards for E-2D Advanced Hawkeye and multiyear production control panel components and machine shop work spanning November 2025 through October 2023. Boeing places orders for F-15EX lot airframe parts and structure procurement, with sub-awards through December 2024. Additional subs route work to Lockheed Martin on C-130J panel assemblies and fuselage components. Activity has grown significantly—from 39 awards in 2022 to 139 in 2024—though 2025–2026 shows a sharp contraction to 27 and 6 awards respectively, likely reflecting customer-side delays rather than vendor disqualification. Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying $1.7 million combined potential value and minimal recompete pressure.

FMI Aerostructures is a subsidiary of FMI Holdco LLC and operates under primary NAICS classifications of Aircraft Manufacturing (238 awards) and Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (89 awards), with PSC concentration in Airframe Structural Components (84 awards). The vendor places work under five named indefinite delivery vehicles: the F3460100D0314 IDIC (13 task orders), the FA863420D2704 IDIC (13 task orders), the FA862520D3000 IDIC (12 task orders), and two basic ordering agreements with Naval Air Systems Command (13 task orders combined). The gap between combined potential value ($8.3 million) and combined obligated dollars ($62.5 million) reflects the invoiced-revenue character of this vendor's footprint—it is actively executing against prior-year funding rather than holding large unexercised options.

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