Sourcing Solutions for the Defense Industry
Delivering Solutions
For Your Difficult
Sourcing Challenges
Supply chain issues are a major challenge in the Defense Industry. RSD supports the defense
supply chain by pairing your specific needs with amazing small business manufacturers!
RSD Industries: Solutions Driven, Results Focused
Solutions for OEMs and Large Contractors
RSD can help you find small business suppliers that can support your operations. Our small business partners are experienced, capable, and ready to take on your supply chain challenges.
The Government has increased their oversight of the OEMs and large contractors to insure their compliance with small business mandates. RSD is your gateway to small businesses, with a variety of setasides, to help you meet your small business participation goals.
Solutions for DLA and Military Direct Purchasing
RSD can help DLA and Military direct purchasing find a small business supplier to meet both your immediate and long-term needs. With the small business supplier base continuing to shrink, RSD can locate manufacturing resources that are not on your traditional radar.
Many of our suppliers stopped working with the Government due to the time and complexity of managing the Government interfaces. RSD handles all contract related issues including quote submittal, award review, PARs, WAWF, VSM, and other post-award activities.
Solutions to help Small Businesses Grow!
Supporting the Defense Industry is a great way to grow your small business! If you are already involved in the industry, we can help you grow. If you are interested in getting started with defense work, we can help you with that process.
Unlike other companies that charge you a fee for their “help”, our help comes at no charge. We make our money by helping you get defense work, managing all of the administrative side, and getting you paid. Our fee is included in the pricing we quote the customer, so you always receive 100% of the amount you quote us.
GET TO KNOW US
Who is RSD Industries?
RSD Industries is a family-owned business located in West Central Florida. Our owner, Steve Day, is a Vietnam era veteran, a 3,200+ hour commercial pilot, and has 40+ years’ experience in the aerospace industry.
When Steve retired from the corporate world, he decided to put his experience and energy into building RSD. Having worked with numerous small businesses in the past, Steve decided he wanted to grow RSD by helping others grow their business. It is this win-win mentality that forms the core of RSD.
While Steve is a service-disabled veteran, RSD was built from day one to be much more than just a setaside. RSD’s business model is geared toward delivering real value to our customers and our suppliers. For our customers, RSD offers a growing base of very talented and capable small business partners that support their supply chain needs while helping meet their small business mandates. For our suppliers, RSD is a knowledgeable, dependable, and ethical business partner with a wealth of contacts within the defense industry.
Whether you are an OEM, large contractor, or Government buyer, RSD is a reliable sourcing asset that helps you meet your small business participation goals. If you are a supplier, RSD helps you grow your defense business in ways that complement your current operations. As we always say, it’s a win-win!
Doing Business with RSD
If you talk with our customers and suppliers you might hear the term ‘”old school”. We not only accept that, we wear it as a badge of honor. If being old school means we are ethical, honest, and care about your success as much as we do our own, we plead guilty.
We are often asked to sign an NDA, and we have no problem with that. But we find it sad that business has gotten to the point that we need a document that says we won’t tell the world about you and your business. It seems that respecting and protecting the thoughts, ideas and innovations that others share with us isn’t a given anymore.
We spend more time listening than we do talking. It is far more important to understand your unique challenges than trying to convince you how wonderful we are. Once we understand your challenges we will tell you if we can help. If we can’t help, we will gladly point you in the direction of someone that can.
Our Rules For Success
Do what you say you will do
Do it on-time
If you make a mistake, own it
Be sincere in your praise and apologies, both are important
Look for opportunities to help someone…without a reward
Most Important, Always Be Kind and Patient
It may not be your first rodeo, but it may be theirs
EXTENSIVE CAPABILITIES…AND GROWING!
Small Businesses With
Large Capabilities!
Small Businesses are the backbone of the US defense Industry. In her 2023 address on small business, Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen Hicks stated, “From manufacturers providing the critical parts that we need for our arsenal – to technology companies developing innovative systems and capabilities – small businesses are vital along the entire spectrum of the Department’s needs.”
According to government statistics, small businesses constitute 99.9% of all U.S. businesses and 73% of companies in the defense industrial base. When it comes to providing solutions for defense needs, the government turns to small business for 25% of all DoD Prime Contracts.
RSD Industries specializes in pairing defense customers with amazing small businesses offering a wide variety of skills and capabilities. Our base of manufacturing partners, and their related capabilities, continues to grow. Our online capabilities list is updated frequently so it remains a valuable reference for all of your sourcing needs.
Learn Which of Our Sourcing Solutions is Right for You!
Whether you have a difficult sourcing challenge
or are looking to grow your defense business, RSD
has a solution for you.
