Carbon Carbon Advanced Technologies, Inc.

Carbon Carbon Advanced Technologies, Inc., doing business as C-Cat, manufactures advanced carbon-carbon and carbon-silicon carbide composite materials and thermal protection systems for hypersonic weapons, missile defense, and aerospace applications, operating as a prime contractor (85% of recent awards) under total small business set-aside and unrestricted competitive procurement across defense and space agencies. The company is a small business, for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Kennedale, Texas, with manufacturing and R&D facilities in Arlington, Texas and Wichita, Kansas.

C-Cat's customer concentration is heavily weighted to defense research and development. The top five funding agencies account for 56% of award count and 85% of combined potential value, dominated by the Air Force Research Laboratory (12 awards, $13.1 million), the Department of the Navy's Office of Naval Research (1 award, $8.6 million), the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support (3 awards, $5.1 million), the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command (1 award, $3.5 million), and the Missile Defense Agency (1 award, $2.8 million). NASA's Langley Research Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, and Shared Services Center collectively account for 14 awards but carry lower dollar value. The vendor works across 15 distinct federal agencies, with work concentrated in NAICS 541711 (Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences) and PSC codes for fabricated nonmetallic materials and national defense R&D services.

Recent representative prime awards span SBIR, STTR, and unrestricted contracts. A $2 million STTR Phase II contract from Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support (awarded March 31, 2026, completing March 31, 2028) covers SIC-modified advanced carbon-carbon thermal protection systems for unified hypersonic aeroshells. A $3.5 million Other Transaction Agreement from the Army's Research Development and Engineering Command (awarded January 8, 2026, completing July 7, 2027) accelerates production of carbon-carbon and carbon-silicon carbide composite aeroshells for hypersonic weapons at the Wichita facility. A $2.1 million SBIR Phase II contract from Naval Strategic Systems Programs (awarded September 26, 2025, completing September 27, 2027) continues innovation in advanced composite technologies for hypersonic weapons systems. The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $2.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract on September 11, 2023, for fabrication and testing of aeroshell assemblies and complex geometry components under the ATTACK Project. The Missile Defense Agency funded a $2.8 million SBIR Phase II contract (awarded May 22, 2025, completing May 22, 2027) for design and manufacture of a prototype hypersonic glide vehicle target using C-Cat advanced composite materials.

C-Cat holds a single parent vehicle: IDC FA865020D5703, under which 4 task orders have been placed by Air Force Research Laboratory. The vendor also holds a Defense Production Act Title III cooperative agreement (awarded May 13, 2022, completing December 31, 2026) from the Washington Headquarters Service for scaling domestic production capability of 2D carbon-carbon composites for hypersonic missile and space launch systems.

Activity has been uneven: 2 awards in 2022, a spike to 7 in 2023, then 3 in each of 2024 and 2025, and 2 in 2026. Eight awards with combined potential value of $13.8 million reach completion inside the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure across SBIR Phase II continuations and Air Force Research Laboratory task order work. As a subcontractor, C-Cat delivers carbon-carbon composite panels and machining and coating services to Battelle Memorial Institute on multiple MOC3HA (Materials on Commitment – Hypersonic Advanced) task orders addressing carbon-carbon industrial base expansion, heat treatment of advanced composites to HRL Laboratories under the HIGH ENTHALPY APERTURE TECHNOLOGY (HEAT) program, and services supporting high-Mach materials maturation to the University of Dayton. C-Cat also subcontracts to Lockheed Martin on heat treatment work for NASA's DAVINCI+ Mission (February 12, 2025).

High heat Carbon-Carbon Composites, heating elements, tooling, engineering