Helden Aerospace Corporation

Helden Aerospace Corporation, doing business as Helden Aerospace Corp, develops and licenses computational fluid dynamics and aerospace engineering software to federal agencies as a prime contractor, competing on full-and-open basis across small-business and unrestricted procurements. The Acworth, Georgia-based for-profit company operates as a small business with no formal SBA set-aside designations on most work, though it qualifies for and has received Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I, II, and III awards designated as total small business set-asides.

Helden Aerospace's core capability centers on HeldenMesh, a proprietary unstructured grid generation and computational fluid dynamics software platform for aerodynamic modeling and aircraft design optimization, supplemented by HeldenDesign, an automated aircraft drag optimization tool using knowledge-based design methods. Recent representative work includes a $278,838 firm fixed-price definitive contract from the Air Force for Configuration Aerodynamics Across Multiple Mach Ranges (CAMMRA), awarded March 16, 2026, exploring design trades and takeoff performance for high-speed strike aircraft through September 2027; a $1.069 million SBIR Phase II definitive contract from the Shared Services Center for robust wall-modeled large eddy simulation unstructured grid generation with HeldenMesh, awarded June 12, 2023, with performance extending to November 28, 2027; and a $334,903 SBIR Phase III contract from the Shared Services Center for HeldenDesign delivery, awarded September 30, 2022, now completed. Helden Aerospace also sustains revenue through annual licensing and maintenance renewals — typically $12,000 to $85,000 purchase orders for single-seat network licenses and tool design morphology licenses issued by NASA, the Naval Air Warfare Center, and the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Customer concentration sits heavily with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center, which accounts for 18 of 31 total awards (58%) and $5.1 million of $6.5 million combined potential value (78%). The Department of the Navy Naval Air Warfare Center holds five awards ($207 thousand combined value), the Department of the Air Force holds four awards ($1.1 million), and the Department of the Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command holds three awards ($34 thousand). Award activity has remained modest and relatively flat — four awards in 2022, three in 2023, five in 2024, six in 2025, and one in 2026 — with five awards (combined potential value $1.6 million) reaching completion within the next twenty-four months. Helden Aerospace places work under a single named parent vehicle, Air Force Indefinite Delivery Contract FA820221D0001, with one task order. The vendor subcontracts minimally; recent sub work includes Aircraft Structural Integrity Program (ASIP) Legacy VII software publisher roles under Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation as prime, awarded September 11, 2025. Across awards, Helden Aerospace competes predominantly on full-and-open basis except where SBIR Phase designations apply set-asides, and does not participate in GWACs or governmentwide vehicles.