The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company, a multinational aerospace and defense manufacturer headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor across full-and-open federal procurements without reliance on SBA set-asides, delivering missile defense systems integration, guided-missile and space-vehicle manufacturing, engineering services, and weapon-system sustainment to the Department of Defense and civilian space agencies. Boeing competes predominantly as a prime (85% of recent awards) and does not rely on small business set-asides across its federal footprint.

Boeing's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward missile defense and Army sustainment programs. The top customers by potential value are the DOD Missile Defense Agency (50 awards, $22.51 billion combined potential value), NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (9 awards, $18.77 billion), the Army Materiel Command's Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (88 awards, $159 million), the Army Acquisition Support Center's Program Executive Office Missiles and Space (21 awards, $74.2 million), and the Air Force Air Combat Command (3 awards, $11.2 million). These five customers account for 96% of Boeing's combined potential value in the source data. The MDA and NASA Marshall together represent $41.28 billion, or 95% of the total portfolio value. Award-count leadership differs notably: the Army leads by volume (127 awards) but carries only $1.6 million in combined potential value, reflecting transaction-level spare-parts and small component procurements, while MDA's 50 awards anchor most of the dollar value in large systems-integration and development contracts.

Boeing holds positions on multiple single-award indefinite-delivery contracts that serve as primary procurement vehicles. The largest is the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program—a $151 billion IDIQ awarded by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, running through December 28, 2035, for systems engineering, integration, prototyping, weapon design, production, and test and evaluation across air, missile, space, and cyber defense domains. Boeing also holds a $5.021 billion single-award MDA contract for ground-based midcourse defense system integration, test, and readiness services (ultimate completion August 31, 2027), with 13 task orders placed against the IDC W31P4Q17D0026 and 9 task orders under IDC W31P4Q17D0027. Additional vehicles include a $565.207 million definitive MDA contract for systems engineering and integration services (May 3, 2024; completion November 2, 2033) and Army-level IDIQs for cable assemblies and spare parts supporting the Avenger weapon system. Recent prime work includes a $91.724 million cost-plus-fixed-fee DARPA Glide Breaker Phase 2 contract (September 8, 2023) for hypersonic interceptor design data through wind tunnel and flight testing, a $3.05 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from Army Aviation and Missile Command for Avenger engineering services and sustainment (May 13, 2025), and routine spare-parts and component purchase orders from Defense Logistics Agency and Army Aviation.

Activity has accelerated year over year, growing from 10 awards in 2022 to 39 in 2024, with 28 awards placed in 2025 and 1 in early 2026. Seven awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $6.27 billion—a significant recompete exposure concentrated in missile defense and space domains. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $43.35 billion, though obligated dollars already exceed that figure at $51.18 billion, indicating cost growth or scope expansion in active programs.

As a prime contractor, Boeing builds delivery teams through subcontracting relationships with large defense primes and specialized component suppliers. The vendor subcontracts to Lockheed Martin Corporation (primarily on Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile production and support for electronics, seekers, and platform hardware), Raytheon Company (SM-3 missile components including electromechanical assemblies, cable harnesses, and avionics), and General Dynamics. Sub work includes precision-machined components, avionics assemblies, seeker hardware, and software sustainment tasks. Across SCI-reportable service contracts, Boeing shows minimal reliance on subcontractors (0% average sub-hours share), suggesting internal capacity for engineering and technical labor on large prime contracts. SCI-reported invoicing of $3.6 million across FY2022–FY2024 (with $1.3 million in FY2022 and $2.3 million in FY2024) reflects work scaled at 5.4 FTEs in FY2022 and 8.4 FTEs in FY2024; government-paid rates on SCI-reportable contracts ran median around $187.94 per hour, with senior labor pricing through $249.07 per hour. SCI data capture is limited—only 9 records across the three-year span—and represents a small slice of Boeing's total federal services activity and a negligible fraction of total enterprise revenue.

Boeing's capability portfolio, grounded in recent awards, centers on missile defense systems engineering and integration (Glide Breaker hypersonic interceptor development, ground-based midcourse defense readiness), weapon-system sustainment and engineering (Avenger air defense platform software and component support), space-launch and space-vehicle systems (NASA Marshall contracts), guided-missile and space-vehicle manufacturing (61 awards in Power, Distribution, and Specialty Transformer Manufacturing; 33 in Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing), and component supply (cable assemblies, adapters, brackets, gaskets, and electrical hardware). The vendor does not compete under set-asides and operates as an established prime across full-and-open procurements, using its scale and experience in complex systems integration to anchor large, multi-year development and sustainment contracts.