Flightsafety Defense Corporation

Flightsafety Defense Corporation, doing business as FSI - Defense, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway's Flightsafety International, delivers military aviation training, simulation services, and courseware development to the U.S. Department of Defense as a prime contractor (93% of recent awards) with no set-aside designation. Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, the company competes in full-and-open procurements across the Defense Department and operates exclusively as a prime on federal contracts; recent sub-award activity reflects teaming with Boeing, Rockwell Collins, General Dynamics, and other primes on C-17 and aircraft training platform work.

FSI - Defense's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Air Force and Navy. The top five customer entities account for 88% of recent awards by count and 100% of combined potential value by dollars. The Air Force Materiel Command Aeronautical Systems Center dominates the dollar ranking with 25 awards carrying $56.08 billion combined potential value, anchored by the company's position on the Training Systems Acquisition IV (TSA IV) multiple-award IDIQ. The Department of the Navy ranks second by dollar value (19 awards, $4.82 billion combined potential value) through the Naval Air Warfare Center, while the Air Education and Training Command (29 awards, $39.2 million) and Army PEO Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (5 awards, $17.56 billion) round out the major customers. Award volume by count splits between Navy (154 awards) and Air Force (88 awards across multiple sub-components).

FSI - Defense maintains positions on four named IDIQ vehicles. The largest vehicle by task-order count is Basic Ordering Agreement N6247486D1400 with 138 recorded task orders; the TSA IV contract carries 28 task orders valued at $4.2 million combined potential value. The company also holds a $2.51 billion Navy Fielded Training Systems Support V (FTSS V) multiple-award indefinite delivery contract (awarded July 29, 2022, performance through August 30, 2030) and a $900 million Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Architecture and Integration Directorate IDIQ (awarded December 9, 2022, performance through November 14, 2027). Recent representative work includes a $48 million definitive contract from the Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center (July 2023) to develop the Japan Air Self-Defense Force KC-46 Aircrew Training System for Foreign Military Sales, a $14.7 million Naval Air Warfare Center delivery order (July 2025) for Navy pilot training instructor services at Milton, Florida, and a $2.82 million Naval Air Warfare Center definitive contract (May 2025) for TH-57 and CNATRA pilot training services. Recent KC-46 training orders to international customers from the Air Education and Training Command include a $832,416 delivery order (October 2025) and multiple smaller orders ranging from $34,688 to $388,650 for courseware development and boom operator training.

Capability footprint reflects flight training, simulation operations, and courseware development at scale. The top NAICS categories by award count are Flight Training (46 awards), Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (32 awards), and Engineering Services (9 awards). Primary PSC codes cluster around Housekeeping/Facilities Operations Support (159 awards), Education/Training—Vocational/Technical (22 awards), and Maintenance/Repair/Rebuild of Training Aids and Devices (16 awards). The breadth of PSC coding reflects the company's role across training device sustainment, instructor services, and facility operations for military aviation platforms including the KC-46 aerial refueling tanker, TH-57 and TH-73 trainers, C-17 transport aircraft, and naval combat systems.

Activity trajectory shows steady output. The company averaged 10–17 awards per year over the five-year period 2022–2026, with no significant growth or decline signal. Seven awards (combined potential value $1.1 billion) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing moderate recompete exposure but not a cliff-level concentration of work. Service Contract Inventory data, which covers federal service contracts above $150,000 and excludes goods and simulation equipment, shows minimal reported invoicing ($0 across FY2022–FY2024) but indicates 36.4 FTEs delivered to the federal government in FY2024 across three prime SCI-reportable contracts; SCI does not capture the full scope of FSI - Defense's federal work, which is heavily weighted toward simulation equipment, courseware products, and training system development rather than service-contract labor billing.

Subcontractor engagement on FSI - Defense's prime contracts is negligible (0% sub-hours share across SCI-reportable prime contracts), but the company actively subcontracts to larger primes. Named prime contractors include The Boeing Company (C-17 training system work awarded 2024–2025), Rockwell Collins Simulation & Training Solutions (E2D weapons system trainer for France, May 2025), General Dynamics Information Technology (flight school training support services, 2024–2025), Scientific Research Corporation (crash survivable recorder production and installation for T-6 trainers, February 2025), J.F. Taylor Inc. (site survey and visual display system work, 2024), and Sierra Nevada Company (Big Safari services, November 2024). The sub-award footprint centers on training system hardware, logistics support, technical integration, and courseware delivery under major aerospace primes.