Launchpoint Electric Propulsion Solutions, Inc.

Launchpoint Electric Propulsion Solutions, Inc., doing business as Launchpoint EPS, develops advanced electric and hybrid propulsion systems for aerospace applications and delivers the majority of its work as a prime contractor on small-business set-aside research and development contracts for the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Department of the Army. The Goleta, California-based for-profit company qualifies as a small business and competes predominantly under total small business set-asides, with recent prime awards split across Small Business Innovation Research Phase I, Phase II, and Phase III contracts and fixed-price definitive contracts.

Launchpoint EPS's capability footprint centers on electric machine design, brushless motor control systems, power generation for unmanned and manned aircraft, and hybrid propulsion architecture for rotorcraft and vertical takeoff and landing platforms. Representative prime work includes a $1.35 million cost-plus-fixed-fee R&D contract awarded by the Naval Air Warfare Center on December 22, 2025, running through June 2029; a $1.4 million firm-fixed-price Air Force award under the AFWERX Challenge Project for affordable unmanned aircraft systems power generation, with performance through April 2028; a $249.7 thousand SBIR Phase I contract from the Naval Air Systems Command Research Development and Engineering Command for high power and torque electric motors for direct-drive rotorcraft applications, completed June 2025; and a $239.9 thousand SBIR Phase I contract from the Naval Air Warfare Center for electric machine design and power generation research, completed November 2025. Launchpoint EPS also holds a $99.9 thousand SBIR Phase III contract from NASA's Shared Services Center for brushless motor control system development.

Customer concentration runs heavily toward defense research agencies and NASA. The Naval Air Warfare Center accounts for two awards ($1.6 million combined potential value), the Air Force for one award ($1.4 million), the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command for two awards ($1.2 million), and NASA's Shared Services Center for two awards ($250 thousand). Activity has accelerated year over year, from one award in 2020 to four in 2025; one award with combined potential value of $1.4 million faces recompete completion inside the next twenty-four months. In its subcontractor role, Launchpoint EPS delivers power generation unit subassemblies and related engineering support to L3 Technologies for Next Generation Jammer Low Band pod development, with three sub-award modifications and procurements recorded between June and November 2025. Across its prime footprint, Launchpoint EPS competes exclusively under small business set-asides and SBIR program vehicles; the Air Force definitive contract represents the only non-set-aside work in the source data.