Woodward Fst, Inc.

Woodward FST, Inc., a division of Woodward, Inc. based in Zeeland, Michigan, manufactures and overhauls precision fuel system components for military aircraft engines as a prime contractor on full-and-open federal contracts, with no set-aside posture across its recent award portfolio. The company designs, manufactures, repairs, and overhauls spray ring assemblies, fuel injection nozzles, manifold assemblies, and related combustion and engine accessories for F-series aircraft platforms, particularly F-15, F-16, and F100-series engine variants, working predominantly under Indefinite Delivery Contracts held with Air Force and Defense Logistics Agency Aviation logistics centers.

Woodward FST competes as a large business in the aerospace manufacturing sector (primary NAICS 334511 — Aircraft Engine and Engine Parts Manufacturing; PSC 4410 — Engine Fuel System Components). The parent company, Woodward, Inc., operates globally as a manufacturer of precision control systems and aerospace components; Woodward FST serves as the company's dedicated defense fuel systems supplier. Recent representative work includes a $4.2 million delivery order from the Air Force Sustainment Center in March 2024 for repair and overhaul of F100-PW-220 augmentor spray ring manifold assemblies Zone IV, a $1.5 million definitive contract from Air Force Materiel Command in September 2025 for manifold assembly manufacture, a $963 thousand delivery order from Defense Logistics Agency Aviation in October 2025 for spray ring assembly manufacture, and a $847 thousand delivery order from DoD Aviation in June 2024 for fuel injection nozzles. Work is performed at Zeeland with firm fixed-price terms; completion dates extend to August 2027 on several active orders.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to Air Force logistics and aviation sustainment. The Air Force Sustainment Center accounts for 134 awards valued at $201.1 million combined potential value (42% of the portfolio), and Defense Logistics Agency Aviation accounts for 248 awards valued at $196.2 million combined potential value (41% of the portfolio). Together these two customers represent 382 of 691 awards and approximately 83% of the combined potential value. Air Force Materiel Command (non-AFSC) represents 227 awards valued at $58.4 million. The concentration is decisional: Woodward FST's entire business footprint centers on these three Air Force–subordinate and DLA Aviation contracting offices, with negligible exposure elsewhere except for two NASA Glenn Research Center awards ($2.9 million) and scattered Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support hardware awards.

Woodward FST holds a portfolio of seven active Indefinite Delivery Contracts: a $15.3 million single-award IDC from Air Force Sustainment Center (August 2022, through August 2027) for repair and overhaul of sprayring manifold assemblies for F-15 and F-16 aircraft and production of injector and spray ring assemblies; an $11.5 million single-award IDC from Air Force Sustainment Center (August 2021, through August 2026) for F100-PW-220 spray ring assembly repair and overhaul, with nine delivery orders issued to date totaling approximately $2.08 million; an $8.7 million single-award IDC from Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (June 2023, through June 2028) for fuel injection nozzles, spray rings, and manifolds; a $2 million single-award IDC from DLA Aviation (May 2023, through April 2024, now expired or near expiration) for fuel injection nozzles and related components; a $2 million single-award IDC from DLA Aviation (November 2022, through December 2024, expired) for spray ring assemblies and related fuel system components; a $749 thousand single-award IDC from DLA Aviation (August 2023, through August 2025, expired) for spray ring assemblies and fuel system parts; and a newly awarded $2 million single-award IDC from Defense Logistics Agency Aviation (October 2025, through September 2027) for spray ring assembly manufacture. The top parent vehicle by task order count is an Air Force Sustainment Center IDC (FA852621D0001) with 97 task orders; DLA Aviation's SPE4A718D0016 carries 34 task orders valued at $6.9 million.

Activity has accelerated sharply. Woodward FST received 16 awards in 2022, 29 in 2023, 34 in 2024, and 94 in 2025 — a five-fold increase year over year from 2022 to 2025. The source reflects only four awards in 2026 to date (as of April 2026), suggesting ongoing high velocity. Nineteen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $9.4 million — a modest recompete exposure relative to the overall portfolio, indicating most current work extends beyond mid-2027.

Woodward FST subcontracts primarily to Boeing (C-17 Globemaster III total sustainment and minor development aerospace support work, with dozens of sub-awards from mid-2024 through mid-2025) and to RTX Corporation (F119 and F135 component improvement program work and Pratt & Whitney engine accessory tooling). The subcontract footprint is smaller than the prime business: 101 of 691 awards (15%) are sub-awards, compared to 590 prime awards (85%). The sub work is narrowly focused on engine and airframe sustainment for major primes rather than on direct DoD relationships.

Woodward FST competes in a highly specialized niche — precision fuel system component manufacture and overhaul for aging fighter aircraft platforms — with minimal competition. The source names RTX Corporation as an alternate current source on DLA Aviation spray ring assemblies, and the company holds sole-source and competitive awards from Air Force Sustainment Center for F100-PW-220 work, but the breadth of Woodward FST's IDC portfolio and the technical specificity of spray ring and manifold overhaul position the company as the dominant supplier in this segment. All awards are full-and-open, large-business, firm-fixed-price procurements with no set-aside designation — characteristic of a mature, highly capable supplier serving established government requirements where price stability and proven performance outweigh other selection criteria.