Howmet Corporation

Howmet Corporation, doing business as Alcoa Howmet Whitehall Casting Operations, supplies aviation engine hardware and related propulsion-system components to the Department of Defense as a subcontractor (100% of recent awards) to General Electric Company on military aircraft engine programs.

Howmet operates as a for-profit corporate entity with all recent federal work routed through GE as the prime contractor on defense propulsion programs. The vendor's footprint is concentrated in aircraft engine parts manufacturing (NAICS 331701, Aircraft Engine and Engine Parts Manufacturing) — all fifteen recent awards fall into this category. Recent work spans F110 engines for Qatar II variants, F-15EX propulsion system components, T700 helicopter engines, and material procurement under performance-based logistics (PBL) arrangements with GE Aviation.

Customer concentration skews heavily toward Air Force and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) channels. The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Aeronautical Systems Center accounts for eight awards; Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for six; the Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Aviation accounts for one. All three customers represent the DoD's aviation propulsion ecosystem, with no civilian agency presence in the recent award footprint. The Air Force's Aeronautical Systems Center dominates both by award count and by implied dollar concentration given that aircraft engine programs carry higher unit values than component or logistics tasks.

Howmet's work flows through three parent indefinite delivery contracts, with the highest task-order concentration on SPE4AX23D9420 (six task orders) and FA862618D0029 (four task orders), both sourced through Air Force and DLA channels. A single task order under W58RGZ15D0048 represents Army aviation exposure.

Activity has accelerated sharply — one award in August 2024 followed by fourteen awards between November 10 and November 12, 2025 — signaling a recent surge in engine hardware procurement or a bulk task-order release under existing parent contracts. The $122.8 million combined obligated value across fifteen awards over roughly fifteen months reflects GE's role as prime integrator for military propulsion systems, with Howmet positioned as a critical castings and engine-component supplier. All recent work is subcontracted; Howmet does not hold prime contracts or participate in government-wide acquisition vehicles directly.