Contracting office · Defense Logistics Agency
DLA AVIATION
DLA AVIATION obligated $477.9M on federal contracts in FY2026 across 16,756 contract actions (−27% vs FY2025). Its largest recipient was RTX CORPORATION ($72.9M).
- Obligations · FY2026
- $477.9M
- Actions
- 16.8K
- New awards: 14.4K
- Sole-source
- 76%
- Small business
- —
Spending by fiscal year
Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).
- 144.9MFY2017
- 298.5MFY2018
- 399.3MFY2019
- 635.2MFY2020
- 291.1MFY2021
- 636.3MFY2022
- 612.1MFY2023
- 598.5MFY2024
- 652.9MFY2025
- 477.9MFY2026
Top recipients
Obligations in FY2026.
- RTX CORPORATION$72.9M15%
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY$70.9M15%
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY$61.3M13%
- SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION$40.6M8.5%
- CFM INTERNATIONAL INC$30.5M6.4%
- RGAS LLC$29.5M6.2%
- 3M COMPANY$22.7M4.8%
- DERCO AEROSPACE, INC.$20M4.2%
- KIT PACK, LLC$15.7M3.3%
What was bought · Where the work was performed
Obligations in FY2026.
What was bought
- Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$363M76%
- Other equipment & supplies$114.6M24%
- Fuel$317.9K0.1%
Where the work was performed
- Connecticut$114.9M24%
- Ohio$76.7M16%
- Massachusetts$70.9M15%
- Texas$40.3M8.4%
- California$24.4M5.1%
- Kentucky$23.2M4.9%
- Minnesota$22.8M4.8%
- Florida$16.3M3.4%
- Wisconsin$16.2M3.4%
- Arizona$13.8M2.9%
Integrity signals
Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.
- Low competition76%US 39% · $362.7M
- Sole-source awards76%US 30% · $362.5M
- Single-offer competitions0.0%US 8.8% · $213.1K
- Urgency justifications0.0%US 5.1% · $0
- Year-end rush0.0%US 5.6% · $0
- Undefinitized contracts0.1%US 5.0% · $608.9K
- Time-and-materials pricing0.0%US 4.2% · $0
A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.
Awards to excluded parties
New awards, options exercised and added work this agency signed while the recipient was listed in SAM.gov as debarred, suspended, proposed for debarment or excluded (exact identifier matches).
- In FY2026
- $0
- 0 awards · 0 recipients
- All loaded years
- $14.7K
- 1 award · 1 recipient
None in FY2026.
SAM.gov lists what agencies report, and only exclusions in effect: those that ended are known from twice-yearly snapshots, so an end date is approximate. Agencies may award to an excluded party with a documented compelling reason. An exclusion is an administrative measure, not a conviction.
Source: Exclusions (debarred, suspended and otherwise excluded parties) (U.S. General Services Administration, SAM.gov), data current to Oct 4, 2026, loaded Oct 5, 2026 · Exclusions as listed on Oct 4, 2026, history from Apr 28, 2022.
Largest awards
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY· Essex County, MA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Dec 20, 2024 – Apr 22, 2026· SPE4AX25F1356
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY· Essex County, MA· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Dec 13, 2024 – May 1, 2026· SPE4AX25F1284
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY· Hamilton County, OH· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Oct 27, 2025 – Dec 19, 2025· SPE4AX26F1590
- RTX CORPORATION· Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Feb 25, 2026 – Feb 25, 2026· SPE4AX26F7601
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY· Hamilton County, OH· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Feb 25, 2026 – Feb 25, 2026· SPE4AX26F7774
- GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY· Hamilton County, OH· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· May 29, 2026 – May 29, 2026· SPE4AX26F175K
- 8511996832!MISCELLANEOUS$12.9MRTX CORPORATION· Capitol Planning Region, CT· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Mar 30, 2026 – Mar 30, 2026· SPE4AX26F9487
Committees that oversee and fund it
Congressional committees whose jurisdiction includes this agency, and the appropriations subcommittees that write its spending bill (Analisa's reading of the House and Senate rules; committees share jurisdiction). Leaders as currently published.
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Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 3, 2026, loaded Oct 3, 2026.
