Acme Aerospace, Inc.

Acme Aerospace, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of TransDigm Group Incorporated based in Tempe, Arizona, manufactures advanced battery storage, battery chargers, and related power management solutions for the U.S. Department of Defense as a prime contractor (89% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on defense aircraft and weapons system sustainment programs. The company competes on full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations across its prime footprint, competing against other commercial manufacturers in PSC categories anchored to electrical conversion and battery supply.

Acme Aerospace operates almost entirely within the defense industrial base, with customer concentration dominated by logistics, naval supply, and air force sustainment commands. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime is the overwhelming anchor customer, placing 92 awards (84% of recent award count) valued at $140.2 million combined potential value — representing 95% of Acme's total potential-value pool. The Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command places 29 awards ($2.4 million combined potential value), and the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Air Force Sustainment Center places 26 awards ($3.8 million combined potential value), rounding out the top three. The top five customers account for 84% of all awards, and DLA Land and Maritime alone dominates both volume and dollars by an order of magnitude relative to competitors.

Acme's primary vehicle architecture rests on five standing Indefinite Delivery Contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency. IDC SPE7MX18D0044 carries 24 task orders ($9.5 million combined potential value), IDC SPE7LX21D0054 carries 17 task orders ($11.7 million combined potential value), and IDC SPE7MX18D0062 carries 6 task orders ($12.5 million combined potential value). These three vehicles alone account for the bulk of ongoing DLA work. Representative prime awards include a $3.2 million firm fixed-price purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime on May 27, 2026, for 1,701 storage battery units (NSN 6140-01-400-2901) under FAR Part 12 commercial-item acquisition, a $765,076 firm fixed-price purchase order from DLA Land and Maritime on June 17, 2025, for 420 battery storage units to DLA Distribution Cherry Point, and a $1.9 million firm fixed-price delivery order from DLA Land and Maritime on November 15, 2024, for battery storage products.

Award activity declined from 17 prime awards in 2022 to 9 in 2023, recovered to 16 in 2024, then contracted to 13 in 2025. The most recent award dates to May 2026, with only one award recorded in that calendar year in the source snapshot. The portfolio carries $148 million in combined potential value against $57.7 million in combined dollars obligated (39% realization), indicating significant pipeline depth but also substantial work-in-process.

In its subcontractor role, Acme supplies battery assemblies, battery chargers, and specialized power components to Boeing (multiple airframe and helicopter sustainment programs including C-17 Globemaster III, AH-64D/E Apache, and F-15EX), Raytheon/Lockheed Martin Javelin Joint Venture (Fiber Nickel Cadmium battery systems and chargers for Javelin Field Tactical Training Devices under non-competitive procurement as original equipment manufacturer), Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (IRBM targets and other parts), L3Harris Technologies Integrated Systems (BIG SAFARI primary battery manufacturing), and Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (battery repairs for the National Security Campus under DOE contract DE-NA0002839). The Javelin work explicitly designates Acme as the sole authorized OEM repair source for proprietary battery and charger designs.

Acme's capability portfolio concentrates on storage battery manufacturing (55 awards), aircraft parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing (42 awards), and electronic component manufacturing (19 awards), measured against NAICS codes. PSC-level framing shows converters and electrical nonrotating equipment (71 awards), rechargeable batteries (59 awards), and maintenance/repair/rebuild of electrical and electronic components (28 awards) as the primary supply categories. The company has held multiple IDCs with DLA Land and Maritime since at least 2011, demonstrating sustained presence in the defense logistics supply chain for battery and power-management solutions.