Lunar Outpost Inc.

Lunar Outpost Inc., a small-business manufacturer of autonomous robotic systems and lunar terrain vehicles, operates as a prime contractor delivering space exploration and advanced robotics capabilities to NASA and the Department of Defense, competing full-and-open with no set-aside category designation except on small-business innovation programs. The company, based in Arvada, Colorado, holds a portfolio driven by two anchor IDIQs: a $4.6 billion Lunar Terrain Vehicle Services contract with NASA Johnson Space Center (extending through March 2037) and a $151 billion Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) vehicle with the Missile Defense Agency (through December 2035), positioning Lunar Outpost as a critical contributor to NASA's human lunar return program and a multi-domain defense contractor.

NASA Johnson Space Center dominates Lunar Outpost's customer footprint by dollar magnitude — the agency accounts for $4.82 billion of the company's $4.83 billion combined potential value across all awards, a concentration of 100% of potential value according to the source ranking. This concentration reflects Lunar Outpost's near-monopoly role as a prime developer of lunar terrain vehicles and related lunar surface mobility systems under the LTVS IDIQ. Three delivery orders under LTVS exemplify recent capability work: a $219.997 million firm fixed-price order awarded May 26, 2026, for development and delivery of lunar terrain vehicle capability supporting near-term lunar exploration missions (extending through May 2031); a $1,145,029 order awarded September 27, 2024, for pre-priced evaluation of NASA mission requirements assessment; and a $397,280 special study awarded July 15, 2025, to assess logistics transfer capabilities and modifications for uncrewed operations. Beyond NASA's Johnson Space Center, the Air Force Research Laboratory has issued ten SBIR and STTR contracts worth $11.8 million for autonomous robotic systems — including a $7.5 million Phase II SBIR for Mobile Autonomous Robotic Swarms (awarded July 30, 2024, through July 2027) and a $1.659 million Phase II for Autonomous Robotic Assembly and Manufacturing System (completed June 2024). NASA's Shared Services Center has awarded four STTR contracts totaling $1.1 million for lunar surface regolith structure construction tools, including an $849,992 Phase II awarded January 22, 2024, and a $144,328 Phase I awarded July 25, 2022. The Missile Defense Agency's recent SHIELD award on December 29, 2025, carries a nominal $500 initial delivery order but establishes a $151 billion vehicle for multi-domain defense R&D, systems engineering, and production across air, missile, space, and cyber domains.

Primary NAICS concentrations are Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (17 awards) and Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing (4 awards). Lunar Outpost's recent award activity has been lumpy — four awards in 2022, one in 2023, four in 2024, three in 2025, and two in 2026 — but the $219.997 million delivery order awarded in May 2026 and the multi-year SHIELD vehicle establish significant forward commitment. Only one award reaches completion within the next twenty-four months: a $7.5 million Air Force SBIR Phase II concluding July 30, 2027. Lunar Outpost operates predominantly as a prime (96% of awards) with minimal subcontractor engagement; the source names one sub-award relationship with the Regents of the University of Colorado on a June 2026 lunar dust measurement task. Service Contract Inventory data covering FY2024 shows minimal SCI-reportable invoicing ($218 thousand across 0.1 FTEs), reflecting Lunar Outpost's positioning in product development, manufacturing, and R&D deliverables rather than labor-intensive service contracts. The company competes on full-and-open contract vehicles and holds no characteristic SBA set-aside designations on its prime portfolio, though its innovation work qualifies it for Total Small Business designations on SBIR and STTR programs.

Lunar Outpost is an advanced technologies company with a focus on space technologies that have terrestrial applications as well. Lunar Outpost has researched, developed and manufactured air quality monitoring systems for the City and County of Denver which are cost effective, reliable and efficient. Employees of Lunar Outpost have worked on advanced technology contracts for NASA, the USAF and the DoD.