Soderberg Manufacturing Company, Inc.

Soderberg Manufacturing Company, Inc. (doing business as Soderberg Manufacturing), a veteran-owned small business manufacturer based in Walnut, California, supplies aircraft lighting equipment and related optical and electrical components to the federal government as a prime contractor, competing predominantly under full-and-open procurement without set-asides, though holding some Total Small Business set-aside IDIQs with the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation.

The company's concrete capability framing centers on specialized aviation lighting systems for military aircraft and ground vehicles—cockpit lights, navigational lights, landing lights, emergency exit lights, indicator lights, lens assemblies, floodlights, lanterns, and related electrical components. Soderberg operates primarily from a single facility in City of Industry, California, and has been registered in the federal procurement system since June 2001. The business type is for-profit, and the company's NAICS footprint spans Motor Vehicle Electrical and Electronic Equipment Manufacturing (336321), Vehicular Lighting Equipment Manufacturing (336321), and Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (336419), with product service code concentration in Electric Vehicular Lights and Fixtures (PSC 62).

Customer concentration is extreme and non-diversified. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation dominates both award volume and dollar value, accounting for 1,983 awards (64% of the 3,117 total prime and sub awards tracked) and $70.6 million in combined potential value (91% of the $78.1 million portfolio). The next four customers—DLA Troop Support Construction and Equipment (411 awards, $3.8 million), DLA generic (284 awards, $237 thousand), DLA Troop Support Hardware (84 awards, $228 thousand), and DLA Land and Maritime (73 awards, $296 thousand)—account for an additional 852 awards within DLA entities. Outside DLA, the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard has placed 42 awards totaling $473 thousand. This concentration reflects Soderberg's role as a specialized supplier locked into the DLA Aviation supply chain for military aircraft lighting.

Vehicle position is defined by multiple single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts held directly with DLA Aviation. The source names ten active IDCs: one with a $1.78 million ceiling (Feb. 5, 2025, through Feb. 4, 2026), one with $688.17 thousand (Dec. 10, 2024, through Dec. 9, 2029), three set-asides for Total Small Business with $250 thousand ceilings each (June 25, 2025; July 22, 2025; July 30, 2024), and five additional IDCs with $250 thousand or $442.73 thousand ceilings extending through 2029 or 2030. The top parent vehicle in the portfolio is IDC SPE4A621D0079 with 62 task orders and $2 million combined potential value. These vehicles are Soderberg-specific, single-award arrangements; the company does not sit on governmentwide GWACs or multi-award BPAs.

Activity trajectory shows modest growth. Awards per year averaged 166 over the past five years (138 in 2022 rising to 173 in 2024), with 2025 capturing 161 awards and 2026 showing only 37 awards to date (snapshot as of September 9, 2026). The source's recompete cliff block identifies 16 awards (combined potential value $237 thousand) with ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months; these represent modest recompete exposure relative to the $78.1 million portfolio, reflecting the long-term nature of DLA Aviation's IDC relationships.

The subcontract footprint is negligible by volume (29 awards, 1% of the portfolio) but strategically significant. Named primes include The Boeing Company (F-15EX advanced procurement, Apache lot 12 full-rate production, and PBL material support for common aerospace commodities with award dates May to October 2025) and Lockheed Martin Corporation (Taiwan F-16 A/B Block 20 retrofit program lighting work, April and May 2025). These relationships indicate Soderberg's role as a supplier of lighting components for major platform programs, supplementing its direct DLA relationship but representing a small revenue stream.

Recent representative prime contracts include a $160.4 million delivery order from DLA Aviation (August 22, 2025) for 253 emergency light units; a $240.48 million delivery order (April 10, 2025) for navigational aircraft lighting; a $123.4 million delivery order (August 25, 2025) for emergency exit lighting equipment; and a $90.58 million purchase order (May 13, 2025) for 148 emergency light units. Individual purchase orders and delivery orders frequently range from under $1 thousand to $75 thousand for discrete lighting components, with larger aggregates ($240.4 million, $268.3 million) representing bulk procurements of emergency and navigational lighting. A February 5, 2025 single-award IDC with $1.78 million ceiling supports ongoing navigational lighting procurement through 2026. Set-aside posture on delivery orders splits between Total Small Business set-asides (around June–August 2025 orders) and full-and-open competition, with the bulk of orders carrying no set-aside designation.

The company's activity is cyclical and transactional, driven entirely by DLA Aviation's pull from its established indefinite delivery relationships. Soderberg competes minimally in full-and-open federal procurement; instead, it operates as a sole or single-source supplier on DLA-managed IDVs, leveraging technical data rights and OEM approval (as noted in the Coast Guard award of September 9, 2026, where market research confirmed no other known source met delivery timelines and technical requirements). This posture creates high customer concentration risk but also high barrier to competitive displacement within the military aviation logistics supply chain.