RBC Aerostructures LLC

RBC Aerostructures LLC, a for-profit aerospace parts manufacturer headquartered in Westminster, South Carolina, competes as a prime contractor (68% of recent awards) and subcontractor (32%) supplying precision rod assemblies, connecting links, actuator rigs, and linkage components to Department of Defense agencies and major defense primes, predominantly through unrestricted (full-and-open) competition with no set-aside designations.

The Defense Logistics Agency dominates RBC's customer base, accounting for 92% of awards across two divisions: DLA Aviation (48 awards, $896 thousand combined potential value) and DLA Land and Maritime (29 awards, $2 million combined potential value). The Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command, the Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Aviation, and the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command round out the top five funding agencies. RBC's capability portfolio centers on mechanical power transmission equipment and aircraft structural components — rod assemblies, connecting link rigs, actuator rods, push-pull rod assemblies, and linkage components classified primarily under NAICS 332991 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing) and 332130 (Mechanical Power Transmission Equipment Manufacturing). Representative prime work includes a $242,944 firm fixed-price purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime in May 2025 for connecting link rig components with delivery through August 2027, a $99,898 purchase order from the same agency in July 2025 for connecting link rigs (32 units total), and a $73,897 delivery order from DLA Land and Maritime in April 2024 for rod assemblies under an existing IDC.

RBC holds two active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Land and Maritime: a single-award IDC awarded October 29, 2025, with a $250,000 ceiling running through October 29, 2026, for rod assembly procurement (NSN 3040012552176) with anticipated nine orders annually, and a prior IDC awarded March 7, 2024, also with a $250,000 ceiling through March 7, 2025, for rod assemblies. The top parent vehicles by task-order count are Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE4A520DP002 (9 task orders), Indefinite Delivery Contract FA852621D0001 (4 task orders), and Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE4A717D5330 (3 task orders, $24 thousand combined potential value). Activity accelerated sharply — four awards in 2022, three in 2023, nineteen in 2024, and thirty-five in 2025 — though with a small combined potential value of $3 million against $7.9 million in obligated dollars (a 264% ratio suggesting significant prior-year closeout). Six awards with combined potential value of $529 thousand reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months.

RBC's subcontractor footprint centers on Derco Aerospace, Inc. (multiple 2024–2025 awards for rod end components, cylinder assemblies, and connecting link rigs supporting aircraft spares manufacturing) and The Boeing Company (active 2024–2025 work on AH-64E attack helicopters for Poland, Egypt, and Kuwait; CH-47F Chinook aircraft; C-17 Globemaster III sustainment; and KC-46 tanker programs). Lockheed Martin Corporation appears on F-35 long-lead-item procurements (rod and linkage assemblies, canopy actuator components) and C-130J congressional add aircraft. Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation engaged RBC for FY24 Delta spares work. RBC's subcontract activity grew alongside its prime work, with twenty-two sub-awards recorded in 2024–2025. The vendor also holds a single-award purchase order from the U.S. Coast Guard (December 2022) for connecting link rigid parts supporting C-130J aircraft, valued at $41,650. RBC competes uniformly without set-asides and has sustained a consistent presence across DLA's aviation and supply-chain divisions since 2014, positioning itself as a routine supplier of mid-dollar precision aerospace components to the defense industrial base.