CAE Simuflite, Inc.

CAE Simuflite, Inc., doing business as CAE, is a subsidiary of Canadian aviation training and simulation leader CAE Inc. that delivers pilot qualification training, aircraft simulator maintenance, and engineering support services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (77% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on defense platform-sustainment programs. The company, headquartered in Grapevine, Texas, competes full-and-open with no small business set-aside designations across its federal portfolio and operates across 37 distinct customer agencies with a recent 663-award footprint valued at $387.8 million combined potential value.

CAE Simuflite's prime work concentrates overwhelmingly on initial and recurrent pilot qualification training across business-aviation and general-aviation aircraft platforms — Embraer Phenom 300, Bombardier Global and Challenger series, Gulfstream G-IV/G-V, Beechcraft King Air, Pilatus, and FAA-operated flight-test platforms including BE-350 ProLine 21 and DA-7X. Representative recent prime awards include a $375,960 delivery order from the Federal Aviation Administration for Challenger 600 Series maintenance training (December 2025, firm fixed-price through December 2030), a $1.52 million delivery order from Franchise Acquisition Services for simulator maintenance and engineering support in Oklahoma City (July 2025, base-year ceiling), and a $3.97 million bridge-period delivery order for initial and recurrent pilot training to the FAA (December 2021). The company also holds a $1.79 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with the FAA for aircraft technical maintenance training effective through 2030 and maintains active blanket purchase agreements for aviation training services with FAA ceilings through 2028. Aircraft-systems training and flight simulator sustainment dominate the PSC and NAICS breakdown: 337 delivery orders fall under Education/Training (Other) PSC, with flight training as the primary NAICS across 463 awards.

Customer concentration sits with civilian aviation agencies, particularly the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA Headquarters and the FAA Aeronautical Center combined account for 234 awards and $135 million in potential value (35% of combined value across all customers). The Department of the Air Force Air Mobility Command and the FBI Headquarters Division follow distantly, with $23.9 million and $20.2 million respectively. The split reflects CAE Simuflite's specialization in FAA pilot training: FAA Headquarters alone carries 141 awards worth $77.7 million, while the Aeronautical Center holds 93 awards for $57.3 million. The Department of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Air Force Materiel Command Aeronautical Systems Center (147 awards by count but lower dollar share), and the Air Mobility Command complete the top five by potential value.

CAE Simuflite places work under multiple FAA indefinite delivery contracts and blanket purchase agreements valued at over $15 million collectively through 2028. The top parent vehicles include the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) vehicle with 94 task orders, two FAA indefinite delivery contracts carrying 48 and 42 task orders respectively worth $4.4 million and $134.3 million combined potential value, and an Air Force F-series contract vehicle with 19 task orders valued at $10.1 million. A single Franchise Acquisition Services indefinite delivery contract for simulator maintenance (contract 6973GH-19-D-00076) carries 19 task orders worth $388 thousand and runs through September 2028, anchoring the company's sustainment work with consistent annual deliveries exceeding $1.3 million.

In its subcontractor role, CAE Simuflite delivers platform maintenance, pilot training, and flight-training support to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation on Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) E-11A and general platform-maintenance contracts, with dozens of task awards in 2023–2026 spanning vocational training and flight-training delivery. The company also supplies flight-simulator rental time and pilot-workload assessment support to Science Applications International Corporation on FAA research task orders and provides BIG SAFARI aircraft-manufacturing and platform-sustainment services to Sierra Nevada Company and L3Harris Technologies. Activity has grown year over year — 11 awards in 2022 to 89 in 2025 — with only 5 awards (combined potential value $1.9 million) facing ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure.

SCI (Service Contract Inventory) data for federal service contracts above the $150,000 threshold covers FY2022–FY2024 and shows 18 records (17 as prime, 1 as named subcontractor) with zero reported invoiced revenue in the dataset. The vendor-FTE trajectory in SCI shows 0.7 FTEs in FY2022 and zero FTEs in FY2023–FY2024, reflecting that CAE Simuflite's substantial training delivery — evidenced by hundreds of delivery orders in the $10,000–$1.5 million range — operates below or outside the SCI reporting threshold for invoiced dollars. This gap signals that SCI captures only the largest service-contract awards; the bulk of CAE Simuflite's federal revenue flows through smaller purchase orders and delivery orders that, while individually above $150,000 ceiling values, do not cross the SCI reporting line. With 77% of awards as prime and no subcontractor engagement visible in SCI metrics, CAE Simuflite builds its own delivery capability rather than relying on subcontractors for core training operations.