Herber Aircraft Service, Inc.

Herber Aircraft Service, Inc., a for-profit aerospace components manufacturer based in El Segundo, California, supplies resilient mounts, hose assemblies, fluid conveyance products, and related aerospace hardware to the Defense Logistics Agency, U.S. Coast Guard, Department of the Navy, and other federal agencies as a small business prime contractor (97% of awards). The company competes under Total Small Business set-aside designations on a significant portion of its work, particularly through DLA indefinite delivery contracts, though it also wins full-and-open awards.

Herber's customer concentration is acute and customer-agency-driven rather than dollar-driven. DLA Land and Maritime and DLA Aviation together account for 87% of awards (762 and 492 awards respectively, covering $23.5 million in combined potential value across the two). The Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard is the third customer by both count and dollars, with 87 awards valued at $3.5 million. The company maintains a long-standing federal footprint—first award in the source data dates to December 1991—with sustained activity: 30 awards in 2022, 41 in 2023, 58 in 2024, 36 in 2025, and 4 through March 2026. Obligated dollars track potential value closely at 98% across the portfolio, indicating active execution.

Herber's prime work is dominated by purchase orders and delivery orders issued against single-award indefinite delivery contracts held with DLA Land and Maritime and DLA Aviation. The top parent vehicles are unnamed indefinite delivery contracts under DLA management (SPE4A615D7836 carrying 22 task orders worth $446 thousand; SPE4A622D5439 carrying 14 task orders worth $195 thousand; and similar structures generating 13, 13, and 12 task orders respectively). Representative prime awards include a $511.9 million definitive contract with the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command for tube swaging kits for C-17 aircraft repair (award date July 28, 2022, ultimate completion May 26, 2026); a $371.5 million DLA Aviation purchase order for resilient mounts (awarded December 17, 2024, completion December 5, 2025); a $239.2 million U.S. Coast Guard purchase order for fuel breakaway valves on MH-60T helicopters (awarded September 12, 2022, completion February 20, 2023); and a $213.5 million Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command purchase order for isolator mounts (awarded March 18, 2022, completion June 9, 2022). Smaller, high-volume orders dominate the DLA agreements: most purchase orders and delivery orders range from $2,000 to $100,000, placed frequently against standing IDCs with guaranteed minimum quantities and anticipated order frequencies of six to ten orders per year.

The PSC category breakdown reveals Herber's commodity specialization: 555 awards fall under Hose and Flexible Tubing; 408 under Hose, Pipe, Tube, Lubrication, and Railing Fittings; 385 under Hardware, Weapon System; and smaller volumes across packing, gaskets, and commercial hardware. NAICS coding confirms the mix: All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (351 awards), Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (275), Fabricated Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing (194), Small Arms Ordnance and Ordnance Accessories Manufacturing (169), and Other Ordnance and Accessories Manufacturing (111). The company describes itself as a manufacturer and repair center for aerospace and defense components, including resilient mounts, mounting hardware, hoses, valves, and fluid conveyance products for military aviation platforms and weapons systems.

Herber subcontracts to major primes on approximately 3% of its award footprint (51 sub-awards). Recent sub-award primes include The Boeing Company (recurring purchases of common aerospace commodities under material support and performance-based logistics structures, dating from June 2023 through December 2025); Textron Systems Corp (long-lead-time material for LCAC 100-class craft, with multiple awards between March 2025 and November 2025); Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft hardware manufacturing and air-duct hoses); BAE Systems (avionics shock mounts, Patriot air defense systems); and smaller engagements with Defense Systems and Solutions, DRS Network & Imaging Systems, Goodrich Corporation, and others. The sub work spans commonplace aerospace commodities, materials for naval and amphibious platforms, and specialized hardware for defense systems platforms.

Herber holds seven named single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA, carrying ceilings of $250,000 to $350,000 and ultimate completion dates ranging from August 2022 through February 2027. Three contracts (awarded February 25, 2026, July 3, 2025, and February 7, 2025) are designated Total Small Business set-asides covering mounting stops and resilient mounts for weapons and ordnance applications. Four earlier contracts (award dates February 27, 2023, March 11, 2022, April 25, 2022, and August 10, 2021) carry no set-aside designation and cover resilient mounts and related aerospace components. All are structured as one-year terms or until ceiling is reached, with anticipated 6–10 orders per year and delivery windows of 109–141 days. The company's activity in the recompete window (next twenty-four months) is minimal: only two awards valued at $27 thousand are scheduled for ultimate completion in that period, indicating a mature, stable customer base with long-standing IDC relationships rather than near-term repricing risk.