Daifuku Airport America Corporation

Daifuku Airport America Corporation, a foreign-owned for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Novi, Michigan, supplies airport baggage inspection systems, checkpoint property screening systems, and system management support services to the federal government as a prime contractor on nearly all of its awards (99% prime, 1% sub). The vendor competes on full-and-open contracts with no set-aside designation; its footprint centers on airport and transportation security infrastructure modernization.

The Transportation Security Administration is Daifuku's dominant customer, accounting for 11 awards worth $39.3 million in combined potential value (84% of recent dollars) despite representing only 14% of award count by volume. The Department of the Treasury United States Mint represents the largest award count at 50 awards with $4.5 million combined potential value, reflecting a long tail of smaller maintenance and parts orders. The Defense Health Agency anchors $3.4 million across a single large award. Recent prime work includes a $2.4 million delivery order from TSA (September 2026) for deployment of Image on Alarm Only technology to computed tomography systems in TSA PreCheck lanes nationwide, a $863,548 delivery order (September 2026) for accessible property screening computed tomography capability development, and a $6.7 million definitive contract (January 2022, completed February 2024) for checked baggage inspection system modernization at TSA's Transportation Security Integration Facility. Daifuku also holds a $24.7 million single-award Systems Transportation Security Solutions IDIQ with TSA through September 2031 and a basic ordering agreement for checkpoint property screening systems through December 2031; multiple delivery orders have been issued under both vehicles since 2024.

Daifuku's award activity has been episodic — two to three awards per year in recent years — with three awards reaching completion in the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $3.4 million). The vendor's capability portfolio is concentrated in conveyor and materials-handling equipment manufacturing (42 awards by NAICS) and related maintenance and repair (15 awards by PSC), with smaller engineering and custom programming components supporting system integration work. On SCI-reportable federal service contracts, Daifuku invoiced $6.8 million across FY2022–FY2025, with government-paid hourly rates ranging from a median of $510.05 per hour to $1,578.40 per hour at the 90th percentile; FTE trajectory declined from 1.7 in FY2022 to 0.5 in FY2024 before rising to 3.0 in FY2025, primarily reflecting sub-engagement on a Leidos checkpoint maintenance contract awarded March 2025. Daifuku performs as a subcontractor to Leidos on airport checkpoint maintenance procured goods and services.