Federal contractor · SIOUX FALLS, SD

AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL, LLC

AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL, LLC received $10.8M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 10 awards (+51% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $27.4M. Its largest customer was Department of the Air Force ($9M).

Obligations · FY2026: $10.8M
New awards: 10
Sole-source: 2.0%
Single offer: 93%

UEI: CNACBD9ZMLG8

Small business

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Company family

Grouped from reported parent companies (UEI) and, where marked, AI judgments that two records name the same organization or group.

Part of the AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL, LLC company family: 3 registered entities, $11.7M in FY2026 together. See the family

AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL, LLCARLINGTON, VA · Family page
Reported parent$576.8K
CNH INDUSTRIAL AMERICA LLCRACINE, WI
Reported parent$343K

AI-inferred: entity-match@1 · Analisa AI · 2026-10-05

Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

1.4MFY2017
999.1KFY2018
340.8KFY2019
1.3MFY2020
920KFY2021
3.5MFY2022
669KFY2023
373.4KFY2024
7.1MFY2025
10.8MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Department of the Air Force$9M83%
2 awards
National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1.6M15%
5 awards
Department of the Army$114.3K1.1%
1 awards
Department of the Navy$97.7K0.9%
2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Transportation & logistics$10.6M98%
Other equipment & supplies$141.5K1.3%
Equipment maintenance$114.3K1.1%

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

Low competition95%
US 39% · $10.3M
Sole-source awards2.0%
US 30% · $211.9K
Single-offer competitions93%
US 8.7% · $10.1M
Urgency justifications83%
US 5.1% · $8.9M

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Agencies awarding it sole-source contracts

Department of the Army$114.3K
Department of Defense · 1 awards
Department of the Navy$97.7K
Department of Defense · 2 awards

Largest awards

TASK ORDER FOR HIGH-ALTITUDE BALLOONS AND COMMUNICATION SUPPORT SERVICES.$8.9M
Department of the Air Force· Minnehaha County, SD· Transportation & logistics· Mar 30, 2026 – May 5, 2026· FA489026F0049
TEST COMBINED OPERATIONAL CAPABILITY OF COMMERCIAL OF THE SHELF RF AND EO/IR SENSORS FOR COLLECTING USEFUL DATA PRODUCTS FROM STATION SEEKING STRATOSPHERIC BALLOON PLATFORMS.$6.4M
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Arlington County, VA· Transportation & logistics· Sep 26, 2025 – May 7, 2026· 80ARC025FA064
FLIGHT AND PAYLOAD INTEGRATION SERVICES FOR THE T0373 STRATOSPHERIC PROJECTILE EXPERIMENT OF ENTRY DYNAMICS (SPEED-2) PAYLOAD$1.2M
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Minnehaha County, SD· Transportation & logistics· Jul 22, 2026 – Jul 22, 2026· 80AFRC26FA040
FLIGHT AND PAYLOAD INTEGRATION SERVICES FOR 60 STUDENT PAYLOADS IN SUPPORT OF THE FLIGHT OPPORTUNITIES TECHRISE STUDENT CHALLENGE 2026-2027$453.9K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Minnehaha County, SD· Transportation & logistics· Mar 10, 2026 – Mar 10, 2026· 80AFRC26FA008
FLIGHT AND INTEGRATION OF UCLA HIGH PRECISION NAVIGATION SENSOR T0352-B$255.4K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Minnehaha County, SD· Transportation & logistics· Sep 26, 2022 – Oct 23, 2025· 80AFRC22F0097
MINIMUM GUARANTEED$170.3K
National Aeronautics and Space Administration· Minnehaha County, SD· Transportation & logistics· Mar 15, 2024 – Aug 28, 2026· 80AFRC24FA016
TO PROCURE REPAIR AND RETURN SERVICES FOR THE COUNTRY OF JORDAN.$114.3K
Department of the Army· Lincoln County, SD· Equipment maintenance· Dec 17, 2025 – Dec 17, 2025· W91CRB26C5002
DRY SUIT 523303611$68.9K
Department of the Navy· Norfolk city, VA· Other equipment & supplies· Dec 30, 2025 – Dec 30, 2025· N0018926P0014

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

Sub-contracts: $35.8M (2 subawards)

2 primes

BOEING COMPANY, THE$32.3M90%
SAINT LOUIS, MO · 1 subaward
PERATON INC.$3.5M9.8%
HERNDON, VA · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

FY2021: $0 paid out · $4.5M received
FY2022: $0 paid out · $1.6M received
FY2023: $0 paid out · $1M received
FY2024: $0 paid out · $98.8M received
FY2025: $0 paid out · $3.4M received
FY2026: $0 paid out · $35.8M received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

11 companies · $190.1M reported

THE BOEING COMPANY$139.8M
SAINT LOUIS, MO · 10 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
HUNTINGTON INGALLS INCORPORATED$13.7M
PASCAGOULA, MS · 4 subawards · Scientific research and development services
ATLANTIC DIVING SUPPLY, INC.$13.4M
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA · 88 subawards · Other general purpose machinery manufacturing

Showing the top 3 of each list. Open the profile for potential partners and the full lists.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 37 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

BOWHEAD INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICE LLC$12.3M+223% in FY2026
SPRINGFIELD, VA · 31% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Nonscheduled air transportation
MOMENTUS SPACE LLC$11M−89% in FY2026
SAN JOSE, CA · 29% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Nonscheduled air transportation
ROCKET LAB USA INC$55.4M+45% in FY2026
LONG BEACH, CA · 59% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveAir Force · Nonscheduled air transportationNational Aeronautics and Space Administration · Nonscheduled air transportation

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Across the company family of AEROSTAR INTERNATIONAL, LLC (3 recipients).

Matched organizations

Aerostar International, LLCAI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $230K; 4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $700K

Lobbying by year

2023$150K
3 reports
2024$200K
4 reports
2025$230K
4 reports
2026$120K
2 reports

Top issues

Defense13 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES13 reports
U.S. SENATE13 reports
Office of Management & Budget (OMB)4 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

Crossroads Strategies, LLC$700K
13 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 1 · An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.5 reports
119th Congress · Became law · 2025–2026
H.R. 4016 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20264 reports
119th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2025–2026
H.R. 8070 · Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20253 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024
H.R. 8774 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20253 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2024
S. 2572 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20263 reports
119th Congress · Reported by committee · 2025–2026
H.R. 2670 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20242 reports
118th Congress · Became law · 2023–2024
H.R. 4365 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20242 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2023–2024
S. 2226 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20242 reports
118th Congress · Passed one chamber · 2023–2024
S. 2587 · Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 20242 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2023–2024
S. 4638 · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 20252 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2024

11 of 13 reports (2023–2026) name at least one bill. Bills and resolutions the current reports name in their issue descriptions, by number of reports. A report names what it lobbied on, not which side it took.

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.