Industry · NAICS 481212

Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation

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Money by year

  • FY2023$3.85B
  • FY2024$5.14B
  • FY2025$5.03B
  • FY2026$5.03B

Obligations (money committed) in prime awards, from USAspending.gov.

Companies winning it, FY2025

  1. Space Exploration Technologies Corp $1.93B
  2. United Launch Alliance, L.L.C $620.03M
  3. Northrop Grumman Corp $529.15M
  4. Kalitta Air LLC $211.84M
  5. Air Transport Services Group, Inc. $154.91M
  6. Helicopter Transport Services, LLC $114.71M
  7. Aero-Flite, Inc. $112.41M
  8. Firefly Aerospace Inc. $110.38M
  9. Blue Origin, LLC $101.60M
  10. Helicopter Express LLC $87.32M

Where the work is, FY2025

  1. California $1.79B
  2. (not reported) $1.13B
  3. Colorado $531.73M
  4. (outside the US) $506.16M
  5. Idaho $332.29M
  6. Montana $154.61M
  7. Texas $130.05M
  8. Oregon $82.48M

Contracts ending in the next 12 months

93 contracts, $10.84B with options. The largest:

ContractIncumbentEndsValue with options
FA881419F0001
HOSTED PAYLOAD SOLUTION NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION'S TROPOSPHERIC EMISSIONS: MONITORING OF POLLUTION PAYLOAD
Lanteris Space LLC2026-10-17$78.68M
FA881126FB003
NATIONAL SECURITY SPACE LAUNCH PHASE 3 LANE 2 LAUNCH SERVICE PROCUREMENT
United Launch Services, LLC2026-10-24$1.33M
FA881123F0015
NATIONAL SECURITY SPACE LAUNCH PHASE 2
Space Exploration Technologies Corp.2026-10-30$95.74M
FA881124F0007
NATIONAL SECURITY SPACE LAUNCH SERVICES
Space Exploration Technologies Corp.2026-10-30$90.18M
FA881123F0020
NATIONAL SECURITY SPACE LAUNCH SERVICES
Space Exploration Technologies Corp.2026-10-30$87.12M
FA881121F0012
SPACE FORCE MISSION 112 LAUNCH SERVICES AND MISSION INTEGRATION
United Launch Services, LLC2026-11-12$120.14M
FA881124FB012
NATIONAL SECURITY SPACE LAUNCH PHASE 2
United Launch Services, LLC2026-11-24$123.34M
N3220522C4200
N102B/PM6 LAWREN WOLF VERTREP NAVCENT DET A. BASE CONTRACT FOR VERTICAL REPLENISHMENT SERVICES NAVCENT DET A BASE YEAR POP: 01APR22 THROUGH 31MAR23.
Air Center Helicopters, Inc2026-11-28$57.49M
140D0426F0826
CALL WHEN NEEDED (UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE-FOREST SERVICE) HELICOPTER FLIGHT SERVICE IN SUPPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WILDLAND FIRE SUPPRESSION MISSION- 2026 HELIQWEST INTERNATION
Heliqwest International Inc.2026-11-30$4.10M
140D0426F0742
CALL WHEN NEEDED (UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE-FOREST SERVICE) HELICOPTER FLIGHT SERVICE IN SUPPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WILDLAND FIRE SUPPRESSION MISSION- 2026 BLUESKY HELICOPTERS
Bluesky Helicopters Inc2026-11-30$3.67M

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From USAspending.gov prime awards and SAM.gov notices. Sources and limits

NAICS 481212 Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation: federal buyers and winners · SpendQuery