Tayco Engineering, Inc.

Tayco Engineering, Inc., a for-profit aerospace and defense components manufacturer based in Cypress, California, secures most of its federal revenue as a prime contractor (82% of 212 awards) through firm fixed-price purchase orders and delivery orders for specialized heating systems, cable assemblies, and aircraft spare parts, with a secondary subcontracting footprint beneath major primes including Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin. The company competes in full-and-open categories and has not pursued small-business set-aside designations; a single award carries a Total Small Business set-aside (a $10,479 purchase order from the Shared Services Center in 2025), but the vast majority of Tayco Engineering's prime work flows through unrestricted federal procurement.

Tayco Engineering's customer base concentrates heavily on defense logistics and Naval supply channels. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation department anchors the portfolio, accounting for 68 awards and $8.9 million in combined potential value—roughly 68% of the active customer base by award count and 84% of potential value across the top five customers. The Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command follows with 12 awards ($973 thousand combined potential value), and DLA Land and Maritime rounds out the top three with 17 awards ($913 thousand). These three customers alone represent 69% of all awards in the source snapshot. Tayco Engineering has served 24 distinct federal agencies across the broader portfolio, but the concentration remains extreme: DLA Aviation's 68 awards dwarf the next-largest customer by a factor of nearly three.

Tayco Engineering's capability set is narrowly specialized around aerospace heating and thermal management. Representative prime contracts include a $226,978 purchase order from the Air Force Sustainment Center in 2022 for RQ-4 Global Hawk spare parts and fuel heater assemblies, a $138,188 DLA Aviation delivery order in 2022 for cable assemblies, a $106,340 DLA Aviation award in 2022 for aircraft heaters, and three Naval Supply Systems Command purchase orders in 2024 and 2025 for gas mitigation heater equipment ($73,089, $36,544, and $29,642 respectively). The vendor also works as a subcontractor on high-value space programs; recent sub work includes heating equipment for Northrop Grumman's Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (NGPIR) satellites (multiple 2024–2025 sub awards), flight parts for Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory's Dragonfly Extended Phase B mission (September 2025), and Kapton heaters and heater elements across Boeing and Northrop Grumman spacecraft and launch-vehicle programs dating to 2023. The top NAICS codes reflect this mission: Current-Carrying Wiring Device Manufacturing (52 awards), Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (23 awards), and Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (19 awards). The top PSC is Cable, Cord, and Wire Assemblies (61 awards), followed by Miscellaneous Electric Power and Distribution Equipment (39 awards) and Space and Water Heating Equipment (9 awards).

Activity has trended upward in the recent period: four awards in 2021 grew to 22 in 2024, though the 2025 year-to-date count stands at ten (partial year). The combined obligated dollars ($21.4 million) exceed the combined potential value ($13.1 million) by 63 percent, suggesting many older or completed awards carry invoiced revenue above their original ceiling. Tayco Engineering does not place task orders under major government-wide vehicles such as GWACs; instead, it works under agency-specific IDCs including DLA Aviation's SPE4A619D0221 (5 task orders, $677 thousand combined potential value), DLA Aviation's SP045103D0670 (6 task orders), and several other single- or dual-order vehicles. The recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal: only two awards with completion dates in that window, carrying $245 thousand in combined potential value combined. Tayco Engineering's footprint shows stable, high-volume transactional work with DLA Aviation and NAVSUP rather than large IDIQs or GWACs, reflecting its position as a specialized component manufacturer competing on individual purchase orders in full-and-open federal procurement.