Symbolic Displays, Inc.

Symbolic Displays, Inc., a woman-owned small business manufacturer based in Santa Ana, California, supplies source-controlled electronic components and assemblies to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to major defense primes. The company manufactures multipurpose display control panels, data entry keyboards, illuminated control panels, push buttons, indicator panels, lamps, switches, seals, and related hardware for military and aerospace applications, with nearly all prime work flowing through Defense Logistics Agency purchase orders and indefinite delivery contracts carrying no set-aside designation.

Symbolic Displays' customer concentration is heavily concentrated in DLA. The top five customer lines account for 80% of recent awards by count and 83% by potential value, dominated by DLA Aviation (274 awards, $8.9 million combined potential value) and DLA Land and Maritime (173 awards, $2.6 million combined potential value). The remaining material customer is the Air Force Sustainment Center (8 awards, $722 thousand combined potential value). Recent prime capability work includes a $32,384 delivery order from DLA Aviation for an electronic control panel awarded August 23, 2025, a $17,996 delivery order from the Air Force Sustainment Center for a multipurpose display control panel for F-15 aircraft awarded April 8, 2026, and a $72,650 purchase order from DLA Troop Support for ten indicating panels awarded March 18, 2026. Symbolic Displays holds four single-award indefinite delivery contracts with DLA and the Air Force: a $453,362 IDC with the Air Force Sustainment Center (February 26, 2026 through February 25, 2031) for multipurpose display control panel assemblies for the F-15E; a $249,999.99 DLA Aviation IDC (April 30, 2025 through April 29, 2030) for electronic control panels with two delivery orders already issued totaling $47,104; a $220,402 Air Force Sustainment Center IDC (October 1, 2024 through October 1, 2029) for repair services and spare parts for the USAF Flight Deck Logging System Integrated Keyboard; and a $250,000 DLA Land and Maritime small-business-set-aside IDC (October 5, 2021 through October 4, 2022, now expired) for push buttons.

Activity trajectory shows strong growth: three awards in 2022 to 34 in 2025, with 2026 showing four awards to date. Conversely, only five awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $141 thousand, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. In its subcontractor role, Symbolic Displays supplies electronic assemblies to Northrop Grumman Systems on multiple LAIRCM production work requests (July 2025), to The Boeing Company on F/A-18E/F systems, PBL material support, and Apache aircraft full-rate production (multiple awards October 2024 through October 2025), to Lockheed Martin on KC-130J and AC-130J trainer procurement and digital crew unit upgrades (September 2024 through January 2025), and to Valiant Global Defense Services on F/A-18 simulator parts for NAS Oceana contract support (March 2024). Symbolic Displays has been registered in SAM.gov since February 2002 and maintains an established supplier relationship with DLA spanning multiple decades, delivering specialized components to military platforms including the C-130J, AC-130J, and F/A-18 aircraft systems.

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