Indian Aerospace, Inc.

Indian Aerospace, Inc., a minority-owned and Native American-owned small business based in Arlington, Texas, manufactures and supplies aerospace fasteners, hardware, and aircraft maintenance components to the federal government as a prime contractor across thousands of purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts, competing full-and-open with no set-aside posture despite minority and Native American ownership.

Indian Aerospace operates under NAICS 332722 (Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing) as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation. The vendor's federal footprint is characterized by extreme customer concentration: the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) accounts for 98% of awards across 4,020 prime contracts spanning 35 years and $107.7 million combined potential value. Within DLA, the customer split is nearly even between DLA Aviation (1,550 awards, $11.1 million potential value) and DLA Troop Support Hardware (1,507 awards, $18.2 million potential value), with secondary exposure to DLA Land and Maritime (421 awards, $2.5 million), DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (250 awards, $1.1 million), and corporate DLA (198 awards, $296 thousand). The vendor holds negligible sub-award volume (five awards across 4,020 total) and operates almost exclusively through DLA commodity purchase orders ranging from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars per order.

Indian Aerospace's capability portfolio centers on high-volume fastener manufacturing: screws (581 awards), nuts and washers (1,472 awards), bolts (494 awards), plus gasket, packing, and sealing device manufacturing (108 awards) and fabricated pipe and pipe fitting work (96 awards). Representative recent awards include a $44,545.41 self-locking nuts purchase order (DLA Aviation, February 2026, Total Small Business set-aside), a $41,057.61 screw assembly order (DLA Aviation, May 2026), a $41,980.95 self-locking nuts order (DLA Aviation, February 2026), and recurring orders for plain hexagon nuts, machine screws, and socket head cap screws typically valued between $1,000 and $15,000 per order with 60- to 365-day performance cycles. All work is performed at the vendor's Arlington, Texas facility with delivery to DLA distribution depots throughout CONUS, OCONUS, and via consolidation points.

The vendor sits on five parent indefinite delivery contracts under DLA, with the highest-traffic vehicle being SPM5EY13D0550 (231 task orders, $2.3 million combined potential value), followed by SPE5EY19D0519 (35 task orders, $642 thousand), SPM5AZ09D0023 (31 task orders, $331 thousand), SPM50005D0247 (16 task orders, $95 thousand), and SPM5AY08D0276 (9 task orders, $61 thousand). A single-award indefinite delivery contract awarded April 22, 2026, carries a $350,000.00 ceiling through April 22, 2027, with an initial solicitation for flat washers (NSN 5310010584661) specifying a guaranteed annual minimum of 13 units and estimated two orders per year.

Award activity has declined year over year: 260 awards in 2022, 267 in 2023, 243 in 2024, 223 in 2025, and 196 through mid-2026. This compression reflects both typical DLA volume fluctuation and the fact that the vendor's footprint is primarily commodity-order-driven; the 92 awards with ultimate completion in the next 24 months carry combined potential value of $897 thousand, a modest recompete exposure relative to the vendor's $107.7 million total portfolio. Obligated dollars total $27.6 million (26% of potential value), reflecting the cash-flow impact of thousands of small orders. The vendor competes full-and-open (no set-aside designations applied to the vast majority of awards; the few Total Small Business set-asides on recent orders are incidental). Sub-award presence is negligible; one sub award from October 2025 under Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation for internally relieved bolts (NAICS 332722) is the only identified subcontract engagement in the source data.

Indian Aerospace's business model is narrowly tailored to DLA commodity procurement: high-volume, standardized fastener and hardware manufacturing with predictable order flow but limited margin and no prime teaming. The vendor holds no visible position on GWACs, agency-wide IDIQs, or GSA Schedules and operates almost entirely within the DLA purchase-order ecosystem, making the firm a commodity supplier rather than a strategic prime or IT services vendor.