Soderberg Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Soderberg Manufacturing Company, Inc., doing business as Soderberg Manufacturing, is a veteran-owned small business manufacturer that supplies aviation lighting equipment, optical components, and electrical parts to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) and occasional subcontractor. Headquartered in Walnut, California, with manufacturing operations in City of Industry, California, the company holds no current federal contract vehicles but operates under multiple single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, the dominant customer.

Soderberg Manufacturing competes predominantly in the full-and-open market without set-aside designation across most of its award footprint, though the vendor also holds positions on several Total Small Business set-aside IDCs. The company's capability portfolio centers on specialized aviation and ground-vehicle lighting systems: cockpit lights, navigational lights, landing lights, emergency exit lights, taxiing lights, indicator lights, light lenses, light assemblies, lamp holders, floodlights, spotlights, and electric lanterns, along with supporting optical and electrical components. Concrete recent representative work includes a $240,480 delivery order from DLA Aviation (April 2025) for navigational aircraft lighting equipment, a $268,341 delivery order (December 2024) for emergency light units, a $160,402 purchase order (August 2025) for 253 emergency light units, a $123,424 delivery order (August 2025) for emergency exit lighting equipment, and a $90,576 purchase order (May 2025) for 148 emergency light units. The vendor also supplied spare parts for the U.S. Coast Guard's HC-C27J aircraft ($12,152, August 2025) and landing light assemblies to the Coast Guard ($14,420, March 2025).

Customer concentration is extreme: DLA Aviation accounts for 1,967 awards carrying $70.4 million in combined potential value—91% of the top five customer share and substantially dominating the portfolio. DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment is a distant second with 406 awards valued at $3.7 million. The remaining customer base (DHS Coast Guard, Navy, Air Force) represents marginal volume. The divergence between award count and dollar concentration is minimal—both rankings are anchored by DLA Aviation's overwhelming dominance.

Soderberg Manufacturing holds ten active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation, with ceiling values ranging from $250,000 to $1.78 million and performance periods extending through 2030. The largest IDC, awarded February 5, 2025, carries a ceiling of $1,775,424.65 and covers navigational aircraft lighting equipment with an ultimate completion date of February 4, 2026. Other significant IDCs include a $688,170 Total Small Business set-aside contract for emergency exit lights (December 2024 through December 2029) and multiple $250,000 vehicles for cockpit lights, spotlights, and navigational lighting (2025–2030). The top parent vehicle by task order count is Indefinite Delivery Contract SPE4A621D0079 with 62 task orders valued at $2 million combined potential. Most task orders are issued at firm fixed price and carry no set-aside designation, though several vehicles are reserved for Total Small Business participation.

Activity has remained steady: 138 awards in 2022, climbing to 173 in 2024, then declining slightly to 156 in 2025 and 15 in the current partial year (2026). Thirteen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $214,000—minimal recompete exposure given the vendor's established multi-year IDC vehicles. In its subcontractor role, Soderberg supplies lighting and aerospace commodity components to Boeing (F-15EX advanced procurement, Apache full-rate production, and PBL material support awards, 2025) and to Lockheed Martin (Bulgaria F-16 production light and transformer components, 2025). The subcontract footprint is light (24 of 3,090 total awards) and secondary to the dominant DLA Aviation prime relationship.

Soderberg's NAICS profile is Motor Vehicle Electrical and Electronic Equipment Manufacturing (878 awards) and Vehicular Lighting Equipment Manufacturing (537 awards). The vendor has maintained continuous federal registration since June 2001, with 3,090 cumulative awards and $66.8 million in combined dollars obligated (86% of potential value), indicating consistent execution and payment. The company's strategy centers on depth rather than breadth—it is a specialized supplier locked into a single dominant customer (DLA Aviation) through long-standing IDC relationships, with occasional opportunistic work for Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Coast Guard platforms.