Avawatz Co

Avawatz Co, a minority-owned, woman-owned small business headquartered in Frisco, Texas, operates exclusively as a federal prime contractor in advanced-technology research and development, with specialized focus on artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, augmented reality, and homeland defense systems. The vendor holds no subcontract relationships and competes 100% as a prime across SBIR Phase I and Phase II awards and two major indefinite-delivery vehicles. Avawatz Co is self-certified as a small disadvantaged business (SDB) and economically disadvantaged woman-owned small business (EDWOSB), structures that anchor its SBIR work under total small business set-asides; however, its largest vehicle — the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ — operates under full-and-open competition with no set-asides, signaling capability to compete across both protected and unrestricted pools.

Avawatz Co's recent contract portfolio centers on SBIR research awards and two large strategic vehicles awarded in 2025. DHS Science and Technology Directorate has issued three SBIR awards totaling $1.3 million in combined potential value: a $174.5 thousand Phase I for data labeling and curation at scale for machine learning algorithms (completed October 2024), and a $1 million Phase II for law enforcement software development in immigration and law enforcement activities (running through April 2027). The Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory has placed three SBIR awards worth $1.9 million combined, reflecting prior work in augmented reality and robotics teaming. The Department of the Army awarded a $199.5 thousand SBIR Phase I for a Trusted AI Platform for robotics teaming (completed April 2022). The Department of Transportation issued a $201.8 thousand Phase I award in August 2025 for AI-based predictive maintenance for public transit fleets. These SBIR engagements represent Avawatz Co's core capability framing — research-stage AI, autonomy, and sensor systems development — and constitute all but two dollars of the vendor's obligated dollars ($3.7 million total), despite far larger ceiling values on newer vehicles.

The two 2025 vehicle awards dwarf prior work in nominal ceiling but remain early-stage in task order activity. Avawatz Co received a $151 billion ceiling, 10-year SHIELD IDIQ from the Missile Defense Agency (awarded December 2025, performance through December 2035), structured for multiple-award competition to support air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat detection, tracking, and intercept across classified and unclassified work at Huntsville, Alabama. The inaugural delivery order under SHIELD carried a symbolic five-hundred-dollar value (awarded December 2025). A second vehicle awarded April 2025 is the $249 million "AI Talent 2.0" Basic Ordering Agreement under the Office of the Secretary of Defense, set to expire May 2028, also sourced from a total small business set-aside solicitation and designed for procurement of advanced technology in artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and robotics across multiple federal departments. Customer concentration by award count splits among DHS S&T (3 awards), Air Force Materiel Command (3 awards), and MDA (2 awards), but by potential value the Office of the Secretary of Defense dominates at $249 million (99% of portfolio value), with all other customers accounting for less than 1% combined. Activity trajectory shows sparse awards from 2019–2021 (six total), then a five-year lull, followed by resurgence with five awards in 2025. One award (the DHS SBIR Phase I data labeling contract) has reached completion and faces recompete, with $1 million in potential value at risk inside twenty-four months.

AVA WATZ specializes in Automated Decision Support and Intelligence for Enterprise, Mission Command, Electronic Warfare and other applications