SKF USA Inc.

SKF USA Inc., doing business as SKF Precision Technologies, manufactures high-precision ball bearings, cylindrical roller bearings, duplex bearings, and specialized aerospace bearing components for the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (96% of awards) and subcontractor to major defense primes. The company is a foreign-owned, for-profit manufacturer headquartered in the United States, competing predominantly full-and-open with no SBA set-aside designations across its federal footprint.

SKF's federal work centers squarely on bearing procurement for military aircraft systems and engines. The company supplies annular ball bearings, cylindrical roller bearings, ball stack bearings, duplex bearings, and bearing rings—components critical to platforms including the CH-47 Chinook helicopter, T-38 Talon jet trainer, AH-1Z attack helicopter, V-22 Osprey, and J85 engine systems. Representative prime awards include a $601.1 million purchase order from DLA Aviation (May 2024) for annular ball bearings under NSN 3110013192168; a $391.7 million definitive contract from Air Force Sustainment Center (June 2025) for cylindrical roller bearings supporting the J85 engine; and a $365.6 million definitive contract from Air Force Sustainment Center (February 2026) for new manufactured roller bearings for the J85. The company holds six single-award Indefinite Delivery Contracts with DLA Aviation—awarded between July 2025 and March 2026—with ceiling values ranging from $594.2 million to $2.1 billion and performance periods extending through 2030 and 2031. Place of performance centers on Falconer, New York, with secondary manufacturing at Sumter, South Carolina.

Customer concentration is highly skewed toward DLA Aviation. Of awards in the source, DLA Aviation accounts for 2,236 awards (59% of the recent footprint) with $243.3 million combined potential value; the broader Defense Logistics Agency family accounts for 90% of recent awards by count and 87% of combined potential value. Air Force Materiel Command, Air Force Sustainment Center, and Navy Naval Supply Systems Command round out the top five, but at substantially lower volume and dollar magnitude. This concentration reflects SKF's core mission as a strategic aerospace bearing supplier within the defense logistics supply chain.

As a subcontractor, SKF supplies bearings to The Boeing Company for CH-47 aircraft common aerospace commodities and procurement programs; to Bell Textron for gearbox bearings, Future Vertical Lift (FVL) bearing components, and Nigerian AH-1Z foreign military sales; to Bell Boeing Joint Project Office for V-22 and CMV-22 spherical bearing assemblies; and to Rolls-Royce Corporation for C-130 Missioncare support and MT30 gas turbine engine bearings. These relationships underscore SKF's role as a critical second-tier supplier to the defense aerospace industrial base.

Across recent activity, SKF has grown its prime award volume—from 61 awards in 2022 to 135 in 2025—driven by increased DLA Aviation procurement of specialty bearings for military aircraft sustainment. Sixty-four awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, with combined potential value of $9.3 million, representing routine recompete exposure as DLA Aviation continuously replenishes inventory. The vendor's capability portfolio is tightly specialized: bearing manufacturing under NAICS 332991 and PSC 3110 (Antifriction Unmounted Bearings) account for 79% and 95% of award counts, respectively, signaling a narrow but mission-critical market position within defense aerospace logistics.