Cummins Aerospace, LLC

Cummins Aerospace, LLC, a self-certified small disadvantaged business, manufactures precision-machined aerospace components for military aircraft maintenance, repair, and sustainment as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) and subcontractor on NASA and Air Force programs. The company, headquartered in Anaheim, California, operates as a for-profit manufacturer under primary NAICS 336413 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing) and competes predominantly in total small business set-asides across its prime footprint.

Cummins Aerospace's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward Defense Logistics Agency Aviation. DLA Aviation accounts for 300 awards (45% of the 656-award footprint) with $17.1 million in combined potential value — roughly 71% of the vendor's total potential value across all agencies. The vendor also serves the Department of the Air Force directly through Air Force Materiel Command's Air Force Sustainment Center (61 awards, $4 million) and Ogden Air Logistics Complex (33 awards, $2 million), with smaller engagements across Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support Hardware, Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, and other DoD logistics entities. Award concentration is extreme: the top five customer lines account for 90% of awards by count and 99% of combined potential value, with DLA Aviation alone representing nearly seven times the dollar value of the second-largest customer.

Capability portfolio centers on landing gear components and related aerospace assemblies for military platforms. Representative recent work includes a $920.4 thousand DLA Aviation purchase order (awarded March 28, 2024) for orifice rods and forward components with delivery extending to August 2029; a $267.8 thousand total small business set-aside from DLA Aviation (August 28, 2025) for drag braces for aircraft landing systems with delivery through February 2029; a $232.4 thousand DLA Aviation purchase order (June 29, 2024) for bushings and sleeves with completion scheduled for August 2027; and a $222.4 thousand total small business set-aside definitive contract (March 13, 2025) for C-5 aircraft landing collar yoke components. Across the award data, Cummins Aerospace manufactures bearings, bushings, sleeves, latches, pins, shock absorbers, buffer cylinders, housing units, piston retainers, metering tube bases, and drag braces — 381 of 656 awards are coded to Aircraft Landing Gear Components PSC, with secondary concentrations in bearings (139 awards) and bushings (30 awards).

The vendor holds four single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation. The largest IDC, awarded September 5, 2024, carries a $2 million ceiling (through September 4, 2029) and covers orifice rods, floating piston retainers, and housing units for B-52, C-5, and KC-135 aircraft; a second IDC awarded January 13, 2023 has a $2 million ceiling (through January 12, 2028) and covers landing gear components, orifice rods, and retainers; a third IDC awarded January 28, 2022 carries a $250 thousand ceiling (through January 27, 2027) and covers landing gear kits and components; and a fourth IDC awarded November 14, 2022 has a $189 thousand ceiling (through November 22, 2027) for floating piston retainers. Five additional named indefinite delivery contracts hold additional task-order capacity across the portfolio. Task orders under these vehicles are predominantly designated as total small business set-asides, though non-set-aside orders are common.

Activity has been uneven. The vendor received 23 awards in 2022, dropped to 8 in 2023, increased to 15 in 2024, accelerated to 27 in 2025, and received 5 awards through mid-2026. Combined potential value across all 656 awards is $24.1 million, but reported obligated dollars total $59.7 million — 248% of potential value — indicating that performance invoicing has exceeded ceiling valuations across the award portfolio. Eighteen awards with combined potential value of $1.6 million face ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure for the vendor and opportunity for competitors on DLA Aviation set-aside task orders.

Cummins Aerospace subcontracts under the Space Launch System (SLS) Booster Production and Operations Contract (BPOC) as a sub-supplier of precision-machined metal parts for large-diameter components (11 named sub-awards, most recent January 2026) and under AAR Government Services, Inc. on Landing Gear Performance-Based Logistics One (LGPBL1) for aircraft parts procurement (1 sub-award, June 2024). Subcontracting represents 2% of recent award count and appears opportunistic rather than structural to Cummins Aerospace's business model — the vast majority of federal dollars flow through DLA Aviation prime task orders.

COMPLEX PRECISION MACHINED PARTS AND ASSEMBLIES SPECIALIZING IN AIRCRAFT LANDING GEAR AND OTHER STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS. MODERN FACILITY UTILIZING LASTED TECHNOLOGY AND EQUIPMENT AVAILABLE, INCLUDING FULL 5-AXIS INTEGRATED HIGH SPEED MACHINING.