Woodward, Inc.

Woodward, Inc.'s Fuel Systems and Controls Division, doing business as Woodward, manufactures and overhauls fuel control systems, engine components, and aerospace parts for the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards) across all full-and-open, unrestricted procurements. The division is a for-profit subsidiary of Woodward, Inc., headquartered in Loves Park, Illinois, with over 70 years of federal contracting history serving defense aviation across fixed-wing and rotary-wing platforms. Woodward operates exclusively in full-and-open competition with no set-aside participation.

Woodward's capability portfolio centers on design, manufacturing, repair, and overhaul of fuel control systems, hydro-mechanical units, sensors, and engine components for military aircraft platforms including the F-15, F-16, B-52, A-10, UH-60 Black Hawk, and MH-60T and HC-144 helicopters. Representative work includes a $3.13 million delivery order from Naval Supply Systems Command (November 2023) for supply and repair of main fuel control systems; a $7.38 million definitive contract from Naval Air Systems Command (December 2024) for TF34 main fuel control repair services supporting the A-10; an $11.65 million delivery order from Army Aviation and Missile Command (January 2023) for maintenance and overhaul of the common hydro-mechanical unit in support of the UH-60 Black Hawk; and a $19.4 million delivery order from Army Aviation and Missile Command (February 2024) for spare parts procurement. Woodward also performs frequent smaller repairs and component manufacturing orders across multiple agencies—individual orders for main fuel control overhauls on Coast Guard MH-60T aircraft routinely carry values between $40,000 and $450,000.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). DLA Aviation accounts for the largest share by award count (2,949 awards, $612.4 million combined potential value), but the Department of the Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command dominates by dollar value ($557 million across 58 awards), followed by Naval Supply Systems Command ($243.1 million across 109 awards), Air Force Sustainment Center ($103.3 million across 222 awards), and Naval Air Systems Command ($96.4 million across 95 awards). These five customers represent 91% of recent awards. The split between award count and potential value reflects Woodward's dual posture: DLA Aviation places thousands of small individual parts and component orders, while Army AMLC and Navy customers anchor larger single-award IDC vehicles and significant delivery orders supporting major platform sustainment programs.

Woodward holds multiple single-award indefinite delivery contracts with core customers. The Air Force Sustainment Center IDC (July 2024 through June 2029, $4.06 million ceiling) covers F107 main fuel control repair and has generated five delivery orders totaling roughly $4.13 million to date. Naval Supply Systems Command awarded a single-award IDC (April 2025 through April 2027, $14.1 million ceiling) for main fuel control systems repair, maintenance, and overhaul, with at least one $949,000 delivery order issued in May 2025. Naval Air Systems Command holds a smaller $281,113 single-award IDC (extended through October 2025) for TF34 compressor inlet temperature sensor repair services. DLA Land and Maritime issued a $1.24 million single-award IDC (February 2022 through February 2023, now expired) for regulating valves. Woodward's largest parent vehicle by task order count is DLA Aviation IDC SPE4AX13D9417 (1,171 task orders, $41.1 million combined value), reflecting the volume-based nature of DLA's component procurement across hundreds of part numbers and national stock numbers.

Activity has remained relatively stable over the past five years—34 awards in 2022, 39 in 2023, 50 in 2024, 43 in 2025, and 7 recorded in 2026 (noting the source snapshot date of July 15, 2026). Sixteen awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry combined potential value of $7.1 million, representing modest recompete exposure relative to Woodward's total portfolio.

Woodward operates primarily as a prime contractor but engages in select subcontract work. Recent subcontract teaming includes General Electric Company across multiple engine hardware and propulsion system efforts (F-15EX, F110 engines, T408 engines, and foreign military sales support), and Vertex Aerospace LLC on T45 and other aircraft maintenance and parts manufacturing tasks. Subcontracting represents less than 1% of Woodward's recent award footprint, confirming a prime-contractor-dominant business model.

The award portfolio is heavily concentrated in aircraft engine and engine parts manufacturing (1,761 awards), ball and roller bearing manufacturing (1,311 awards), hardware manufacturing (329 awards), and bolt, nut, screw, and fastener manufacturing (289 awards). By Product and Service Code, engine fuel system components for aircraft and missile applications dominate (1,740 awards), followed by bushings, rings, shims, and spacers (287 awards), powered valves (257 awards), and antifriction bearings (224 awards). This concentration reflects Woodward's specialization in high-precision fuel control and engine component repair and supply across military aircraft sustainment.