Solar Nebula LLC

Solar Nebula LLC, a woman-owned small business based in North Granby, Connecticut, manufactures precision optical, aerospace, and defense components as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) supplying the Defense Logistics Agency and Air Force Materiel Command. The company is a limited liability corporation structured as a for-profit organization and registered as a woman-owned business in the System for Award Management since November 2015; it competes full-and-open without set-aside designation on most orders, though it qualifies for and has won Total Small Business set-asides on a material subset of recent awards.

Solar Nebula's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward DLA divisions. The top five customer entities account for 99% of recent awards: Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (80 awards, $537 thousand combined potential value) dominates by volume, followed by Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (12 awards, $285 thousand), Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Hardware (3 awards, $171 thousand), Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Construction and Equipment (19 awards, $157 thousand), and Department of the Air Force Materiel Command (1 award, $40 thousand). The two customer rankings diverge materially — Aviation places far more orders in smaller dollar increments, while Land and Maritime and Troop Support Hardware anchor higher individual order values — a pattern consistent with DLA's procurement model for components below the simplified-acquisition threshold.

The capability portfolio centers on small-value precision-component manufacturing for aircraft and defense systems: optical lenses, light filters, observation windows, fairings and shoe components, valve housings and shrouds, glass tubing, bellows protection, mounting brackets, and related electro-optical and structural items. Representative work includes a $850 thousand shoe fairing order from DLA Aviation (June 2023), a $40 thousand C-17 engine nacelle accessory compartment door support assembly from Air Force Materiel Command under Total Small Business set-aside (July 2024), a $46 thousand observation window order from DLA Construction and Equipment under Total Small Business set-aside (March 2023), and a $38 thousand diaphragm/governor component for DLA Aviation (April 2025). The NAICS concentration reflects this mix: Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (57 awards), All Other Plastics Product Manufacturing (13 awards), Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing (10 awards), Glass Product Manufacturing Made of Purchased Glass (5 awards). Primary PSC coding tracks similarly — Airframe Structural Components (53 awards), Plastics Fabricated Materials (12 awards), Visible and Invisible Light Communication Equipment (10 awards).

Activity has declined materially over five years — 18 awards in 2022 to 2 in 2026 (through June) — representing a trajectory shift downward in recent periods. Five awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry a combined potential value of $45 thousand, indicating modest recompete exposure relative to overall portfolio scale. The company holds no parent vehicles (GWACs, IDIQs, or BPAs) and operates exclusively on purchase orders issued directly by DLA and Air Force divisions; it performs no subcontract work and carries no teaming relationships in the source data. Work is performed entirely at the North Granby, Connecticut manufacturing facility under firm fixed-price terms.

AEROSPACE AND SOLAR MANUFACTURING