Innoflight, LLC

Innoflight, LLC, a San Diego-based limited liability partnership and manufacturer of advanced communications, cryptographic, and aerospace-defense electronics, operates as a full-and-open prime contractor (87% of recent awards) on defense and space R&D programs with the Department of the Air Force, the Missile Defense Agency, and NASA. The company competes without set-aside designations across all named recent awards.

Innoflight's capability portfolio centers on software-defined radios, communication security (COMSEC) equipment, encrypted avionics systems, and space-qualified compact networking hardware and software. The company manufactures KI-492 and KI-103 COMSEC units for military communications infrastructure, SCR-series software-defined radios for airborne and space platforms, and specialized components for crewed spaceflight programs. Representative prime work includes a $25.3 million single-award indefinite delivery contract from the Air Education and Training Command through December 2029 for production and repair of KI-103 and KI-492 units, with two delivery orders already placed ($94,912 in March 2025 and $519,220 in December 2024 for COMSEC equipment production and integrated testing); a $950 million multiple-award Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) IDC with the Air Force through May 2030 for command-and-control technology development and integration; and a $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) multiple-award IDC with the Missile Defense Agency through December 2035 for multi-domain defense systems, research, prototyping, and production across air, missile, space, and cyber threat domains.

Customer concentration splits between Air Force programs (99% of combined potential value when aggregated across Air Force offices) and NASA space flight programs. The Air Force dominates: the Air Force overall accounts for $950.4 million in potential value, with the Air Education and Training Command alone holding $74.2 million across seven awards, the Materiel Command Research Laboratory carrying $22.3 million across twenty-four awards, and the Space and Missile Systems Center at $5.2 million. The Missile Defense Agency (13 awards, $14.6 million) and NASA Shared Services Center (17 awards, $6.9 million) round out the top tier. Work spans R&D, prototype development, production, and flight operations — 46 awards fall under research and development in physical engineering sciences, 21 under space R&D services, and 17 under national defense applied research, with COMSEC equipment and components narrowly concentrated (four awards).

Activity has remained steady at three to six awards per year over the past five years, with 103 total prime and sub awards recorded since 2005 and $1.08 billion in combined potential value. Only two awards (combined potential value $3.5 million) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete exposure. In its subcontractor role, Innoflight supplies software-defined radio components and engineering support to The Aerospace Corporation on space CubeSat missions, furnishes COMSEC equipment integration services to General Dynamics Mission Systems for SDA Tranche 1 operations, and provides space-domain control and command-and-control engineering to Sierra Nevada Company on Binary Armor conceptual research. Innoflight also serves as a supplier to NASA's Orion production and extravehicular activity radio programs through unnamed prime contractors.

Innoflight, Inc. is a small, veteran-owned technology start-up that specializes in modern and cyber-secure electronics solutions for small/tactical aerospace systems. Our design, engineering and integration expertise includes the innovative implementation of COTS/Industrial components and standard protocols where appropriate for affordable and responsive systems.