Aegis Aerospace Inc.

Aegis Aerospace Inc., a women-owned small business headquartered in Webster, Texas, competes as a prime contractor on federal research and development, engineering, and space systems contracts valued at $8.23 billion combined potential value, with 74% of recent awards secured in the prime role. The company holds seats on multiple governmentwide IDIQs including OASIS+ Women-Owned Small Business, OASIS+ Total Small Business, OASIS+ Unrestricted, and the newly awarded Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) program, alongside agency-specific vehicles at NASA Johnson Space Center (REMIS2), Naval Sea Systems Command (Seaport-NXG), Air Force Materiel Command (TETRAS II), and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC/XA). Aegis Aerospace also operates two named subsidiaries: MEI Technologies, Inc. (a minority-owned, Hispanic American-owned, women-owned and veteran-owned entity) and Alpha Space Test And Research Alliance, LLC (a minority-owned, Hispanic American-owned women-owned LLC).

Aegis Aerospace's capability footprint centers on aerospace engineering, space systems research and development, test and evaluation, and systems integration support. The company's work spans payload adapter design (a $149 thousand NASA SBIR Phase I award for the Payload Universal Multi-Purpose Adapter), Orion spacecraft production and operations support (multiple sub-awards under NASA's Orion Production and Operations Contract), GeoXO satellite structures engineering (a Lockheed Martin sub-award), test and evaluation technologies for ranges and spectrum (TETRAS II work at Eglin Air Force Base), and multi-domain systems development supporting the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. The SHIELD IDIQ award, signed December 29, 2025 with a $151 billion ceiling and performance through December 2035, frames Aegis Aerospace as qualified to compete for multi-domain defense system work across research, prototyping, systems engineering, production, and modernization across the Department of Defense enterprise.

Customer concentration splits heavily between the Department of the Air Force ecosystem and NASA. The top five funding agencies account for 68% of awards by count but 95% of combined potential value: the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command (4 awards, $4 billion combined potential, driven by the Seaport-NXG IDIQ ceiling), NASA Johnson Space Center (23 awards, $1.12 billion), the Department of the Air Force and Air Force Materiel Command combined (53 awards, $1.9 billion), and NASA Goddard Space Center (2 awards, $738.7 million). This concentration reflects Aegis Aerospace's deep positioning on Space Act Agreements and multiple-award vehicles serving civil space and defense space customers. The company has served 20 distinct customer agencies overall.

Activity accelerated markedly from 2021 to 2024, moving from three awards in 2021 to 23 in 2024, before moderating to nine awards in 2025 (a partial year snapshot). The award portfolio skews heavily toward research and development: the top NAICS categories by award count are research and development in physical, engineering, and life sciences (55 awards), engineering services (24), and space research and technology (20). Only two awards fall under guided missile and space vehicle manufacturing, indicating Aegis Aerospace competes as a services and systems integrator rather than a hardware manufacturer. The top PSC codes reflect that orientation — defense system R&D for missile and space systems (39 awards), space vehicle components (12), and engineering and technical support (10).

Aegis Aerospace operates predominantly through its own delivery workforce. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the company retained 0% of work to subcontractors, building its own teams rather than subcontracting out. SCI data capture from FY2022–FY2024 shows 48.6 FTEs delivered in FY2022, zero in FY2023, and 40.7 in FY2024; however, these figures represent only the subset of federal service contracts above the $150,000 SCI reporting threshold and exclude goods, classified work, and non-federal revenue, so they substantially understate the company's actual workforce on the broader contract portfolio. In its subcontractor role, Aegis Aerospace performs specialized engineering and labor support: it delivers aviation operations and Orion spacecraft support labor under NASA contracts (multiple sub-awards with no prime named), engineering and advisory services under Applied Research Solutions (16+ sub-awards for engineering, professional, and administrative support services spanning HN and NCN directorates), labor support for missile defense baseline integrity under Amentum Technology and in partnership with Jacobs, human health and performance engineering under KBR Wyle Services, and small satellite portfolio services under Axient.

Recompete exposure is modest: two awards (combined potential value $64.4 million) reach ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, neither representing catastrophic loss if unfunded. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center IDIQ (ceiling $900 million, completion November 2027) and TETRAS II (ceiling $999.95 million, completion June 2028) remain in active ordering periods, while the recently awarded SHIELD vehicle and OASIS+ seats provide pipeline depth into 2030 and beyond. Aegis Aerospace's primary growth vector is seat utilization on its newly expanded IDIQ portfolio, particularly SHIELD and the OASIS+ vehicles (OASIS+ Small Business alone carries 32 task orders valued at $127.7 million).

Systems Engineering, Integration, Test & Evaluation; Payload Integration and Operations; Information Technology; Training and Simulation Systems; Safety, Product Assurance, and Risk Management; Program Planning