Top Honeywell Government Contracts (2026 Update)

Honeywell is a top federal government contractor based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Its largest customer bases are the Pentagon and other federal agencies.

In 2025, Honeywell reported $4.2 billion in total sales to the U.S. government, mainly through its aerospace segment. Discover the top Honeywell government contracts, updated for 2026, here!

Is Honeywell a Defense Contractor?

Honeywell is a major defense contractor with historic expertise in transformative and envelope-pushing technologies. The company’s defense and space unit in 2025 was responsible for 41 percent, or $7.2 billion, of its revenue.

The Honeywell Aerospace business is a leading global tier-1 aerospace and defense supplier of mission critical systems and technologies for the production, maintenance and safe operation of aerospace and defense platforms. Eighty-eight percent of Honeywell’s sales to the U.S. government, or $4.2 billion, were to the Pentagon.

Honeywell International Manufacturing Expansion 2026

Honeywell in April announced plans to streamline jet engine manufacturing operations with a goal of landing substantial Pentagon contracts. The company said it would expand manufacturing of its F124 jet engines by adding on-site assembly at its engines campus in Phoenix, Ariz.

The newly-built F124-GA-200 engines will propel the Beechcraft M-346N candidate for the Navy’s Undergraduate Jet Training System, or UJTS. This is a major business opportunity because the Navy expects to procure 400 jet engines as part of aircraft procurement.

What Are Honeywell’s Major Government Contracts?

1. Defense Innovation Unit’s Transition of Quantum Sensing

• Year: 2025
• Contracting Activity: Defense Innovation Unit

In July 2025, the DIU issued Honeywell a pair of contracts to participate in thie Transition of Quantum Sensing, or TQS, program. The two contracts are:

• Compact Rubidium Unit for Inertial Sensing and Estimation, or CRUISE
• Quantum Enabled Sensor Technologies for MagNav, aka QUEST

The program aims to accelerate adoption of quantum sensors to address near-term alternative position, navigation and timing, or PNT, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, aka ISR, applications for the U.S. armed services.

Quantum sensors have the potential to augment existing navigation solutions, helping pilots operate with greater confidence. Honeywell’s pedigree in fielded sensors and navigation solutions provide us with a unique perspective to ensure the technology is viable beyond the laboratory. — Matt Picchetti, Honeywell Aerospace Technologies vice president and general manager for navigation and sensors

2. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Reservation Cleanup Contract, $8.3 Billion

• Year: 2021
• Contracting Activity: Department of Energy
• Contract type: Indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ)
• Contract duration: 10 years

In October 2021, United Cleanup Oak Ridge (UCOR), a Maryland-based joint venture between Amentum, Jacobs, and Honeywell, was awarded a contract worth $8.3 billion from the Department of Energy. Under the Oak Ridge Reservation (Tennessee) Cleanup contract, UCOR is responsible for the following:

• Cleanup and remedial actions at the 2,200-acre East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) Complex
• Cleanup of 200 excess and contaminated facilities at the Y-12 National Security Complex and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Development, construction, and operations of the new onsite disposal facility, the Environmental Management Disposal Facility
• Surveillance and maintenance of other facilities and core functions for central and project services

3. Department of Defense’s GPS Navigation System Modernization, $3.5 Billion

• Year: 2020
• Contracting Activity: Air Force Life Cycle Management Center
• Contract type: IDIQ
• Contract duration: 15 years

In February 2020, Florida-based Honeywell Inc. received a potential $3.5 billion contract award from the Defense Department. Under the contract, Honeywell will produce, sustain, and provide technical engineering services for the U.S. Air Force and foreign military customers’ Embedded GPS Inertial Navigation System Modernization (EGI/EGI-M) Program.

The Pentagon-wide task order will enable GPS receivers to securely transmit new military signals for space (M-code) transmissions with less jamming. The task is being performed in Clearwater, Florida, with an expected end date of December 2035.

4. National Nuclear Security Administration’s Contract to Manage Sandia National Laboratories, $2.6 Billion

• Year: 2016
• Contracting Activity: National Nuclear Security Administration (Department of Energy)
• Contract duration: 10 years

In December 2016, Honeywell’s wholly-owned subsidiary, National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia (NTESS) received a contract award worth $2.6 billion from National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).

Under the contract, Honeywell is managing and operating Sandia National Laboratories, a research and development laboratory of the NNSA in Albuquerque, N.M. This laboratory is a part of the Pulsed Power Program meant to revolutionize next-generation facilities by concentrating electrical energy and turning it into short pulses of enormous power. NTESS receives support from Northrop Grumman and Universities Research Association for the contract performance.

The NNSA in April 2022 announced it exercised Option Terms 1 through 5 of NTESS’ management and operating contract for Sandia National Laboratories. This extends the performance of NTESS from May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2027.

5. U.S. Army’s Tank Engine Improvements Contract, $1.1 Billion

• Year: 2020
• Contracting Activity: U.S. Army
• Contract type: Requirements contract
• Contract duration: 5 years (2 base years with 3 optional years)

In December 2020, the U.S. Army awarded a $1.1 billion modification contract to Honeywell Aerospace, Phoenix, to continue supporting the M1 Abrams tank. This contract continues the Total InteGrated Engine Revitalization (TIGER) III program that started in 2005. It aimed at improving AGT1500’s operations and reducing service costs.

AGT1500 powers the M1 Abrams vehicles to significantly improve the engine’s durability, efficiency, and effectiveness (.e.g., enhanced fuel economy and vehicle range). The work is expected to finish by September 2025.

6. U.S. Air Force’s Logistics Support For Power Systems, $1 Billion

• Year: 2018
• Contracting Activity: U.S. Air Force
• Contract type: Performance-based sustainment contract
• Contract duration: 10 years

In October 2018, the U.S. Air Force selected Honeywell Aerospace for its $1 billion contract to provide full logistics support for secondary power systems and ground-based auxiliary power systems of several aircraft types, including:

• F-15 Eagle tactical fighter
• F-16 Fighting Falcon multirole fighter
• A-10 Thunderbolt II
• B-1B Lancer
• B-2 Spirit
• E-3 Sentry
• C-130 Hercules
• Ground stage carts

The Phoenix office manages the task order, while a large portion of the work on turbine engines is being done in Utah. It is expected to finish by July or August 2028.

7. U.S. Army’s Engine Production Contract for the Chinook Fleet

• Year: 2026
• Contracting Activity: U.S Army
• Contract type: firm-fixed price
• Contract duration: 3 years

Honeywell, on May 20, 2026, was awarded a $249 million firm-fixed price Army contract for the maintenance and overhaul of the CH-47 Chinook T-55 engine. The estimated contract completetion date is 2029.

In March 2021,  Honeywell received a $476 million contract award from the U.S. Army to provide spare T55-GA-714A engines for the CH-47 Chinook fleet of helicopters. The U.S. Army Chinook Program will support future missions for heavy-lift helicopters and military troops and spare engines for the Boeing’s Philadelphia production line to serve the U.S. Army and partnering countries’ new aircraft requirements.

Production, testing, and assembly are performed at Honeywell’s production facility in Phoenix. Currently, Honeywell’s T55 engines, which use 8 percent less fuel than its predecessor, have accumulated 12 million operational hours on Boeing’s MH-47  and CH-47 Chinook helicopters.

About Honeywell International Inc.

Honeywell International is a Fortune 100 company founded in 1906. It delivers aerospace, control technologies, and performance products and services to over 80 countries.

This article, originally published in 2022, was updated with new information on June 5, 2026, by a member of Executive Mosaic’s editorial team.