Collier Research & Development Corp

Collier Research & Development Corp, a Newport News, Virginia-based for-profit Subchapter S Corporation, supplies specialized computer-aided engineering software licenses and maintenance services to federal agencies as a prime contractor, with 99% of recent awards issued as prime contracts and no set-aside designations across its footprint.

Collier specializes in two proprietary aerospace engineering software platforms — HyperX and HyperSizer Pro — that enable structural design, analysis, sizing, optimization, and composite material assessment for aerospace applications. The company delivers these tools via annual subscription licenses, maintenance, support, and updates contracts. Recent representative work includes a $1.167 million NASA cooperative agreement for participation in Phase 1 of the High-Rate Composites Aircraft Manufacturing (HICAM) project with design-for-manufacturing focus (awarded June 1, 2022); a $149,734 Small Business SBIR Phase I contract from the Civilian Shared Services Center for enabling material design capabilities within system-level optimization via machine learning (awarded September 29, 2025); recurring HyperX 2026 subscription renewals at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center ($29 thousand), NASA Johnson Space Center ($110.2 thousand), and NASA Glenn Research Center ($55.1 thousand) issued in mid-2026; and a $67.5 thousand Air Force purchase order for HyperX software maintenance, support, and updates through March 2028 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (awarded June 1, 2023).

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to NASA. The top five customer entities account for 69% of recent awards by count, led by NASA's Shared Services Center (51 awards, $4.7 million combined potential value) and NASA broadly (16 awards, $3.5 million). The top two rankings align closely — NASA entities dominate both volume and dollars, representing approximately 95% of combined potential value across all recent awards — with NASA Langley Research Center (11 awards, $2.8 million), NASA Glenn Research Center (11 awards, $1.3 million), and the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (3 awards, $1.5 million) rounding out the significant customer set.

Collier's primary vehicle position sits on two NASA Blanket Purchase Agreements: one five-year agreement (NNX15MC94Z) carrying 25 task orders worth $846 thousand combined potential value and running through April 2026, and a second five-year agreement (80NSSC21A0013) with $3.3 million potential value running through April 2026 carrying 19 task orders worth $900 thousand combined potential value. Both vehicles are single-award BPAs issued by NASA's Shared Services Center, and recurring annual subscription and maintenance task orders flow through them to support multiple NASA research centers including Marshall, Johnson, Glenn, and Langley.

Activity trajectory shows decline over the recent five-year window — eight awards in 2022 declining to three in 2024, with five awards and three awards respectively in 2025 and 2026 year-to-date. Recompete exposure within the next twenty-four months is modest: five awards with completion dates in that window carry combined potential value of $322 thousand. The majority of Collier's awards carry non-competitive, sole-source or single-source designations reflecting the proprietary nature of its HyperX and HyperSizer Pro platforms and their specialized role in NASA's aeronautics research centers. Collier maintains minimal subcontract exposure, with one identified sub award to The Aerospace Corporation (August 2023) for a two-year HyperX subscription license and one research and engineering services sub award (June 2023) spanning multiple technology readiness levels across aerospace technical disciplines.