Rolls-Royce Corporation

Rolls-Royce Corporation, a foreign-owned aerospace manufacturer headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, provides advanced turbine engines, precision-engineered propulsion system components, engine maintenance and repair services, and technical support to the U.S. Department of Defense and federal civilian agencies as a prime contractor on a portfolio of over 11,000 awards spanning delivery orders, indefinite delivery contracts, and basic ordering agreements. The company competes exclusively full-and-open; no SBA set-aside designations apply across its federal work.

Rolls-Royce's federal capability footprint centers on aircraft propulsion, engine sustainment, and component manufacturing. Representative prime work includes a $281.2 million Naval Air Systems Command delivery order for AE1107C engine sustainment supporting the V-22 Osprey program (award November 26, 2025), a $213.3 million Air Force Life Cycle Management Center delivery order for T108 propulsion sustainment system engine, nacelle, and propeller support on a price-per-flying-hour basis (December 1, 2025), and a $39.3 million Naval Air Systems Command delivery order for depot-level engine repair supporting USMC active aircraft (December 12, 2025). The company also delivers component-level procurements across engines and airframes—compressor vanes and disks, thermal sensors, gears and bearings, fuel nozzles, combustion chamber liners, and related fasteners—and provides field service representative support, program management, engineering services, and repair coordination to multiple logistics complexes.

Customer concentration is extreme. Naval Air Systems Command dominates both volume and potential value: 501 awards carrying $14.05 billion combined potential value represent 35% of all potential dollars across the portfolio. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Robins Air Force Base is the second-largest customer by dollars ($10.93 billion across 483 awards), followed by the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex ($4.15 billion across 116 awards) and Defense Logistics Agency Aviation ($3.28 billion across 5,792 awards—the highest award count but lowest average deal size). Together, these five customers account for 83% of combined potential value. Recent awards show the same concentration: of the sampled prime awards dated September 2025 forward, Naval Air Systems Command, AFLCMC Robins, and the Air Force (via Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex and Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex) account for the vast majority of dollars.

Rolls-Royce holds two active indefinite delivery contracts. Naval Sea Systems Command awarded a single-award $14.8 million MT30 engineering and technical services IDIQ on September 12, 2025, with an ultimate completion date of September 11, 2030, covering comprehensive engineering consultation, technical support, design services, and system optimization for naval propulsion systems. The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex awarded a single-award $8.365 million JETSCAN diagnostic equipment repair and sustainment IDIQ on April 16, 2025, expiring April 15, 2027, providing diagnostic support, preventative maintenance, equipment restoration, manual management, and training services. Rolls-Royce also operates under multiple basic ordering agreements and numbered indefinite delivery contracts with Naval Air Systems Command and Defense Logistics Agency Aviation, with the largest parent vehicle—IDC F3460101D0155—supporting 2,252 task orders valued at $333.9 million combined.

Rolls-Royce operates as a prime contractor on 99% of awards, with only 165 subcontract placements (1% of portfolio). The company subcontracts to Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc. (a foreign-owned subsidiary); sub-award footprint includes teaming under Huntington Ingalls Incorporated for DDG 51 class ship construction turbine machinery, The Boeing Company for B-52 CERP modification and modeling, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation for E-2D Advanced Hawkeye and MQ-4C Triton sustainment support and retrofit work, and RTX Corporation for tooling and long-lead procurement across multiple platforms. Across SCI-reportable prime service contracts, subcontractor hours comprise 3% of total contractor hours, with three named subcontractors reported—indicating Rolls-Royce builds its own delivery teams for most work rather than relying on subs.

SCI-reported invoiced revenue totaled $428.1 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $206.8 million; FY2023: $203.2 million; FY2024: $18.1 million), representing SCI-reportable federal service contract activity above the $150,000 threshold. The sharp decline in FY2024 reflects incomplete-year data in the SCI dataset. Workforce on these contracts averaged 64.4 FTEs in FY2022, declining to 48.6 in FY2023 and 5.9 in FY2024 (again, partial-year). Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-captured work ran a median of $788.15/hr, with the 90th percentile at $1,731.50/hr and the 10th percentile at zero (reflecting non-labor or fixed-fee contract structures). SCI figures represent only service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and exclude goods, products, micro-purchases, and classified work; they are a strict subset of Rolls-Royce's total federal services and enterprise revenue.

Federal grant footprint is minimal. Rolls-Royce received a sub-award from Purdue University (prime grantee) on March 24, 2026, for research on Multi-Particle Impact Wear in High-Speed Aeroengines, but no additional grant context is provided in the source.

Activity trajectory shows volume decline. Awards per year decreased from 627 in 2022 to 471 in 2025, with only 63 awards captured in the 2026 slice (through July 15, 2026). Combined potential value on awards completing within the next twenty-four months is $1.06 billion across 352 awards—a moderate recompete cliff concentrated on engine sustainment, component procurement, and repair delivery orders expiring through mid-2027.

Rolls-Royce's federal footprint is heavily concentrated on Navy and Air Force aviation propulsion sustainment, with dominance across Naval Air Systems Command, AFLCMC Robins, and Defense Logistics Agency Aviation. The company serves as a critical sole-source or specialized supplier of advanced turbine engines and precision engine components to platforms including the C-130 Hercules, V-22 Osprey, E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, B-52 Stratofortress, MT-30 and MT-7 naval gas turbines, and HC-130J aircraft, leveraging proprietary design and manufacturing expertise that limits competitive bidding. As a foreign-owned manufacturer, Rolls-Royce is ineligible for domestic small business set-asides and competes on technical merit and performance history across full-and-open solicitations.