Aerostar International, LLC

Aerostar International, LLC, doing business as Aerostar Technical Solutions Inc., is a for-profit defense technology and advanced aerospace systems company that operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tcom, L.P., a Columbia, Maryland-based manufacturer and systems integrator. Aerostar, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, competes exclusively in full-and-open (non-set-aside) procurements as a prime contractor on 93% of its recent awards, with a portfolio concentrated in unmanned systems development, high-altitude balloon and stratospheric platforms, naval aviation sustainment, and defense systems research and development.

Aerostar's customer concentration centers on the Navy and Air Force. The top five customer entities by potential value account for 96% of combined potential value across all awards: the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command leads with 3 awards and $982.2 million (anchored by a Navy Unmanned Surface Vehicle Family of Systems IDIQ), followed by the Department of the Air Force at $900 million across 17 awards (anchored by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Architecture and Integration Directorate IDIQ), the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center at $168.3 million across 16 awards, the Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center at $49.4 million, and the Office of Naval Research at $31.1 million. The portfolio reflects a split between large IDIQs that anchor the dollar value and smaller recurring task orders and delivery orders under those vehicles and other indefinite-delivery contracts.

Aerostar holds or competes under five material parent vehicles: an Indefinite Delivery Contract (N4740802D8305) with 10 task orders worth $9.7 million combined potential value, an Indefinite Delivery Contract (N6833518D0046) with 6 task orders worth $23.6 million, an Information Analysis Center Multiple-Award Contract with 5 task orders, an Indefinite Delivery Contract (IND08PC60104) with 4 task orders worth $7.5 million, and a Missile Defense Agency Indefinite Delivery contract (MDA90386C0007) with 2 task orders. Recent prime work includes a $40.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract with Naval Air Warfare Center for year-one support through August 2029, a $31.1 million Office of Naval Research Other Transaction Agreement for Unmanned Stratospheric Systems awarded September 2021 with completion September 2026, a $49.4 million Engineer Research and Development Center Other Transaction IDV for remote sensing and mapping capabilities awarded March 2026, and a $151 billion Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ awarded December 2025 running through December 2035 for multi-domain defense system development, integration, and test.

Activity has averaged 3.6 awards per year over the past five years, with growth from one award in 2022 to six in 2024. Two awards totaling $31.1 million potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, both rooted in the September 2021 Naval Research OTA. In its subcontractor role, Aerostar delivers high-altitude balloon systems, payload integration, weather data collection, and stratospheric platform engineering to HII Mission Technologies on Air Force force-protection surveillance and counter-air projects, supplies and sustainment services to KBR Wyle Services under Army Aviation programs, and balloon procurement and operations support to Peraton under NASA balloon facility operations. Aerostar's prime and sub capabilities center on specialized aerospace platforms — high-altitude and stratospheric balloons, unmanned systems, and advanced sensors — paired with systems engineering, research and development, and test-and-evaluation services for defense and civilian space missions.