Jay-Em Aerospace Corporation

Jay-Em Aerospace Corporation, a veteran-owned small business manufacturer based in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, supplies aerospace components and spare parts to the federal government as a prime contractor across full-and-open and small-business-set-aside procurements, with 1,170 prime awards across 1,171 total federal contracts and sub-awards since 1993. The company is structured as a for-profit Subchapter S corporation and competes in both unrestricted and set-aside environments, though the majority of its recent awards carry no set-aside designation.

Jay-Em Aerospace's core capability centers on manufacturing landing gear wheels, seals, retaining rings, heat shields, friction linings, bearings, fasteners, and associated aerospace hardware components—the kinds of commodity-level parts that sustain military aircraft fleets across multiple service branches. Representative work includes a $1.8 million definitive contract with the Ogden Air Logistics Complex for F-15 wheel assemblies (April 2025), a $918.8 million delivery order from DLA Aviation for landing gear wheels (March 2024), a $99.7 million delivery order for landing gear wheels also from DLA Aviation (December 2024), and recurring delivery orders in the $20,000 to $300,000 range for spacer rings, heat shields, seal bearings, and retaining rings across DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime. The company also serves Foreign Military Sales pipelines, including a $172.5 million F-16 wheel assembly procurement for Israel (March 2024) and a $101.5 million F-16 wheel procurement supporting Ogden Air Logistics Complex operations (September 2025).

Customer concentration is highly concentrated in Defense Logistics Agency Aviation: 577 awards worth $49.5 million in combined potential value represent 49% of all awards and 64% of total potential value across the vendor's footprint. DLA Troop Support Hardware, DLA general, DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment, and the Department of the Air Force account for an additional 376 awards with $7.0 million combined potential value. Top customers by potential value diverge from award count—the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Ogden Air Logistics Complex ranks second by dollars ($12.3 million across 65 awards), reflecting high-value Foreign Military Sales and definitive contracts for wheel assemblies and torque tubes. DLA Land and Maritime, the Department of the Navy, and the Air Force Sustainment Center round out the top five by potential value. The concentration is extreme: the top five customer agencies account for 92% of combined potential value.

Jay-Em Aerospace holds multiple single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime, ranging from $250,000 to $4.4 million in ceiling value with performance periods extending to 2030. The top parent vehicles by task order count are Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE4A615D5313 (21 task orders, $104 thousand combined potential value), SPE4A720D0177 (18 task orders, $1.6 million), SPE4A219D5034 (17 task orders, $172 thousand), SPE4A721D0238 (15 task orders, $1.2 million), and SPE4A718D0382 (14 task orders, $264 thousand). Recent large IDV awards include a $2.0 million Total Small Business set-aside for F-4 Phantom landing gear wheels (November 2024, extending to November 2029), a $1.999 million unrestricted IDV for heat shields and related brake components (July 2024, extending to July 2029), and a $540.5 thousand unrestricted IDV for spacer rings (July 2025, extending to July 2030). The vendor also holds specialized vehicles for F-5 aircraft spare parts (AFLCMC Hill AFB, $500,000 ceiling) and multiple $250,000 single-award IDVs for retaining rings, seal bearings, repair sleeves, and packing materials across DLA divisions.

Activity has remained stable year over year: 61 awards in 2022, 65 in 2023, 63 in 2024, 64 in 2025, and 8 through April 2026 (partial year). Sixteen awards with combined potential value of $3.9 million face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure in the landing gear wheel, spacer ring, and heat shield categories where Jay-Em Aerospace holds dominant position. Award size distribution is bimodal—the majority of individual delivery orders fall in the $1,000 to $100,000 range, but definitive contracts and large IDVs anchor total portfolio value, with six awards exceeding $800,000. The company registered in the federal contracting system in 2001 and has maintained continuous presence across DLA organizations for twenty-five years.

Subcontract work is negligible: Jay-Em Aerospace serves as a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin on C-130J combined aircraft delivery development work (September 2023), delivering landing gear wheel assemblies. The vendor competes predominantly as a prime across unrestricted procurements; small-business-set-aside activity is concentrated in DLA Aviation's Total Small Business vehicles for landing gear wheels and spacer rings, reflecting selective pursuit of reserved opportunities rather than a dominant posture.

Award concentration by product category reinforces focus: other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing (510 awards), gasket/packing/sealing devices (212 awards), hardware manufacturing (136 awards), and aircraft manufacturing (84 awards) account for most of the footprint. By PSC code, aircraft wheels and brake systems (666 awards) and packing/gasket materials (200 awards) dominate. Combined obligated value ($80.3 million) exceeds combined potential value ($77.1 million) by 4 percent, indicating the vendor has invoiced above stated contract ceilings on some vehicles or received upward modifications—a signal of cost growth or scope expansion on active deliveries.

MANUFACTURER OF AIRCRAFT WHEELS & BRAKES, ALL COMPONENTS IN THE WHEELS AND BRAKES, ALSO DO COMMERCIAL MACHINING