Herber Aircraft Service, Inc.

Herber Aircraft Service, Inc., doing business as Herber Aircraft Service Inc., is a small business aerospace components manufacturer based in El Segundo, California that supplies resilient mounts, hoses, hose assemblies, mounting hardware, fluid conveyance products, and related aerospace equipment to the federal government as a prime contractor (97% of recent awards) and subcontractor. The company is a for-profit manufacturer of goods with no SBA certifications; however, Herber competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides across its prime footprint, with set-aside designations recurring on roughly 40–50% of recent named awards and full-and-open awards filling the remainder.

Herber's customer concentration is acute and stable. The top five agencies account for 87% of recent awards by count and 91% by combined potential value, led by the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (493 awards, $12 million combined potential value) and DLA Land and Maritime (763 awards, $11.5 million combined potential value) — a reversal of volume versus dollars that reflects DLA Land and Maritime's high-frequency, lower-value purchase orders and DLA Aviation's larger, less frequent delivery orders. The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Coast Guard (88 awards, $3.5 million combined potential value), the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (55 awards, $1.9 million combined potential value), and DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (60 awards, $1.6 million combined potential value) complete the active set. Work is performed exclusively in El Segundo, California.

Herber holds a portfolio of single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA branches, with ceilings ranging from $250,000 to $350,000 per contract. The top parent vehicles by task-order count are unrestricted DLA IDCs (SPE4A615D7836 with 22 task orders valued at $446 thousand combined, SPE4A622D5439 with 14 task orders at $165 thousand combined, and SPE4A617D6512 with 13 task orders at $81 thousand combined), alongside small-business-set-aside IDCs with DLA Land and Maritime (ceilings of $250,000–$350,000, award dates from February 2025 forward). Award values are typically sub-$100,000 per order, with purchase orders and delivery orders in the $3,000–$30,000 range predominating; representative recent prime work includes a $371.5 thousand resilient mounts purchase order from DLA Aviation (December 2024), a $239.2 thousand fuel breakaway valves purchase order from the U.S. Coast Guard for MH-60T helicopter support (September 2022), a $511.9 thousand definitive contract from the Air Force Materiel Command for C-17 tube swaging kits over four years (July 2022), a $213.5 thousand isolator mounts order from the Naval Sea Systems Command (March 2022), and a $196.1 thousand fuel system valves purchase order from the U.S. Coast Guard (April 2023).

Activity has declined year over year — 58 awards in 2024, 36 in 2025, 9 in 2026 (through August) — reflecting either seasonal reporting lags in the source or tightening procurement pace. Combined potential value across all 1,798 awards stands at $33.5 million with $33 million obligated (98% realization rate), indicating mature, executed contracts with minimal slippage. No imminent recompete cliff is visible in the source data; Herber's IDC vehicles are renewable annually or upon aggregate order thresholds, with the oldest active contracts maturing between January 2025 and August 2025.

Herber subcontracts to major defense primes, particularly Boeing (12 sub-awards spanning aerospace commodities and material support), Textron Systems (15 sub-awards for LCAC hovercraft long-lead-time materials), Northrop Grumman Systems (3 sub-awards for E-2D Advanced Hawkeye air-duct and avionics hardware), BAE Systems branches (3 sub-awards for missile warning system and avionics shock mounts), and Defense Systems and Solutions (4 sub-awards for UH-60M aircraft materials in support of Australian deliveries). Herber's sub work is concentrated in fluid conveyance, mounting, and sealing components — C-seals, connectors, hoses, isolators, and valves — for helicopter, tactical vehicle, and naval platforms.

Herber's prime capability portfolio centers on resilient mounts, stops, mounting hardware, hose assemblies, and fluid conveyance components — standardized aerospace commodities supporting military helicopters (MH-60T, H-65), fixed-wing aircraft (C-17), and surface vessels. The company's footprint across NAICS codes (All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing at 351 awards, Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing at 276 awards, Fabricated Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing at 194 awards) and Product Service Codes (Hose and Flexible Tubing at 556 awards, Hose/Pipe/Tube Fittings at 408 awards, Weapon System Hardware at 386 awards) reflects a commodities supplier posture serving defense logistics networks rather than prime systems integration. The company has maintained federal contracting relationships since at least 1991 and holds established relationships with Eaton Aeroquip as an approved source for hoses, valves, and couplings used across platforms.