ILC Astrospace LLC

ILC Astrospace LLC, a Delaware-based aerospace equipment manufacturer and subsidiary of Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S., Inc., designs and manufactures extravehicular activity (EVA) spacesuit components and thermal management systems for federal programs as a prime contractor on specialized equipment purchases (21% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to major aerospace primes (79% of awards). The company competes full-and-open with no recurring set-aside designations.

ILC Astrospace operates almost entirely within the human spaceflight ecosystem. The company's customer footprint concentrates with NASA Johnson Space Center, which accounts for 12 awards across its recent history, predominantly through subcontract work under Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International on the Extravehicular Space Operations Contract (ESOC). That prime relationship anchors the majority of ILC Astrospace's federal work, with sub awards spanning spacesuit component manufacturing, thermal management garment production, and engineering support for EVA suit development and sustainment. Representative sub work includes detailed component manufacturing calls for upper arm, lower arm, waist, brief, legs, boots, helmet, glove systems, thermal slippers, and related EVA hardware under ESOC letter subcontracts and cost-plus-award-fee modifications, with sustainment engineering letters recurring across 2024 and 2025. Recent prime awards broaden the customer set: a $3.14 million firm fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Naval Supply Systems Command on November 5, 2025, for "Balloon Underwater" work running through November 2027; a $284,349.50 purchase order from a NASA Shared Services Center on February 9, 2026, for repair and restoration of REI and WEZI spacesuit prototypes completing August 7, 2026; and a $25,000 purchase order from the NASA Shared Services Center on July 28, 2025, for 16 CBA regular size neckdam assemblies completing November 14, 2025. Three awards from the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command and one from the Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection (valued at $30 million in combined potential value) round out the active customer set, though detailed scope on the DHS award is not specified in the source.

Combined potential value across 19 awards totals $33.5 million, though combined dollars obligated stand at $110.4 million (330% of potential value), indicating substantial cost growth or definitized change orders on existing contracts. Two awards reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing $3.4 million to recompete. Activity shows volatility — three awards in 2014, no awards in intervening years, then seven in 2024 and four each in 2025 and 2026 — reflecting recent deepening engagement with ESOC sustainment and the broadening NASA prime customer base. Top category concentration lies in other guided missile and space vehicle parts and auxiliary equipment manufacturing (12 awards) and aircraft manufacturing (4 awards), consistent with the EVA spacesuit component and thermal systems capability profile.