Lockheed Martin Corp

Lockheed Martin Corp's Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Division, operating as Lockheed Martin Aerostructures, manufactures aerospace components, aerostructure assemblies, and delivers sustaining engineering and logistics support services to the U.S. Department of Defense as a large prime contractor competing on full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations. The division is a child of Lockheed Martin Corporation, a premier defense and aerospace company headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and operates primarily from Marietta, Georgia, with subordinate locations in Cartersville, Georgia; Grand Rapids, Michigan; and Orange Park, Florida. All work is performed on firm fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and cost-reimbursable delivery orders and task orders under the division's established indefinite delivery vehicles.

Lockheed Martin Aerostructures manufactures specialized aircraft components—wing assemblies, fuselage sections, structural panels, ducting systems, electrical harnesses, valve assemblies, and precision metal fabrications—and provides technical engineering, sustainment logistics, and mission-critical modernization services across legacy and modern military transport and special operations aircraft. Representative recent prime contract work includes a $146 million delivery order from the Air Force for Military Airborne Collision Avoidance System–Formation Rendezvous (MILACAS-FR) Formation Positioning System procurement for the C-130J program (awarded June 18, 2026, completing December 2, 2031); a $120.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from Air Force Materiel Command for Digital Management System refresh addressing component obsolescence in control panels, power and load control units, and multifunction control display units on C-130J aircraft (awarded September 30, 2025, completing August 31, 2029); a $102.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from the Air Force for HC/MC-130 communications systems modernization integrating high-frequency, ultra-high-frequency, and very-high-frequency radio replacements (awarded April 3, 2025, completing July 16, 2031); and a $89.17 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contractor logistics support definitization modification from Air Force Materiel Command (awarded June 1, 2025, completing December 31, 2027).

Customer concentration is extreme and mission-critical. The top five funding agencies by potential value account for 93 percent of the division's $91.33 billion combined potential value across 11,804 awards. The Air Force Materiel Command's Aeronautical Systems Center dominates with 157 awards valued at $60.94 billion, anchored by the C-130J Hercules Transport Aircraft Major Defense Acquisition Program, which is the division's strategic center of gravity. Downstream Air Force logistics commands—the Lifecycle Management Center Wright Patterson Air Force Base (105 awards, $8.47 billion), the Air Force Sustainment Center (26 awards, $6.92 billion), the Lifecycle Management Center Robins Air Force Base (676 awards, $6.04 billion), and the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex (176 awards, $2.48 billion)—collectively deliver another $23.94 billion. The Navy and Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (component-level procurement) round out the portfolio. The split between award count and potential value reveals that Aeronautical Systems Center orders are strategically large ($388 million median), while Defense Logistics Agency Aviation orders are routine component purchases ($19 thousand median).

The division holds five major parent vehicle positions. The two largest are single-award indefinite delivery contracts: a $249.6 million IDIC from Air Force Materiel Command for sustaining software services for the C-5 Galaxy fleet (awarded May 21, 2026, extending through May 20, 2032) and a $239 million IDIC from Air Force Materiel Command for technical engineering services supporting the C-5 Galaxy (awarded September 15, 2025, extending through August 14, 2030). A $66.96 million Naval Air Systems Command IDC awarded July 1, 2024, and extending through June 30, 2029, authorizes delivery orders for C-130J sustaining engineering, logistics support, spare parts procurement, and component supply across the Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and reserve components; this vehicle has seeded dozens of significant task orders. A January 8, 2026, Basic Ordering Agreement with Naval Supply Systems Command for multi-platform repair items supporting C-130, KC-130J, and foreign military sales operations extends through January 14, 2031, and has issued thirteen firm fixed-price delivery orders totaling $11.87 million. Beyond these named vehicles, the division operates under five additional parent BOAs and IDICs carrying designations F0960379G0508, F0960302G0005, F0960382G1386, F0960384G1434, and F0960387G1639, which collectively have issued 2,981 task orders. Approximately 194 awards (combined potential value $10.35 billion) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and face recompete exposure.

Activity has trended downward in 2026 and 2027 in the source snapshot, with 88 awards in 2026 and only 1 in 2027, reflecting either data lag on newer awards or compression in the division's award velocity. The prior five-year trend (2023–2025) shows relative stability at 138–152 awards annually, but the dollar concentration means that one or two major delivery orders dominate the annual picture. The division's capability footprint is concentrated in airframe structural components (NAICS 336413, accounting for 3,988 awards under PSC airframe structural components), maintenance and repair services, and aircraft engineering services. Subcontracting footprint is minimal: across the SCI-reportable service-contract dataset (FY2022–FY2025, covering 71 contracts above the $150,000 threshold), the division acts as prime on 69 records and is named as a subcontractor on only 2 records, indicating it primarily builds delivery on internal capacity. Named subcontractors under large primes include Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group (maintenance and logistics), GE Aviation Systems and Dowty Propellers (propulsion systems), Rolls-Royce Corporation (engine support), L3Harris Technologies, Honeywell International, and Vertex Aerospace LLC, all supporting C-130J and C-5 sustainment and modernization tasks.

SCI-reported invoicing on service contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $54.7 million across FY2022–FY2025, with FY2023 peaking at $24.7 million across 51.2 FTEs delivered to the federal government. FY2024 saw a steep decline to $459 thousand across 0.3 FTEs, suggesting either workforce shift to classified or non-SCI-reportable work or transition of effort to cost-reimbursable vehicles not fully captured in invoiced-revenue metrics. FY2025 recovered modestly to $3.5 million across 5.7 FTEs. On federal service contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates ran around $298.91/hr, with the 10th percentile at $207.52/hr and the 90th percentile at $520.05/hr, consistent with mid-to-senior technical and engineering labor in the aerospace sustainment and systems integration space. The division does not subcontract on its own prime SCI contracts (0 percent sub-hours share), instead delivering through internal teams, though it routinely appears as a subcontractor to other large primes on major programs.