This report examines six years of U.S. DoD spending in Federal Supply Code (FSC) 1560 Equipment Aircraft Structural

Companies are grouped into three tiers based upon FSC 1560 revenues over time. Revenues rose sharply from 2001-2002, and have leveled off at close to $2 billion annually from 2003 to 2006

The number of reporting locations has skyrocketed, rising from 484 in 2001 to 1,184 in 2006. DoD has spent a total of $12.3 billion in FSC 1560 from 2001-2006. It also provides a spending forecast from 2007-2011

G2 Solutions worked from contract action data beginning in 1999 as well as another set of information characterizing DoD FSC 1560 spending from 2001-2006. In its simplest form, airframe structural components markets are similar to commodity trading; through this report G2 looks at macro political, policy and force structure issues to justify a 5-year forecast