Pacific Aero Components

Pacific Aero Components, doing business as Aero Component Engineering, manufactures precision aerospace and defense hose assemblies, couplings, tube adapters, and related hydraulic and pneumatic hardware for the Defense Logistics Agency and other Department of Defense customers as a prime contractor. The company is a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business (SDB) headquartered in Valencia, California, competing predominantly full-and-open on DLA purchase orders and IDCs without reliance on set-aside vehicles, though scattered Total Small Business awards appear in the portfolio.

Pacific Aero Components operates almost exclusively within the defense logistics supply chain, with 96% of recent awards concentrated in two customer organizations. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime division dominates the portfolio at 328 awards with $4.2 million in combined potential value, primarily through firm fixed-price purchase orders for nonmetallic and metal hose assemblies, coupling halves, quick disconnect components, and tube adapters. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for 18 awards with $506 thousand combined potential value. Remaining customer exposure is minimal: the Department of Homeland Security US Coast Guard, the Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command, and Naval Air Systems Command together account for 12 awards with $5 thousand in combined potential value.

Capability concentration is extremely narrow. The top five product categories account for all awards: NAICS 332999 (All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing) represents 177 awards; Fabricated Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing covers 86 awards; Rubber and Plastics Hoses and Belting Manufacturing covers 23; Other Metal Valve and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing covers 22; and Fabric Coating Mills covers 12. Under PSC coding, Hose and Flexible Tubing accounts for 265 awards, and Hose, Pipe, Tube, Lubrication, and Railing Fittings accounts for 101, totaling 366 of 375 awards. Representative contracts include $65,800 for nonmetallic hose assemblies under a new single-award IDC awarded October 1, 2025; $117,427 for metal hose assembly deliveries under Total Small Business set-aside, January 2024; $102,531 for nonmetallic hose assemblies, July 2023; and $198,909 for metallic hose assemblies under Total Small Business set-aside, December 2023. Pacific Aero Components holds a single $250,000 Indefinite Delivery Contract with DLA Land and Maritime (awarded September 2025, completing September 2026) for nonmetallic hose assemblies, with an initial $65,800 delivery order already placed.

Activity has remained flat to declining. Awards averaged 24 per year over the last five fiscal years—26 in 2022, 25 in 2023, 23 in 2024, 26 in 2025, and 12 in 2026 year-to-date. Six awards with combined potential value of $74 thousand reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing limited recompete exposure relative to the portfolio's $4.8 million total ceiling value. Obligated dollars total $4.5 million (93% of potential value), indicating mature, routine procurement relationships. Pacific Aero Components operates as a pure prime contractor with no subcontract footprint in the source data; all 375 awards carry prime designation.

The vendor's federal footprint is characteristic of a specialized small-business component supplier locked into a single customer's supply chain. No parent contract vehicles beyond the single DLA IDC appear in the portfolio. The company has been registered in the System for Award Management since 2001 and maintains consistent delivery of precision components meeting DLA technical specifications for defense logistics and military operational readiness. Pricing is uniformly firm fixed-price across all awards, reflecting procurement of standardized hardware to established national stock numbers.

HOSE FITTINGS, HOSE ASSEMBLIES, TUBE, TUBE ASSEMBLIES