Texstars LLC

Texstars LLC, operating as PPG Aerospace, manufactures aerospace components including aircraft transparencies, canopy products, structural panels, window assemblies, seals, and specialty maintenance materials as a prime contractor for the Defense Logistics Agency, U.S. Air Force, and civilian agencies, competing without SBA set-asides in full-and-open procurements. The company is a subsidiary of Sierracin Corporation, itself a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based PPG Industries, Inc., a global manufacturer of coatings and specialty materials with deep aerospace and defense expertise.

Texstars operates as a prime contractor on 98% of its awards, totaling 2,513 prime contracts and indefinite delivery contracts since 1980, with combined potential value of $606.5 million across 2,572 total awards. The vendor's primary capability footprint centers on aircraft transparencies and canopy components, structural aluminum panels, window assemblies, dry pressure seals, nonmetallic seals, and aircraft maintenance materials such as plastic canopy polish. Representative work includes a $6.4 million delivery order from the Ogden Air Logistics Complex for F-16 aircraft transparency canopies (ultimate completion October 2028); a $4.9 million delivery order from the Ogden Air Logistics Complex for F-16 transparency canopies (November 2027); a $4.41 million Air Force Sustainment Center delivery order for F-16 surge transparencies (March 2027); a $5.14 million single-award indefinite delivery contract from DLA Aviation for aircraft transparencies and canopy products through May 2029; and multiple purchase orders from DLA Aviation and DLA Land and Maritime for window panels, structural panels, and seals in the $30,000–$375,000 range.

Customer concentration is extreme and defense-focused. The top five buying agencies account for 76% of awards by count, anchored by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command's Ogden Air Logistics Complex (159 awards, $419.3 million combined potential value) and DLA Aviation (488 awards, $103.9 million combined potential value). When ranked by potential value rather than award count, the Ogden Air Logistics Complex dominates with 69% of the top-five-agency share—$419.3 million from 159 awards—reflecting Texstars' primary role as a supplier of F-16 transparency canopies and related aircraft components. DLA Aviation ranks second at $103.9 million across 488 orders. The Air Force Sustainment Center contributes $11.6 million across 43 awards, and the Army's Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command adds $6.6 million across ten awards. GSA Federal Acquisition Service places the highest number of orders (877) but with minimal dollar value ($1.1 million combined), representing routine canopy polish procurements.

Texstars holds five active indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Aviation, ranging from $350,000 to $5.14 million in ceiling value, all single-award vehicles awarded in 2025 or late 2024. The largest, awarded May 2, 2025, is the $5.14 million aircraft transparencies and canopy products contract running through May 1, 2029 (4610120960). A second IDC for $2.5 million (aircraft components, through December 2029) and a third for $900,000 (aircraft structural panels for E-2C Hawkeye, through August 2028) anchor DLA Aviation work. The vendor also holds an indefinite delivery contract for $749,999.99 covering windshield panel components through July 2028. On the Air Force side, Texstars places task orders against Indefinite Delivery Contract FA821208D0006, with 96 task orders carrying $106.8 million in combined potential value—the single largest parent vehicle in the footprint.

Activity shows volatility in the recent window. Awards per year moved from 160 in 2022 to 197 in 2023, then dropped to 61 in 2024 before recovering to 178 in 2025; only 14 awards appear in the 2026 data year to date. Fourteen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $26.3 million, representing near-term recompete exposure.

Texstars subcontracts to major defense primes, including Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft manufacturing, six sub-awards through August 2025); The Boeing Company (Apache AH-64E new-build helicopters for foreign military sales, three sub-awards through April 2026); Bell Textron Inc. (AH-1Z window assemblies and Nigerian foreign military sales support, two sub-awards through November 2025); and Lockheed Martin Corporation (F-35 wingtip lens sustainment and Taiwan F-16 retrofit kits, two sub-awards through August 2025). The subcontractor role is secondary—only 59 sub-awards (2% of total activity)—and carries lower dollar magnitudes than prime work, with the vendor supplying aerospace transparency components and seals under those relationships.

The vendor's product concentration reflects its narrow specialization. The top two NAICS categories—Soap and Other Detergent Manufacturing (883 awards, driven by the canopy polish line sold through GSA) and Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (719 awards)—account for the breadth of the portfolio. The top two PSCs by award count are Airframe Structural Components (1,070 awards) and Cleaning and Polishing Compounds and Preparations (1,004 awards), confirming the dual revenue streams from structural aerospace components and maintenance materials. This concentration reflects Texstars' integration into military aviation supply chains for both new production and sustainment work.