Arrow TECH Associates, Inc.

Arrow TECH Associates, Inc., a Vermont-based small business manufacturer, delivers specialized software systems and engineering analysis services to the Department of Defense and research agencies as a prime contractor (98% of awards) without set-aside designation, with particular expertise in ballistics design analysis, ordnance software, and hardware-in-the-loop testing infrastructure.

Arrow TECH is a for-profit corporate entity headquartered in South Burlington, Vermont, and registered in SAM.gov since 2002. The vendor competes full-and-open across its prime footprint, with no set-asides characterizing recent awards; a single Air Force Research Laboratory Phase I award carries a Total Small Business set-aside designation. Primary NAICS coding reflects the vendor's service mix: Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (41 awards), Software Publishers (28 awards), Custom Computer Programming Services and Other Computer Related Services (4 awards each), and R&D in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (4 awards). PSC coding is dominated by Information Technology Software (40 awards) and Support-Professional Engineering/Technical (11 awards), with the remainder rooted in applied R&D and exploratory development contract pools.

Arrow TECH's customer concentration is heavily weighted to Army programs, which drive 65 awards and dominate the top-five agency list by award count: the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (35 awards, $5.2 million combined potential value), followed by the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (19 awards, $598 thousand), the broader Army establishment (19 awards), the Air Force (15 awards, $8 thousand), and Army Intelligence and Security Command (11 awards, $131 thousand). The dollars tell a different story: Office of Naval Research anchors the portfolio with a single $12.2 million award for the 155mm Deep Strike Cargo Artillery Round program, which alone represents 62% of the vendor's combined potential value. Army RDECOM's 35 awards contribute $5.2 million (26% of total), while NAVSEA's larger award count yields only $598 thousand—a volume-heavy customer with lower average contract magnitude.

Arrow TECH's recent capability work centers on Projectile Rocket Ordnance Design and Analysis System (PRODAS) software maintenance and renewal across Navy and Army commands. Named representative awards include a $435 thousand definitive contract with Army RDECOM (awarded September 2024) for PRODAS software maintenance covering forty user network keys and fifteen individual access keys running through September 2028; a $2.27 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract with Army Contracting Command (awarded June 2023) for shadowgraph range control and data acquisition system upgrades at Aberdeen Proving Ground; and a $176 thousand Air Force Research Laboratory Phase I purchase order (awarded July 2024) under total small business set-aside for development of a real-time magnetic field generator for hardware-in-the-loop testing. Most PRODAS-related awards are sole-source on technical compatibility grounds, with the government citing approximately twelve-month mission delay if alternative software were substituted. A $226 thousand Army Research, Development and Engineering Command purchase order (awarded September 2025) extends through September 2030 for analysis of orthogonal spark shadowgraph imagery from NASA flight vehicles under live fire to determine aerodynamic coefficients and dynamic stability.

Activity has flatlined in recent years—three awards in 2022, two in 2023, four each in 2024 and 2025, and one in 2026—with a combined potential value of $19.8 million across 131 total awards since 1989 and $16.9 million obligated (85% of potential value). Five awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying combined potential value of $1.1 million and exposing the vendor to recompete risk on that quantum. Arrow TECH operates almost entirely as a prime contractor (128 of 131 awards); subcontract engagement is negligible, comprising three sub-awards with General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (DU Demil Database implementation and maintenance, awarded April 2022 and extended no-cost in February 2025) and Booz Allen Hamilton (survivability and combat effectiveness analysis engineering services, awarded December 2024).