Kaman Aerospace Corporation

Kaman Aerospace Corporation, doing business as the Air Vehicles & MRO Division, manufactures rotorcraft components, hydraulic assemblies, flight control systems, and related aerospace parts for the U.S. Department of the Navy and Defense Logistics Agency as a prime contractor (91% of recent awards) competing on full and open, non-set-aside basis. The division is a subsidiary of Kaman Aerospace Group Inc., a for-profit manufacturer headquartered in Bloomfield, Connecticut, with primary operating locations in Bloomfield where most fabrication and assembly work occurs.

Customer concentration is heavily concentrated in naval aviation sustainment. The top five customer organizations account for 95% of awards, led overwhelmingly by the Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command (392 awards, $16.1 million combined potential value) and the Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (77 awards, $720 thousand). By dollar potential, however, the ranking shifts significantly: the Naval Air Systems Command (45 awards, $47.1 million) and the Naval Air Warfare Center (3 awards, $44.2 million) anchor most of the value, followed by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (6 awards, $20.5 million), with NAVSUP's high award count representing many small delivery orders against standing agreements. This split signals a dual footprint: routine component supply to NAVSUP through Basic Ordering Agreements and larger development and prototype work through Naval Air Systems Command and NAVAIR channels.

Kaman's vehicle position sits primarily on three Navy BOAs. Basic Ordering Agreement N0038312G005P carries 322 task orders with $5.8 million combined potential value, N0038318GB401 holds 67 task orders for $8.5 million, and N0038323GDJ01 covers 17 task orders for $1.5 million. The single-award BOA with NAVSUP for SH-2 helicopter parts supporting foreign military sales (primarily Egypt) runs through January 2025 and has generated more than $400 thousand in delivery orders for servocylinders, solenoids, gearboxes, actuators, blades, dampers, flight control computers, and gyroscopes. Recent prime examples include a $7.1 million definitive contract from Naval Air Warfare Center for program management support services (ultimate completion July 2026), a $12.5 million Other Transaction Order from Naval Air Systems Command for the NAVAIR PMA263 Medium Unmanned Logistics System Air (MULSA) prototype project (completed February 2025), and multiple delivery orders from NAVSUP for drive shaft assemblies ($39.6 thousand), rotor flap assemblies ($90 thousand), and blade grip assemblies ($74.6 thousand).

Award activity has declined sharply in recent years. The division received 21 awards in 2022, dropping to 10 in 2023, 3 in 2024, 2 in 2025, and 1 in 2026 — a contraction from historically higher volumes. Only 5 awards (combined potential value $878 thousand) reach completion within the next twenty-four months, limiting immediate recompete exposure but signaling reduced recent pipeline. The combined portfolio carries $129.6 million in combined potential value against $142.7 million in obligations (110% obligated), indicating substantial prior-year commitments.

In its subcontractor role, Kaman Aerospace performs autonomous logistics and autonomous vehicle control engineering to Federal Express Corporation on an enhanced navigation through dynamic replanning and contingency management task order (awarded September 2024), and delivered systems engineering work to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation on DD254 classification updates (awarded April 2022). Primary NAICS concentration sits in Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance, Aeronautical, and Nautical System and Instrument Manufacturing (323 awards), Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (111 awards), and Aircraft Manufacturing (76 awards), with top PSC codes weighted toward Helicopter Rotor Blades, Drive Mechanisms and Components (90 awards) and Miscellaneous Ship and Marine Equipment (77 awards). Kaman competes across its entire portfolio without set-aside designations, relying on full and open competition and its established position as a core supplier to Navy supply and sustainment operations.