Bennett Aerospace Inc.

Bennett Aerospace Inc., an Alaskan Native Corporation–owned, minority-owned, economically disadvantaged women-owned small business (EDWOSB) based in Raleigh, North Carolina, delivers environmental research and development, engineering sciences, and specialized technical services to the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, and Army agencies as a prime contractor on research IDIQs, a $50 billion 8(a) STARS III GWAC seat, and a recently awarded $151 billion Missile Defense Agency SHIELD contract. The vendor competes full-and-open without set-aside designations across most of its award footprint, with 98% of recent awards held as prime contractor.

Bennett Aerospace is a Subchapter S corporation and subsidiary of Three Saints Bay, LLC, an Alaskan Native Corporation. The vendor's capability portfolio centers on environmental genomics, synthetic biology, contaminant testing, water resource management modeling, rare earth element research, and applied ecological engineering—work anchored to the Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Representative work includes a $11.99 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order under the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Services (RS3) IDIQ to Army Futures Command for C5ISR knowledge-based research and protection services through February 2029, a $26.6 million administrative and technical support delivery order to Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground through May 2025, a $535.2 million synthetic-biology-enabled rare-earth-element research order under the GSA Multiple Award Schedule to ERDC through December 2023, and recurring task orders under a $5.4 million single-award IDIQ with USACE for field data collection, laboratory research, and computational modeling. Across environmental work, Bennett Aerospace delivers fixed-price level-of-effort services in genetics, genomic sampling, soil characterization, invasive-species control, water modeling, and air-pollution analysis.

GSA Schedule labor rates span from $58.26 per hour for technician-level roles (associates, one year experience) through $179.52 per hour for senior program managers (bachelor's degree, ten years experience), with management analyst and project manager categories in the $73–$146 hourly range. No security-cleared labor is offered on the schedule; work is civilian-oriented and support-professional in posture. The vendor fields 24 unique labor categories on the MAS, positioning flexibility across administrative, analytical, and technical delivery roles.

Customer concentration is heavily concentrated in Army and Defense intelligence functions. The top five customer organizations account for 81% of award count: the ERDC (74 awards, $22.4 million combined potential value) leads by volume; the Drug Enforcement Administration (29 awards, $304.9 million) and Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (23 awards, $133.3 million) dominate dollar value; Naval Sea Systems Command (6 awards, $15.28 billion) and the Army Corps of Engineers (14 awards, $1.5 million) round out the active set. The potential-value ranking reveals a stark divergence: the GSA Federal Acquisition Service (2 awards, $50 billion combined potential value) anchors 48% of all dollars through the 8(a) STARS III GWAC vehicle, and the Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground (3 awards, $37.41 billion) carries 36% through the SHIELD master contract awarded in December 2025. ERDC's many small delivery orders cluster below $350 thousand per award, while the two newest IDV placements—SHIELD and RS3—carry multi-billion-dollar ceilings.

Bennett Aerospace holds positions on five parent vehicles: the Indefinite Delivery Contract W912HZ19D0002 (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) with 39 task orders worth $3.9 million combined potential value, the Indefinite Delivery Contract W912HZ14D0005 (USACE) with 30 task orders worth $3.6 million, the Indefinite Delivery Contract DJD16K0007 (Drug Enforcement Administration) with 28 task orders worth $136.9 million, the Indefinite Delivery Contract W911NF14D0001 (Army Research Laboratory Administrative Support Services) with 12 task orders worth $6.2 million, and the GSA Multiple Award Schedule with 11 task orders worth $2.2 million. The vendor also holds a $5.4 million single-award IDIQ with USACE ERDC (extended through April 2029) for research and development covering field data collection, laboratory research, computational modeling, medical monitoring, training, facility operations, and report preparation. The 8(a) STARS III GWAC seat (awarded February 2022, extending through July 2026) positions Bennett Aerospace to pursue IT services, data management, communications technology, cybersecurity, software development, and systems design task orders across civilian agencies.

Activity has contracted sharply in recent years. Award volume dropped from 11 in 2022 to 5 in 2024 and 5 in 2025, with only one award (the February 2026 RS3 delivery order) recorded in 2026 year-to-date. This trajectory masks the December 2025 SHIELD IDV award, which carried a $151 billion ceiling and an initial five-hundred-dollar delivery order—a structural anchor that resets the vendor's potential-value footprint. Only one award (worth $61 thousand combined potential value) faces ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal recompete cliff exposure in the near term; the bulk of the vendor's dollar exposure sits on long-duration vehicles (SHIELD through 2035, RS3 through 2029) without immediate renewal pressure.

SCI-reported federal service-contract invoicing shows $26.4 million across prime records in FY2022–FY2024, with FY2022 at $9.4 million across 70.7 FTEs, FY2023 at $10.3 million across 79.7 FTEs, and FY2024 declining to $6.7 million across 30.7 FTEs—a sharp workforce contraction that may reflect the shift toward IDV vehicles and larger delivery orders. Government-paid median hourly rates on prime contracts run $105.16 per hour, with 10th-percentile rates at $50.28 and 90th-percentile rates at $108.41, indicating a mid-spectrum support-professional and technical-labor portfolio. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors perform an average 21% of total contractor hours, with 5 named subcontractors reported, suggesting Bennett Aerospace builds most of its delivery teams in-house while using selective subs for specialized functions. The vendor appears once as a named subcontractor to Astrion Group, LLC on the Laboratory Support Services and Operations II (LASSO) II contract (April 2023), a minor sub footprint relative to its dominant prime posture.

Bennett Aerospace's award portfolio spans five primary NAICS categories: All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (45 awards), Research and Development in Nanotechnology (41 awards), Research and Development in Biotechnology (34 awards), Engineering Services (20 awards), and Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences excluding Biotechnology (15 awards). The PSC framing underscores capability clustering: Support-Professional, Other (53 awards), Natural Resources and Environment R&D Services, Water Resources, and Applied Research (22 awards), Support-Professional, Engineering/Technical (17 awards), and R&D, Other Research and Development (15 awards) account for the bulk of work. The portfolio is fundamentally research, development, and technical support–oriented, with no product procurement or production work visible in the named awards.

Bennett Aerospace is a trusted provider of professional, technical, scientific, systems engineering, information technology/management, and research and development support to Department of Defense, Department of Justice and Other Government Agency customers. In total, Bennett has been awarded more than 50 contracts and task orders under competitive acquisition and currently manages more than 250 personnel in more than 80 locations worldwide.