AFLCMC Robins AFB

The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center at Robins Air Force Base is the Air Force's principal depot-level sustainment and modernization arm for aircraft systems, avionics, munitions equipment, and support systems. The Center rolls up contract activity from multiple sub-divisions including the C-130 Hercules Division, Special Operations Forces and Personnel Recovery Directorate, Support Equipment & Vehicles Division, and Automated Test System Contracting Branch, each managing distinct aircraft platforms and equipment portfolios.

The Center has issued 21,717 federal contract awards since 1996 with a combined potential value of $60.78 billion. Awards per year over the last five years ran 495 in 2022, 691 in 2023, 561 in 2024, 573 in 2025, and 346 year-to-date in 2026. Combined dollars obligated total $63.3 billion, representing 104 percent of combined potential value and reflecting heavy modification and below-threshold task-order activity. Across the portfolio, 1,894 distinct prime contractors have been awarded.

By recent award count over the last five years, competition is moderately concentrated, with Atap Inc. leading at 468 awards ($191.7 million combined potential value), followed by Boneal, Incorporated at 334 awards ($77 million), and Ciqima Federal Services LLC at 168 awards ($7 million); these top five primes collectively hold 43 percent of recent awards. By combined potential value over the same window, concentration is highly fragmented—the top five primes together hold only 5 percent of combined potential value. Rolls-Royce Corporation ranks first by value at $2.17 billion across 73 awards, followed by DRS Sustainment Systems, Inc. at $298.9 million across 45 awards. This divergence reflects the Center's dual transactional model: high-volume Schedule task orders and BPA calls under small award ceilings alongside selective large-value sole-source definitive contracts for OEM-specific sustainment work.

Set-asides remain limited. No set-aside awards account for 75 percent of the portfolio (16,242 awards). Total small-business set-asides represent 16 percent (3,421 awards), with Competitive 8(a) at 3 percent, Partial Small Business at 2 percent, and 8(a) Sole Source at 2 percent. HUBZone, service-disabled veteran-owned small business, and woman-owned designations each comprise less than 1 percent.

Recent contract opportunities span aircraft sustainment, technical data development, and depot-level repair. Current pre-solicitations include repair services for AN/ALQ-131 Electronic Warfare systems (Crane Electronics, sole source, November 5 due date), Advanced Technology Anti-Gravity Suit material obsolescence (Vinyl Technology, sole source, November 10 due date), USAF Special Operations Forces technical data management for AC-130J (small-business set-aside, October 30 due date), LARS hardware refresh for HC-130J (Cubic Defense Applications, sole source, three-year period of performance), and C-130 Corrosion Prevention and Control Program sustaining engineering (market research phase). The Center also maintains open solicitations under multiple-award IDIQs such as the Eglin-Wide Agile Acquisition Contract for munitions handling trailers and the Next Generation Ammunition & Munitions Equipment (NGAME) contract for support equipment design and manufacturing, which requires U.S. manufacturing under the Buy America Act and nuclear certification capability in accordance with AFI 63-125.