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 Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor, with a footprint of 3,910 federal awards valued at $106.8 million combined potential value across a 35-year contracting history.

Indian Aerospace operates as a for-profit corporation specializing in bolt, nut, screw, rivet, washer, and aircraft seal assembly manufacturing under NAICS 332722 (Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing). The company's recent activity spans purchase orders and a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with DLA Aviation valued at $249,999.99 through February 2030. Across the past five years, award volume has remained steady—between 222 and 267 orders annually—with 87 awards issued in 2026 alone, reflecting consistent demand from logistics customers. Purchase orders are firm fixed-price, typically for 100 to 80,000 units of commercial aerospace hardware, with performance at the Arlington facility and completion dates ranging from 60 to 365 days.

Representative contracts illustrate Indian Aerospace's core work. In February 2025, DLA Aviation issued a $23,276.23 delivery order for a repair kit field component (aircraft seal assembly parts) under the company's indefinite delivery vehicle, completion due December 2025. In September 2025, DLA Aviation awarded a $79,951.17 Total Small Business set-aside purchase order for self-locking nuts (93 units), delivery to the DLA Distribution San Joaquin facility within 171 days. In June 2025, DLA Aviation issued a $19,168.66 order for continuous threaded studs, completion by October 2025. These orders span the company's product portfolio: self-locking nuts, hexagon cap screws, eye bolts, machine bolts, socket head cap screws, machine screws, seal assemblies, washers, pins, and aircraft-grade fasteners.

Customer concentration is acute and nearly monolithic. The top five DLA commodity-level customers account for 98% of awards and approximately 30% of combined potential value (the source does not itemize the remaining 70%). DLA Troop Support Hardware leads with 1,507 awards and $18.2 million, followed closely by DLA Aviation with 1,447 awards and $10.2 million, then DLA Land and Maritime (414 awards, $2.4 million), DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (250 awards, $1.1 million), and DLA undifferentiated (198 awards, $296 thousand). All 20 identified customer agencies are within the Department of Defense ecosystem. This concentration signals both stability and dependency: Indian Aerospace operates almost entirely through DLA purchase orders with minimal diversification.

Parent vehicle holdings are sparse. The top vehicle is Indefinite Delivery Contract SPM5EY13D0550 with 231 task orders worth $2.3 million combined potential value, followed by SPE5EY19D0519 (35 task orders, $642 thousand) and SPM5AZ09D0023 (31 task orders, $331 thousand). The vendor's own IDC with DLA Aviation (SPM50005D0247) carries 16 task orders and $95 thousand combined value. These vehicles appear to be DLA single-award and multiple-award contracts rather than government-wide acquisition vehicles. Indian Aerospace does not hold positions on GSA Schedules, GWACs, or agency-wide IDIQs; its access to federal buyers is entirely through DLA's commodity and maintenance contracting machinery.

Subcontract footprint is minimal. The source identifies a single sub-award from October 2025 under Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation for internally releasing bolts (NAICS 332722, bolt manufacturing), indicating Indian Aerospace performs sub-tier fastener supply to large primes on discrete orders rather than maintaining recurring sub positions.

Activity has been stable to slightly declining. Awards per year fell from 267 in 2023 to 243 in 2024 and 222 in 2025, with 87 orders in the first four months of 2026 tracking toward a 260-order annualized pace if sustained. However, the recompete cliff shows only 86 awards with completion dates in the next 24 months, valued at $802 thousand combined potential value—a modest tail of near-term exposure relative to the vendor's $106.8 million total footprint. Obligated dollars ($27 million) represent 25% of potential value, indicating that most awards are still in order or performance phase.

Indian Aerospace competes in full-and-open procurements across DLA commodity purchase orders; set-aside categories appear sporadically in the award data (Total Small Business set-asides on a handful of orders), but the vendor's Native American and minority-owned designations position it to compete for set-aside orders when DLA restricts them. The company's ownership structure and SBA certifications are not detailed in the source, but Indian Aerospace markets itself as Native American-owned and minority-owned on all awards and corporate registrations.

The vendor's core capability is high-volume, commercial-grade aerospace fastener manufacturing and supply to military maintenance logistics. Revenues and workforce size are not disclosed in the source. Delivery is reliable and prompt (100% of visible awards complete or complete successfully on fixed dates). Indian Aerospace serves a mission-critical but commodity role—DLA buys fasteners in bulk for aircraft maintenance across all services, and Indian Aerospace is one of many small manufacturers in the supply network. Competitive differentiation is not evident; pricing and past performance appear to be the primary factors in recurring awards. The company's indefinite delivery contract is the primary vehicle for long-term stability; renewal or recompete in 2030 will be a material event.