Cherokee Nation Armored Solutions, LLC

Cherokee Nation Armored Solutions, LLC, a tribally-owned 8(a)-certified small business headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, delivers facility maintenance and repair, industrial equipment services, munitions component production, and aviation maintenance support to the Department of Defense and related federal agencies as a prime contractor on 63 awards (64% of its recent footprint) and as a subcontractor on 36 awards (36%). The vendor operates as a subsidiary of Cherokee Nation Businesses LLC and holds SBA 8(a) Program Participant certification through May 7, 2030.

Cherokee Nation Armored Solutions concentrates its customer base heavily in defense: the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), TACOM Life Cycle Management Command, and the Department of the Army account for 93% of recent awards by count and 96% by combined potential value. The MDA dominates by dollar magnitude, anchoring 22 awards worth $163.1 million combined potential value, driven by a $99.9 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract for discrete projects, repairs, maintenance, and alterations of MDA facilities across Fort Belvoir (Virginia), Redstone Arsenal (Alabama), Dahlgren (Virginia), Huntsville (Alabama), Pacific Missile Range Facility (Hawaii), and Guam. TACOM contributes 19 awards for $88.8 million, built on two single-award IDCs valued at $19.9 million (industrial equipment services through March 2030) and $20 million (Red River Army Depot facilities and equipment repair through February 2031), both under 8(a) sole-source set-asides. The Department of the Army separately funds 7 awards worth $16.7 million, including $15 million for TOW missile and Bradley Fighting Vehicle inventory management and a $7.6 million Pennsylvania National Guard aviation maintenance contract, plus a $10.5 million care-and-storage contract with PEO Missiles and Space for guided MLRS and HIMARS equipment at the Field Artillery Launcher Staging Facility in Tulsa.

Recent capability work spans facility infrastructure, munitions support, and aviation maintenance. Under the MDA IDC, Cherokee Nation Armored Solutions has executed $48.6 million in sustainment labor support (March 2024–September 2029), $7.5 million and $2.1 million in temporary facility support phases for latrine, water, and discrete project labor at Guam (June–August 2024, through December 2027), HVAC replacement at Dahlgren ($534,005, January 2025) and Pacific Missile Range Facility Hawaii ($315,671, September 2024), UPS replacement at Fort Belvoir and Dahlgren ($1.6 million, October 2024), and power washing and exterior repairs at multiple installations. Against the TACOM industrial equipment IDC, task orders cover fire suppression system work ($1.9 million, April 2026), HVAC building automation and chiller repair ($860,190, April 2026), ECOMS industrial equipment maintenance ($7.5 million, April 2026), and facility maintenance and repair with equipment preventative and breakdown maintenance ($1.99 million, February 2026). The vendor also delivers igniter probes, SCHUNK grippers, and warhead capability support for the Multiple Launch Rocket System and High Mobility Artillery Rocket System programs, with a $750,000 single-award blanket purchase agreement with the Department of the Army Joint Munitions Command (through March 2028) supporting these munitions components. Aviation maintenance for the Pennsylvania National Guard ($7.6 million definitive contract awarded January 2023, extended through November 2026) covers aircraft maintenance services at Annville, Pennsylvania.

Activity accelerated sharply: the vendor moved from 8 awards in 2022 to 41 in 2024 and 27 in 2025, with 11 awards in the first quarter of 2026. Combined potential value stands at $305.5 million; combined obligated dollars total $85.3 million (28%). Eighteen awards worth $61 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating recompete exposure across multiple TACOM delivery orders, MDA discrete project task orders, and a FEMA roof replacement contract.

Cherokee Nation Armored Solutions holds position on several parent vehicles. The most significant is the MDA $99.9 million single-award IDC (awarded February 2024, through August 2029), which anchors most of the vendor's MDA pipeline. Two TACOM single-award IDCs ($19.9 million for industrial equipment, awarded October 2025, and $20 million for Red River Army Depot facilities, awarded February 2026) support ongoing delivery order activity. The vendor also holds a $750,000 single-award BPA with the Department of the Army Joint Munitions Command (awarded March 2022, through March 2025, extended to March 2028) for MLRS production line components and services, a $750,000 BPA with the Department of the Army for MLRS warhead capability support (awarded March 2025, through March 2028), and a $15 million single-award IDC with the Department of the Army for TOW missile and Bradley vehicle inventory management (awarded December 2025, through December 2028). The vendor recently became a consortia member on the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDIQ awarded by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a multi-billion-dollar ceiling and ultimate completion December 28, 2035; the initial delivery order carries $500 and covers discrete projects and facility maintenance supporting broad Department of Defense defense modernization objectives.

In its subcontractor role, Cherokee Nation Armored Solutions works predominantly under Torch Technologies Inc., delivering specialty engineering and lifecycle engineering support for Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) and Systems Readiness Directorate programs (at least 27 recorded sub-awards from October 2022 through September 2025). These tasks span materials suitability, product assurance, production and sustainment engineering across aviation, missile, ground, and soldier systems. The vendor also subs to DRS Network & Imaging Systems LLC for M2/A2 and M3/A2 component repair in support of Bradley Fighting Vehicle production (June 2024).

SCI-reported invoicing of $1.1 million was recorded in FY2024 (0.5 FTEs on one prime contract), with 3.4 total FTEs across SCI-reportable prime and sub work in FY2024 and zero FTEs in FY2023. Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ran at $1,088.75/hr across all percentiles, reflecting specialized engineering and facility management labor. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor performed 100% of contractor hours in-house with no sub-hour engagement, indicating a build-to-suit delivery model on service contracts in the SCI threshold range.

The vendor competes predominantly under 8(a) sole-source set-asides on prime awards ($99.9 million MDA IDC, $20 million TACOM RRAD IDC, $19.9 million TACOM industrial equipment IDC, FEMA roof replacement, Pennsylvania National Guard aviation maintenance, TACOM MII reporting and unscheduled machining, PEO Missiles and Space care-and-storage, and Research Development and Engineering Command machining). A subset of orders — including recent TACOM delivery orders for fire suppression, HVAC, facilities maintenance, and equipment services — carry 8(a) sole-source designations despite issuance under prime IDCs. The vendor holds no visible position on GWACs or government-wide vehicles beyond the SHIELD consortia award; its footprint is anchored to single-award IDCs and BPAs with specific Army and MDA contracting offices. Recompete posture over the next twenty-four months centers on TACOM task order renewals and MDA facility sustainment task orders, both material to the vendor's revenue trajectory.

Cherokee Nation Armored Solutions provides responsive, value added technical expertise and high quality products to the U.S. Armed Forces, Federal Government, Industry, and other satisfied customers by providing streamlined and cost effective, engineering, programmatic, logistics and systems integration products and services. Our people and their commitment to get results by operating responsibly, executing with excellence, applying innovative technologies and capturing new opportunities for growth drive our success.