Rockwell Collins Simulation & Training Solutions LLC

Rockwell Collins Simulation & Training Solutions LLC Collins Aerospace - Mission Systems Division, a subsidiary of Collins Aerospace (Raytheon Technologies Corporation), designs, manufactures, and provides engineering development, logistics sustainment, and contractor support services for advanced aircrew training devices and simulation systems across multiple military platforms as a prime contractor (93% of recent awards) competing under full-and-open contracting with no set-aside designations.

The vendor's capability portfolio centers on high-fidelity training systems, weapons system trainers, visual display systems, and integrated training device support for military aviation platforms. Representative prime work includes a $21.6 million definitive contract awarded July 2021 by Air Force Materiel Command for high-fidelity visual display systems supporting the F-35 Joint Simulation Environment at Edwards, Nellis, and Wright-Patterson Air Force Bases; a $65 million definitive contract awarded January 2025 by Naval Air Warfare Center for one E-2D Weapons System Trainer for the France Ministry of Armed Forces; and multiple delivery orders under an Army Materiel Command single-award IDIQ valued at $36.1 million for Longbow Crew Trainer program engineering development and database suite generation, including a $5.28 million delivery order issued January 2026 for simultaneous development of one Longbow Crew Trainer platform through November 2027.

Customer concentration skews heavily toward defense aviation training. The top five customer agencies account for 59% of awards by count, led by the Department of Navy Naval Air Systems Command and Naval Air Warfare Center (59 awards, $8.04 billion combined potential value) and the Department of Air Force (34 awards, $1.8 million combined potential value). By potential-value ranking, however, the vendor's dollar footprint is anchored by two large IDIQs: the Air Force Materiel Command Aeronautical Systems Center's Training Systems Acquisition IV contract (TSA IV), valued at $32.5 billion through May 2033, accounts for 7 awards and $33.51 billion in combined potential value; and the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Simulation, Training and Instrumentation vehicle accounts for 10 awards and $17.53 billion. The disparity between award-count and potential-value rankings signals that while Navy air warfare centers place numerous smaller task orders, the vendor's dollar concentration lives in Air Force and Army platform training system vehicles.

The vendor holds prime positions on three named IDIQs: TSA IV (Air Force Materiel Command, awarded June 2023, $32.5 billion ceiling through May 2033), a $900 million Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Architecture and Integration Directorate multiple-award IDIQ awarded December 2022 supporting open architecture standards and synthetic environment development, and a $36.1 million Army Materiel Command single-award IDIQ for Longbow Crew Trainer support awarded August 2022. The top five parent vehicles by task-order volume span Army and Air Force contracts, with activity concentrated in Indefinite Delivery Contract F4263099D0244 (21 task orders, $54 million combined potential value), the PEO-STRI Omnibus Contract II (13 task orders, $58.4 million), and Indefinite Delivery Contract N6133903D5007 (9 task orders, $323.2 million).

Activity has remained volatile over the past five years—six awards in 2022 rising to eleven in 2025, with only one award recorded in 2026 year-to-date—and four awards (combined potential value $328.7 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete risk on the vendor's side and recompete opportunity for competitors.

In its subcontractor role, Rockwell Collins performs engineering support, technical interchange meetings, and logistics support under primes including J.F. Taylor Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, CAE USA Inc., The Boeing Company, and American Electronic Warfare Associates, with work spanning training system upgrades, E-2 series aircraft sustainment, and platform-specific sensor integration. The vendor's award portfolio across both prime and sub work spans 222 total awards and $59.56 billion in combined potential value, with $2.5 billion (4% of ceiling) currently obligated.