Edaptive Computing Inc.

Edaptive Computing Inc., a minority-owned, woman-owned small business based in Centerville, Ohio, delivers research and development services in microelectronics verification, secure machine learning, and advanced defense systems engineering to the Department of Defense as a prime contractor (99% of recent awards), predominantly under SBIR Phase II and Phase III vehicles and full-and-open competitive procurements rather than small-business set-asides. The company is a Subchapter S corporation and Subcontinent Asian American-owned entity with over $90 million in prior SBIR contracts and a recent award footprint spanning 190 federal awards with combined potential value of $4.65 billion.

Edaptive's customer concentration sits squarely with defense research laboratories. The top five funding agencies account for 60% of award count but a dramatically skewed share of potential value—the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command alone anchors $3.96 billion (98% of combined potential value) across four awards, predominantly through the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite delivery contract issued by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with a $151 billion ceiling. Beneath that outlier, the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory drives the core SBIR footprint with 47 awards totaling $503.2 million, followed by Naval Air Systems Command Naval Air Warfare Center (22 awards, $45.5 million) and the Missile Defense Agency (21 awards, $11.7 million). Edaptive's capability portfolio centers on hardware verification tools, verification frameworks, risk-aware module development, and application of machine learning and security methods to microelectronics design and testing. Representative prime work includes a $29.1 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from the Air Force Research Laboratory for Trust Lab IP verification and tool enhancements (awarded September 2023, performance at Sugarcreek Township, Ohio through January 2026); a $3.58 million Direct to Phase II SBIR contract for STEADFAST acquisition-documentation automation (Air Force Research Laboratory, total small business set-aside, completion September 2025); a $1.315 million SBIR Phase II contract from the Defense Microelectronics Activity for microelectronics design, fabrication, and testing (total small business set-aside, completion September 2026); and a $1.84 million cost-plus-fixed-fee Naval Air Warfare Center research contract (total small business set-aside, completion November 2025). Edaptive holds a $200 million single-award indefinite delivery contract with Air Force Research Laboratory for Phase III SBIR research and development services under the Trust and Assurance in Microelectronics program, from which multiple delivery orders totaling over $90 million have been issued under time-and-materials and cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing. The SHIELD IDIQ, though anchoring potential value, carries only a $500 initial delivery order to date and represents a long-term multi-domain defense systems vehicle extending through December 2035.

Activity has declined significantly—four awards in 2021, six in 2022, five in 2023, one in 2024, and two in 2025—with only four awards (combined potential value $51.1 million) reaching completion in the next twenty-four months and therefore exposing limited near-term recompete risk. Edaptive subcontracts minimally (1% of recent awards), with one documented sub-award performing MIT Lincoln Laboratory research and development work under Valkyrie Enterprises, LLC in 2024. Across all work, Edaptive's NAICS footprint concentrates in research and development in physical, engineering, and life sciences (55 awards), with secondary exposure in scientific and technical consulting and computer-related services; PSC coding emphasizes R&D on defense electronics and communication systems at the advanced-development and applied-research phases.

Edaptive provides innovative software products and professional services for rapid analysis and optimization of complex systems and processes.