Boston Dynamics, Inc.

Boston Dynamics, Inc., doing business as B D I, is a foreign-owned manufacturer of robotic hardware and related software that sells quadruped robots, unmanned ground vehicles, and platform-specific parts and services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (90% of recent awards) and subcontractor. The company competes full-and-open, with no set-aside designation on the majority of prime work, though a December 2022 Navy purchase order and an August 2026 US Marshals Service award carried Total Small Business designations. Boston Dynamics is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Boston Dynamics' federal capability footprint centers on the Spot quadruped robot platform and variants, supplied as complete systems, refurbished enterprise packages, spare parts, maintenance services, and software licensing. Recent representative prime work includes a $1.17 million firm fixed-price purchase order from the National Institutes of Health awarded September 2025 for two quadruped industrial inspection robots with sensing equipment, command and control software, and training through September 2030; a $4.4 million definitive contract from the Army Security Assistance Command awarded February 2025 for Spot robots with government and public safety kits in support of a foreign military sales case; a $393,222 purchase order from the Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service awarded September 2026 for a quadruped unmanned ground vehicle system configured for autonomous detection of animal intrusion in leafy green produce fields; a $304,395 sole-source definitive contract from the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded April 2025 for refurbished Spot Robot Enterprise Packages with arm attachments and two-year service plans; and a $308,680 Total Small Business purchase order from the US Marshals Service Special Operations Group awarded August 2026 for a Spot mobile robot and kit supporting fugitive apprehension operations. Smaller awards cover component parts (batteries, tablets, joystick controllers, charger equipment), maintenance services, and care plans across Navy, Army, NIST, and FLETC.

Customer concentration skews heavily toward defense and research agencies. The top five funding customers by potential value account for 95% of combined potential value: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency leads with 9 awards valued at $127.2 million, followed by the Department of the Army Materiel Command Army Contracting Command Aberdeen Proving Ground with 6 awards at $30.5 million, the Department of the Navy Secretary of the Navy Office of Naval Research with 6 awards at $8.7 million, the Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command with 2 awards at $803 thousand, and the Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Simulation, Training and Instrumentation with 2 awards at $680 thousand. By award count, the Department of the Army and Department of the Navy each hold 12 awards, with DARPA placing 9 awards. The two rankings diverge sharply — DARPA's volume is concentrated in fewer, higher-value awards, while Army and Navy awards are spread across numerous smaller procurements, primarily for Spot systems and components.

Boston Dynamics maintains a minimal parent-vehicle footprint; recent awards flow primarily through direct purchase orders and definitive contracts rather than IDIQs or GWACs. Named vehicles in the source include the Army Joint Program Executive Office Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear Defense Rapid COTS (2 task orders) and several Navy and Air Force indefinite delivery contracts (one task order each on N0002422D6404, N0014004D0011, N6133124D0012, and FA870225DB002). Activity has grown modestly — two awards in 2022, one in 2023, nine in 2024, ten in 2025, and four in 2026 year-to-date — with only four awards (combined potential value $822 thousand) facing ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, indicating manageable recompete risk. In its subcontractor role, Boston Dynamics supplies Spot systems and unmanned ground vehicles to primes including Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (on the MCWL Integrated Explosive Hazard Detection/Defeat program), MIT Lincoln Laboratory (unmanned ground vehicles under FFRDC operations), DCS Corporation (Spot robot upgrades with arm attachments for the Combat Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicle Systems Center), Atlantic Diving Supply (multiple JPEO CBRND procurements), Valkyrie Enterprises (unmanned ground vehicles under IGF task orders), Fluor Marine Propulsion (Spot robots and charging stations for the Naval Nuclear Laboratory), and Alutiiq Information Management (robotics and unmanned systems integration and maintenance). The portfolio reflects Boston Dynamics' position as a specialized hardware supplier to defense R&D, with DARPA and Army research commands driving the majority of dollar value and federal law enforcement and civilian research agencies (USDA, NIH, NIST, FLETC) representing smaller but recurring procurement streams.