military aviation systems by procuring critical components and specialized equipment essential to aircraft operation and maintenance. Its core mission centers on securing reliable, interoperable, and mission-critical aviation parts—ranging from bearings and bushings to advanced sensors and auxiliary systems—to support fleet availability across all branches.
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The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation is tasked with ensuring the readiness and sustainment of U.S. military aviation systems by procuring critical components and specialized equipment essential to aircraft operation and maintenance. Its core mission centers on securing reliable, interoperable, and ...
The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation is tasked with ensuring the readiness and sustainment of U.S. military aviation systems by procuring critical components and specialized equipment essential to aircraft operation and maintenance. Its core mission centers on securing reliable, interoperable, and mission-critical aviation parts—ranging from bearings and bushings to advanced sensors and auxiliary systems—to support fleet availability across all branches. Strategic priorities include maintaining supply chain resilience for legacy and next-generation platforms, enabling reverse engineering of obsolete components, and establishing alternative sources for high-demand National Stock Numbers to reduce dependency on single suppliers. The agency actively pursues technical data initiatives to sustain airframes and systems beyond original equipment manufacturer support cycles.
Procurement activities are dominated by the acquisition of aircraft-specific parts and auxiliary equipment, with frequent sourcing of bearings, sensing elements, and other embedded systems integral to flight safety and mission systems. The agency relies heavily on sources-sought notices and presolicitation actions to validate market capabilities and initiate competitive acquisition pathways, often targeting items with long lifecycle requirements and limited vendor bases. Contract structures are typically non-sealed, open-market solicitations designed to maximize supplier participation while ensuring technical compliance.
Primary procurement efforts focus on NAICS 336413 for other aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment, with additional emphasis on 334511 for aeronautical sensing systems and 332991 for precision bearings. The agency does not currently employ set-asides and engages vendors broadly, prioritizing technical capability and supply chain reliability over socioeconomic classifications. Vendor relationships are built around engineering compatibility, traceability, and sustainment expertise rather than size or status.
As a subordinate activity of the Defense Logistics Agency within the Department of Defense, SC0430 operates globally to support deployed and home-stationed aviation units. It utilizes standardized DoD procurement vehicles including Federal Supply Schedules and indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts, with a strong emphasis on direct sourcing and technical data-driven sustainment programs.
