Kidde Technologies, Inc.

Kidde Technologies, Inc. Kidde Aerospace And Defense Division, a subsidiary of RTX Corporation, supplies fire protection, fire detection, and safety systems for military aircraft and defense platforms as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) on full-and-open federal contracts with no set-aside posture. The division manufactures specialized aerospace components including sensing elements, fire extinguishers, control systems, connectors, and mechanical safety equipment from its Wilson, North Carolina facility.

Customer concentration is extreme and highly specialized. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation alone accounts for 4,267 awards worth $241.7 million in combined potential value—61% of total awards and 60% of all dollars across the portfolio. The top five customer agencies (DLA Aviation, Army Materiel Command Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command, Naval Supply Systems Command, DLA Land and Maritime, and Air Force Sustainment Center) cover 86% of awards and 85% of combined potential value. This customer footprint reflects a dominant position as an aviation spare-parts and fire-protection supplier to DoD logistics commands rather than spread across civilian agencies or prime-contract work.

Kidde operates under two named Indefinite Delivery Contracts held as prime. The Air Force Sustainment Center awarded a single-award, five-year $1.921 million IDC effective February 28, 2025 through February 28, 2030 for repair of B-1B aircraft fire alarm control systems—the largest named contract vehicle in the source and a sole-source award citing Kidde as the incumbent provider. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation awarded a single-award $108,290.92 IDC effective November 30, 2023 through November 29, 2026 for control amplifier components and fire protection systems. Beyond these named vehicles, Kidde places delivery orders against a large portfolio of DLA standing indefinite delivery contracts: SPE4AX18D9409 carries 1,909 task orders worth $47.1 million; SP045101D4084 has 83 task orders; SPM7LX13D0042 has 57 task orders worth $815 thousand; and four additional unnamed IDVs round out the vehicle stack. The sheer volume of task orders (1,909 against the lead vehicle alone) signals that Kidde is a named supplier on government-wide or DLA-wide vehicles rather than holding sole-source exclusive contracts.

Activity has remained steady at high volume. From 2022 to 2024, annual awards ranged from 396 to 570; 2025 saw 405 awards; 2026 shows 37 awards in the partial year captured. Combined potential value across the entire 6,924-award portfolio is $400.8 million, with $331.8 million obligated (83% utilization). The recent recompete cliff is modest: 109 awards (combined potential value $4.9 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing low near-term recompete risk relative to the scale of the portfolio.

Subcontracting footprint is minimal—50 sub-awards (1% of total activity) under prime contractors The Boeing Company and Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation for aerospace commodities and control panel components. Kidde's role is overwhelmingly as a prime, not a sub.

The capability portfolio is narrowly focused on fire protection and detection systems for military aircraft. Representative work includes a $266.4 thousand delivery order for sensing elements for fire detection systems (DLA Aviation, August 2025); a $131.957 million delivery order for infrared sensing elements (DLA Aviation, November 2025); a $123.943 thousand purchase order for pressure switches (DLA Aviation, December 2025); a $114.539 thousand delivery order for rupturable disks (DLA Aviation, December 2025); and a $1.921 million IDC for B-1B fire alarm control system repairs (Air Force Sustainment Center, February 2025 through February 2030). NAICS distribution reflects this specialization: Aircraft Engine and Engine Parts Manufacturing (1,935 awards), Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (1,557 awards), and Search, Detection, Navigation, Guidance systems (395 awards) dominate the portfolio. Product Service Code concentration shows Miscellaneous Aircraft Accessories and Components (2,064 awards) and Aircraft Alarm and Signal Systems (1,102 awards) as the top two categories.

Kidde is a subsidiary of RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies), a large multinational aerospace and defense prime with corporate headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. RTX's ownership confers access to established prime-contract relationships but does not trigger small-business set-asides or VOSB/SDVOSB posture for Kidde's own awards.