Quality Aero Inc.

Quality Aero Inc., operating as Acquisition Logistics Engineering, is a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) based in Columbus, Ohio, that competes in defense systems engineering and ship maintenance as a subcontractor (58% of recent awards) to major defense primes, with emerging prime capability on the Missile Defense Agency's SHIELD IDIQ. The vendor is a Subchapter S corporation certified by the SBA as a women-owned small business and competes predominantly in full-and-open (non-set-aside) federal defense procurements rather than set-aside vehicles.

Quality Aero's customer concentration is overwhelmingly Naval: the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command accounts for 20 of 25 tracked awards (96% of award count) with $5.28 billion in combined potential value—essentially the entire vendor footprint. The Missile Defense Agency and three Army acquisition directorates (PEO Aviation, PEO Intelligence Electronic Warfare & Sensors, and System of Systems Integration) together hold two awards valued at $500. This concentration reflects Quality Aero's role as a specialist supplier to Navy shipbuilding and maintenance platforms rather than a diversified defense contractor. Quality Aero holds a prime position on the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ awarded December 29, 2025, with a multi-billion-dollar ceiling and ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035; the initial delivery order under SHIELD carried a $500 ceiling and performance at Huntsville, Alabama. The SHIELD contract structure supports research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat domains.

Quality Aero's prime capability is nascent—the SHIELD IDIQ award is the vendor's first defense systems engineering prime contract of material scope. Its operational footprint sits as a subcontractor on Navy programs. The vendor subcontracts to Leidos on non-recurring engineering and factory acceptance testing (FAT) task orders (awards dated April 2025, August 2025, and May 2026) in support of an unspecified contract statement of work. Quality Aero also supplies services to General Electric Company on turbine engine design and development for the Improved Turbine Engine (ITE) EMD phase (April 2025), to DRS Advanced ISR LLC on JTT-NG Block 2 technical manual services (April 2025), to Sierra Nevada Company on Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC) services (December 2024), and to Navy shipbuilding primes including Marinette Marine Corporation on FFG(X) guided-missile frigate integrated logistics support (awards August 2022 and January 2024), Rolls-Royce Marine North America on labor task orders (August 2024), and Vigor Works LLC on Maneuver Support Vessel (Light) logistics integrated product support (December 2024). The vendor's capability portfolio spans engineering services, ship construction and maintenance logistics, and systems integration work for Navy platforms and defense contractor programs. Award activity has been episodic—one award in 2020, two in 2022, four in 2024, and six in 2025—with minimal SCI-reportable service-contract activity; the SCI dataset shows 0.3 FTEs on subcontract work in FY2024, reflecting the vendor's position as a specialized supplier rather than a large labor provider. Quality Aero accesses work through SeaPort-e (6 task orders), Seaport Next Generation (1 task order), and Navy indefinite-delivery contracts N6449823D0002 and N6449825D4001 (1 task order each).

DEVELOPMENT OF METHODS TO REDUCE LOGISTICS SUPPORT COST FOR NEW SYSTEMS. PBL, PBS, LOGISTICS SUPPORT ANALYSIS, DATA SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT, FRONT END ANALYSIS, SUPPORT SYSTEM DESIGN, TECHNICAL EDUCATION, INTEGRATED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, VALUE ANALYSIS.