Ramm Defense Products, Inc.

Ramm Defense Products, Inc., doing business as Ramm Defense Products, is a woman-owned small business manufacturer based in Decatur, Texas that supplies precision-engineered aviation hardware components to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor, competing across both set-aside and full-and-open procurement vehicles. The company holds certifications as an economically disadvantaged women-owned small business and a small disadvantaged business, positioning it to compete for preferential set-asides while also winning unrestricted awards.

Ramm Defense Products manufactures a narrow, highly specialized product portfolio centered on aircraft structural and mechanical components for military aviation. The company supplies aircraft elevator balance weights, bearing sleeves, bushings, fluid passage bolts, structural plates, spring rings, cable pin locks, and related precision parts used in military aircraft control systems and airframe assembly. Representative work includes a $67,295.80 purchase order from DLA Aviation for 22 units of aircraft elevator balance weights (awarded February 1, 2025), a $106,515.28 purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime for 7,173 spring holder units (awarded January 23, 2025), and a $49,069.28 order for bearing sleeves from DLA Aviation (awarded November 25, 2025). The company also holds a single-award indefinite delivery contract with DLA Aviation valued at $249,999.99 (awarded June 14, 2023, running through June 26, 2026) designated as a Partial Small Business Set-Aside, under which frequent delivery orders for aircraft elevator balance weights have been issued at values ranging from approximately $4,500 to $67,000.

Customer concentration at Ramm Defense Products is extreme and heavily weighted toward DLA's aviation operations. The top five customer segments account for 97 percent of all awards. DLA Aviation dominates by award count with 456 awards carrying $5.9 million combined potential value, while DLA Land and Maritime ranks second by dollar value with 77 awards worth $7 million combined. The remaining concentration includes DLA corporate (37 awards), DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (19 awards, $190 thousand), and the Department of the Air Force (9 awards). This concentration reflects a narrow customer base in which DLA Aviation and Land and Maritime represent nearly all revenue opportunity.

Ramm Defense Products operates primarily through its single-award IDC with DLA Aviation and smaller discrete purchase orders from DLA Land and Maritime. The five highest-use parent vehicles are DLA indefinite delivery contracts: SPM4A707D3036 (12 task orders, $59 thousand), SPE4A616D5225 (9 task orders, $31 thousand), SPE4A723D5645 (9 task orders, $49 thousand), SPE4A616D5039 (8 task orders, $83 thousand), and SPE4A713D5230 (8 task orders, $102 thousand). The bulk of the company's award activity flows through these IDCs rather than through broader government-wide vehicles.

Activity has been consistent over recent years—22 awards in 2022, 27 in 2023, 31 in 2024, and 20 through 2025, with three awards already recorded in 2026. The company has received 616 prime awards since 1989 with a combined potential value of $14.2 million and combined obligated dollars of $5.5 million (39 percent of potential value). Only two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $6 thousand), indicating minimal near-term recompete pressure on the existing portfolio. The company competes 100 percent as a prime contractor with no subcontract footprint.

Ramm Defense Products' capability concentration aligns tightly with its customer concentration. The top NAICS categories are Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (205 awards), Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing (165 awards), Hardware Manufacturing (45 awards), Aircraft Manufacturing (44 awards), and Fabricated Pipe and Pipe Fitting Manufacturing (32 awards). Top PSC codes include Airframe Structural Components (203 awards), Bearings, Plain, Unmounted (188 awards), Bushings, Rings, Shims, and Spacers (43 awards), and related component classes. This product-line focus on DLA-specified aviation hardware reflects a vertically specialized supplier model with limited diversification across customer agencies or product families beyond military aircraft components.