Avarint, LLC

Avarint, LLC, a Buffalo, New York–based research and development firm specializing in advanced modeling, simulation, and virtual environment development for defense applications, operates as a for-profit subsidiary of Cubrc, Inc. (a nonprofit research organization at the same address) and competes as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards) on full-and-open federal defense contracts with no set-aside posture. Avarint's footprint centers on cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery orders and indefinite-delivery contracts serving the Department of the Air Force, Department of the Navy, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and Missile Defense Agency, with minimal exposure to civilian agencies.

Avarint's capability portfolio is anchored in two flagship defense programs: the Validated Red Airspace Virtual Environment (VALRAVN), a multi-agency virtual simulation platform for air combat testing and training, and the Digital Integrated Air Defense System (DIADS), which develops advanced air defense modeling and threat representation environments. Representative prime work includes a $3.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from Air Force Materiel Command (January 2026) for CHAC Task Order 11 (Counter Hypersonic Aircraft Command Control and Communications), a $1.05 million delivery order for VALRAVN DIADS Task Order 54 (April 2025), a $994 thousand Naval Air Systems Command engagement for F-35 Joint Simulation Environment support (June 2024), and a $601 thousand Pacific Air Forces order for DIADS Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex FY23 support (June 2023). The company also holds a $4 million multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the Department of Homeland Security's Secret Service for chemical analysis, testing, and technical evaluation services, and has been awarded a single-task-order position on the Missile Defense Agency's $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program (December 2025) for multi-domain defense systems engineering.

Customer concentration is extreme. Air Force Materiel Command accounts for 54% of all awards by count (126 awards, $393.8 million combined potential value) and dominates the portfolio alongside subordinate Air Force offices and the Navy. The top five customer agencies by award count supply 76% of recent work. However, the potential-value rankings are inverted by a single Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command award worth $8.28 billion (the SHIELD IDIQ contract), which dwarfs all other arrangements. Excluding SHIELD, Air Force Materiel Command represents over 95% of Avarint's non-SHIELD contract value.

Avarint operates primarily under three Air Force Materiel Command IDIQs: Indefinite Delivery Contract FA930215D0004 (93 task orders, $78.5 million combined potential value), Indefinite Delivery Contract FA930420D0003 (76 task orders, $43.6 million combined potential value), and Indefinite Delivery Contract FA930209D0030 (40 task orders, $14.1 million combined potential value). These vehicles collectively anchor most of the company's VALRAVN and DIADS delivery order work. The company also holds the new $96 million CHAC (Counter Hypersonic Aircraft Command Control and Communications) single-award indefinite-delivery contract from Air Force Materiel Command and Office of the Secretary of Defense (awarded December 10, 2025, through December 9, 2030), with three delivery orders already issued as of early 2026.

Recent activity has remained elevated but variable — 15 awards in 2022, 11 in 2023, 21 in 2024, and 18 in 2025, with four awards recorded through April 2026. Twelve awards (combined potential value $7.8 million) reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating moderate recompete exposure in the near term. Primary NAICS codes cluster around research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences (96 and 93 awards, respectively) and engineering services (41 awards), with principal PSC coding in support of professional engineering/technical work (129 awards) and R&D defense services (88 awards).

Avarint subcontracts to major defense primes including Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation and Dynetics Technical Solutions Inc. on VALRAVN and DIADS simulation initiatives and has delivered sub-award work under Mriglobal (CBRN testing, September 2025) and Battelle Memorial Institute (CBRN testing and analytics, February 2025). The company also received a sub-grant award from Purdue University for the Midwest AFRL Regional Research Convergence Hub (M-ARRCH) program (July 2024). As a subsidiary of Cubrc, Inc., a nonprofit research organization, Avarint operates within a parent structure oriented toward federal defense research and development, though the parent relationship does not alter Avarint's competitive posture or set-aside eligibility.