Dayton company gets Navy contract for aircraft parts machining services

Starwin Industries, a Dayton precision machining business, is among six companies chosen to provide machining services to support the Navy’s E/A-6B and E/A-18 electronic warfare aircraft, the Defense Department said.

Along with Starwin, four companies from Indiana and one from Illinois were awarded contracts to provide machine-shop services for aircraft parts and aircraft test systems.

The five-year contracts, awarded this week, run through February 2016. Each work order will be competed among the six companies, the Defense Department said. The maximum combined total of all six contracts is not to exceed $49.9 million during the five years, according to the department.

The Naval Surface Warfare Center, in Crane, Ind., awarded the contracts.

In a separate action, the Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base awarded a contract potentially worth $23 million to General Dynamics Information Technology Inc. for portable maintenance equipment to support the Air Force’s F-22 fighter jet. So far, $3 million of the contract has been obligated.