Avnik Defense Solutions Inc.

Avnik Defense Solutions Inc., an SBA Certified Women-Owned Small Business headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, operates primarily as a subcontractor (75% of awards) on Department of Defense aviation, missile, and defense systems programs, with emerging prime capability in advanced-technology R&D for Army and Navy. The company is a Subchapter S corporation structured as a for-profit organization with no security-cleared labor offerings and a GSA Schedule footprint spanning 54 labor categories at rates from $51.80/hr to $211.65/hr, covering administrative, program-analyst, software development, data-analysis, and senior-engineering roles without clearance requirements.

Avnik's customer concentration is heavily Army-weighted. The top five funding entities account for 96% of awards, led by the Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Missiles and Space (33 awards), the Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (5 awards, $1.6 million combined potential value), and the Department of the Navy Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center (4 awards, $3.4 million combined potential value). A recent second ranking by potential value surfaces the Navy's Naval Air Warfare Center at the top ($3.4 million across four awards), reflecting the higher dollar magnitude of aviation-systems work relative to Army R&D volume. Avnik also holds a prime position on the Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ, awarded December 29, 2025, with a ceiling reaching into the multi-billion-dollar range and an initial delivery order valued at $500.

Prime work centers on defense R&D and advanced sensing technologies. A $1.144 million Army SBIR Phase II contract (August 8, 2023, funded through RDEC) covers intelligent frequency-modulated continuous wave (IFMCW) radar sensing; a $173 thousand Army STTR Phase I definitive contract (June 16, 2022) addressed meta-material optics for mid-wave infrared image differentiation. The SHIELD IDIQ, Avnik's largest prime vehicle, procures research, development, prototyping, systems engineering, and test-and-evaluation services across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid defense domains, including work in artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital engineering, and open-systems architectures at Huntsville, Alabama with performance potentially extending into classified environments across multiple security domains.

Subcontractor work routes almost exclusively through Torch Technologies Inc., which accounts for the vast majority of Avnik's sub-award footprint across multiple fiscal years (2022 through 2025). Tasks under Torch cover lifecycle engineering support for the Army's Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) and the Aviation and Missile Command (AvMC) Systems Readiness Directorate, spanning specialty engineering, product assurance, and production-and-sustainment support for aviation, missile, ground, sea, and soldier systems with performance allowed in CONUS and infrequent OCONUS locations. Avnik also subcontracts to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) on a system software lifecycle engineering task for the DEVCOM AvMC and to Axient LLC on AvMC G-3 support work.

Activity has grown sharply. Avnik recorded only one award in 2021 and three in 2022, scaling to 22 in 2024 and 14 in 2025. The combined potential value across all 48 awards sits at $5.9 million, though obligated dollars reached $9.5 million (159% of potential value), indicating higher invoicing against lower-ceiling task orders—typical for recurring engineering-support subtasks. The SCI dataset, which captures federal service contracts above $150,000, shows Avnik delivering zero prime FTEs and roughly 5.5 subcontractor FTEs across three SCI records in FY2024 (up from 3.5 FTEs across two records in FY2022), suggesting moderate but growing personnel deployment on reportable federal services work. This figure represents only SCI-reportable subtask activity and understates total federal revenue. The vendor's capabilities are concentrated in engineering services (38 of 48 awards) and defense R&D, with secondary activity in basic and applied research across multiple NAICS codes. Avnik competes in full-and-open procurement channels rather than set-aside vehicles; the SBIR and STTR awards carry small-business set-aside designations, but the recent SHIELD prime and most subcontract work operate under standard competitive or sole-source terms.

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AVNIK currently provides project, logistics, and engineering management services to DA and the PEO AVN, Apache PMO, AS PMO, PM ATC, and TCM UAS; and AMCOM IMMC CBM and AFMD; and the SED.