Freefly Systems Inc.

Freefly Systems Inc., a Woodinville, Washington-based manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles and specialized aviation equipment, operates as a prime contractor (96% of recent awards) supplying heavy-lift and multi-rotor drone platforms, aerial ignition systems, integrated payloads, and related components to federal civilian and defense agencies on a full-and-open competitive basis with no socioeconomic set-asides. The company competes without SBA certifications despite recent inclusion on a small-business-set-aside vehicle and holds no characteristic set-aside posture across its prime footprint.

Freefly's federal customer concentration reflects a dominant civil-agency and wildland-firefighting focus, with a sharp divergence between award count and dollar value. The Department of the Interior's Office of Policy Management and Budget leads by volume (48 awards, $14.6 million combined potential value), and the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) anchors dollar value (21 awards, $16 million), together accounting for 81% of award count and roughly 97% of potential value when combined with the Army's $25 million vehicle. The Army Forces Command Master Blanket Purchase Agreement, awarded August 15, 2025, represents a $25 million ceiling through August 2030 for Blue List-compliant unmanned aircraft systems and parts—a strategic diversification beyond Freefly's historical wildland-firefighting and Department of Interior concentration. This Army vehicle surfaces recent expansion into defense procurement alongside sustained civil activity.

Freefly holds four major parent contract vehicles anchoring task-order placement. The Interior's Office of Policy Management and Budget $3.1 million multiple-award BPA (February 23, 2026 ceiling, awarded February 24, 2023) has generated 26 task orders ($1.8 million combined potential value) for ALTA X heavy-lift systems and IGNIS 2 aerial ignition integration. The National Interagency Fire Center's $8,999,999 single-award BPA (April 14, 2027 ceiling, awarded April 15, 2022) has produced 20 task orders ($7 million combined potential value) for UAS with IGNIS integration for wildland firefighting. The Army Forces Command $25 million multiple-award BPA (August 14, 2030 ceiling) and a December 17, 2025 Army Contracting Command Basic Ordering Agreement for drones and drone components (no ceiling specified, through December 16, 2030) represent expanding defense exposure. Freefly also holds a $5 million U.S. Customs and Border Protection multiple-award BPA through December 16, 2026, a $500,000 GSA Federal Supply Schedule (March 21, 2028 ceiling, awarded March 22, 2023), and an Interior sole-source $9 million BPA (April 19, 2031 ceiling, awarded April 20, 2026) for ALTA X, ASTRO MAX, and future Freefly UAS platforms with IGNIS integration.

Representative prime work spans concrete product lines: a $1.732 million August 21, 2026 BPA call from NIFC for Freefly UAS and equipment under the $8,999,999 parent vehicle; a $665,207.80 June 18, 2025 NIFC call for ALTA X and Astro unmanned systems with equipment; a $25 million August 15, 2025 Army Forces Command Master BPA for Blue List-compliant unmanned aircraft and parts; a $64,100 August 24, 2026 NOAA purchase order for a US-made Freefly Astro drone platform with spectral sensors for harmful algal bloom mapping; a $80,650 January 12, 2025 NASA purchase order for two Alta-X small unmanned aircraft systems for aeronautics research at NASA Ames; and a $84,940 August 2, 2022 USDA Agricultural Research Service purchase order for Astro UAV systems and flight-management software. Activity has grown substantially—from 8 awards in 2023 to 28 in 2026—with 23 awards (combined potential value $3.2 million) completing inside the next twenty-four months and facing recompete exposure.

Freefly operates as a prime on the vast majority of federal work. Subcontract engagement is minimal: four sub-awards appear in the source, including a February 11, 2026 sub to Applied Research Associates for XM123 autonomous breaching system platform and accessories, a September 24, 2025 sub to Valiant Global Defense Services for Special Operations Forces training support (2 Alta X drones with Navy support), and an October 2, 2024 sub to Atlantic Diving Supply for Astro systems under NDAA/Blue compliance. These subs reflect occasional defense-adjacent work rather than a characteristic subcontracting posture.

Freefly's capability portfolio concentrates on unmanned aircraft procurement (65 awards under PSC code for unmanned aircraft), with the ALTA X heavy-lift platform dominating civil wildland-firefighting applications, the Astro and Astro Max multi-rotor systems serving research and surveillance missions, and the Pilot Pro ground control system enabling platform operation. Recent product lines include the IGNIS 2 aerial ignition system for integrated wildland-fire suppression, Movi gimbals, Wave high-speed cameras, EMBER S5K high-speed cameras, batteries, spare parts, and sensor payloads. The portfolio reflects a transition from pure wildland-firefighting supplier toward broader defense and civilian-research markets, with Army Blue List compliance and executive-order-driven drone-dominance procurement emerging as growth vectors alongside traditional interior-agency and NIFC demand.