Green Squirrel Research, LLC

Green Squirrel Research, LLC, a small business based in Madison, Alabama, delivers advanced analytical and AI-driven research and development services to defense agencies, operating exclusively as a prime contractor on SBIR Phase I and Phase II contracts and a newly awarded multiple-award IDIQ. The company competes under full-and-open federal R&D procurement and holds a total small business set-aside designation across its SBIR portfolio.

Green Squirrel's customer base concentrates on defense research. The Air Force Research Laboratory dominates the award footprint with three awards valued at $2.2 million combined potential value, covering aircraft survivability analysis, fire ignition video detection, and related AI-driven toolkit development. The Defense Logistics Agency holds one award ($100 thousand) for energy forecasting in discrete manufacturing using generative AI. Most significantly, the Missile Defense Agency awarded a multiple-award IDIQ with a ten-year ceiling through December 2035 on January 21, 2026 — the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract — structured for research and development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, test and evaluation, and modernization across multi-domain defense systems. An initial $500 delivery order was issued immediately under SHIELD. Work is performed in Madison and Huntsville, Alabama. The SHIELD IDIQ carries no set-aside and operates under full and open competition, allowing all qualified contractors to compete for task orders.

Green Squirrel's capability portfolio centers on AI and machine learning applications for defense survivability, video analysis, and manufacturing optimization. Recent work includes a $1.8 million SBIR Phase II contract awarded September 30, 2025, for the Modular Document Extraction, Layout, Verification, and Encapsulation (DELVE) Toolkit focused on aircraft survivability analysis, advancing a $176.7 thousand Phase I effort from July 2024. The company also delivered a $178.8 thousand Phase I contract (September 23, 2024) for ADAPT-IGNITE, an automated fire ignition video analysis system, and a $99.9 thousand Phase I effort for energy forecasting in manufacturing using large language models. Activity has accelerated — three awards in 2024, one in 2025, two in 2026 — with one award ($1.8 million DELVE Phase II) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and facing potential recompete. The vendor operates as a pure prime contractor with no sub-award footprint in the source data.