Rockwell Collins, Inc.

Rockwell Collins, Inc., operating the Collins Aerospace Military Avionics & Helicopters division, delivers military aircraft repair, overhaul, avionics sustainment, and performance-based logistics services to the Department of Defense and related federal agencies as a large business prime contractor (94% of recent awards) competing full-and-open with no small business set-asides across its entire federal footprint. A subsidiary of RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies), Rockwell Collins maintains no minority ownership, SDVOSB, HUBZone, or 8(a) designations and competes across its portfolio as an unrestricted large business entity.

The company's concrete capability footprint centers on military avionics repair and overhaul, flight control systems sustainment, helicopter platform modernization, and supply chain management for legacy fighter and rotorcraft systems. Representative recent work includes a $15.8 million Air Force Sustainment Center delivery order (awarded August 2025) for F-15E Flat Panel Multipurpose Display development and delivery through January 2029; a $19.9 million Naval Supply Systems Command annual task order (September 2025) for Year 4 F/A-18 Head-Up Display performance-based logistics services; a $12.4 million Coast Guard delivery order (September 2026) for Aviation Logistics Center sustainment under the $99 million performance-based logistics IDC; and a $10.4 million Air Force Sustainment Center order (December 2025) for KC-135 data acquisition unit manufacturing. The division also performs avionics software development—a $12.9 million USSOCOM order (January 2026) covered CAAS V10.2 build development for H-47ER aircraft, and a $174 million USSOCOM IDC (awarded March 2026) funds post-deployment software support and avionics modernization across multiple helicopter and special operations platforms.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of Defense sustainment apparatus. The top five customers by award count—Air Force Sustainment Center (471 awards, $410.5 million combined value), Naval Supply Systems Command (241 awards, $502.6 million), Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime (203 awards, $55.8 million), USSOCOM (123 awards, $1.12 billion), and Army Aviation and Missile Command (119 awards, $841.6 million)—account for 66% of all awards. By potential value, the ranking shifts: Naval Air Systems Command/Naval Air Warfare Center anchors the portfolio with 52 awards valued at $14.42 billion (the largest single customer concentration), followed by Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Wright-Patterson ($2.72 billion across 6 awards), PEO Aviation ($1.69 billion across 49 awards), general Air Force Materiel Command ($1.42 billion across 67 awards), and USSOCOM ($1.12 billion). This divergence signals that Rockwell Collins places numerous small discrete repair orders against sustainment centers while holding large dollar-value performance-based logistics IDCs and major development contracts with Navy and Air Force acquisition commands.

Vehicle positioning reflects the vendor's role as a prime on standing indefinite-delivery contracts across multiple customer agencies. The Strategic Contract SPE4AX-21-D-9400 (Air Force Sustainment Center) carries 325 task orders valued at $125.8 million combined; IDC N0038319DPS01 (Navy) has 95 task orders worth $5.1 million; SPE7MX15D0094 (Air Force) carries 80 orders for $16.6 million; FA810516D0001 (Air Force) has 74 orders totaling $744.3 million; and Coast Guard IDC 70Z03820DB2000019 supports 40 orders for $99 million. Named single-award IDVs and definitive contracts include a $472 million PEO Aviation CH-47 Cargo helicopter program IDC (awarded April 2026, through February 2031); the $174 million USSOCOM avionics modernization IDC (March 2026–March 2031); a $98.9 million Coast Guard Aviation Logistics Center performance-based logistics contract (September 2025–August 2030); a $95.7 million PEO Aviation UH-60M Black Hawk multi-functional display IDC (February 2026–September 2030); and a $52.6 million Army Aviation and Missile Command UH-60 Black Hawk display unit maintenance IDC (September 2024–September 2029). The vendor also holds secondary standing relationships under Air Force sustainment vehicles such as the E-3 Avionics Sustaining Engineering Services (ASES) II contract.

Activity trajectory shows stable annual volume over the past five years—208 awards in 2022 rising to 244 in 2024, then moderating to 221 in 2025 and 94 through September 2026 (a partial year). The 133 awards completing within the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $458.6 million, representing moderate recompete exposure concentrated within sustainment centers and subordinate delivery order activity rather than large IDC ceiling renewals. SCI-reportable invoiced revenue (federal service contracts above $150,000 threshold) totaled $141.8 million across FY2022–FY2025, with FY2024 peak invoicing of $46.2 million. FTE trajectory across SCI contracts shows volatility—63.3 FTEs in FY2022, rising to 378 in FY2023, declining to 193 in FY2024, and dropping to 49.8 in FY2025—reflecting the contract portfolio's shift toward smaller delivery orders and lower-labor-hour task work. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable contracts ranged from a 10th percentile of $26.59/hr to a median of $147.53/hr and 90th percentile of $344.59/hr, indicating a mixed workforce spanning junior technician labor through senior engineering support.

Teaming posture characterizes Rockwell Collins as a vertically integrated prime contractor performing nearly all work in-house. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the average sub-hours share is 0 percent, with only one named subcontractor recorded across the SCI dataset, signaling minimal subcontract engagement on federal service contracts above the reporting threshold. In its subcontractor role, Rockwell Collins appears primarily under Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation on aircraft maintenance and logistics support for P-3 aircraft, MQ-4C Triton long-lead items, D6 TCID hardware development, and special electronic mission aircraft contractor logistics support—work spanning avionics integration, electronic component manufacturing, and platform sustainment. The subcontract footprint is modest relative to prime activity and reflects Northrop Grumman's use of Collins Aerospace for specialized avionics and electronic warfare component work rather than a strategic partnership. Federal grant work is limited: one sub-grant award appears under George Washington University (April 2026) for a "Securing High-Density Urban Airspaces" effort, suggesting minimal federal research participation.

Rockwell Collins competes predominantly as a full-and-open prime contractor without set-aside dependency. The vendor's parent, RTX Corporation, and named subsidiary B/E Aerospace position Collins Aerospace as part of a Fortune 500 defense industrial base leader with diverse aerospace and defense operations. Place of performance concentrates at Cedar Rapids, Iowa (primary hub), with secondary support operations in Rocky Mount and College Park, North Carolina, and Warner Robins, Georgia. The division's federal contract footprint—1,741 total awards with $25.24 billion combined potential value since 2009—reflects its established criticality to Department of Defense sustainment architecture for legacy fighter aircraft (F-15, F/A-18, KC-135), rotorcraft (UH-60M, CH-47F, MH-60T, MH-65E), and advanced systems modernization across special operations and military services.