Aero Simulation, Inc.

Aero Simulation, Inc., a Tampa, Florida-based small business manufacturer of flight simulation systems and training devices, operates predominantly as a prime contractor (97% of 400 recent awards) delivering integrated maintenance, operation, modification, and support services for military and Coast Guard flight training platforms. The company competes across both set-aside and full-and-open categories, with total small business set-asides recurring across Coast Guard and Air Force work.

Aero Simulation's customer concentration sits heavily with Department of Defense air training and simulation missions. The top five customer agencies by combined potential value account for 100% of the identified dollars: the Air Force Materiel Command's Aeronautical Systems Center (12 awards, $54.95 billion combined potential value), the Naval Air Warfare Center (73 awards, $8.18 billion), the Air Force (4 awards, $1.02 billion), the Air Education and Training Command (7 awards, $118.5 million), and the Coast Guard (44 awards, $92.2 million). The extreme concentration in Aeronautical Systems Center potential value is driven by a single delivery order for C-17 Training System supplies and nonpersonal services valued at $1.133 billion through April 2033. The Environmental Protection Agency accounts for 235 awards by count but carries minimal dollar weight relative to the DoD concentration.

Aero Simulation holds prime positions on four major indefinite delivery vehicles spanning both the Air Force and Coast Guard. Under the Air Education and Training Command, the company operates a $100 million single-award IDIQ (total small business set-aside, through March 2030) with two task orders issued to date, including a $4.758 million time-and-materials delivery order for 502nd Contractor Support at Randolph Air Force Base extending through May 2029. The company is a named awardee under the Air Force's Training Systems Acquisition IV (TSA IV), a $32.5 billion multiple-award vehicle through May 2033, where its preponderant work is the C-17 Training System contract. Aero Simulation holds a single-award $12.775 million IDIQ with the Coast Guard for integrated maintenance, operation, modification, and support (IMOMS) services covering all Coast Guard flight training devices—MH-60T, MH-65, HC-144, HC-27, Aircrew Weapons Trainer, and Minotaur Operational Readiness Trainer—at Mobile, Alabama and Elizabeth City, North Carolina through March 2028. Recent Coast Guard task orders under IMOMS include a $2.562 million delivery order (June 2026) funding Option Year 3 in Mobile, a $574.495 million order (September 2025) for HC-144 maintenance training sustainment in Elizabeth City, and multiple engineering change proposal orders for platform-specific upgrades (MH-60T projector replacement, MH-65 aerodynamic modeling, AECHELON database updates) in the $79,000–$96,000 range. The company also holds a seat on the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Architecture and Integration Directorate IDIQ ($900 million ceiling through November 2027, multiple award, no set-aside), where it issued a $1,000 capability reporting order in December 2022. A fifth, older vehicle—Training Systems Acquisition III (TSA III)—carries $342.3 million in combined task-order potential value and includes a $56.233 million T-1A Ground Based Training System delivery order (May 2022 through August 2028).

Activity accelerated in FY2025, with 19 awards compared to 10 or fewer in prior years, but recent FY2026 volume remains sparse (3 awards as of the source snapshot date of June 2026). Only seven awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months with combined potential value of $4.9 million, signaling minimal near-term recompete exposure for large vehicles. The source's view of obligated dollars ($696.9 million) against combined potential value ($64.35 billion) reflects the long-tail nature of simulation development and support contracts, where ceiling values often exceed current funding.

On subcontractor work, Aero Simulation subcontracts to Rockwell Collins Simulation & Training Solutions LLC on the HITS-IV contract (Helicopter Integrated Training Suite refresh and technology upgrade), with activity spanning proposal preparation, aircraft model development, installation, and checkout across multiple operational flight trainer and advanced procedures trainer platforms. Six sub-award records span May 2023 through October 2025 detailing flight simulation manufacturing and integration work in support of cyber security and systems software updates.

Service Contract Inventory data captures $33.2 million in invoiced revenue across federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold (FY2022–FY2024), with FY2024 invoicing of $12.4 million across 54.2 FTEs, down from a FY2023 peak of $12.1 million across 68.7 FTEs. On SCI-reportable federal services contracts, median government-paid rates ran around $77.94/hr, with senior labor pricing extending through $116.41/hr at the 90th percentile. Across SCI prime contracts, subcontractor labor represented roughly 1% of total hours, with four named subs reported over the period, indicating Aero Simulation builds most delivery teams internally. The modest SCI footprint reflects the fact that most of Aero Simulation's federal work—simulation design, development, manufacturing, and installation—falls outside SCI's service-contract scope, which excludes goods and product deliverables.

PROVIDE SIMULATION ENGINEERING PRODUCTS AND SERVICES; SIMULATOR UPGRADES, MODIFICATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT; FLIGHT, AVIONICS, CONTROLS, MOTION SYSTEMS, INSTRUCTOR STATION.