Lockheed Martin Corporation

Lockheed Martin Corporation's Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company division, headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, designs, develops, produces, and sustains advanced military aircraft and aerospace systems as a prime contractor across the federal government on a full and open basis — competing without set-aside designations across the Department of Defense, NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and allied-nation defense programs. The division serves primarily as a prime contractor (100% of 21,154 tracked awards) with minimal subcontractor engagement (4% of SCI-reportable sub-hours share across prime service contracts), operating as the dominant systems integrator for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter program and the F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft, with concurrent sustainment and production work spanning F-16 fighter aircraft, international technical support operations, and advanced aerospace technologies.

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company delivers fighter aircraft development, production, and sustainment; mission-critical avionics and sensor systems integration; advanced composite manufacturing; weapons systems engineering; international aircraft integration and technical support for allied nations; and logistics management infrastructure. Representative prime work includes a $3.91 billion Naval Air Systems Command Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract extending through September 2028 for comprehensive F-35 program support (mission systems software, spare parts, weapons integration, international partner site activation); a $240.5 million delivery order from the Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center for F-22 program support through June 2030; a $612.6 million Naval Air Systems Command delivery order for FY25 production F-35 initial spare parts through September 2030; a $513.6 million Air Force definitive contract for Bulgaria F-16 production (January–February 2028); and a $151 billion Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite delivery vehicle (awarded December 2025, extending through December 2035) consolidating research, development, prototyping, systems engineering, production, test and evaluation, and modernization across air, missile, space, and cyber defense domains.

Customer concentration is pronounced and reflects the division's fighter-aircraft focus. The top five funding agencies account for 97% of combined potential value: Naval Air Systems Command leads with 999 awards valued at $336.59 billion combined; the Air Force Materiel Command Aeronautical Systems Center follows with 441 awards worth $148.86 billion; Air Force Materiel Command broadly totals 1,683 awards at $28.67 billion; the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center at Hill Air Force Base holds 238 awards worth $15.67 billion; and the Ogden Air Logistics Complex (Air Force Materiel Command) totals 885 awards at $9.51 billion. The Air Force as a whole accounts for 11,918 awards at $3.55 billion combined potential value (a metric skewed by high-volume small-dollar component orders). NAVAIR's large-dollar concentration anchors the division's strategic posture: F-35 program work dominates dollar value despite the Air Force's larger award count by volume.

The division maintains primary positions on multiple named indefinite delivery vehicles. The $3.91 billion Naval Air Systems Command F-35 support IDV (through September 2028) is the single largest contracting mechanism, generating hundreds of delivery orders annually for sustainment, spare parts, mission systems development, weapons integration, and international integration support. The Air Force Rapid Sustainment Directorate Multiple Award Contract (RO MAC) is a $975 million vehicle (through July 2033) supporting Air Force sustainment acceleration and warfighter readiness. The Missile Defense Agency SHIELD program ($151 billion, through December 2035) represents the division's newest and largest-ceiling indefinite delivery award. Named Air Force vehicles include Indefinite Delivery Contract F4262001D0058 (2,730 task orders, $3.72 billion), Basic Ordering Agreement F4160880G0028 (1,253 task orders), Indefinite Delivery Contract F3365776C0191 (1,055 task orders), and Basic Ordering Agreement FA825013G0001 (1,005 task orders, $26.1 million). The division's ARES (Advanced Raptor Enhancement and Sustainment) F-22 IDIQ generates multiple large delivery orders for F-22 modernization, avionics upgrades, and sensor enhancements through the Aeronautical Systems Center.

Activity has declined in recent years — 373 awards in 2023, 278 in 2024, 302 in 2025, 62 in 2026, and 3 in 2027 (as of the source snapshot date). This trajectory reflects consolidation of the division's footprint into fewer, larger-ceiling vehicles rather than deterioration; the combined potential value across all awards stands at $556.88 billion with $367.48 billion obligated. Within the next twenty-four months, 413 awards (combined potential value $80.5 billion) reach ultimate completion date, creating significant recompete exposure concentrated in F-35, F-22, and F-16 programs alongside emerging work under SHIELD.

SCI-reported federal service contract activity (covering contracts above the $150,000 threshold, excluding goods and classified work) shows $3.34 billion invoiced across FY2022–FY2024. FY2022 invoicing reached $796.2 million across 1,001 contract-level FTEs; FY2023 rose to $1.22 billion across 1,038 FTEs; FY2024 totaled $1.33 billion across 694 FTEs (reflecting consolidation of fewer, larger-contract vehicles rather than workforce reduction). On SCI-reportable federal service contracts, median government-paid rates run around $391/hr, with 10th-percentile rates at $4.15/hr (reflecting data anomalies and low-hour contracts in the SCI dataset) and 90th-percentile senior labor reaching $2,688/hr. Across 49 SCI-reportable prime contracts in FY2024, the division engaged subcontractors for an average of 4% of total contractor hours, with 16 named subcontractors reported across the full SCI period — indicating the division builds and executes most scope in-house rather than relying on subs.

The division operates as Lockheed Martin Corporation's Aeronautics division, a wholly owned subsidiary within the Lockheed Martin Corp parent structure. Named subcontractors are sparse in the recent award history; where identified, subs include Raytheon Company (F-22 Sensor Enhancements program, optical assemblies and test equipment), CAE USA Inc. (F-16 Taiwan Block 70 simulators), and University of Dayton (Sustainment and Combat Readiness Capabilities testing). Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company itself subcontracts to larger primes sparingly — four sub-awards identified across the portfolio (Amentum Services for Indo-Pacific Command technology experimentation, Raytheon for F-22 sensor work, University of Dayton for sustainment, CAE for simulator support).

Federal grant activity is minimal: a NASA Glenn Research Center cooperative agreement (awarded June 2023, completing December 2026) for participation in the High-Rate Composites Aircraft Manufacturing (HICAM) Phase 1 project represents the only named federal grant in the source. The division also appears as a sub-grantee to the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (award October 2025).

The division's federal footprint is dominated by full-and-open prime contracting on major defense acquisition programs — predominantly fighter aircraft (F-35, F-22, F-16) and emerging missile defense systems (SHIELD) — with concentration in Naval Air Systems Command and Air Force Materiel Command funding. No small business set-asides, 8(a) certifications, HUBZone, SDVOSB, or WOSB designations apply; the division competes as a large, unrestricted prime across all tracked awards. The top capability categories by NAICS are Engineering Services (3,820 awards), Aircraft Manufacturing (1,941 awards), and Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (1,682 awards); by PSC, Airframe Structural Components (2,889 awards) and Aircraft, Fixed Wing (2,300 awards) lead. The division operates primarily from Fort Worth, Texas, with secondary performance at numerous Air Force logistics complexes, international customer locations (Japan, Romania, Belgium, Norway, Italy, Germany, and allied nations), and specialized facilities including NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, and the U.S. Coast Guard in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.