Stadco

Stadco, doing business as Standard Tool & Die Co, manufactures high-precision components, tooling, rotary switches, and aircraft parts for federal defense and civilian agencies, competing predominantly as a small business prime contractor (67% of recent awards) on full-and-open purchase orders rather than under set-aside designations.

Stadco is a for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Los Angeles, California (Lincoln Heights), with a primary footprint in rotary switches and precision fabrication across NAICS categories including Other Electronic Component Manufacturing, Switchgear and Switchboard Apparatus Manufacturing, Aircraft Manufacturing, and Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing. The vendor's federal customer base spans 14 agencies, concentrated among Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (23 awards, $1.1 million combined potential value), Naval Air Systems Command (8 awards, $4.4 million combined potential value), and the U.S. Coast Guard (4 awards, $1.4 million combined potential value), which together account for most dollar value. Across PSC codes, 33 recent awards center on rotary switches; additional work includes inspection gages, aircraft ground servicing equipment, and precision layout tooling.

Recent prime awards exemplify Stadco's core capability. A May 2026 $611,338 firm fixed-price purchase order from the Coast Guard (ultimate completion January 2027) covered one tail cone fixture and one dual-strap sling for the MRR product line, awarded sole-source to Stadco as the original equipment manufacturer. A September 2025 $37,425 total small business set-aside purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime supplied rotary switches; prior DLA purchase orders in March 2024 ($80,495) and May 2024 ($21,760) covered rotary switches as well. A June 2022 $33,042 total small business set-aside award from the Ogden Air Logistics Complex addressed missile base adapter ring repairs.

Activity has accelerated from one award in 2022 to fifteen in 2024, with eleven awards in 2025 and three awarded thus far in 2026. Only one award ($611 thousand, the May 2026 Coast Guard purchase order) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting minimal recompete exposure in that window. The source reports combined potential value across all awards of $7.1 million against combined obligated dollars of $18.1 million (257% of potential value), reflecting the mix of small purchase orders and modifications that have accumulated in Stadco's recent footprint.

In its subcontractor role, Stadco supplies components and manufacturing to Sikorsky Aircraft (gearbox assemblies and long-lead items for CH-53K helicopter production), Raytheon (rotary and keylock switches for close-in weapon system production and advanced technology support), Boeing (structural components, door assemblies, and integration work across F-15EX and XLUUV/ORCA programs), Lockheed Martin (vibration fixtures for MK48 torpedoes and aircraft parts), L3Harris Nexgen Communications (body doors and interface plates for Navy prototype electric propulsion systems), and General Atomics. Across both prime and sub work, Stadco's footprint centers on electromechanical components, precision tooling, and metal fabrication for defense aviation and maritime platforms, with Coast Guard support routed through direct prime awards rather than sub relationships.