Bluehalo Labs, LLC

Bluehalo Labs, LLC, headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is a for-profit limited liability company and manufacturer of defense technologies that operates as a prime contractor (85% of recent awards) on full-and-open federal contracts across the Department of Defense, civilian research agencies, and the Department of Homeland Security. The vendor competes without set-aside designations and holds no documented SBA certifications.

Bluehalo Labs delivers advanced sensor systems, directed-energy technologies, counter-unmanned-aircraft-systems (C-UAS) platforms, radar and optical communications equipment, helicopter platform engineering, and battle-management software. The company's capability footprint spans space superiority, missile defense, command-and-control systems, and intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance (ISR) across platforms including the FirstView integrated flight-qualified sensor pod system, TITAN-series counter-UAS platforms (TITAN-MS, TITAN SV MPV3, TITAN 4), Skyview unmanned-aircraft detection systems, and hybrid-electric light helicopter development. Recent representative prime awards include a $24.98 million Office of Naval Research Technology for Enhanced Remote Sensing and Imaging (TRAI) definitive contract (September 2024) for advanced sensor research performed in Washington, DC; a $28.98 million Marine Corps definitive contract for TITAN SV MPV3 system procurement (September 2025, completion July 2026); a $4.49 million Army Research, Development and Engineering Command cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for counter-UAS sensing and RF systems development (August 2024, completion August 2027); and a $25.95 million Air Force Electronic Systems Center Other Transaction Agreement for Mobile Air Traffic System Integration Experiment radar equipment development (September 2023, completion September 2027). Bluehalo Labs also delivers SBIR Phase III sensor pod development work to the Air Force across multiple delivery orders totaling approximately $4 million.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of Defense technical commands. The top five funding agencies account for 68% of recent awards by count and 56% by combined potential value, dominated by the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (63 awards, $321.3 million combined potential value), the Department of the Army ($96.8 million across 21 awards), the Air Force proper (175 awards, $76.7 million), and the Navy's Office of Naval Research and Information Warfare Systems Command (combined 6 awards, $103.2 million). These five entities alone represent a $593.8 million aggregate ceiling. The research-and-development concentration is acute: R&D in physical and engineering sciences accounts for 153 of the top-category awards, with advanced weapons development and applied national-defense research spanning 160 awards under the top two PSC codes. This customer and category profile reflects a vendor operating almost exclusively in defense modernization and advanced technology development, not sustainment or commodities.

Bluehalo Labs holds a portfolio of five major indefinite-delivery vehicles. The most significant is a $151 billion multiple-award IDIQ awarded by the Missile Defense Agency on January 21, 2026, for the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, a multi-domain air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid-threat defense system with place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama and ultimate completion December 28, 2035. An Air Force single-award IDC valued at $64.09 million (August 2024, completion July 2029) funds FirstView sensor pod and airborne infrared truth system engineering at the Albuquerque facility, with three delivery orders issued ($3.1 million, $329 thousand, and $548 thousand for SBIR Phase III work, all firm fixed price or cost-plus-fixed-fee). A Naval Information Warfare Systems Command single-award indefinite delivery contract valued at $49.93 million (September 2024, completion September 2029) for UAV engineering services carries three active delivery orders totaling $4.4 million (Surfer Technical Support, LANSHARK ATR Phase 4, and NIMBLE POSEIDON, all cost-plus-fixed-fee, performed in San Diego, California). An Army multiple-award Other Transaction IDV of $90.54 million (March 2023, ultimate completion not specified in vehicle detail) supports Low-Cost Attritable Aircraft (LOCUST) hybrid-electric light helicopter development. A Marine Corps single-award IDC of $2.42 million (April 2023, completion April 2028) funds Skyview software support and maintenance at Leesburg, Virginia, with three delivery orders totaling $1.06 million. Additionally, an Army multiple-award OTA of $6.27 million (February 2025, completion February 2027) supports Human-Machine Integrated Formations counter-small-UAS electronic-warfare capabilities. These six vehicles alone represent $363.3 million in ceilings and reflect deep DoD relationships in directed-energy, missile-defense, and sensor-development domains.

Recent activity shows volatility: 41 awards in 2024 declined to 22 in 2025 and 6 year-to-date in 2026, a contraction pattern that warrants monitoring for pipeline visibility. However, this volatility is partly offset by the scale of the SHIELD IDIQ (January 2026) and its multi-decade completion window. Within the next twenty-four months, seven awards carrying $70.7 million in combined potential value will reach ultimate completion, creating recompete exposure in 2027–2028. The largest near-term recompete is the $64.09 million Air Force FirstView IDIC (July 2029 completion, but no orders currently shown expiring in the next 24 months based on listed delivery-order completions).

Bluehalo Labs operates as a subcontractor on approximately 15% of its awards, primarily under major defense primes. Named teaming relationships include General Dynamics Information Technology (seven recent sub-awards across global security engineering and supply-chain services, starting August 2024), Radiance Technologies (multiple counter-UAS and directed-energy systems integration lab work under Army primes, 2023–2025), Booz Allen Hamilton (counter-UAS product delivery and threat-training programs, 2024–2025), Lockheed Martin (foreign military sales case repair and return, February 2026), CACI (counter-unmanned-aircraft research and development, September–December 2025), and HII Mission Technologies (logistics, ISR, and next-generation technology initiatives, September 2025). When priming, Bluehalo Labs subcontracts with university partners (Oklahoma State University) and specialized vendors (Exxact Corporation, a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, for high-performance computing hardware under the TRAI ONR contract; Ipsolon Research Inc. for counter-UAS sensing support). Across SCI-reportable service contracts (a restricted subset covering only three contracts above $150 thousand in FY2022–FY2024), invoiced revenue totaled $17 thousand on 0.2 FTEs, with a median government-paid rate of $49.70 per hour. SCI data capture is minimal and does not represent the vendor's total federal services footprint, which is dominated by product-development contracts, R&D definitives, and SBIR Phase III delivery orders falling outside SCI reporting thresholds.

Bluehalo Labs competes predominantly full-and-open on GSA vehicles (OASIS Small Business appears in descriptions with 25 task orders across the award portfolio), Army and Air Force IDIQs, and broad-agency announcements from AFRL, Navy research offices, and the MDA. The vendor manufactures hardware platforms (TITAN, Skyview, FirstView, Tracker Chassis) and develops directed-energy and sensor-integration solutions, positioning it as both a systems integrator and original equipment manufacturer in the DoD modernization landscape. The corporate structure lists three named subsidiaries under the parent Bluehalo Labs, LLC entity, though the source does not specify distinct operational roles or geographic allocation.