The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company Engineering, Test & Technology Division, doing business as Boeing, is a large defense and aerospace prime contractor headquartered in Berkeley, Missouri, delivering advanced engineering research, microelectronics capability solutions, composite materials innovation, and systems integration services to the Department of Defense, NASA, and federal research agencies on a full-and-open basis without set-aside designations. The division operates as a subsidiary of The Boeing Company parent entity and competes predominantly as a prime contractor (79% of recent awards by count), with a $45.7 billion combined potential value footprint spanning 360 awards across 43 distinct federal customer agencies.

Boeing's federal work concentrates in applied and exploratory R&D across aerospace, defense microelectronics, and advanced materials. Representative prime work includes a $25.357 billion multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (Advanced Technology Support Program V, ATSP V) awarded by the Defense Microelectronics Activity on January 16, 2026, for progressive microelectronics capability solutions and production support through December 2035; a $19.3 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory (September 2024) for the Distributed Metadata Manager Service and Network Modeling Portal for tactical edge secure data transmission; a $2.631 million delivery order under Advanced Technology Support Program IV (ATSP4) from the Naval Air Warfare Center (December 2025) for microelectronic solutions supporting the Sea Swarming Platforms for Instrumentation and Destruct Relay (SEASPIDR) Widow 2.0 system; and a $1.53 million Office of Naval Research cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (September 2025) for characterization of engineered cementitious composites addressing corrosion protection, mechanical performance, and electromagnetic environmental effects for naval applications. Boeing also holds a $400 million Advanced Aerospace Systems Technology Research (AASTR) multiple-award IDIQ with the Air Force Research Laboratory running through April 2028, which enables rapid task orders for aerospace vehicle development, control sciences, high-speed systems, and turbine engine research.

Customer concentration by potential value differs markedly from award-count distribution. The Defense Microelectronics Activity dominates by dollars (four awards carrying $42.83 billion combined potential value—94% of Boeing's total federal portfolio), anchored by the ATSP V vehicle. By award count, the Air Force Research Laboratory leads with 55 awards ($700.8 million potential value), the Office of Naval Research follows with 47 awards ($33.4 million), and NASA's Shared Services Center accounts for 41 awards ($62.2 million). The top five customers by potential value (DMEA, Air Force, Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA Langley Research Center, and DARPA) account for 99% of Boeing's combined potential value across 125 awards.

Boeing's vehicle portfolio reflects its prime-contractor posture. The Advanced Technology Support Program IV (ATSP4) carries 15 task orders ($85.4 million combined potential); the AASTR vehicle has generated multiple delivery orders; Basic and Applied Aerospace Research and Technology (BAART) accounts for 17 task orders ($38.6 million); and several Air Force Materiel Command indefinite delivery contracts structure smaller task-order activity. These vehicles enable Boeing to respond rapidly to emerging defense R&D requirements without re-competition on each individual task.

Activity has remained relatively flat over the past five years (30 awards in 2022, declining to 4 in 2026 through March), and twenty awards worth $65.6 million combined potential value face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure across active Air Force, Navy, and NASA vehicles. Recent SCI-reportable invoicing totaled $5.5 million across FY2022–FY2024 (FY2022: $3.7 million across 13.8 FTEs; FY2023: $97 thousand across 0.3 FTEs; FY2024: $1.7 million across 2.7 FTEs), reflecting the division's focus on fixed-price research contracts and IDV task orders rather than recurring service-contract work—SCI captures only service contracts above the $150,000 threshold and excludes goods, products, and classified work. Government-paid median hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime service contracts ran $134.86/hr, with senior labor reaching $275.40/hr and entry-level work at $128.90/hr.

Boeing subcontracts to other large primes on defense and space programs. Recent subcontract work includes engineering services supporting Northrop Grumman's Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (NGOPIR) Polar Space Vehicles studies (multiple awards July 2025), support to Booz Allen Hamilton on Counter-UAS Command and Control and Directional Airborne Networks for Contested Environments (DANCE) programs (September 2024, April 2024), and services to General Dynamics Mission Systems on Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) ground sustainment (March 2024). Boeing also supplies materials and fabrication support through subcontracts to Advanced Technology International on Navy ManTech programs and manufacturing-technology development initiatives. Across SCI-reportable prime service contracts, subcontractors account for 0% of total hours, indicating Boeing builds its own delivery teams on reportable service work rather than outsourcing labor.

Boeing's grant footprint spans research recipient and sub-recipient roles. As a recipient, Boeing holds a $3.46 million Federal Aviation Administration Fueling Aviation's Sustainable Transition (FAST) grant (CFDA 20.115, awarded January 1, 2025) for sustainable aviation fuels, route optimization, and composite cryogenic fuel tank technologies running through August 2027. As a sub-recipient, Boeing participates in ARPA-E-led teams on advanced switch modules for sustainable aviation (University of Tennessee, October 2025), additive manufacturing materials and processes (National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining, Advanced Technology International), and advanced refrigeration systems for space applications (Iowa State University). The division has also contributed to multi-partner NASA cooperative agreements on composite aircraft manufacturing (HICAM) and transonic truss-braced wing vehicle technology demonstration.

Work is performed across multiple Boeing facilities: Berkeley, Missouri (primary R&D and lab analysis); St. Louis, Missouri (materials research, systems engineering); Seattle, Washington (naval systems work); Herndon, Virginia (tactical systems); and Huntington Beach, California (network systems). Place of performance on individual task orders extends to customer sites at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; Eglin Air Force Base, Florida; and other defense installations as required.