Qualitech-Aerospace Corp.

Qualitech-Aerospace Corp., a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business and Hispanic American-owned for-profit manufacturer based in Bay Shore, New York, manufactures precision aerospace structural components and delivers them to the Defense Department as a prime contractor (95% of awards). The company specializes in aircraft door hinges, structural support services, airfoil ribs, longerons, stiffeners, plates, repair kits, fuselage parts, uplock assemblies, and related aviation components under NAICS 336413 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing), with 205 of 241 awards classified under PSC Airframe Structural Components. Qualitech-Aerospace competes predominantly under full-and-open procurement, with a minority of orders designated as total small business set-asides; the company does not hold a federal contract vehicle position but sits as a subcontractor under prime relationships.

Customer concentration is extreme and narrow. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for 219 of 241 awards (91% by count) with $9 million combined potential value — effectively 100 percent of the company's prime revenue footprint. The remaining three customers — Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command (13 awards), DLA Troop Support Hardware (6 awards, $25 thousand), and DLA Land and Maritime (3 awards, $17 thousand) — account for less than ten percent of total activity. Within DLA Aviation, Qualitech-Aerospace holds two single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts: one valued at $2 million with ultimate completion in June 2025, the other valued at $2 million extending through February 2028. Task orders under these IDCs include a $41,554 delivery order for aircraft door hinges awarded July 16, 2025, a $43,108 structural support services delivery order awarded February 15, 2024, and purchase orders ranging from $2,550 to $850,888 across fiscal 2022–2026 for aircraft structural components and support services. Work is performed in Bay Shore and Lindenhurst, New York, primarily supporting military aircraft such as the C/KC-135 Stratolifter.

Award activity has declined sharply in recent years — 14 awards in 2022, 19 in 2023, two in 2024, ten in 2025, and two in the first three months of 2026. Combined potential value across all 241 awards is $9.1 million, with $3.1 million obligated (34% realization rate). Only two awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $80 thousand, creating minimal near-term recompete exposure for the vendor but signaling a significant revenue cliff if the two active DLA Aviation IDCs are not extended or recompeted successfully at their June 2025 and February 2028 completion dates.

In its subcontractor role (5% of awards), Qualitech-Aerospace supplies machined parts and machine-shop services to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation under the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft production program, with subcontract awards spanning November 2021 through June 2025. The machined-parts work supports E-2D multiyear production lots 7–11 and allied spares for Japan and France.