Lone Star Aerospace, Inc.

Lone Star Aerospace, Inc., doing business as Lone Star Analysis, is a for-profit defense contractor based in Addison, Texas that delivers professional development and administrative labor, predictive business and technical analysis, simulation modeling, and engineering services to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (85% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor to defense primes. The vendor competes without set-aside restrictions across full-and-open procurements and operates almost entirely in the naval aviation domain.

Customer concentration is extreme and reflects a singular relationship. The Naval Air Systems Command's Naval Air Warfare Center accounts for 111 of 144 total awards (77% of award count) with $214.4 million in combined potential value, dominating both volume and dollars. The Department of the Air Force represents three awards carrying $46 billion in potential value — driven entirely by a March 2025 $46 billion seat on the Enterprise-Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC) fourth on-ramp through the Air Force Lifecycle Management Center at Eglin Air Force Base with a performance period through September 2031. The GSA Federal Acquisition Service contributes a $40 million Federal Supply Schedule position (14 Special Item Numbers covering management consulting, engineering, IT professional services, and cloud services), while the Air Education and Training Command adds $14.8 million across two awards. Five Navy Sea Systems Command awards round out the top customers at $150 thousand combined.

Lone Star's vehicle position anchors to Navy labor-support IDIQs and the newly won EWAAC. The top four parent vehicles drive the majority of activity: Indefinite Delivery Contract N0042121D0037 (44 task orders, $62 million combined potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract N0042116D0012 (34 task orders, $19.6 million), Indefinite Delivery Contract N6893612D0033 (18 task orders, $17.6 million), and Indefinite Delivery Contract N6893610D0046 (8 task orders, $4.2 million). These four vehicles account for over 100 task orders against NAVAIR alone. The GSA Federal Supply Schedule and the $46 billion EWAAC provide secondary volume channels; EWAAC itself carried only one $1,000 delivery order as of April 2025, indicating the vehicle is in early post-award phase.

Activity has contracted sharply. Lone Star received 12 awards in 2022, scaled to 31 in 2023 (driven by NAVAIR delivery orders), but dropped to 9 in 2024, 8 in 2025, and 4 in 2026 year-to-date. Four awards with combined potential value $4.7 million reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and face recompete risk. SCI-reportable invoicing for federal services contracts above the $150,000 threshold totaled $1.6 million in FY2022 against 5.0 FTEs with government-paid median rates at $152.11 per hour; SCI records show zero FTE or invoicing in FY2023 and FY2025, indicating most NAVAIR delivery-order activity falls below SCI's $150,000 threshold or is classified. The SCI dataset is a partial and non-representative view of Lone Star's federal work.

In its subcontractor posture, Lone Star delivers research, analysis, and engineering services under primes including Aptima Inc. (systematic reconciliation and automated classification RDT&E), KBR Wyle Services (F/A-18 and EA-18G reliability engineering and service-life-extension analysis), HII Mission Technologies Corp (scientific and technical information and R&D analytical services), Red Peak Technical Services (PULSE visualization module software), and Science Applications International Corporation (tactical exploitation and trace detection software). Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed zero percent of hours, indicating Lone Star builds its own delivery teams on recorded service contracts rather than relying on subs, though the sub-award portfolio shows regular engagement with larger defense primes on RDT&E and engineering programs.

Capability portfolio centers on professional development and administrative (PDA) staffing at NAVAIR's Patuxent River, Maryland facility — the backbone of the award base — augmented by predictive decision analysis, simulation modeling, and engineering analysis for naval aviation systems acquisition and sustainment. Representative prime work includes a $4.6 million PDA labor order from NAVAIR for professional and analysis services (awarded May 2022), a $5.8 million PDA order for analytical lab services at Patuxent River (awarded November 2021), a $2.03 million exercise of option year one for PDA services (awarded September 2025), and a $614 thousand delivery order for predictive business and technical analysis supporting Naval Air Enterprise initiatives and the T-45TS Goshawk Major Defense Acquisition Program (awarded July 2026). A $99.8 thousand skill-attainment modeling purchase order from Air Education and Training Command (July 2023) demonstrates secondary capability in custom aviation-training analytics software. Sub work encompasses F/A-18 reliability engineering, systematic data classification frameworks, and trace detection software for tactical operations.

The EWAAC win in March 2025 represents the vendor's first major multi-award vehicle outside the Navy ecosystem, though its ammunition-manufacturing NAICS classification (332993) on that vehicle diverges sharply from the vendor's core engineering-services posture (113 of 144 awards carry NAICS 541330 for engineering services, with 18 in R&D). The contrast signals either a broad-based teaming arrangement on EWAAC or a classification artifact; either way, the vehicle provides theoretical access to Air Force customers beyond NAVAIR. However, the tight NAVAIR relationship and recent activity decline suggest limited near-term diversification away from naval aviation labor support.