Williams Aerospace & Manufacturing Inc.

Williams Aerospace & Manufacturing Inc., doing business as Williams Aerospace, is a for-profit aerospace components manufacturer based in Piedmont, South Carolina, competing as a prime contractor (91% of awards) for specialized aircraft parts and spare parts supplied to the Defense Logistics Agency without set-aside designation. The company operates manufacturing facilities in Piedmont, South Carolina and Chula Vista, California, and maintains a parent-subsidiary structure in which the entity appearing in the source data (UEI MMJNUTGT56K4) is a child of Williams Aerospace & Manufacturing Inc. (UEI LMLUNJ2WKN29, doing business as Merex).

Williams Aerospace's federal customer base is almost entirely concentrated within DLA. Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for 145 awards and $3.5 million in combined potential value—representing 77% of all awards and 82% of total dollar value—while DLA Land and Maritime carries 30 awards valued at $569 thousand, and DLA Troop Support Hardware and other DLA functions round out the remaining 21% of awards. The company competes exclusively in full-and-open federal procurement with no set-aside designations across its prime contract portfolio, a posture consistent across all named awards in the source data. Customer concentration is monolithic: DLA Aviation dominates both volume and dollars, leaving Williams Aerospace vulnerable to recompete and customer relationship risk with a single strategic buyer.

Williams Aerospace delivers aircraft structural components, door brackets, lighting assemblies, rudder housing assemblies, radio frequency absorbers, interior trim panels, headset holders, and miscellaneous aerospace hardware to support military aircraft maintenance and operational readiness. Representative recent prime work includes a $223,104 delivery order from DLA Aviation in May 2025 for rudder housing assemblies, a $221,250 purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime in August 2025 for protective covers, and a $52,110 order from DLA Aviation in August 2025 for aircraft taxiing lights. A single-award indefinite delivery vehicle contract valued at $749,999.99 with DLA Aviation, awarded July 30, 2024, for door brackets (National Stock Number 1560-01-085-7126) with ultimate completion July 29, 2029, anchors the vendor's framework capacity; Williams Aerospace holds additional indefinite delivery vehicles with DLA valued between $236 thousand and $243 thousand in combined potential value. The firm's footprint centers on NAICS 336413 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing) and PSC codes for airframe structural components and hardware, with 93 awards in the top NAICS and 74 awards under airframe structural component PSC codes.

Activity has grown: 11 awards in 2022 rising to 24 in 2025, with six awards year-to-date in 2026 across the first quarter. Combined potential value stands at $4.3 million with $3.7 million obligated (86% of potential), and the recompete cliff shows seven awards totaling $127 thousand in combined potential value completing within the next twenty-four months. In its subcontract role, Williams Aerospace manufactures specialized aircraft spare parts under Derco Aerospace as the prime, with at least sixteen sub-awards spanning aircraft electrical and structural components (mechanical pullers, pitot tube covers, arm assemblies, exhaust skirts, bell cranks, yokes, and blanket assemblies) awarded between November 2023 and October 2025. The source also notes Williams Aerospace maintains established subcontract relationships with Lockheed Martin Corporation and BAE Systems, though recent visible sub-award activity is routed through Derco Aerospace.