Panelight Components Group, LLC

Panelight Components Group, LLC, a small business manufacturer of aerospace and defense lighting components based in Richardson, Texas with primary manufacturing operations in Santa Ana, California, operates as a prime contractor selling specialized illuminated equipment to the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) and subordinate customer agencies through direct purchase orders, delivery orders, and Indefinite Delivery Contracts.

Panelight is a limited liability company and a child entity of Polytronix, Inc., a for-profit manufacturer based in Richardson. The vendor competes predominantly under full-and-open and Total Small Business set-aside designations; set-asides characterize roughly one-third of recent awards, with the remainder full-and-open. Panelight's product portfolio centers on aircraft lighting components: light panels, cockpit aircraft lights, indicator lights, lens assemblies, recognition lights, hood assemblies, and night vision imaging system (NVIS) compatible lighting products. The vendor has operated for over 38 years, with 746 total federal awards spanning back to 2001, though activity is measured in dozens of awards per year rather than hundreds.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for 518 awards (69% of total) and $16.2 million in combined potential value (90% of portfolio total), with the remaining volume split across DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (90 awards, $503 thousand), the broader DLA (71 awards, $288 thousand), DLA Land and Maritime (22 awards, $554 thousand), and the Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command (16 awards, $60 thousand). The top five customer agencies cover 96% of all awards. DLA Aviation's dominance across both volume and dollar rankings reflects a stable, long-standing supplier relationship anchored to Panelight's core capability in military aviation lighting.

Panelight holds six active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation, each with a $250 thousand ceiling, all designated Total Small Business set-asides with completion dates extending through 2027 and 2030. Award dates span August 2022 to August 2025. The five named parent vehicles in the portfolio (Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE4A613D5329, SPE4A613D5666, SPE4A617D6724, SPE4A613D5695, and SPE4A618D5270) are all DLA-issued IDCs carrying between eight and twelve task orders each with combined potential values in the $24 thousand to $134 thousand range. Representative prime work includes a $180.5 thousand Total Small Business purchase order from DLA Aviation for 629 dome lights (awarded March 30, 2026, due July 27, 2026), a $115.2 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order for 274 light panels (awarded June 14, 2022), a $71.7 thousand light assembly delivery order (awarded August 20, 2025), and a $56.9 thousand lens assembly delivery order (awarded January 31, 2025). Most awards are firm fixed-price purchase orders or delivery orders valued under $60 thousand, reflecting the unit-commodity procurement profile characteristic of DLA aviation parts supply. Panelight operates exclusively as a prime contractor; the source records zero subcontract positions.

Activity remains steady but modest. The vendor received 19 awards in 2022, 17 in 2023, a dip to 10 in 2024, a spike to 25 in 2025, and 4 awards to date in 2026, suggesting variable quarterly intake but no sustained growth trajectory. The recompete cliff in the next twenty-four months carries four awards with combined potential value of $212 thousand — a small exposure relative to the $18.1 million portfolio total. Combined potential value across the full 746-award footprint is $18.1 million, with $11.6 million obligated (64% draw-down), indicating a vendor in steady state on a limited customer base dominated by transactional, recurring DLA Aviation procurement of commodity lighting components.

NVIS compatible Instrument & Interior Crew Lighting, Indicator Lights, Push Switches, Lighted Bezels, Annuciators.