Sell to prime contractors
Supplier registration and the small business office of each large defense companyLarge defense companies buy parts, software and services from smaller companies, and many of them have goals for buying from small businesses. Each one has its own supplier registration and a small business office. Here is where to start with each.
Selling to the military directly? Read the DoW Drone Marketplace guide.
How to start
- Register as a supplier on the company's own supplier page.
- Send its small business office your capability statement. You can build one in your Company Toolkit.
- Watch the Board for open requests from prime contractors and other buyers.
Lockheed Martin
Fighter jets and helicopters, missiles and fire-control systems, mission systems and space systems.
RTX (Raytheon, Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney)
Aircraft engines, aircraft systems and components, missiles and other defense systems.
Northrop Grumman
Space systems, aircraft and autonomous vehicles, missile defense command and control, and defense microelectronics.
General Dynamics
Navy ships and submarines, armored combat vehicles, weapons and munitions, business jets, and defense IT and mission systems.
Boeing Defense, Space & Security
Fighter jets, helicopters, tanker and cargo aircraft, drones, missiles and air defense systems, and space products.
L3Harris Technologies
Tactical radios and communications gear, sensors and cameras, space optics, missile defense and counter-drone systems, and rocket propulsion.
Supplier registrationIts small business program is on the same page.
BAE Systems, Inc.
Aircraft electronic warfare equipment, armored combat vehicles and howitzers, precision munitions and missile seekers, space electronics, and cyber and intelligence services.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
Remotely piloted aircraft, radars, ground control stations and surveillance systems.
Textron Systems
Air, land and sea systems such as drones, armored vehicles and boats, plus electronic systems, weapon systems, propulsion, and training and simulation systems.
Leonardo DRS
Thermal imaging and other sensors, rugged computers and networks, radar and electronic warfare equipment, and naval power and propulsion systems.
Elbit America (now Twenty-Six Defense)
Night vision and helmet-mounted displays, airborne sensors and cockpit avionics, missiles and missile seekers, counter-drone systems, and maritime sonobuoys.
Anduril Industries
Autonomous systems, sensors and the software that links them.
AeroVironment
Small drones and loitering munitions, ground robots, counter-drone systems, underwater and surface vessels, and space and cyber systems.
Supplier registrationIts small business program is on the same page.
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions
Target drones and tactical unmanned aircraft, hypersonic systems, jet engines and rocket motors, satellite ground systems, and microwave electronics.
Supplier registrationIts small business program is on the same page.
Also useful
- SBA SubNetThe U.S. Small Business Administration's list of subcontracting opportunities that prime contractors post.
Links go to each company's own website. Autonomy Runway is not affiliated with these companies. Autonomy Runway lists them here so smaller companies know where to start.