General Electric Wins $12 Million Air Force Engine Parts Order

General Electric Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, has received an estimated $11.7 million firm-fixed-price delivery order to manufacture F108 aircraft stator case and vane assemblies for the Air Force. Defense Logistics Agency Weapons Support at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, issued the order under a five-year basic ordering agreement. Performance is scheduled to be completed by Oct. 31, 2031.

F108 Case and Vane Assembly Details

GE will manufacture the stator case and vane assemblies identified in the government award notice. The notice describes a purchase of engine components rather than engine development or depot repair work. DLA issued the order through an agreement covering manufactured engine materials and components.

The available procurement listings contain a material discrepancy: both the award listing and the sole-source justification listing identify the case-and-vane requirement as F110, while the government award notice calls the assemblies F108. The supplied records do not resolve the difference in engine designation.

F108 Fleet Sustainment Background

The F108 powers the KC-135 tanker. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center describes a KC-135 fleet of 374 aircraft with an average age of 58 years. The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex at Tinker performs F108 engine maintenance, repair and overhaul. Those missions provide context for continuing engine-parts procurement, though the award notice does not assign GE’s assemblies to a particular depot schedule.

DLA has also described a broader F108 supply-chain effort: its fiscal 2025 history reports a CFM International contract valued at more than $2.8 billion for engine consumables, depot-level reparables, upgrade kits and engineering support. That engine-wide effort differs in scope from GE’s case-and-vane order.

Award and Contractor Background

The justification listing describes this order to GE as a noncompetitive, sole-source award. Under the same basic ordering agreement, GE has received a $6.7 million order for an F110 case and vane assembly, with potential performance through March 2029. That order is relevant to the engine-designation discrepancy in the new procurement records, but its listing does not establish that it covers the same assemblies.

GE’s other DLA F108 work includes a $44.6 million engine augmentation repair order with a potential performance end in August 2024. Unlike the new manufacturing order, that award concerned repair work.

This award was disclosed by the DoW in its daily press release. Additional contract details will be available on HigherGov in approximately 90 days under SPRTA126F2230 after the contract is formally disclosed by the government.