Load Factor

Special mission

The week to 16 August 2026

Twelve entries reached Special mission in the seven days to 16 August 2026, from three sources. The largest group was contract awards, at nine. Twelve companies were named, nine of them in this segment for the first time in this record. The week before carried five, seven fewer.

Contract award

9

GE AerospaceSupplier

GE Aerospace: Federal or defense contract award, $2.9M from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award

USAspending

Airbus HelicoptersOEM

Airbus Helicopters: Federal or defense contract award, $1.5M from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award · MRO and aftermarket

USAspending

Hornet Acquisitionco, LLCUnclassified

Hornet Acquisitionco, LLC: Federal or defense contract award, $1.8M from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award · MRO and aftermarket

USAspending

SikorskyOEM

Sikorsky: Federal or defense contract award, $789,830 from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award

USAspending

Mission Systems Davenport IncUnclassified

Mission Systems Davenport Inc: Federal or defense contract award, $871,311 from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award

USAspending

Specmat Technologies, IncUnclassified

Specmat Technologies, Inc: Federal or defense contract award, $782,184 from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award

USAspending

SafranSupplier

Safran: Federal or defense contract award, $606,400 from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award · MRO and aftermarket

USAspending

Parker AerospaceSupplier

Parker Aerospace: Federal or defense contract award, $445,138 from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award

USAspending

OnticSupplier

Ontic: Federal or defense contract award, $780,787 from the Department of Homeland Security

Contract award

USAspending

Airworthiness directive

1

Air TractorOEM

Airworthiness Directives; Air Tractor, Inc. Airplanes

Airworthiness directive · MRO and aftermarket

Federal Register

News item

2

XTI Aerospace's Drone NerdsUnclassified

XTI Aerospace's Drone Nerds Expands Public Safety Portfolio with DBOX Autonomous Drone Docking System

News item

PR Newswire

US Coast GuardGovernment

Postal Service to Issue Commemorative Stamp for U.S. Coast Guard Academy Milestone

News item

PR Newswire

Where the week came from

three sources supplied the 12 entries. Every row above links the original, and its entry page carries the terms it is quoted under.

SourceEntries
USAspending.gov award data9
PR Newswire, Aerospace and Defense2
FAA design approval and airworthiness documents in the Federal Register1

How this edition was put together

Every row is an entry in the record, fetched again at its source on the day the record was read and confirmed to carry its excerpt. The groups are the record's own event classes, ordered as a reader of this segment reads them rather than by score alone, and within a group by the record's score and then by date.

The counts on this page are arithmetic over those rows and nothing else. Nothing is added about a company that its own entry does not carry, and the edition is assembled by software, so no line here is an opinion about anyone. What gets in, and what does not is the standard the entries are held to.

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