GE Aviation Systems LLC

GE Aviation Systems LLC, a division of GE Aviation operating as GE Edison Works, manufactures and supplies advanced aviation components, flight data recorders, navigation systems, and aircraft repair services to the Department of Defense and federal agencies as a large unrestricted prime contractor (95% of recent awards) competing full-and-open across federal procurements with no socioeconomic set-asides. The company is a subsidiary of General Electric Company, headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with primary NAICS category 334419 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing).

GE Aviation Systems dominates the federal aviation components and sustainment market. Its top five customers by combined potential value—Naval Supply Systems Command ($1.23 billion across 638 awards), Air Force Materiel Command Lifecycle Management Center ($559.1 million across 42 awards), Defense Logistics Agency Aviation ($263.9 million across 1,157 awards), Naval Air Systems Command ($166.5 million across 146 awards), and Air Force Sustainment Center ($151.8 million across 224 awards)—account for 83% of recent combined potential value. Naval Supply Systems Command leads both volume and dollars; Defense Logistics Agency Aviation places the highest volume but substantially lower per-award dollars, reflecting routine spare-parts procurement. The portfolio spans domestic and foreign military sales work, with place of performance across Grand Rapids Michigan (primary), Clearwater Florida, and multiple other facilities.

Concrete representative work includes a $51.5 million Naval Supply Systems Command delivery order for Navy acquisition (October 2024), a $8.28 million Air Force Sustainment Center delivery order for flight data recorder data acquisition units (January 2026), a $15.9 million Naval Supply Systems Command performance-based logistics delivery order for SMS/SMUG/CSC shipboard sustainment (October 2025), and a $5.38 million Air Force Supply Chain Network Services delivery order for Option Year IV aircraft sustainment (December 2025). Recent work also includes a $23.5 million DARPA Other Transaction Agreement for critical rapid acquisition of secure high-assurance provable internet protocol encryptors (CRASHPIPE) prototype effort (November 2025) and $66,000 U.S. Coast Guard repair order for CNIS processors on HC-130J aircraft (September 2024).

GE Aviation Systems operates under five major parent vehicles. The Defense Logistics Agency Basic Ordering Agreement SPE4A119G0016 carries 1,340 task orders valued at $94.2 million combined potential value and anchors routine aviation parts procurement; Defense Logistics Agency BOA SPE4A114G0008 holds 265 task orders ($26.5 million); Naval Supply Systems Command BOA N0038319GU901 has 176 task orders ($15.6 million); an indefinite delivery contract SPE4A214D0002 carries 106 task orders ($7.5 million); and Naval Supply Systems Command BOA N0038314G002D has 96 task orders ($7.7 million). The company also holds three single-award indefinite delivery contracts: a $1.98 billion Army Aviation and Missile Command IDIQ for UH-60 Blackhawk switching group overhaul (April 2026–April 2031, two delivery orders to date); a $3.35 million Air Force Sustainment Center IDC for flight data recorder repair (September 2025–September 2030); and a $314,395 Air Force Sustainment Center IDC for F-16 crash survivable memory unit and flight data recorder repair (April 2025–April 2027, two delivery orders to date).

Recent activity has declined: from 322 awards in 2023 to 352 in 2024, dropping to 126 in 2025 and 44 in 2026, with only 1 award in 2027. This tracks the portfolio's shift from high-volume goods and micro-purchase activity toward larger delivery orders and IDIQs. Ninety-six awards totaling $95.3 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and represent recompete exposure.

The subcontractor footprint reveals deep integration with tier-one defense primes. GE Aviation Systems subcontracts to The Boeing Company on Apache AH-64E foreign military sales for Poland, Egypt, and Kuwait (96 aircraft), P-8 Poseidon trainers for Canada, KC-X modernization, MQ-25 Stingray unmanned carrier air system, and engineering support across multiple platforms (thirteen sub-awards from March 2026 to September 2025). The company also subs to Bell Textron on H-1 rotorcraft time-critical parts and Future Vertical Lift FLRAA capability development (three sub-awards from July through November 2025), to Northrop Grumman on B-2 bomber software sustainment and system configuration sets (eight sub-awards in July 2025), and to Raytheon on CIWS production major assemblies. Sub-award scopes include components, assemblies, repair services, engineering support, and software sustainment across rotorcraft, fixed-wing platforms, and ship-based systems. Across SCI-reportable prime service contracts, the vendor performed 4.7 FTEs with no subcontractor hours reported in FY2022 ($4 million invoiced) and minimal activity in subsequent years; median government-paid hourly rate ran $410/hr, reflecting specialized technical and engineering labor.

GE Aviation Systems competes without set-asides across full-and-open federal procurements, positioning itself as a large unrestricted prime in a consolidated market anchored by routine sustainment and spare-parts procurement to the Navy and Air Force logistics centers and Defense Logistics Agency Aviation.