Grimes Aerospace Company

Grimes Aerospace Company RO Division, doing business as Honeywell Lighting & Electronics Inc., supplies aerospace component repair and manufacturing services to the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security as a prime contractor (91% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to Boeing, Sikorsky, Northrop Grumman, and Bell Textron. Grimes Aerospace is a subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and operates its primary facility in Urbana, Ohio. The company competes on full-and-open basis across all recent awards, with no set-aside designations in its contract footprint.

Grimes Aerospace's capability portfolio centers on maintenance, repair, and overhaul of military aircraft lighting systems, power supplies, landing gear assemblies, and auxiliary equipment. Representative prime work includes two $1.4 million firm fixed-price delivery orders from the Air Force Sustainment Center (awarded March 2022) for B-2 wing tip power supply repair; a $233 thousand firm fixed-price purchase order from the U.S. Coast Guard (September 2022) for searchlight control repair on MH-60T helicopters; and a $188 thousand delivery order from the Air Force Sustainment Center (November 2021) for landing gear light repair. The company also performs sheet metal work and long-lead component manufacturing under subcontracts to Boeing (wing assemblies and C-17 virtual fleet material), Sikorsky (CH-53K long-lead items), Northrop Grumman (E-2D Advanced Hawkeye sheet metal), and Bell Textron (light assembly and floodlight service components).

Customer concentration tracks heavily to Department of Defense. The top five customer entities by award count account for 79% of recent awards, led by Naval Supply Systems Command (55 awards, $5.3 million combined potential value), the Air Force Sustainment Center (28 awards, $9.5 million combined potential value), and the U.S. Coast Guard (37 awards, $1 million combined potential value). By dollar value, the Air Force Sustainment Center dominates at $9.5 million, followed by the Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command ($7.9 million combined potential value from nine awards) and Naval Supply Systems Command. Grimes Aerospace places task orders under five active indefinite delivery contracts with the Air Force and Navy, with the largest concentration under Air Force contract FA811717D0023 (10 task orders, $1.9 million combined potential value) and Air Force contract F3460103D0068 (10 task orders, $1.4 million combined potential value). The company serves 12 distinct federal agencies across its prime and sub footprint. Recent activity shows growth from four total awards in 2024 to twelve in 2026, with only $6 thousand in combined potential value scheduled for completion in the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure.