Kelly Manufacturing Company

Kelly Manufacturing Company, a for-profit aerospace and defense components manufacturer based in Wichita, Kansas, supplies precision-engineered electronic and electromechanical assemblies to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor on indefinite delivery contracts, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations, though the vendor holds at least one total small business set-aside IDC.

Kelly Manufacturing's federal footprint spans 653 awards valued at $116.8 million in combined potential, with 6 percent obligated ($6.8 million). The vendor competes exclusively as a prime contractor; no subcontract activity appears in recent awards. Customer concentration is extreme and narrow: the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for 452 awards (69% of total) and $11.7 million in combined potential value, while DLA Land and Maritime represents 127 awards (19%) and $2.8 million. Together, these two DLA divisions fund 95 percent of recent awards. Remaining customers include the Army Materiel Command Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (8 awards, $1.6 million), the Air Force Materiel Command (8 awards, $155 thousand), and naval and troop-support agencies representing single-digit award counts.

The vendor's product portfolio centers on aircraft and maritime support components: gyromotors, electronic tachometers, dashpot and damping assemblies, trunnion assemblies, inverter housing assemblies, electrical contacts, alternating current motors, springs, dampers, and related precision-engineered parts. Pricing typically ranges from hundreds of dollars to $115,000 per order, with recent high-value examples including a $115,115 tachometer purchase order (December 2022), a $78,936 tachometer purchase order (February 2022), and multiple inverter housing and tachometer delivery orders in the $15,000–$57,000 range. The top five NAICS categories account for 443 of 653 awards, dominated by Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (265 awards), followed by other measuring and controlling device manufacturing (66 awards) and motor and generator manufacturing (52 awards). PSC coding confirms this focus: 205 awards map to Automatic Pilot Mechanisms and Airborne Gyro Components; 126 to Flight Instruments; 106 to Liquid and Gas Flow and Mechanical Motion Measuring Instruments.

Kelly Manufacturing holds multiple single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime, each typically valued at $250,000, enabling streamlined placement of firm fixed-price delivery orders. Recent IDCs include a $350,000 Land and Maritime contract for electronic components (awarded March 20, 2026, running through March 20, 2027), a $350,000 Aviation contract for electronic tachometers (awarded December 11, 2025, running through December 11, 2026), a $250,000 Aviation IDC set aside for total small business (awarded November 7, 2024, running through November 6, 2029), and several earlier $250,000 IDCs covering gyromotors, inverter housings, electrical contacts, and alternating current motors. The top five parent vehicles by task-order count include SPM4A612D5031 (16 orders), SPE4A619D5202 (14 orders), SPM4A607D5003 (14 orders), SPE4A615D5699 (13 orders), and SPE4A614D5050 (12 orders), with combined potential values ranging from $48 thousand to $140 thousand per vehicle.

Activity has declined sharply year over year. The vendor recorded 59 awards in 2023 and 33 in 2022, but only 29 in 2024, 25 in 2025, and 5 in the first quarter of 2026. Only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $13 thousand), suggesting minimal recompete exposure in that window, though the overall trajectory indicates contraction. The vendor registered in SAM.gov in 2007 and has maintained continuous activity, but the recent decline in order volume and the extreme concentration within DLA Aviation—a single customer commanding nearly 70 percent of awards by count and representing the bulk of potential value—present both stability and vulnerability: Kelly Manufacturing has proven access to a critical and sustained customer, but lacks customer diversification and faces headwinds in overall award volume.

Kelly Manufacturing Company manufactures the R. C. Allen instrument line for the general aviation and helicopter markets. These include attitude and directional indicators,tachometers,turn & bank indicators, and engine gauges.