Kennon Products Inc.

Kennon Products Inc., doing business as Kennon, manufactures aircraft protective equipment and accessories—covers, plugs, engine shields, thermal protection systems, and ventilatory covers—sold to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (99% of awards) with no set-asides characteristic of the prime portfolio. Kennon is a for-profit Subchapter S Corporation and small business based in Sheridan, Wyoming, registered as a federal contractor since March 2002, competing predominantly on full-and-open and small business set-aside purchases orders against defense logistics and air force commands rather than on parent vehicle incumbency.

Kennon's footprint concentrates heavily in defense aviation sustainment. The Department of the Air Force accounts for the overwhelming majority of potential value—$977.4 million across 68 awards—driven by a single $975 million Rapid Sustainment Directorate Multi-Award Contract (RO MAC) running through July 2033 that anchors the vendor's position. The Air Force Materiel Command contributes an additional $30.1 million across 12 awards, predominantly for thermal radiation resistant shades for the KC-46A tanker fleet. By award count, the top five customer agencies cover only 54% of awards: Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Construction and Equipment leads at 287 purchase orders worth $5.2 million combined, followed by Air Combat Command (74 awards, $3.3 million), Air Force (68 awards, $977.4 million), DLA Aviation (54 awards, $7.8 million), and the Army (46 awards, $233 thousand). This distribution reflects Kennon's transactional purchase-order model—hundreds of small orders against frame contracts—rather than concentration among a few large primes.

Kennon operates from five parent vehicles. The GSA Multiple Award Schedule carries 305 task orders worth $6.9 million combined and serves as the throughput vehicle for delivery orders across federal civilian and defense agencies. The Air Force RO MAC, at $975 million ceiling, is the crown jewel; a single kickoff delivery order for $1,000 is recorded. Six Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation—each $250,000 to $2.0 million ceiling and set aside for small business—collectively represent the vendor's tactical supply relationship with defense logistics; recent awards include a September 2025 IDC for $2.0 million (aircraft access covers, through September 2030) and a March 2025 F-22 component IDC for $2.0 million (through March 2030). The vendor also holds a $4.26 million single-award contract with Air Force Materiel Command for KC-46A thermal shades running through September 2028. Kennon's delivery orders span purchase orders and task orders, priced on firm fixed-price terms, frequently with economic price adjustment clauses.

Recent activity is declining. Awards per year dropped from 104 in 2024 to 66 in 2025 and only 27 year-to-date in 2026, reflecting a compressed pipeline or completion of larger annual requisitions. The recompete cliff is minimal: only four awards totaling $124 thousand reach ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, suggesting low near-term recompete exposure or saturation of the RO MAC vehicle.

Kennon's subcontract footprint is negligible—6 sub-awards, or 1% of total. Named prime contractors include Lockheed Martin Corporation (lift fan foreign object damage cover assemblies for the F-35B, awards dating 2024–2025) and BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Common Missile Warning System dispenser cover kits for CH-47 foreign military sales, April 2025). These represent specialized aerospace protective components work, consistent with Kennon's core manufacturing profile.

The vendor's capability set grounds in concrete product categories: aircraft access covers (National Stock Numbers 1560016996228, 1560016996366), ventilatory covers (NSN 1730016148602, 1730016148613), engine intake and exhaust plugs (part numbers KENF35INPLG, KENF35ACEXPLG, KENF18INTAKE, KENF18EXCAP), thermal radiation resistant shades and curtains (KC-46A program), inflatable foam plugs, inflatable exhaust covers, portable magnetic aircraft covers with squadron logos and tail numbers (F-22 PMAC), sun shields (V-22, C-130J cockpit), behavior health ligature-resistant bathroom and shower doors (Department of Veterans Affairs, single 2026 order), and F-22 reusable wash covers (SBIR Phase II, $1.23 million, Air Force Research Laboratory, October 2025 completion). NAICS codes span 336413 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing—451 awards), 332321 (Metal Window and Door Manufacturing—one Veterans Affairs order), and secondary codes for canvas and textiles. Performance is Sheridan, Wyoming; overseas delivery to locations including Japan (Misawa AB), Germany (RAF Lakenheath), and South Korea reflects forward-deployed Air Force sustainment needs.

Kennon competes across total small business set-asides and full-and-open procurements with equal frequency; the vendor holds no distinctive set-aside posture. Recent awards split between set-aside (Total Small Business) and unrestricted competitions.

The vendor registered in SAM.gov in March 2002 and maintains a nearly 25-year history of defense contract work. Two SBIR Phase II awards surface: a $1.23 million contract for F-22 reusable wash covers (Air Force Research Laboratory, February 2024, completion October 2025) and a $74,945 contract for ultra-lightweight emergency life raft units for C-17 aircraft (Air Force Research Laboratory, December 2023, completion March 2024). These indicate technology insertion and research commercialization capability beyond routine procurement.

Kennon builds fabric covers to protect high value assets from heat, cold, blowing sand, wind, ice and hail. Onsite prototyping of covers for aircraft, weapons, electronic components. Difficult and time sensitive challenges welcomed.