Tactical Air Support, Inc.

Tactical Air Support Inc. HQ Division, doing business as Tactical Air, is a small-business prime contractor and subcontractor based in Reno, Nevada, providing adversary air support training, flight operations, aircraft maintenance, spare parts manufacturing, and engineering services to the Department of Defense on a mix of prime awards (55% of recent activity) and subcontract work (45%), with no set-aside designations across its federal portfolio.

The vendor's customer base is heavily concentrated in naval and air-force aviation training and sustainment. The top five customer agencies account for 86% of recent awards by count, led by the Naval Air Warfare Center (50 awards, $545.3 million combined potential value), Air Combat Command (7 awards, $12.48 billion combined potential value), and Air Force Materiel Command Hill AFB (2 awards, $6.1 million combined potential value). The dollar-value ranking diverges sharply: the Navy's Naval Sea Systems Command anchors $72.55 billion in combined potential value across only 2 awards, followed by Air Combat Command at $12.48 billion across 7 awards, reflecting Tactical Air's position on two high-value multi-year IDIQs for contractor-owned and contractor-operated aircraft and threat simulation. Naval Air Warfare Center's $545.3 million, while lower in absolute terms, is distributed across a much larger award count reflecting sustained flight-hour contracting and spare-parts deliveries.

Tactical Air holds seats on five major parent vehicles. The Indefinite Delivery Contract N0042122D0101 (Naval Air Systems Command) dominates the sub-award footprint with 31 task orders, where Tactical Air delivers engineering services as a subcontractor to Mantech Advanced Systems International on naval aircraft integration, Royal Australian Air Force flight clearance support, and tactical data link work. The Combat Air Force Contracted Air Support Operations IDIQ anchors two large delivery orders (September 2024) worth $191.3 million and $105.5 million respectively for adversary air support services to Air Combat Command, performed at Hampton, Virginia, through September 2029. The vendor also holds a single-award Naval Air Warfare Center IDC (ceiling $3.36 million through November 2026) for manufacture and delivery of F-5N/F 275-gallon fuel tanks, and an ASTRO multiple-award GWAC through GSA Assisted Acquisition Services FEDSIM with a framework authority for platform-related services, including international air training and flight operations.

Recent prime work illustrates the capability mix: a $191.3 million Air Combat Command delivery order for fourth-generation adversary fighter services (through September 2029), a $115.8 million Naval Air Warfare Center COCO aircraft and airborne threat simulation order (through May 2028), a $6.06 million Air Force Materiel Command definitive contract for F-5 spare-parts procurement under Foreign Military Sales (closed April 2026), and a $14.7 million Naval Air Warfare Center flight-minutes order for base aircraft (July 2022–May 2023). Across the prime award portfolio, top NAICS categories are Engineering Services (37 awards), Other Nonscheduled Air Transportation (22 awards), and Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing (8 awards), with corresponding PSC concentration in air-charter transportation and miscellaneous aircraft accessories.

In its subcontractor role, Tactical Air delivers engineering and technical support predominantly to Mantech Advanced Systems International on naval aviator training, weapons integration, anti-radiation missile technical projects, and international air-force platform support, with subsidiary engagements to Vertex Aerospace on F-5 aircraft maintenance and to Raytheon and G2 Software Systems on foreign military sales integration and program office support work. Subcontract work began ramping in 2024 and dominates recent activity (20 sub awards in 2025 alone).

Award velocity has accelerated sharply since 2023: three awards in both 2022 and 2023, nineteen in 2024, and twenty in 2025, with four awards recorded through March 2026. Two awards worth a combined $130.6 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. The Service Contract Inventory dataset reflects minimal SCI-reportable activity (6 prime and 4 sub records across FY2022–FY2024), showing zero invoiced revenue and roughly 2.0 FTEs in FY2022, zero FTEs in FY2023, and 6.8 FTEs in FY2024 — indicating that the majority of Tactical Air's federal work is transacted as firm-fixed-price delivery orders for goods and services (aircraft, fuel tanks, flight hours, threat simulation) rather than labor-hour or cost-plus service contracts above the SCI reporting threshold. Corporate structure includes two subsidiaries: Tacair Global Corp. and Talon-Parts LLC, the latter signaling focus on aircraft parts manufacturing and supply.