Hydrosat Inc.

Hydrosat Inc., a Washington, DC-based small business, delivers high-resolution thermal infrared satellite imagery and surface temperature monitoring datasets to the federal government as a prime contractor on research, development, and indefinite delivery vehicles. The company does not hold federal contract IDVs it issues to other vendors; all of its awards are prime positions on government vehicles. Hydrosat competes on full-and-open (non-set-aside) procurement, with one exception: a $74,707 SBIR Phase I award designated as a total small business set-aside.

The company's core capability centers on daily, high-resolution global surface temperature data from its low-Earth-orbit thermal satellite constellation, with applications spanning wildfire detection, drought assessment, agricultural stress monitoring, aquaculture surveillance, urban heat analysis, and intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance thermal anomaly detection. Representative contract work includes a $1.9 million firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory in September 2024 to provide high-resolution thermal imaging satellite datasets to the Air Force, Space Force, and Department of Defense; an SBIR Phase II contract valued at $1,190,626 (May 2022) from AFRL for next-generation daily high-resolution surface temperature data for thermal anomaly detection; and a $1,999,200 delivery order from the Department of Defense issued September 30, 2026, for evaluation support under the CSDA Program through September 2027.

Customer concentration is dominated by research and development programs. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration accounts for three awards with a combined potential value of $8 billion; the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Headquarters holds three awards valued at $478 million combined; the Air Force Research Laboratory has five awards valued at $4 million combined; and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency holds one award of $75 thousand. The distribution of awards by count and dollar value tracks closely, with NOAA's potential value driven entirely by one indefinite delivery contract. Hydrosat holds two major IDIQs: an $8 billion multiple-award IDIQ awarded by NOAA on September 1, 2026, under the PROTECH SBEM (Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Program 2.0) Satellite domain, running through August 31, 2031 with an optional five-year extension, which procures commercial satellite-based environmental monitoring data across seven functional categories including GNSS Radio Occultation, multispectral imagery, and infrared sounders; and a $476 million multiple-award IDIQ awarded by NASA on June 17, 2026, for commercial earth observation data products from small satellite constellations, running through November 15, 2028, which includes task orders for metadata archive delivery.

Hydrosat has also received federal research grant funding as a prime recipient. The company received a $1,943,820 NOAA SBIR Phase II grant (CFDA 11.021) awarded September 1, 2024, to develop and mature high spatiotemporal resolution global satellite thermal infrared data products for applications in drought, agriculture, aquaculture, wildfire, and urban heat monitoring, with completion by August 31, 2026. A preceding Phase I grant from NOAA, awarded September 1, 2023, supported a six-month sensitivity analysis and impact assessment framework for the same application domains, completing in February 2024. Activity has been episodic, with three awards in 2019, one in 2022, two in 2023, two in 2024, and four in 2026. One award (combined potential value $2 million) reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing a recompete opportunity.