Federal contractor · PHOENIX, AZ

DILLON AERO, INC.

DILLON AERO, INC. received $17M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 13 awards (+34% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $94.2M. Its largest customer was Department of the Army ($16.7M).

Obligations · FY2026
$17M
New awards
13
Sole-source
100.0%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Parent company
DILLON AERO, INC.
Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 15.2MFY2017
  2. 2.5MFY2018
  3. 12.4MFY2019
  4. 2.7MFY2020
  5. 1.8MFY2021
  6. 5.2MFY2022
  7. 10.9MFY2023
  8. 13.7MFY2024
  9. 12.7MFY2025
  10. 17MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. Department of the Army$16.7M98%
    8 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$300.8K1.8%
    1 awards
  3. Defense Logistics Agency$2,3210.0%
    2 awards
  4. Defense Contract Management Agency$00.0%
    2 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles$17M99.9%
  2. Education & social services$11.7K0.1%
  3. Other equipment & supplies$2,3210.0%

Where the work was performed

  1. Maricopa County, AZ$17M99.9%
  2. El Paso County, TX$11.7K0.1%

Integrity signals

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

  • Low competition100.0%
    US 39% · $17M
  • Sole-source awards100.0%
    US 30% · $17M
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

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

  1. Department of the Army$16.7M
    Department of Defense · 6 awards
  2. Department of the Navy$300.8K
    Department of Defense · 1 awards

Largest awards

  1. THE PURPOSE OF THIS EFFORT IS TO PROCURE MULTIPLE ITEMS ON BEHALF OF THE FMS PARTNER.$8.2M
    Department of the Army· Maricopa County, AZ· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· May 11, 2026 – May 11, 2026· W15QKN26C0004
  2. BOLT ASSEMBLY$6.2M
    Department of the Army· Maricopa County, AZ· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Aug 30, 2024 – Jun 4, 2026· W912CH24C0027
  3. ONE TIME PROCUREMENT OF NSNS XXXXXXX$3.1M
    Department of the Army· Maricopa County, AZ· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Mar 30, 2026 – Jun 5, 2026· W912CH26C0038
  4. DELIVERY ORDER IN SUPPORT OF FOREIGN MILITARY SALES (FMS).$3M
    Department of the Army· Maricopa County, AZ· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Apr 4, 2025 – Jan 12, 2026· W15QKN25F0186
  5. THE PURPOSE OF THIS EFFORT IS TO PROCURE M134D-H SYSTEM AND SPARE PARTS.$2.1M
    Department of the Army· Maricopa County, AZ· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Dec 22, 2025 – Apr 29, 2026· W15QKN26C0003
  6. DELIVERY ORDER IN SUPPORT OF FOREIGN MILITARY SALES (FMS).$1.6M
    Defense Contract Management Agency· Maricopa County, AZ· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Mar 31, 2025 – May 12, 2026· W15QKN25F0094
  7. FEEDER DELINKER, FFP 1 TIME BUY WITH 100% OPTION, SOLE SOURCE TO DILLON AERO$830.8K
    Department of the Army· Maricopa County, AZ· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Sep 16, 2024 – Mar 18, 2026· W912CH24C0034
  8. DELIVERY ORDER TO CONTRACT N0016421DJN83 - DILLON AERO$385.3K
    Defense Contract Management Agency· Maricopa County, AZ· Weapons, aircraft, ships & vehicles· Sep 3, 2025 – May 11, 2026· N0016425FJ641

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: $8M (2 subawards)

2 primes

  1. DEFENSE SYSTEMS AND SOLUTIONS$6.5M81%
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 1 subaward
  2. THE BOEING COMPANY$1.5M19%
    MESA, AZ · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2021: $0 paid out · $1.5M received
  • FY2022: $0 paid out · $1.2M received
  • FY2023: $0 paid out · $229.5K received
  • FY2024: $0 paid out · $1.4M received
  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $3.3M received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $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

7 companies · $15.5M reported

  1. DEFENSE SYSTEMS AND SOLUTIONS$6.5M
    HUNTSVILLE, AL · 1 subaward · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  2. THE BOEING COMPANY$5M
    SAINT LOUIS, MO · 5 subawards · Aerospace product and parts manufacturing
  3. MD HELICOPTERS, LLC$1.2M
    MESA, AZ · 3 subawards · Support activities for air transportation

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

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 2021.

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 14 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. BARRETT FIREARMS MANUFACTURING, INC.$30.4M−96% in FY2026
    CHRISTIANA, TN · 70% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Other fabricated metal product manufacturingU.S. Special Operations Command · Other fabricated metal product manufacturingDefense Contract Management Agency · Other fabricated metal product manufacturing
  2. TOWER INDUSTRIES, INC.$48.2M
    GREENVILLE, WI · 83% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Other fabricated metal product manufacturing
  3. UTM LIMITED$54.4M−65% in FY2026
    BURY ST EDMUNDS, GBR · 88% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveArmy · Other fabricated metal product manufacturingU.S. Special Operations Command · Other fabricated metal product manufacturing

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.

Matched organizations

  • Dillon Aero, Inc.AI match · 90%
Lobbying · 2025
$0
4 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026
$60K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2023$60K
    8 reports
  2. 2024$0
    6 reports
  3. 2025$0
    4 reports
  4. 2026$0
    2 reports

Top issues

  1. Defense3 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES3 reports
  2. U.S. SENATE3 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

  1. American Defense International, Inc.$60K
    6 reports
  2. Mark Barnes & Associates$0
    14 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 Oct 5, 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.