Safran Helicopter Engines Usa, Inc.

Safran Helicopter Engines USA Inc., doing business as Turbomeca USA Inc., operates as a prime contractor delivering helicopter engine maintenance, depot repair, overhaul, and technical support services to the U.S. Coast Guard as a foreign-owned subsidiary of the global aerospace and defense company Safran SA. The vendor competes as a full-and-open prime (94% of awards are prime contracts), with no SBA set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

Safran Helicopter Engines USA specializes in support-by-the-hour engine services, depot-level repair, and overhaul operations for the Arriel 2C2CG engines powering the Coast Guard's MH-65 helicopter fleet, encompassing approximately 98 aircraft. Work is performed at the vendor's primary facility in Grand Prairie, Texas, with a secondary operation in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The vendor holds original equipment manufacturer status for these engines, enabling sole-source award authority under FAR 6.302-1(a)(1). Representative prime work includes a $21.3 million delivery order (January through December 2025) for support-by-the-hour engine services and technical representative services, a $22 million delivery order (effective through December 31, 2026) for engine maintenance and technical support, and numerous smaller delivery orders ranging from approximately $18,800 to $111,400 for Type 1 engine removal, tariff fee adjustments, and component overhaul work on nonavailability articles.

Customer concentration with the Coast Guard is dominant and structural. The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Coast Guard accounts for 343 awards (70% of the vendor's portfolio by award count) and $2.86 billion in combined potential value—56% of the vendor's entire combined potential value across all sources. The Department of Homeland Security's Chief Procurement Officer and Customs and Border Protection account for smaller shares ($86.2 million and $375 thousand respectively), with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Army National Guard rounding out an otherwise single-customer footprint. This concentration reflects the vendor's exclusive strategic partnership with the Coast Guard for its rotary-wing aviation engine support requirements.

Safran Helicopter Engines USA holds a primary single-award indefinite delivery contract with the Coast Guard (HSCG3805D200007) valued at $3.5 billion across 178 task orders, which serves as the parent vehicle for the majority of recent delivery order work. A second Coast Guard IDC (HSCG3811D200002) carries $937.4 million across 169 task orders. Additional task orders flow through three smaller IDCs: 70Z03818DB2000016 ($100.2 million, 45 task orders), 70Z03824DB0000001 ($65.5 million, 30 task orders), and HSBP1005D00896 ($122.2 million, 29 task orders). All delivery orders are issued as firm fixed-price awards with a class determination for nonavailability articles under FAR 25.103(b)(1).

Activity has accelerated significantly, rising from seven awards annually in 2022–2023 to 46 awards in 2025 (a sixfold increase), with six awards recorded in early 2026. Awards per year through the first quarter of 2026 suggest sustained volume. Only two awards with combined potential value of $22.1 million are scheduled for completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure for this vendor and a stable contract runway through at least 2027–2028 under the existing Coast Guard IDC vehicles.

On Service Contract Inventory-reportable service contracts, the vendor invoiced $59.2 million across FY2022–FY2024, with SCI-reported FTEs growing from 4.0 in FY2022 to 6.9 in FY2024. Government-paid rates on prime SCI contracts median around $1,888 per hour, with senior labor reaching $2,178 per hour and entry-level service at approximately $1,302 per hour. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, zero percent of hours are performed by subcontractors, indicating the vendor delivers services using its own workforce rather than subcontracting delivery.

On the sub side, Safran Helicopter Engines USA serves as a subcontractor to Amentum Services, Inc. across aircraft maintenance and logistics support services, supplying engine components and subsystems including Arriel 2B/2B1 engines, HP/LP pumps, fuel control units, FADEC electronic controls, and bleed valve and filter assemblies. The vendor has recorded 36 sub-awards under the Amentum prime, concentrated in 2024–2026, reflecting recent expansion of that teaming relationship. The vendor's sub-award volume (6% of its total 589 awards) is negligible relative to its prime-contractor footprint, establishing Safran Helicopter Engines USA as fundamentally a direct provider rather than a feeder to larger primes on government work.

The vendor's category concentration mirrors its Coast Guard engine-support mission: Aircraft Engine and Engine Parts Manufacturing (243 awards), Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (226 awards), and Other Support Activities for Air Transportation (113 awards) account for the dominant NAICS footprint. PSC-level work clusters on Airframe Structural Components (201 awards), Maintenance/Repair/Rebuild of Equipment–Aircraft Components and Accessories (194 awards), and Technical Representative Services for Engines, Turbines, and Components (28 awards).