The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company, doing business as Boeing, serves as a prime contractor to the U.S. military and federal agencies, delivering aircraft manufacturing, depot-level maintenance, engineering sustainment, and contractor logistics support for strategic military platforms. Boeing competes in full-and-open federal procurements without set-aside protection; the vendor is a large, for-profit corporation and manufacturer of goods headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

Boeing's federal award portfolio spans 684 prime and subcontractor awards (95% prime) valued at $52.82 billion in combined potential value, with $11.83 billion obligated across fiscal years 2022 through mid-2026. The vendor delivers concrete capability in five primary domains: contractor logistics support for presidential and executive transport aircraft (C-32/C-40 fleets), sustainment engineering for airborne warning and control systems (E-3, E-4B AWACS), engineering support across legacy military platforms (KC-135 aerial refueling tanker, B-52 strategic bomber), air-launched cruise missile engineering services, and specialized modernization efforts including B-52 radar upgrades and large aircraft infrared countermeasures integration.

Customer concentration is extreme and Air Force-centric. The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex (241 awards, $16.43 billion potential value) and the Aeronautical Systems Center (45 awards, $15.67 billion potential value) together anchor roughly 60% of Boeing's combined potential value. The Department of Defense Navy Naval Air Systems Command holds one award valued at $14.25 billion (the F/A-18 Super Hornet Block III program), representing 27% of total potential value. Five customer entities account for 95% of combined potential value; the Air Force Materiel Command and its subordinate organizations (Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, Hanscom and Tinker Life Cycle Management Centers, Aeronautical Systems Center, and Air Force Sustainment Center) constitute 92% of awards. This concentration reflects Boeing's incumbent role as original equipment manufacturer and primary systems integrator for legacy Air Force aircraft.

Boeing holds five major parent indefinite delivery vehicles: an Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $2.17 billion for engineering support services across multiple platforms (73 task orders), a $1.13 billion vehicle (104 task orders) supporting unspecified Air Force programs, a $994 million single-award IDIQ for C-32/C-40 contractor logistics support (with approximately $277 million in delivery orders issued to date), a $420 million KC-135 engineering sustainment support services IDIQ (with approximately $73.5 million in task orders), and a $70.6 million air-launched cruise missile engineering services IDIQ. Smaller IDIQs include a $37.5 million E-3 AWACS sustainment engineering vehicle and a $9.5 million maintenance and repair IDIQ. Task-order activity shows Boeing winning recurring sustainment work on the same vehicles year after year, with award velocity stable at 44–67 awards per year over the past five years.

The recompete cliff presents meaningful exposure: 86 awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $3.98 billion. These include multiple delivery orders from the C-32/C-40 ($994 million IDIQ), KC-135 ($420 million IDIQ), and E-3 AWACS ($37.5 million IDIQ) parent vehicles, alongside substantial engineering support orders from the Aeronautical Systems Center and Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex.

Boeing's subcontracting footprint characterizes it as a systems integrator that builds its own teams. On federal service contracts captured in SCI, the vendor reported zero hours to named subcontractors despite invoicing $39.4 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2024: $11.2 million, 29.9 FTEs; FY2023: $13.9 million, 39.4 FTEs; FY2022: $14.3 million, 51.8 FTEs). However, individual prime contract awards document recurring teaming with L3Harris Technologies Integrated Systems, Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Collins Aerospace (Rockwell Collins), and Delta Air Lines on logistics and engineering support, alongside smaller aerospace suppliers including Greenpoint Technologies, King Aerospace Commercial Corporation (minority-owned), Dow Aero LLC (woman-owned, HUBZone-certified), and GE Aviation Systems. On the sub-award side, Boeing works underneath Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation and L3Harris Technologies Integrated Systems on Big Safari aircraft manufacturing and B-2 sustainment efforts; these relationships indicate Boeing's role as a specialized aerospace supplier on large defense integrators' teams, alongside its dominant prime position across Air Force sustainment.

SCI-reported labor demonstrates mid-to-senior rate posture on federal service contracts. Government-paid hourly rates (derived from invoiced revenue and contractor hours) run a median of $176.92/hr, with the 10th percentile at $73.37/hr and the 90th percentile at $195.24/hr. The SCI dataset captures only service contracts above $150,000 and excludes goods, products, and classified work; these figures represent a strict subset of Boeing's total federal services revenue and a smaller portion of the company's overall enterprise revenue, which includes military aircraft production, commercial aviation, defense systems, and space operations.

Boeing does not compete under small business set-asides on any awards in the source data. The company's federal contracting posture is full-and-open, large-prime-integrator-oriented, with emphasis on sustained incumbent work on legacy military platforms through IDIQs and task orders. Activity trajectory remains flat to growth-oriented (67 awards in 2025), and the combination of a large recompete cliff, stable task-order win rate, and concentration in Air Force sustainment suggests Boeing faces competitive risk on KC-135, C-32/C-40, and AWACS vehicles but maintains strong incumbent positioning as original equipment manufacturer for these platforms.