GE Aviation Systems LIMITED

GE Aviation Systems LIMITED, a United Kingdom-based subsidiary of General Electric Company, supplies electrical and mechanical aviation components to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (67% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on major defense aircraft programs. The company competes predominantly in full-and-open procurements with no set-aside designations, reflecting its status as a large international manufacturer. Place of performance is Cheltenham, UK, and the company operates under NAICS codes centered on aircraft parts manufacturing (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing, Aircraft Manufacturing, and Printed Circuit Assembly Manufacturing).

GE Aviation Systems LIMITED holds a dominant footprint in defense aviation logistics. Its top five customer agencies by award count—the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, Naval Air Systems Command, Naval Supply Systems Command, Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, and Naval Air Warfare Center—account for 94% of recent awards. The concentration by dollar value tracks closely: Naval Air Warfare Center leads at $35.2 million across 14 awards, followed by Naval Supply Systems Command at $12.7 million and Defense Logistics Agency Aviation at $12.5 million. This customer concentration reflects the vendor's strategic role as a routine component supplier for military aviation sustainment and readiness. The vendor operates under multiple indefinite delivery vehicles including a $28.6 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with Naval Air Warfare Center for Common Electric Stand-By Indicators (CESI) covering fiscal years 2024 through 2028, a $4.8 million multiple-award Basic Ordering Agreement with Naval Supply Systems Command for V-22 Osprey components, and a $9.999 million single-award Basic Ordering Agreement with Defense Logistics Agency Aviation for a wide range of aircraft parts. Task order activity against these vehicles has been steady: 76 task orders under the DLA Aviation BOA, 37 against the DLA Land and Maritime BOA, and 10 against the Naval Supply Systems Command BOA.

Recent prime contract activity spans standardized aviation components: electrical contacts, circuit card assemblies, connectors, circuit breakers, relaying segments, spacers, washers, bolts, screws, bearing assemblies, interface modules, signal converters, and mechanical fasteners. Representative orders include a $631.8 million signal converter delivery order from Naval Supply Systems Command (May 2025, completion September 2026), a $507.4 million aircraft fairing delivery order from Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (November 2025), a $163.8 million CESI configuration update from Naval Air Warfare Center (July 2024), and $96.1 million in non-recurring engineering support for CESI obsolescence updates (July 2025). Dollar magnitudes on individual task orders are typically modest—under $100 thousand—reflecting component-level procurement executed against standing IDVs rather than new contract vehicles.

In its subcontractor role, GE Aviation Systems LIMITED supplies electrical power systems (270-volt batteries, battery chargers, power distribution centers) and specialized avionics components to major defense primes. The company subcontracts to Lockheed Martin Corporation on F-35 Joint Strike Fighter long-lead items, including 270-volt batteries, 28-volt lithium batteries, flight display standby systems, power panels, and remote input/output units across multiple production lots; to The Boeing Company on Apache AH-64E attack helicopter full-rate production; and to Bell Boeing Joint Project Office on CMV-22 production long-lead items. Sub-award modifications dated as recently as September 2025 show GE UK providing batteries, chargers, power distribution centers, and test fixtures for F-35 developmental test aircraft and block 4 capability sustainment. Vertex Aerospace and URS Federal Services represent other notable sub-relationships in depot technical directives and developmental test viability work.

Activity has grown substantially year over year from 37 awards in 2022 to 79 in 2024, though 2025 activity has slowed to 31 awards and 2026 shows only 10 awards in the source data snapshot (as of April 8, 2026). Seventeen awards face ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $1.6 million—a modest recompete exposure relative to the size of standing IDVs. The vendor's federal work footprint spans 299 total awards (prime and sub combined) with combined potential value of $60.9 million but obligated dollars of $249.4 million, indicating substantial performance depth against relatively modest ceiling values on component-level task orders. GE Aviation Systems LIMITED operates as a foreign-owned child of General Electric Company and does not hold SBA designations; competition is full-and-open across all listed awards.