Parts Life, Inc.

08/25/2026

The Parts Life, Inc. team is onsite at DIBX 2026 today and tomorrow in Philadelphia, connecting with government and industry leaders focused fleet readiness.

Meet our team to discuss how we’re strengthening the defense industrial base by expanding manufacturing capacity, addressing critical supply-chain challenges, and accelerating capabilities to the warfighter. Parts Life supports these priorities by resolving obsolescence, developing replacements for unavailable components, closing technical-data gaps, and fulfilling low-volume production requirements that affect mission-capable rates.

If your program needs a path from requirement to production, connect with CEO Sam Thevanayagam and Director of Business Development Chris Small to see how we can help turn your readiness challenges into fielded capabilities.

Thank you to DIBC | Defense Industrial Base Consortium, ATI | Advanced Technology International, and Office of the Assistant Secretary of War for Industrial Base Policy for bringing the defense industrial base together to strengthen the arsenal of democracy.

08/21/2026

Fleet readiness depends on a defense industrial base that can resolve supply constraints, address obsolescence, expand production capacity, and sustain critical systems throughout their service life.

Next week, Parts Life, Inc. will attend the Defense Industrial Base Accelerator (DIBX) 2026 in Philadelphia.

DIBX brings requirement owners, industrial partners, government leaders, and investors together to accelerate defense manufacturing, strengthen supply-chain resilience, and transition critical capabilities to the warfighter.

Our team looks forward to discussing persistent readiness challenges, including DMSMS and obsolescence, technical data gaps, difficult low-volume requirements, aging-system sustainment, and the transition from an identified need to qualified, repeatable production.

Parts Life addresses these challenges through reverse engineering, manufacturable technical data packages, alternate-source qualification, remanufacturing, and production support across air, land, sea, undersea, and space.

Connect with our CEO Sam Thevanayagam and Director of Business Development Chris Small to discuss your toughest sustainment and supply challenges.

08/19/2026

Happy National Aviation Day! ✈️❤️🇺🇸

Last weekend Parts Life, Inc. volunteered at the 4th Annual Aviation Day at Rowan College at Burlington County, presented by iSTREAM. This event introduces young people ages 10 and up to the field of aviation and potential career paths, and provides hands-on experiences, educational opportunities, and connections with aviation professionals, aiming to spark interest in aviation careers and technologies.

The Parts Life team brought our EAGL mobile engineering lab to campus. Engineers led a live demonstration, showing participants how our equipment is used to solve real-world obsolescence challenges. These demonstrations gave students a tangible view into multiple pathways and career opportunities in the aviation industry.

Thank you andRowan College at Burlington County for hosting this event for the next generation of innovators!

08/18/2026

Parts Life, Inc. was proud to sponsor the NDIA Delaware Valley Chapter’s 2026 Annual Golf Outing and Business Networking Event.

This signature event helps raise funds for scholarships awarded to ROTC cadets and midshipmen annually across the Delaware Valley. Members of the Parts Life, Inc. team volunteered and contributed to making the outing a success while giving back to the community.

08/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who has connected and collaborated with the Parts Life team at Tinker and the Primes. Our meetings and conversations have helped advance practical solutions for obsolete, hard-to-source and no-bid requirements that affect fleet readiness and operational availability.

There’s still time! Tomorrow is the final day of the show. Visit our team at Booth 33 to discuss your toughest sustainment challenges and opportunities to restore supply continuity.

We look forward to one more day of productive conversations!

08/04/2026

It’s the first full day at Tinker and the Primes! Stop by Booth 33 with an obsolete, hard-to-source or no-bid requirement.

Fleet readiness depends on depots, primes and qualified sustainment partners working together.

As legacy systems remain in service longer, no-bid procurements, supplier exits, incomplete technical data and high-mix, low-volume requirements continue to create readiness gaps. Parts Life helps close them through reverse engineering, DMSMS mitigation, alternate-source qualification, repair, remanufacturing and legacy platform sustainment.

Join us at Booth 33 and meet with members of our engineering, business development and contracting teams. Let’s discuss how a Depot, Prime, Partner strategy can restore supply continuity and strengthen operational availability.

07/30/2026

Thank you to everyone who connected with the Parts Life team at LCID and WDI 2026!

It was a productive week filled with valuable meetings and conversations with customers, industry partners, and Air Force stakeholders focused on fleet readiness and long-term sustainment.

Next stop: Tinker and the Primes! Join us August 3–6 at Booth 33 in Midwest City, Oklahoma.

Learn more about how we can be your strategic sustainment partner for fleet readiness and book a meeting with our team: https://lnkd.in/gg58N32x

07/28/2026

Day Two at LCID & WDI is underway!

Conversations at Booth 151 are focused on the sustainment challenges affecting fleet readiness, including obsolescence, diminishing sources of supply, extended lead times, aging support equipment, and legacy platform modernization.

Stop by to connect with President Gregg Mallinder, Vice President of Business Development Jeannie Whitfield and Strategic Account Manager Dan Fisher to discuss practical solutions that improve operational availability and extend equipment service life.

Stakeholders supporting the MHU-141 trailer program are especially encouraged to visit the booth and learn how DeVal Lifecycle Support can help return trailers in F condition to service through targeted sustainment and modernization solutions.
We look forward to another productive day with Air Force leaders, program offices, depots, industry partners, and fellow members of the defense industrial base.

📍 Dayton Convention Center�
📍 Booth 151�
📅 July 27–31

07/27/2026

The Parts Life team is on site at LCID/WDI 2026!

Stop by Booth 151 near Acquisition Alley to meet Vice President of Business Development Jeannie Whitfield and Strategic Account Manager Dan Fisher. Let’s discuss obsolete components, diminishing sources of supply, long lead times, and practical engineering and manufacturing solutions that improve operational availability across Air Force fleets.

If a hard-to-source part is putting readiness at risk, our team is ready and able to be your strategic sustainment partner.

📍 Dayton Convention Center�
📍 Booth 151�
📅 July 27–31

07/20/2026

Strategic Sustainment Partner for Fleet Readiness

Parts Life returns to Tinker and the Primes, August 3–6, 2026, at Booth 33 in Midwest City, Oklahoma, with proven sustainment experience supporting the B-1, B-2, B-52, Minuteman III, Air Launched Cruise Missile, F107 engine, and TF33 engine.

Our engineering-led approach earned Parts Life a prototype contract award at the 2025 Tink Tank Reverse Event to Overcome Risk and Obsolescence (RESTORE) event, an innovation-driven competition focused on solving critical depot sustainment and manufacturing challenges at Tinker Air Force Base. During the event, the team presented a R.O.P.E.® obsolescence solution for a critical B-1 Lancer valve assembly and received an on-site contract award to advance the effort.

Proven results include:
✅ Reducing the lead time for a mission-critical Minuteman III tool from over 300 days to 60 days
✅ Restoring access to obsolete F107 propulsion components through material characterization, reverse engineering, prototype development, and manufacturing process definition
✅ Developing manufacturable technical data and prototype hardware for B-1 and B-2 MICAP requirements
✅ Supporting B-52 and TF33 engine sustainment through alternate-source development and complex tube assembly production

Connecting reverse engineering and technical data development directly with prototype integration, manufacturing, remanufacturing, recertification, and depot overflow support enables Parts Life to convert unresolved requirements into qualified, repeatable sustainment solutions. This integrated approach restores supply continuity, reduces acquisition lead times, returns critical components to service, and protects operational availability across aging aircraft and strategic systems.

Meet Director of Product Christopher Fest, Director of Business Development Chris Small, Strategic Account Managers Andrew Klitchko and Daniel Fisher, and Contracts Manager Rachel Kaluhiokalani at Booth 33.

Connect with the team to discuss obsolete and no-bid requirements, incomplete technical data, remanufacturing and depot backlogs, alternate-source production, prototype development, source approval, and acquisition pathways for advancing sustainment solutions.

Learn more and schedule a meeting below



United States Air Force Tinker Air Force Base

Read more about Parts Life Returns to Tinker and the Primes 2026 Following Tink Tank Prototype Award, Showcasing Proven B-1, B-2, B-52 and Minuteman III Sustainment Solutions. Published on Jul 17, 2026.