Honeybee Robotics LLC
Longmont, CO Part of Ensign-Bickford Industries, In
- UEI
- Q66XJ43E51L7
- CAGE
- 8DSS5
- Primary NAICS
- 336419 Other Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Parts and Auxiliary Equipment Manufacturing
- SAM.gov registration
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Company facts
- FY2025 rankings
- Self-certified in SAM.gov
- Entity structure
- Corporate Entity (Not Tax Exempt)
- Other NAICS codes in SAM.gov
- Corporate family
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Parent
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Parent
J3LWW88JY3P9
- SAM.gov registration date
- Physical address
- 1830 Lefthand Cir, Longmont, CO 80501, USA
- Website
- honeybeerobotics.com
- Founded
- 1983
- Employees
- 251-1K
- Estimated annual revenue
- $50M-$100M
- Industry
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- Industrials
- Capital Goods
- Aerospace & Defense
- SIC code
- 96 Administration of Economic Programs
- Profiles
Registration and certifications come from SAM.gov and the SBA; company details from public web sources. Updated .
Contract obligations by fiscal year
| Fiscal year | Obligated |
|---|---|
| FY2027 To date | $0 |
| FY2026 | $12,979,574 |
| FY2025 | $24,947,843 |
| FY2024 | $6,742,691 |
| FY2023 | $11,954,817 |
Top agencies by obligations
| Rank | Agency | Obligated, FY2026–FY2027 | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | $12,979,574 |
Contract awards
Latest 5 listed here. See the rest on GovTribe.
Contract subawards
| Prime contractor | Prime award | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona State University | 80MSFC26C0002 | $1,950,000 | |
| Space Network Solutions LLC | 80GSFC23CA051 | $1,600,000 | |
| California Institute Of Technology | 80NM0018D0004 | $3,221,197 | |
| Ozark Integrated Circuits Inc. | 80NSSC19C0185 | $149,968 |
Grant awards
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Grant subawards
| Prime recipient | Prime award | Amount | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| University Of Missouri System | 80NSSC22K0738 | -$32,069 | |
| Bay Area Environmental Research Institute | 80NSSC20M0037 | $941,033 | |
| University Of Arizona | 80NSSC23K0174 | $775,275 | |
| Ozark Integrated Circuits Inc. | DESC0017732 | $129,945 | |
| Ozark Integrated Circuits Inc. | DESC0017732 | $34,916 |
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About the company
Honeybee Robotics LLC, a Longmont, Colorado-based subsidiary of Ensign-Bickford Industries, delivers advanced robotic and spacecraft systems, mechanical component design, and sustaining engineering support to NASA and federal science agencies as a prime contractor (77% of recent awards) competing in full-and-open procurements without set-aside restrictions. The company manufactures specialized hardware for planetary exploration, lunar resource utilization, and deep-space missions, with a concentrated focus on NASA's civil space programs.
Honeybee Robotics operates almost exclusively within NASA's portfolio, with 87% of recent awards concentrated across four NASA centers. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center leads by award count with 25 awards valued at $21 million combined, but the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Center dominates potential value with 4 awards anchoring $131 million combined — a stark concentration in a small number of high-dollar, multi-year engagements. The remaining active customer set includes NASA Kennedy Space Center ($7.6 million), NASA Marshall Space Flight Center ($6.3 million), the Department of Energy Office of Science, and the Department of the Army Materiel Command. This customer concentration reflects Honeybee Robotics' business model as a specialized supplier embedded in flagship NASA missions rather than a broad federal services vendor.
The company's concrete capability footprint centers on mechanical systems design, sample manipulation and analysis hardware, excavation and drilling mechanisms, and specialized instrumentation for space exploration. Representative prime work includes a $1.996 million sustaining engineering support contract with NASA Goddard for the Sample Manipulation System aboard the Curiosity rover on Mars (awarded October 2025, running through September 2030), a $3.47 million Small Business set-aside SBIR Phase III contract under NASA Shared Services for support of the Volatile Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission (awarded July 2026, completion October 2028), a $3.138 million grant for Lunar Weather Array development (awarded January 2025, completion December 2027), and a $2.996 million ROSES grant for emerging space exploration research (awarded June 2025, completion May 2028). Earlier work includes a $7.13 million Mars Sample Return contract with NASA Goddard (awarded November 2022, terminated for convenience December 2023) and multiple SBIR Phase III awards for lunar dust-tolerant connectors ($279 thousand, 2023), pneumatic excavation mechanisms ($1.996 million and $345 thousand), and high-conductance valve actuators ($249 thousand) supporting the Artemis program and future lunar missions.
Activity has accelerated sharply, growing from three awards in 2022 to eleven in 2025, with five awards recorded in 2026 to date. This trajectory reflects increasing NASA investment in lunar exploration and Mars science missions. However, the recompete cliff presents material near-term risk: fourteen awards (combined potential value $132.5 million) face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing 76% of Honeybee Robotics' total award portfolio value at stake for recompete or termination. The largest exposures are the Curiosity sustaining engineering contract and the VIPER mission support award, both anchored in NASA's extended science mission calendars but subject to mission extension, descope, or competitive repricing.
Honeybee Robotics operates as a prime on nearly all of its major federal work and does not routinely subcontract delivery. The SCI dataset reports only $1.4 million in invoiced federal services revenue in FY2025 across 1.8 FTEs — a minimal view reflecting SCI's exclusion of government-furnished goods, specialized hardware, and research-phase contracts that dominate Honeybee Robotics' portfolio. The company subcontracts selectively: recent sub-award engagements include mechanical engineering support to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on a calibration system (2023), multidisciplinary engineering support through Space Network Solutions LLC (2024), and scientific collaboration as a sub-recipient on grants with Arizona State University, the University of Arizona, and the University of Missouri System focused on lunar resource utilization, asteroid seismology, and regolith beneficiation research. This sub pattern indicates Honeybee Robotics functions primarily as a builder and operator of its own specialized hardware and teams, with subcontracting used to source complementary science or systems integration capacity rather than core mechanical engineering.
Quick answers
Is Honeybee Robotics LLC registered in SAM.gov?
Yes. Honeybee Robotics LLC's SAM.gov registration is active through October 13, 2027.
How much has Honeybee Robotics LLC received in federal contracts?
Federal contracts obligated $24,947,843 to Honeybee Robotics LLC in fiscal year 2025 and $56,624,925 in fiscal years 2023 through 2027.
How does Honeybee Robotics LLC rank among federal contractors?
Honeybee Robotics LLC ranked #2 in PSC 6610, #39 in PSC 66 and #39 in NAICS 336414 in FY2025.
What is Honeybee Robotics LLC's most recent federal award?
Honeybee Robotics LLC's most recent federal contract award is FY26 sbir phase III - sample collection tools and associated hardware development (80NSSC26C0424), from Shared Services Center, on September 1, 2026.
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