Griffon Aerospace, Inc.

Griffon Aerospace, Inc., a Madison, Alabama-based for-profit Subchapter S corporation, manufactures unmanned aerial systems and aerial target technologies for the Department of Defense as a prime contractor on 92% of its awards, competing predominantly in full-and-open federal procurement rather than set-aside vehicles. The company holds a Total Small Business designation on its anchor parent contract but competes across both set-aside and open categories depending on the specific delivery order or vehicle.

Griffon's core capability portfolio centers on the design, production, operation, and maintenance of remotely piloted vehicle and unmanned aircraft system aerial targets—particularly the MQM-170 Outlaw, MQM-171 Broadsword, and MQM-186 Redwing platforms—along with field services, engineering support, and technical assistance for military training and testing missions. The company has delivered over 5,000 unmanned air vehicles to the Department of Defense and operates approximately 7,000 aerial targets annually. Recent representative work includes a $67.9 million delivery order from PEO Aviation (June 2026) for unmanned aerial systems and drone-dominant components supporting Executive Order 14307 on unleashing U.S. military drone dominance; an $8.5 million Other Transaction Agreement with Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (July 2026) to expand Vandal unmanned aerial system manufacturing capacity under the COTA SAMDIB prototype initiative; a $37 million delivery order from PEO Aviation (July 2026) for drones and drone-dominant components under a Basic Ordering Agreement; and a $1.64 million Total Small Business delivery order from PEO Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (July 2026) for hardware replacement supporting aerial target operations.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation accounts for 121 awards and $950 million in combined potential value—about 75% of all dollars across Griffon's footprint—reflecting the company's role as the prime contractor on the Air Defense Artillery-Targets (ADA-T) II program. PEO Aviation accounts for 8 awards and $201.7 million, and Army Materiel Command's Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command represents 9 awards and $97 million. The Department of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and Army Space and Missile Defense Command round out the active set. This concentration creates recompete exposure: 19 awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months carry $242.6 million in combined potential value.

Griffon's position on parent vehicles is anchored by the $401.8 million single-award indefinite delivery contract W900KK22D0010 for the ADA-T II program (Total Small Business set-aside, running through June 2027), which has generated 82 task orders valued at $126.6 million. The company also holds a $95 million multiple-award Indefinite Delivery Contract (W900KK20D0006) for Aerial Target Systems 3, issued September 2024 with 28 task orders valued at $49 million; a Basic Ordering Agreement established March 2026 by Army Contracting Command-Redstone Arsenal for drones and drone components supporting Executive Order 14307 (no ceiling specified in source); a $10.9 million multiple-award Other Transaction IDV with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (June 2023) for advanced aircraft infrastructure-less launch and recovery technologies including the EVADE program; and positions on other smaller vehicles including the Navy's Indefinite Delivery Contract N0016409DJS35 (39 task orders, $3.7 million combined value).

Activity has grown over the past five years—13 awards in 2022 to 28 in 2024—with a slowdown to 20 awards year-to-date in 2026. As a subcontractor, Griffon delivers aerial target flight services, hardware components, and technical support to Science Applications International Corporation (on GSA OASIS UR Pool 4 hardware-in-the-loop and modeling & simulation delivery orders), Sigma Defense Systems (for technical and programmatic support to the MQ-1C MALET Program Office), Leidos (on high-resolution three-dimensional geospatial information operations and technology integration work), Radiance Technologies (providing Gray Wolf Low-Hazard Surrogate countermeasure targets for Army Space and Missile Defense Command), and Atlantic Diving Supply (on counter-unmanned aircraft system aerial target flight services). Griffon's sub footprint is modest—16 awards representing 8% of total activity—and concentrated in technical support and specialized target systems rather than prime production work.

Griffon's federal procurement footprint is tightly concentrated in unmanned aerial systems manufacturing and aerial target operations. NAICS concentration shows 83 awards in Electronic Computer Manufacturing, 53 in Aircraft Manufacturing, and 38 in Other Aircraft Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing, with 117 of 194 awards coded under the PSC Unmanned Aircraft. This specialization makes the company's competitive positioning vulnerable to recompete cliff risk in the ADA-T II program and dependent on sustained Army investment in aerial target training capabilities.

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