Experimental Design & Analysis Solutions, Inc.

Experimental Design & Analysis Solutions, Inc., doing business as Apex Turbine Testing Technologies, manufactures turbine engine data acquisition systems, strain gage instrumentation, and advanced test platform software for federal aerospace and defense agencies as a prime contractor (98% of recent awards). The firm is a small for-profit manufacturer based in Spring Hill, Tennessee, competing predominantly in full-and-open procurements rather than set-aside categories, with all recent awards designated either Total Small Business or no set-aside used.

Apex's customer footprint centers on the Air Force and Navy. The top five customer units account for 76% of recent awards by count and 94% by combined potential value, led by the Air Force Research Laboratory (7 awards, $3.2 million potential value), the Air Force Materiel Command Test Center (3 awards, $1.5 million), and the Naval Air Warfare Center (9 awards, $1 million). NASA Glenn Research Center ranks highest by award count (11 awards) but carries the smallest dollar footprint ($166 thousand combined potential value), reflecting a pattern of small, recurring maintenance and renewal orders. The Air Force Research Laboratory anchors the bulk of development and advanced capability work.

Recent representative work spans three capability streams. Apex delivered a $1.76 million Phase III Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) award from the Air Force Research Laboratory for advanced test platform software to accelerate hypersonic testing, completing May 15, 2026, following a prior Phase I contract ($106,390, December 2023). The Naval Air Warfare Center has awarded four recurring maintenance contracts for APEX data systems at the Rotor Spin Facility in Patuxent River, Maryland — most recently a $14,147.76 contract (May 2024, completion April 30, 2025) for telephone support, web portal access, and software updates. NASA's Shared Services Center awarded a $24,794 purchase order (September 2024) for software maintenance renewal of a 32-channel APEX/EDAS strain gage data acquisition system. Apex also joined the AEDC Velocity Alliance Consortium as a base member through an Other Transaction Agreement with the Air Force (award date July 1, 2026, ultimate completion June 30, 2046), with no specified ceiling value.

Activity has been episodic across the past five years — two to four awards annually from 2020 through 2024, with minimal visibility into 2025 and 2026 within the bounded source data. Combined potential value across all 45 recent awards totals $7 million, with obligated dollars reaching $7.2 million. Apex operates as a prime on 98% of awards, with only one visible subcontract sub-award: software maintenance and support services placed by Beyond New Horizons, LLC under a Department of Defense priority-rated contract (November 2024). The vendor's capability categories cluster around custom computer programming (14 awards), instrument manufacturing for electrical signal measurement (9 awards), and applied research and exploratory development in physical and engineering sciences (8 awards).