Atlas Air, Inc.

Atlas Air, Inc., headquartered in White Plains, New York, operates as a for-profit prime contractor providing Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) and domestic charter air transportation services to the Department of Defense on a full-and-open, non-set-aside basis. The vendor holds no SBA designations and competes across the federal marketplace without set-aside protection, delivering comprehensive air mobility solutions for military personnel, cargo, and heavyweight or outsized cargo delivery.

Atlas Air's federal footprint is almost entirely concentrated within the Air Mobility Command (AMC). The Department of the Air Force Air Mobility Command accounts for 1,076 awards (98% of the vendor's award count) valued at $10.57 billion combined potential value, anchoring the relationship with an overwhelming majority of dollars and task orders. The Office of the Secretary of Defense contributes 221 awards worth $264.3 million combined potential value. This concentration reflects Atlas Air's specialization: the vendor competes almost exclusively under CRAF and domestic charter air transportation vehicles serving defense mobility requirements rather than across a diversified federal customer base. The two rankings align tightly, signaling both volume and dollar concentration in the same customer.

Atlas Air's primary vehicle is the International Charter Airlift Services in support of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet IDIQ, a $2.24 billion multiple-award contract awarded by the Air Mobility Command on October 1, 2024, with expiration on September 30, 2030. The vendor holds 715 delivery orders under this vehicle valued at $1.34 billion combined potential value. Representative recent awards include a $3.98 million delivery order for CRAF air transportation services in Japan (May 10, 2026), a $4.07 million delivery order for CRAF services in Poland (May 1, 2026), a $4.53 million delivery order for CRAF services in Australia (March 9, 2026), and a $3.12 million delivery order supporting Operation Epic Fury in Great Britain (May 19, 2026). All delivery orders under this vehicle are priced on a fixed-price basis with economic price adjustment and carry no set-aside restriction. A secondary vehicle is a $20.66 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract for Civil Reserve Air Fleet and domestic charter airlift services awarded April 1, 2024 and running through September 30, 2028, which has generated seven delivery orders totaling approximately $2.02 million. Earlier vehicles include a Category A International Cargo Airlift contract (2013–2018) with 77 task orders worth $2.5 million combined potential value and a Domestic Charter Airlift Services contract (2014–2016) with 67 task orders worth $27.4 million combined potential value.

Atlas Air's recent activity has accelerated sharply. The vendor received 11 awards in 2022, 22 in 2023, 134 in 2024, and 370 in 2025, with 266 awards through August 2026. This trajectory reflects the vendor's seat on the newly awarded $2.24 billion CRAF IDV and the subsequent surge in task-order placement against it. Only five awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, with combined potential value of $665 thousand, creating minimal near-term recompete pressure. The vendor's award portfolio totals 1,510 prime contracts (100% of the count), with combined potential value of $10.86 billion and combined dollars obligated of $1.63 billion (15% of potential value). Atlas Air does not hold subcontract positions in the source data.

The vendor's capability taxonomy concentrates on three primary NAICS codes: Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation (1,004 awards), Scheduled Freight Air Transportation (252 awards), and Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation (171 awards). PSC coding aligns with this profile: Transportation/Travel/Relocation–Air Charter accounts for 717 awards, Passenger Air Charter accounts for 419 awards, and Air Freight accounts for 252 awards. Atlas Air specializes in leveraging commercial aviation capacity to supplement Department of Defense organic airlift during peacetime, contingencies, and wartime operations, with service delivery across global locations including Kuwait, Germany, Poland, Japan, Jordan, Djibouti, Qatar, Australia, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Diego Garcia, and other strategic theaters. Work is performed globally (CONUS, OCONUS, and hostile areas) with administrative oversight at Air Mobility Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois.