Black Swift Technologies LLC

Black Swift Technologies LLC, a small-business manufacturer of small unmanned aircraft systems based in Boulder, Colorado, operates as a prime contractor (97% of awards) on federal R&D and environmental-monitoring contracts, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements without set-aside designations, though it holds a strong Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) portfolio across Phase I, II, and III awards. The company is a for-profit limited liability corporation with no stated SBA certifications (8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, WOSB); it competes as a small business on SBIR vehicle set-asides and full-and-open buys for platform and support work.

Black Swift's customer concentration is heavily weighted to civilian science and environmental agencies. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) dominates by potential value—18 awards carrying $13.1 million combined ceiling—while the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center leads by award count with 29 awards valued at $6.3 million combined. These two agencies account for 94% of awards by count and 97% of combined potential value. The US Geological Survey, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center round out the active set. NOAA and NASA split asymmetrically: NOAA anchors the dollar value through operational-support delivery orders and platform upgrades, while NASA Shared Services Center drives volume through smaller SBIR and technical-support purchases.

Black Swift holds a single-award IDIQ with NOAA awarded in February 2026 for $9.9 million ceiling running through January 31, 2031, supporting operational and technical support services for the Black Swift SUAS platform. Three delivery orders have been issued under this IDIQ: a $483,000 firm fixed-price order (February 25, 2026), a $612,000 order (July 24, 2026), and a $676,192.68 order (August 26, 2026), all for platform operational and technical support with completion dates through June 2027.

Black Swift's capability portfolio centers on the design, manufacture, and deployment of small fixed-wing unmanned aircraft systems for scientific research and environmental monitoring. Named representative work includes a $779,465 NASA SBIR Phase II contract (awarded August 2022) for development of a ruggedized UAS for harsh-environment data gathering; a $1.249 million Air Force Research Laboratory SBIR Phase II contract for runway integrity validation through soil-moisture measurement using small UAS (awarded October 2023); a $753,500 NOAA purchase order for small unmanned aerial systems support services to the Unmanned Systems Operations Center (awarded February 2025); and $89,844 for an S2 UAS flight system platform procurement from NASA (awarded September 2025, sole-source special notice). The work spans volcanic monitoring, wildfire tracking, soil-moisture measurement, atmospheric research through the Aerokats and Rover Education Network (AREN) project, and all-weather environmental observation platforms.

Activity has remained steady in recent years—seven awards in 2022, seven in 2023, eight in 2025, and four in 2026 year-to-date—with a dip in 2024 (two awards). The combined potential value across all 62 awards is $22.7 million, with $13.3 million obligated to date (59% of potential). Three awards totaling $1.8 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating modest recompete exposure in that window. Black Swift subcontracts as a sub-recipient on two federal grants: a University of Miami CIMAS grant (October 2025) and a University of Colorado grant beginning December 2023 focused on soil-moisture data collection and processing in the East River Basin, where Black Swift provides S2 UAS deployment, field operations, and data-workflow support.