Innovative Solutions & Support Inc.

Innovative Solutions & Support Inc., doing business as Innovative Aerosystems Corp, is a manufacturer and repair specialist of military aircraft avionics components operating as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards) across full-and-open federal procurement, with no SBA set-aside designations. Based in Exton, Pennsylvania, the company is a for-profit manufacturer registered in SAM.gov since November 2001, competing predominantly on specialized technical capability and source-approval authority rather than small-business status.

Innovative Aerosystems Corp delivers concrete repair and overhaul services for critical flight-safety avionics: air data computers, altitude alerters, altimeters, airspeed indicators, alarm monitors, engine data units, and related components used on C-130 Hercules and KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft. The company also provides digital air data computer software upgrades, engine instruments and displays, and servo-controlled automatic altimeters. Representative prime work includes a $6.64 million single-award IDC with the Air Force Sustainment Center (awarded October 2025, running through September 2032) for KC-135 altitude alerters and avionics repair, a $449,867.87 delivery order from Air Force Sustainment Center for repair of altitude alerters, altimeters, air data computers, and airspeed indicators (awarded October 2025, completion November 2026), a $544,595.50 firm-fixed-price definitive contract with Naval Supply Systems Command for engine installation and repair components (awarded April 2025), and a $268,002 purchase order from NAVSUP for engine data unit repair (awarded September 2025, completion June 2026).

Customer concentration is dominated by Department of Defense maintenance and sustainment activities. The Air Force Sustainment Center accounts for 110 awards worth $36 million in combined potential value (32% of the total), followed by the U.S. Coast Guard (68 awards, $18.1 million), Naval Supply Systems Command (104 awards, $5.3 million), and the broader Department of the Air Force Materiel Command (36 awards, $10.8 million). Together, these four customers represent 80% of awards and 73% of combined potential value. The Department of the Interior and Department of Energy round out the portfolio with single large awards ($8.3 million and $8 million respectively), but defense logistics dominates both award count and dollars.

Innovative Aerosystems holds three active single-award IDCs with the Air Force Sustainment Center: the newly awarded $6.64 million KC-135 contract (October 2025–September 2032), a $353,080 C-130 air data computer contract (December 2024–December 2026), and a $288,856 C-130 air data computer contract (February 2022–February 2027). The company also operates under five major prime IDCs with the Air Force Sustainment Center and Coast Guard, placing 47 task orders under Indefinite Delivery Contract FA810306D0017 ($9.2 million), 42 under Coast Guard IDC HSCG3811DH00022 ($324 thousand), and 25 under FA873006D0008 ($10.9 million). These vehicles anchor the company's federal business and enable rapid issuance of delivery orders for depot-level avionics repair as operational needs arise.

Activity has grown steadily year over year—seven awards in 2022 to seventeen in 2025—with modest recompete exposure: nine awards worth $997 thousand in combined potential value reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months. The company's NAICS footprint is heavily concentrated in Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (216 awards), with secondary concentration in Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (67 awards). PSC-level work clusters around maintenance, repair, and rebuild of instruments and laboratory equipment (116 awards), engine instruments (38 awards), and flight instruments (35 awards).

Innovative Aerosystems also operates as a subcontractor to major primes in the aerospace supply chain. Named sub relationships include Boeing (KC-X Modernization Program aerospace support and PBL material support), Northrop Grumman (digital air data computer components), Sierra Nevada Company (Big Safari display units, aircraft parts, and computer components), and Textron Aviation (NAVAIR Multi-Engine Training System program components and display units). Subcontract volume represents 4% of recent awards and carries titles emphasizing avionics components, display systems, and aircraft parts manufacturing in support of legacy military aircraft modernization programs.