Sunshine Aero Industries, Incorporated

Sunshine Aero Industries, Incorporated, a veteran-owned small business headquartered in Crestview, Florida, delivers specialized flight test support services and aerospace logistics to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on full-and-open Air Force contracts. The company competes predominantly outside set-aside categories and holds a primary single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with Air Force Materiel Command valued at $30.1 million through March 2030 for Flight Test Support Services III, as well as subcontracts with Lockheed Martin on joint air-to-surface standoff missile and flight test programs.

Sunshine Aero's customer concentration is extreme and static. The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command dominates both award count and dollars—103 awards (89% of total) with $72.8 million in combined potential value across the portfolio. The remaining customer agencies (Defense Logistics Agency, Air Force Test Center, Naval Air Systems Command, and others) collectively account for the remaining 11% of awards but include one high-value Defense Logistics Agency Energy contract for $14.9 million in aviation turbine fuel delivery that anchors secondary customer potential. The top-customers-by-award-count and top-customers-by-potential-value rankings align tightly around Air Force Materiel Command dominance, with DLA Energy emerging as a significant dollar outlier on a single logistics contract.

Sunshine Aero's vehicle footprint reflects its Air Force specialization. The vendor places task orders under five named IDCs, with the largest concentration on Indefinite Delivery Contract FA282318D0001 (48 task orders, $9.2 million combined potential value) and Indefinite Delivery Contract FA282313D0001 (33 task orders, $3 million combined potential value), both Air Force Materiel Command vehicles. The newly awarded Flight Test Support Services III IDC (FA248625DB001 or the $30.1 million March 2030 vehicle) carries nine task orders worth $4.3 million to date. These are single-award vehicles, not GWACs or government-wide contract pools, indicating limited portability to other agencies and reinforcing Air Force captivity.

Sunshine Aero's award activity has grown moderately from seven awards in 2022 to a peak of seventeen in 2024, with ten awards in 2025 and only two task orders issued in the first quarter of 2026. Five awards totaling $2.3 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting modest recompete exposure. The vendor's capability portfolio, grounded in the award record, centers on flight test support for advanced weapons systems and aircraft platforms—Small Diameter Bomb II StormBreaker, Miniature Air Launch Decoy-Jamming, Digital Flight Termination System, Advanced Flight Termination Pod System, and MIRAGE Pod Electronic Warfare among them. Representative recent prime work includes a $717,519 delivery order for SDB II flight test support (June 2025), a $680,140 delivery order for DFTS and AFTPS readiness missions (April 2025), a $572,696 delivery order for MALD-J support (March 2025), and a $595,951 delivery order for radar equipment characterization flight test support under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (October 2025). All work is firm fixed-price and performs at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

In its subcontractor role, Sunshine Aero serves Lockheed Martin on joint air-to-surface standoff missile operational flight program and flight test support, with modifications and task extensions running through April 2025. The sub footprint is small—eleven awards (8% of total)—and concentrated on a single prime, indicating limited diversification outside the Air Force prime relationship.

The vendor's NAICS and PSC profile aligns with its primary capability: NAICS 561621 (Other Support Activities for Air Transportation) accounts for 105 of 140 awards, with secondary work in commercial transportation equipment rental and engineering services. The PSC breakdown reflects similar concentration—Professional Engineering and Technical Support (51 awards) and Passenger Air Charter services (34 awards) dominate, followed by QC/test/inspection work on aircraft components and fuel delivery. This category concentration underscores Air Force test-and-evaluation specialization with limited commercial or non-aerospace federal exposure. Sunshine Aero has been registered in SAM since 2001 and operates as a parent entity with a named subsidiary carrying the same name and veteran-owned designation.

General Aviation Airport Services, Flight Test and Flight Test Support