Texstars LLC

Texstars LLC, operating as PPG Aerospace, a subsidiary of Sierracin Corporation (parent company based in Sylmar, California), manufactures aerospace components and materials for the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on full-and-open federal procurements, competing in the open market without SBA set-aside designations. The company, headquartered in Grand Prairie, Texas, is structured as a limited liability partnership engaged in manufacturing of goods and operates under the parent Sierracin Corporation umbrella while maintaining independent contracting authority.

Texstars' capability portfolio centers on aircraft transparencies, structural panels, window assemblies, canopy products, dry pressure seals, nonmetallic seals, aircraft access covers, windshield assemblies, glass panel assemblies, and specialized aircraft maintenance materials including canopy polish. Representative prime contract work includes a $4.41 million delivery order from the U.S. Air Force Sustainment Center (awarded September 25, 2025) for transparencies supporting F-16 surge delivery operations; a $4.97 million delivery order from the Ogden Air Logistics Complex (September 25, 2025) for F-16 transparency canopies; a $1.96 million delivery order (September 25, 2025) for F-16 transparency canopies destined for Foreign Military Sales countries; and a $539,251.86 delivery order from the Ogden Air Logistics Complex (March 18, 2026) for F-16 aircraft transparency canopies. Smaller discrete purchase orders span dry pressure seals, windshield panel components, aircraft window panels, structural aluminum panels, and aircraft maintenance polishes supplied to the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation and Land and Maritime divisions.

Customer concentration anchors heavily with the Air Force and Defense Logistics Agency. The Ogden Air Logistics Complex dominates on potential value—158 awards totaling $410.5 million combined potential value—while DLA Aviation places 486 awards valued at $103.5 million. The GSA Federal Acquisition Service, though accounting for 877 awards (the highest count), carries only $1.1 million combined potential value, reflecting small routine purchase orders for aircraft canopy polish and related maintenance supplies. Top five customers by potential value account for 90% of the combined portfolio.

Texstars holds five active Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation: a $5.14 million IDC (awarded May 2, 2025, expiring May 1, 2029) for aircraft transparencies and canopy products, from which 18 task orders have been placed; a $2.5 million IDC (awarded December 19, 2025, expiring December 18, 2029) for specialized aerospace components and materials; a $900,000 IDC (awarded December 15, 2025, expiring August 31, 2028) for aircraft structural panels; and a $749,999.99 IDC (awarded July 29, 2025, expiring July 28, 2028) for windshield panel components and related aircraft transparency items. A fifth IDC of $350,000 was awarded to DLA Land and Maritime on November 20, 2025.

Texstars operates as a subcontractor to major primes on aircraft manufacturing programs. Named teaming relationships include Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft manufacturing, with multiple sub awards in 2025 for aircraft manufacturing work); The Boeing Company (Apache advanced procurement awards for interiors on full-rate production lots, and Apache new build attack helicopters for foreign military sales); and Bell Textron Inc. (window assemblies for AH-1Z helicopters and window panel components). These sub relationships reflect Texstars' role as a supplier of aircraft transparencies and interior components to major defense airframe contractors.

The vendor's award portfolio spans 2,564 total awards (prime and sub combined) across a 46-year history, with combined potential value of $597.2 million and combined obligated dollars of $398.3 million (67% of potential). Activity has been volatile—160 awards in 2022, 197 in 2023, dropping to 61 in 2024, then recovering to 176 in 2025. Within the next twenty-four months, 13 awards with combined potential value of $23.8 million reach ultimate completion and face recompete exposure. The vendor competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements and does not rely on set-aside designations. Top NAICS categories reflect the portfolio breadth: Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (716 awards), Soap and Other Detergent Manufacturing (883 awards, driven by aircraft canopy polish sales), and Gasket, Packing, and Sealing Device Manufacturing (170 awards). Top PSC codes align with capability: Airframe Structural Components (1,067 awards) and Cleaning and Polishing Compounds and Preparations (1,004 awards).