The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company Engineering Test & Technology Division, doing business as Boeing, is a large aerospace and defense prime contractor headquartered in Berkeley, Missouri, delivering advanced aerospace systems engineering, materials research, and rapid prototyping services to the Department of Defense, civilian space agencies, and federal research institutions across 293 prime awards (79% of recent activity) and 76 subcontract positions. The division competes on a full-and-open basis with no set-aside designations, reflecting its status as a subsidiary of the larger Boeing Company parent entity.

Boeing ET&T's capability portfolio centers on advanced aerospace research and development spanning aerospace vehicle conceptual design, supersonic inlet characterization, composite structures and materials development, microelectronics engineering, space systems technology, and hypersonic platform research. Representative prime work includes a $19 million Air Force Research Laboratory contract for the Distributed Metadata Manager Service/Network Modeling Portal (awarded September 2024), a $17.3 million DARPA contract for FORSEE (awarded February 2024), an $8.2 million FAA contract for quiet thrust reverser and icing improvements under the CLEEN Phase IV program (awarded September 2026), a $2.5 million Office of Naval Research contract for design and analysis of stiffener terminations in tactical aircraft (awarded July 2024), and a $2.6 million NOAA contract for GOES-NOP spacecraft engineering support (awarded September 2026, five-year performance period through 2031). Recent grants include a $3.46 million FAA Sustainable Aviation Fuels award for sustainable fuels, route optimization, and composite cryogenic tank development (awarded January 2025, performance through August 2027) and a $1.22 million Office of Naval Research contract with the University of Notre Dame for AI-enabled analog accelerator development (awarded March 2025).

Customer concentration reflects a defense-heavy portfolio anchored by aerospace research programs. The top five funding agencies by potential value account for 99% of recent combined potential value: Defense Microelectronics Activity (4 awards, $42.83 billion combined potential value, primarily driven by the Advanced Technology Support Program V IDIQ), Department of the Air Force (24 awards, $1.25 billion), Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (55 awards, $700.8 million), NASA Langley Research Center (21 awards, $539.2 million), and DARPA (24 awards, $123.2 million). By award count, Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory leads with 55 awards, followed by Office of Naval Research (48 awards, $34.2 million), and NASA Shared Services Center (41 awards, $62.2 million). The customer concentration diverges across the two rankings: Defense Microelectronics Activity anchors the potential-value ranking despite carrying only 4 awards because of the $25.357 billion ATSP5 multiple-award IDIQ ceiling, while Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory dominates by count but carries a smaller per-award average.

Boeing ET&T holds positions on five major parent vehicles. The Advanced Technology Support Program V (ATSP5), a multiple-award IDIQ awarded by the Defense Microelectronics Activity on January 16, 2026, carries a $25.357 billion ceiling through December 2035 and procures progressive microelectronics capability solutions including studies, fabrication, integration, and limited production of microelectronics for defense technology development and acquisition. The Advanced Aerospace Systems Technology Research (AASTR), a $400 million multiple-award Air Force Research Laboratory IDIQ (awarded April 2023, extended through April 2028), funds aerospace vehicle development, control sciences, high-speed systems, and turbine engine research, with Boeing holding multiple task orders including the $19 million responsive strike aircraft (CORSAIR) conceptual design order and smaller efforts like the $14,306 Multidisciplinary, Aerodynamics, and Structures Technologies Research (MASTR) task. The Advanced Technology Support Program IV (ATSP4), a Navy indefinite delivery vehicle, supports microelectronics capability solutions with 15 task orders valued at $85.4 million combined; recent work includes a $2.6 million Naval Air Warfare Center order for SEASPIDR Widow 2.0 microelectronic capability solutions (December 2025). Boeing also executes work under Basic and Applied Aerospace Research and Technology (17 task orders, $38.6 million), and multiple smaller Air Force IDIQs including the Next Generation Thermal, Power, and Controls (NGT-PAC) contract.

Activity has remained relatively stable, averaging 24 to 30 awards annually over the past five years (2022: 30; 2023: 24; 2024: 26; 2025: 26; 2026: 12 to date), with the most recent award issued September 25, 2026. The recompete cliff shows 18 awards (combined potential value $58 million) with ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months and therefore facing recompete in that window. Combined potential value across all 369 awards in the portfolio stands at $45.94 billion, though only $917.1 million (2% of potential value) has been obligated to date, reflecting the ceiling-based structure of large IDIQs.

Boeing ET&T operates primarily as a prime contractor delivering its own engineering and research services; across SCI-reportable service contracts, the division invoiced $6.5 million in federal services work spanning FY2022 through FY2025, with SCI-reported FTE workforce ranging from 13.8 FTEs in FY2022 to 0.9 FTEs in FY2025. Median government-paid hourly rates on federal services contracts run around $134.86/hr, with senior labor pricing reaching $275.40/hr at the 90th percentile. The division carries no named subcontractors in SCI-reportable service contracts, indicating internal delivery of most engineering work. On prime contracts where Boeing does engage subcontractors, named partners include Axiom Materials (ceramic matrix composite windows for hypersonics), Cytec Engineered Materials and Solvay (composite materials and adhesives for stiffener termination work), Florida Turbine Technologies (propulsion systems for integrated power and thermal management), and specialized academic partners including the University of Michigan, North Carolina State University, and Northwestern University for materials and systems research. Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation is the most common prime contractor to which Boeing subcontracts, providing engineering services on Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared (NGOP) Polar Space Vehicle studies (multiple 2025 orders), with additional sub work routed through Booz Allen Hamilton (cyber operations, C-SUAS command and control), General Dynamics Mission Systems (Mobile User Objective System ground sustainment), and HRL Laboratories (DARPA SURGE additive manufacturing qualification program).

The division's recent grant footprint includes federal grant recipients and sub-recipients across the Department of Transportation FAA (FAST program, FY2025-2027), Department of Energy (Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy award for AL-CE alloy additive manufacturing, FY2022-2025), and Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E award for ultra-high performance metallic turbine blades development with Alloyed Inc. partner, awarded March 2024, performance through September 2026). The portfolio also includes cooperative agreements with NASA Glenn Research Center for model-based systems analysis in support of sustainable flight technologies and NASA Langley via the Shared Services Center for transonic truss-braced wing technology development ($10 million cooperative agreement, awarded September 2023, performance through September 2027).

NAICS concentration within the ET&T portfolio runs heavily toward research and development: 120 awards fall under NAICS 541711 (Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences), 76 under NAICS 541712 (R&D in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology), and 33 under NAICS 541330 (Engineering Services), with smaller volumes in testing laboratories and aircraft manufacturing. PSC concentration mirrors this emphasis, with 40 awards classified as National Defense R&D Services (Applied Research), 34 as Space R&D Services (Basic Research), 23 as R&D Defense Other (Applied Research/Exploratory Development), and 19 each under National Defense R&D Experimental Development and Space R&D Applied Research.