Nor RAL Inc.

Nor-Ral Inc., a woman-owned small business manufacturer based in Canton, Georgia, supplies composite aircraft structural components and precision-machined aerospace parts to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor (92% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to major airframe primes. The company operates as a Subchapter S corporation and competes predominantly on full-and-open purchase orders and delivery orders rather than set-asides, though approximately one-quarter of its DLA awards carry Total Small Business or Woman-Owned Small Business set-aside designations.

Nor-Ral's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in DLA Aviation procurement. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for 403 awards representing $11.7 million in combined potential value, or 92% of award count and 83% of dollar value across the vendor's recent activity. A secondary customer, the broader Defense Logistics Agency, holds 30 awards valued at $966 thousand. The remaining 70 awards span the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command, the Department of the Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center, and the Department of the Army, but these represent less than 8% of the total footprint by count and less than 1% by value. This extreme concentration in DLA Aviation purchase orders for specific aerospace parts represents both a stable revenue base and a recompete-cliff risk: 26 awards (combined potential value $989 thousand) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months.

Nor-Ral's primary capability is the design and manufacture of aircraft structural components and composite parts, grounded in concrete production of fairings, flooring panels, liners, structural panels, gaskets, and first-article test articles for military aviation platforms. Representative prime work includes a $287,884 firm fixed-price purchase order from DLA Aviation (September 2025) for aircraft fairings with completion in July 2028; a $150,040 order (February 2025) for aircraft fairings completing April 2027; and a $99,000 total-small-business-set-aside order (June 2023) for aircraft flooring. The company holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with DLA Aviation (ceiling $250,000, awarded July 2025, running through July 2030) set aside for small businesses, under which delivery orders have been issued for liferaft liners and related composite aerospace parts. Beyond the IDC, Nor-Ral places task orders against five parent IDCs managed by DLA, the largest being IDC SP040003D4115 (28 task orders, $966 thousand combined potential value) and IDC SPM40003D4115 (26 task orders, $147 thousand combined potential value).

On the subcontract side, Nor-Ral works as a supplier of structural components and aircraft parts to Lockheed Martin (C-130J aircraft liners, covers, panels, brackets, and assemblies for LRIP and congressional-add programs; F-35A long-lead covers and FOD barriers), Derco Aerospace (aircraft spares manufacturing for DLA), Defense Systems and Solutions (Apache helicopter program materials), J.F. Taylor (ADF/AFT radome fairings and access panels), Bell Boeing Joint Project Office (carbon/epoxy composites for V-22 programs), and Textron Systems (LCAC 100-class craft long-lead materials). Recent sub activity includes work for Lockheed Martin on F-35A LRIP 15 covers and C-130J aircraft delivery, development, integration and engineering (CADDIE) program components (January through September 2025), and support to Defense Systems and Solutions on Apache helicopter program materials (November 2024 and May 2025).

Activity has grown from 8 awards in 2022 to a peak of 37 in 2024, with 28 awards in 2025 and 10 year-to-date in 2026. The combined potential value across all 503 prime and sub awards stands at $14.1 million, though combined dollars obligated total $18.3 million, indicating substantial prior invoicing against existing contracts. Over 90% of the award footprint sits in NAICS 325920 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing) and PSC 1320 (Airframe Structural Components). Nor-Ral has been registered in SAM.gov since 2002, anchoring its federal contracting history to two decades of DLA Aviation supply chain participation. The company's narrow customer concentration and commodity-like purchase-order structure — individual orders typically ranging from $3,000 to $300,000 — mean that Nor-Ral functions as a specialized defense manufacturing shop rather than a multi-customer systems integrator, with pricing and performance measured transaction-by-transaction rather than through IDVs or master agreements that would broaden its federal footprint.

For over 45 years we have specialized in composite & precision machined parts for the aerospace, space and marine industries. Produce metallic and composite tooling to support both our internal and external customers. Engineering services, painting, welding,assembly and CMM and Laser Inspection.