Aerojet Rocketdyne Inc.

Aerojet Rocketdyne Inc. Arkansas Operations Division, a division of L3Harris Technologies Inc., manufactures solid rocket motors, propulsion components, and missile subsystems for the Department of the Army and Department of the Navy as a prime contractor on the $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ and as a subcontractor to Lockheed Martin and Raytheon on tactical missile production programs. The division competes in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations, operating from a manufacturing facility in Camden, Arkansas.

The Arkansas Operations division's prime footprint is lean (13% of recent awards) but strategically positioned. The division holds a seat on SHIELD, a ten-year multiple-award indefinite delivery contract awarded by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a ceiling value of $151 billion and an ultimate completion date of December 28, 2035. SHIELD encompasses research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization across ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missile threats, leveraging advanced propulsion and energetics expertise. The first task order under SHIELD carries a nominal value of $500 and performance at Huntsville, Alabama. The division also holds a definitive contract from the Army's Program Executive Office for Missiles and Space for Stinger missile flight motor repair and testing equipment, valued at $750 thousand and completed in November 2024, and a purchase order from Naval Sea Systems Command for a KIT FOR MK104 valued at $43,939.00, completed in October 2024.

The overwhelming bulk of the division's work flows through subcontracts (87% of recent awards), concentrated under Lockheed Martin and Raytheon as prime contractors. Recent sub work includes Stinger missile production rocket motors, Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rocket motors and fin assemblies (including Ukraine-destined lots), Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) solid rocket motors and attitude control motors, Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) rocket motors under a service life extension program, and Standard Missile (SM-2, SM-6) rocket motors for naval air and surface warfare platforms. Sub awards also capture industrial engineering services, nozzle closure assembly refresh efforts, and repair work on failed components. The division delivered seventy-seven total awards over the source period, with thirty-six in 2024 and fifteen in 2025, representing sustained high activity in tactical missile sustainment and production.

Customer concentration is extreme: the Army's PEO Missiles and Space accounts for thirty-seven awards worth $141.9 million in combined potential value, followed distantly by the Missile Defense Agency (twelve awards, $500 value), the Army broadly (ten awards), Naval Sea Systems Command (nine awards, $44 thousand), and Naval Air Systems Command (seven awards). The Army drives both award count and dollar value. Top parent vehicles include Army IDIQs W31P4Q21D0003 (nine task orders), W31P4Q23D0003 (seven task orders), and W31P4Q18D0027 (two task orders, $92.5 million combined potential value). Recent obligated dollars across all awards total $5.43 billion, reflecting the high-value production and sustainment character of work flowing through these contracts. NAICS concentration clusters on guided missile and space vehicle manufacturing (fifty-one awards) and propulsion unit manufacturing (four awards), confirming the division's core identity as a solid rocket motor and propulsion component supplier for the tactical missile industrial base.