Aeonyx, Inc.

Antaris, Inc., a Los Altos, California-based small business, operates as a prime contractor for space technology and digital engineering research and development work funded by the Missile Defense Agency and the Air Force Research Laboratory, delivering satellite design, digital twinning, mission virtualization, and integrated defense systems capabilities under SBIR and STTR contracts and a multi-billion-dollar indefinite delivery vehicle.

Antaris competes entirely under small-business set-asides on its core research portfolio — five awards carry Total Small Business designations — with one full-and-open OTA vehicle and one recent MDA delivery order placed without set-aside constraints. The company has no subcontract footprint; all seven tracked awards are primes. The customer base splits evenly between two DoD components: the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) accounts for three awards worth $5.8 million combined potential value, while the Missile Defense Agency holds four awards worth $2.1 million. Recent core capability work includes a $1.9 million SBIR Phase II award from AFRL (February 2023) for digital engineering of satellite servicing and manufacturing under the Antaris TrueTwin platform, a $2.2 million OTA from AFRL (April 2024) for digital flatsat creation and simulation and digital twinning capabilities, a $1.9 million SBIR Phase II award from AFRL (June 2024) for expanding the Antaris Cloud Platform in the context of the SpaceWerx Orbital Prime ISAM mission, and a $2.0 million STTR Phase II definitive contract from MDA (April 2026) for full mission virtualization supporting integrated space and missile defense, with place of performance at Los Alamos, California.

The most significant vehicle in Antaris's portfolio is a Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award indefinite delivery contract awarded by MDA on January 21, 2026, with a ten-year performance window through December 28, 2035. One initial delivery order has been issued for $500 (January 2026) with place of performance in Huntsville, Alabama. The SHIELD IDIQ carries a multi-billion-dollar ceiling and spans research and development, prototyping, disruptive technologies, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, cybersecurity, and modernization against air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threats. The IDIQ was awarded under full-and-open competition with fair-and-reasonable-pricing intent to all qualifying offerors submitting technically acceptable proposals.

Two awards (combined potential value $4.2 million) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure. All $7.9 million in combined potential value across the seven tracked awards has been fully obligated.