Berry Aviation, Inc.

Berry Aviation, Inc., headquartered in San Marcos, Texas, provides specialized aviation services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (82% of recent awards) and subcontractor, delivering airlift, unmanned aircraft systems operations, pilot training, and engineering support across Department of Defense, Department of State, and civilian agencies. The company is a self-certified small disadvantaged business and FAA Part 135 air carrier operating as a child entity of Bristow Group, Inc., a for-profit aviation services parent.

Berry's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward defense airlift programs. The top five funding agencies by award count account for 65% of recent awards, led by the Department of the Air Force (94 awards, though valued at only $2.3 million in combined potential) and the Department of the Army (26 awards, $57.6 million combined potential value). However, the dollar rankings diverge markedly: the Department of Defense United States Transportation Command anchors the portfolio with 4 awards valued at $5.7 billion in combined potential, driven almost entirely by Berry's $5.7 billion Worldwide Airlift Services Program 135 (WASP 135) IDIQ. The Department of the Army Africa Command (9 awards, $1.14 billion combined potential value) and the Air Force Air Mobility Command (15 awards, $676.6 million combined potential value) dominate the remaining dollars. The Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement, which funded 15 awards, represents a secondary customer base at $19.7 million combined potential value.

Berry operates across five primary IDIQs and GWACs. The WASP 135 contract, a $5.7 billion single-award worldwide airlift IDIQ from USTRANSCOM, generates delivery orders for aeromedical evacuation and rotary- and fixed-wing airlift support globally, with recent work including a $51.6 million Marines Rotational Force Darwin aeromedical evacuation delivery order (May 2023) and $10.9 million and $29.3 million fixed- and rotary-wing support orders from the Air Education and Training Command under the ASTRO GWAC (November 2024). Berry holds a position on FEDSIM's ASTRO multiple-award GWAC (platform-related services, no dollar ceiling specified in the source, through November 2031) and executes task orders through the Air Education and Training Command. The vendor also holds a $10 million single-award IDC with the Department of State Bureau of International Narcotics Law Enforcement for Group 1 unmanned aircraft systems, spare parts, operator training, and repair services supporting counternarcotics operations in Colombia (through June 2027), and a $249.7 million multiple-award NAVAIR RAPID MAC MA-IDIQ with the Naval Air Warfare Center for engineering design, systems engineering, and product acquisition services across six capability pools including information surveillance and reconnaissance and airborne mission systems (through March 2032). Berry also holds a single-award $1.23 million IDC with the Federal Aviation Administration for Embraer EMB-120 initial and recurrent pilot qualification training (through May 2031).

Recent capability work demonstrates Berry's three-pillar service model. On the airlift side, the $51.6 million WASP 135 delivery order for Marines Rotational Force Darwin aeromedical evacuation and the $40.3 million in combined ASTRO delivery orders for fixed- and rotary-wing airlift support at Randolph Air Force Base represent core revenue. On the unmanned aircraft systems side, Berry delivered multiple State Department orders under the Colombia counternarcotics IDIQ, including $1.24 million for 37 UAS systems and 25 spare parts kits (March 2023), $1.09 million for 40 systems and 25 spare parts kits (September 2023), and $476.8 thousand for operator training sessions (November 2023). On the advanced development side, Berry executed an $7.59 million Other Transaction Agreement with the Air Force (August 2024) for electric vertical takeoff and landing flight test research and development, prototype simulators, and digital twin research and development, and a $2.33 million eVTOL OTA (July 2026) for the RQ-20B PUMA Dominance Package. A recent $9.68 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract with U.S. Special Operations Command for engineering and contract management services (awarded August 2022, extends to January 2026) rounds out the engineering footprint.

Award volume has grown sharply from 5 prime awards in 2022 to 37 in 2024, though 2025 and 2026 show only 6 and 3 awards respectively in the recent trailing window. Only 2 awards (combined potential value $9.9 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. Berry's sub-award activity has also expanded, with 45 subcontract awards (18% of total awards) placing work under Torch Technologies (systems simulation and integration support for the Army Aviation and Missile Center), Amentum Services (transport aircraft contractor logistics support for the Army fixed-wing fleet), Lockheed Martin (UAS 611 incremental funding), The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (warfare capability research and analysis), and V2X Systems (LOGCAP V and logistics civil augmentation). The largest sub relationships involve recurring technical support to Torch Technologies for aviation and missile center simulation work and ongoing Army aircraft maintenance support to Amentum.

Berry's NAICS concentration reflects its service portfolio: Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation (56 awards), Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (24 awards), Other Support Activities for Air Transportation (17 awards), and Aircraft Manufacturing (15 awards). The PSC breakdown reinforces airlift dominance, with Transportation/Travel/Relocation Air Charter accounting for 124 awards and Unmanned Aircraft systems for 15 awards. The vendor competes on full-and-open vehicles and IDIQ task orders without recurring set-aside designations, though the State Department's Colombia IDIQ carries a Total Small Business set-aside. SCI reporting is minimal, covering only a single FY2022 sub-award record at less than one FTE, indicating that the majority of Berry's federal revenue flows through goods delivery, airlift hours, and task-order work not captured in service-contract inventory reporting.

Chartered Passenger Air Transportation

Chartered Freight Air Transportation

Aircraft Maintenance

Aircraft Parts

Flight Training