The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company Legacy TSS Division, operating as Boeing, is a for-profit manufacturer and prime recipient of federal grants from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) focused on advanced aircraft propulsion and sustainable aviation fuels, though the division records show minimal recent federal contract prime activity as a standalone entity.

Boeing Legacy TSS is a child entity of The Boeing Company headquarters (Arlington, Virginia), itself a major multi-billion-dollar defense and aerospace prime contractor. The division is headquartered in Hazelwood, Missouri. The source dataset spans 244 total awards (prime and sub) dating to 1985, but the trajectory has contracted sharply: from seven awards in 2015 to only two in 2024. Notably, the division holds no awarded federal contract vehicles and records zero SCI-reportable invoiced revenue in FY2024, indicating that recent federal engagement occurs outside of the traditional service-contract and task-order structures typical of active federal contractors. Obligated dollars ($561.6 million) exceed combined potential value ($384.4 million), a sign of heavily executed historical commitments rather than active forward pipeline.

The division's customer concentration skews heavily toward the Department of the Navy (106 awards) and Department of the Air Force (92 awards), but the dollar concentration tells a different story: the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Aeronautical Systems Center accounts for $382.7 million of combined potential value across 22 awards, representing nearly all of the division's reported potential value. The remaining customer base includes NASA's Shared Services Center, the Department of the Army Training and Doctrine Command, and subordinate air force lifecycle management centers at Wright-Patterson and Hill Air Force bases. Vehicle concentration centers on multiple Navy basic ordering agreements (42 and 27 task orders respectively) and Air Force indefinite delivery contracts (22, 21, and 13 task orders respectively), though the source reflects no active tasking within the past two years.

Recent federal work, visible in the grant sub-award footprint, positions Boeing Legacy TSS as a technical advisor and active participant on NASA-funded advanced propulsion research. The division holds sub-awards from Tennessee Technological University spanning September 2022 through December 2024 for aircraft aerodynamic design, ammonia-fuel combustion safety assessment, engine packaging concepts for ammonia storage and waste-heat recovery, and emissions-reduction logistics — work flowing through the university as prime recipient. Boeing also holds a sub-award from the University of Central Florida for similar advanced engine and airframe integration tasks on sustainable aviation fuels and ammonia propulsion systems. These grant sub-awards align with the division's historical PSC concentration in guided missile components, missile maintenance equipment, and professional simulation support, reframed now toward civilian aircraft propulsion innovation rather than military munitions work.