White Aero Inc.

White Aero Inc., a for-profit aerospace and defense components supplier headquartered in Santa Clarita, California, delivers precision hardware, bearings, fasteners, electrical connectors, and hydraulic system components to the Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor on a pure full-and-open, unsolicited purchase-order basis. The vendor competes with no set-aside designation across 3,082 prime awards since 2002, generating $6.7 million in combined potential value with $7.5 million in actual obligated dollars across a 24-year contracting history.

White Aero's customer concentration is extreme and monolithic: the Defense Logistics Agency dominates 96% of awards by count and 95% by potential value. DLA Aviation alone accounts for 1,751 awards valued at $4.3 million, and DLA Land and Maritime adds 890 awards valued at $1.6 million. These two divisions together represent 2,641 of the 2,956 award records in the source window — a 89% share. The remaining customer base includes DLA Troop Support Hardware (222 awards, $191 thousand), the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command (48 awards, $46 thousand), Naval Supply Systems Command (45 awards, $108 thousand), and Naval Sea Systems Command (5 awards, $155 thousand). White Aero does not sit on any GWAC, BPA, or agency-wide IDIQ; every award in the portfolio is a transactional purchase order issued directly by DLA divisions under simplified acquisition rules, with individual order values ranging from under $150 to $53,111 and performance timelines compressed to 30–60 days.

The capability portfolio is granular and commoditized. Top NAICS categories reflect manufacturing-driven supply: Ball and Roller Bearing Manufacturing (659 awards), Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (385 awards), Hardware Manufacturing (239 awards), Electronic Connector Manufacturing (232 awards), and Bolt, Nut, Screw, Rivet, and Washer Manufacturing (209 awards). PSC coding confirms the depth: Bearings (Antifriction, Unmounted) account for 360 awards; Plain Bearings (Unmounted) 320; Electrical Connectors 276; Airframe Structural Components 161; and Commercial Hardware 110. Representative work spans bearing assemblies (sleeve, ball annular, roller needle, thrust), electrical components (connectors, relays, switches, circuit breakers), fasteners (bolts, rivets, screws, nuts, pins), hydraulic and fluid components (hose assemblies, valves, check valves, solenoids, filters), and structural hardware (shims, plates, bushings, clamps, hinges). Recent orders exemplify the transactional rhythm: a $53,111 connecting link rig for DLA Land and Maritime (March 2026); a $40,400 disconnect arrestin component order for DLA Aviation (December 2025); electromagnetic relays for $18,000 (May 2026); and a $19,445 shear bolt order (June 2026). The vast majority of orders fall in the $500–$5,000 range.

Activity has grown modestly year over year — 139 awards in 2022 to 225 in 2024 and 288 in 2025 — then declined to 188 in 2026 (a partial-year count). This trajectory reflects the volume-driven, transactional nature of the DLA supply chain: more purchase orders per year, but each with smaller dollar magnitude relative to sustained-demand commodities. The vendor holds no recompete exposure in traditional contract-recompete terms because White Aero operates exclusively under simplified acquisition purchase orders that are re-awarded monthly by DLA divisions based on Request for Quotation responses. There is no visible parent vehicle, BPA, or IDIQ to defend; each award is won on the open RFQ cycle.

White Aero operates as a pure prime contractor with zero subcontract footprint in the source record. The entire $6.7 million portfolio and 3,082 awards represent direct sales to federal customers, primarily DLA Aviation and Land and Maritime. The vendor does not appear to team with larger primes, nor does it subcontract work; its business model is a dedicated direct-buy supplier relationship with DLA purchase-order authority.

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