Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation—doing business as Defense Systems Sector—supplies aircraft structural components, electrical connectors, plugs, hydraulic assemblies, fasteners, and mechanical parts to the Defense Logistics Agency and the U.S. military as a prime contractor, competing full-and-open without set-aside designations across all its federal work.

The Defense Systems Sector is a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation (parent UEI EU5DMENAGD85), headquartered at 2980 Fairview Park Drive, Falls Church, Virginia, and operates manufacturing and fulfillment facilities in Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Florida, along with locations in Sierra Vista, Arizona, and multiple other domestic sites. The vendor is a for-profit corporation with no small business set-aside certifications; all recent prime awards are full-and-open competitive procurements. Work centers on aircraft components—structural panels, fuselage sections, ribs and stiffeners, fairings, access doors, hinges, fasteners, electrical connectors and plugs, hydraulic assemblies, actuators, and specialized mechanical hardware—delivered to support military aviation fleet readiness and maintenance.

Customer concentration is extreme and single-agency-dependent. The Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for 2,121 awards (89% of award count) worth $1.16 billion combined potential value (95% of total)—a concentration risk and recompete exposure that dominates the footprint. The Department of the Navy Naval Supply Systems Command, the secondary customer, holds 104 awards ($40.4 million), while the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime, the Defense Contract Management Agency, and DLA Troop Support Hardware round out an otherwise narrow customer base across seven agencies total.

The vendor's vehicle position centers on DLA Aviation's Basic Ordering Agreements: BOA SPE4A117G0004 carries 1,881 task orders ($109.2 million combined potential value) and BOA SPE4A122G0001 carries 341 task orders ($24.8 million). The primary DLA Aviation vehicle is a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (contract 4610106073, valued at $5 million, running through October 2033) for electrical connectors, plugs, and related aerospace components. Task orders under these vehicles are firm fixed-price delivery orders ranging from under $500 to more than $750,000, issued on a routine basis to sustain military aircraft component inventories. The vendor also holds secondary IDCs under SPE4AX19D9403 (73 task orders, $3.5 million) and SPE4AX24DP001 (46 task orders, $839 thousand).

Activity has declined recently—112 awards in 2022, 139 in 2023, 97 in 2024, 74 in 2025, and only 1 in 2026 (reflecting award pipeline reporting lag)—suggesting contraction or maturation of the DLA Aviation relationship. Combined potential value across 2,388 awards totals $1.22 billion, with $168.2 million obligated to date (14% utilization). Within the next twenty-four months, 140 awards (combined potential value $12.9 million) reach ultimate completion, presenting recompete exposure concentrated on DLA Aviation task order renewals.

The vendor works as a prime on all tracked awards; no subcontractor footprint is reflected in the source data. Award summaries reference collaborations with subcontractors including Hydroform USA Incorporated, G.s.e. Dynamics Inc. (WOSB), Grace Aerospace LLC (WOSB), Acufast Aircraft Products (minority-owned small business), TEK Precision Co LIMITED, Safran Electrical & Power USA LLC (Labinal Power Systems), Globe Engineering Co. Inc., and smaller suppliers like Kirkhill Inc., Helicomb International, and Air-Pro Corporation America. These arrangements suggest standard defense supply chain practice—Northrop Grumman holds the prime and master contract relationship while leveraging specialized small business manufacturers for sheet metal, electrical, precision machining, and assembly work.

Primary NAICS classification is 333610 (Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing), accounting for 2,379 of 2,388 awards. Top PSC codes reflect the portfolio composition: Airframe Structural Components (1,011 awards), Miscellaneous Aircraft Accessories and Components (319), Aircraft Hydraulic/Vacuum/De-Icing System Components (107), Pipe/Tube/Rigid Tubing (97), and Hardware Commercial (96). This framing—aircraft parts, connectors, fasteners, and mechanical assemblies in support of DLA Aviation—is the entirety of the Defense Systems Sector's visible federal profile.