Metis Technology Solutions, Inc.

Metis Technology Solutions, Inc., a woman-owned small business headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, operates as a prime contractor on federal aerospace, defense, and research-and-development programs and holds seats on multiple government-wide IDIQs with a combined potential value of $5.7 billion. The vendor competes predominantly full-and-open (no set-asides on defense-prime awards) but holds strategic positions on small-business-reserved vehicles—OASIS+ Total Small Business and OASIS+ Women-Owned Small Business GWACs (GSA), a Total Small Business NASA single-award IDIQ for aerospace research and simulation, and an SBIR Phase II award—alongside unrestricted positions on the Missile Defense Agency's $151 billion SHIELD IDIQ, the Navy's Seaport-NXG $4 billion IDIQ, and the FAA's $1 billion aircraft modernization portfolio.

Metis operates across space systems, aerospace simulation, and defense engineering. As prime, the vendor holds a $44.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order from NASA's Langley Research Center (awarded December 1, 2024, under a Total Small Business single-award IDIQ) for simulation and support services at LaRC Flight Simulation Facilities and Research Aircraft Systems through November 2029, supported by subcontractors Symvionics, Inc., KBR Wyle Services, LLC, and Adaptive Aerospace Group Inc. The vendor also completed a $740,922 NASA SBIR Phase II award (concluded May 4, 2024) for collaborative sensing and mapping technologies for intravehicular activity robots. More recently, Metis received initial $500 task orders under both the SHIELD IDIQ (December 29, 2025, placed by the Missile Defense Agency with ultimate completion December 28, 2035) and Seaport-NXG (March 6, 2025, placed by Naval Sea Systems Command, ultimate completion January 1, 2029), establishing positions on two major defense vehicles.

The vendor's award portfolio concentrates in space and defense, with Department of the Air Force Space Command and subordinate Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center accounting for 31 of 57 total awards. Naval Sea Systems Command anchors the dollar concentration—four awards carrying $4 billion combined potential value, dominated by the Seaport-NXG IDIQ. NASA Ames and Langley Research Centers together represent $179.4 million and $44.9 million respectively. The FAA's Headquarters holds one award valued at $1 billion. The vendor has worked with twelve federal agencies as prime or sub, but the top five account for 79% of recent awards; the gap between award count and dollar concentration reflects Metis's heavy subcontractor footprint under air and space primes (Lockheed Martin, Science Applications International Corporation, Peraton) alongside its emerging prime positions.

Metis competes across multiple vehicles. On Air Force IDIQs—indefinite delivery contracts FA252122D0002 and FA882320D0001—the vendor has placed 20 and 9 task orders respectively, signaling active competition under multi-award defense R&D and space-systems vehicles. The vendor holds seats on the GSA's OASIS+ Total Small Business and OASIS+ Women-Owned Small Business GWACs (both with placeholder ceilings and ultimate completion dates in 2029), positioning the vendor for governmentwide professional services competition across management, technical, engineering, and R&D domains. The NASA single-award IDIQ for Aerospace Research, Technology and Simulation (ARTS) at Ames and Langley ($179.4 million ceiling) runs through November 2029.

Activity accelerated from two awards in 2022 to twenty in 2024, with eleven awards in 2025 and three already placed in 2026 (through April). The vendor's most recent work reflects growth in both prime and sub positions. SCI-reported invoicing on federal service contracts above $150,000 totaled $4.3 million across FY2022–FY2025, with $3.6 million invoiced in FY2025 across 16.7 FTEs at a blended government-paid rate of $103.61 per hour on the Langley delivery order. The median hourly rate across prime contracts runs $86.92/hr, with rates spanning from $73.56/hr at the 10th percentile to $100.27/hr at the 90th percentile. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, subcontractors performed 14% of total contractor hours, with three named subs reported—a light subcontractor share suggesting Metis leans toward direct delivery on smaller primes while relying on named partners on larger vehicles.

Metis operates through two subsidiaries: Metis Flight Research Associates, LLC and Metis Technology Partners, LLC (a joint venture WOSB). Metis Technology Partners, LLC appears as prime on multiple pad-safety and space-launch-operations sub-awards under Space Launch Delta 45 (FY2023–FY2025), supporting SpaceX, Blue Origin, United Launch Alliance, ABL Space, and NASA Exploration Ground Systems—indicating an operational structure where subsidiary entities segment space-launch and pad-operations work from core aerospace and simulation delivery. The subsidiary also subcontracts to Lockheed Martin on the COOLR (Communications On The Lowest Operational Rate) satellite sustainment program (FY2022–present), providing systems engineering support for Protected Extremely High Frequency and MILSTAR satellites.

The vendor's posture combines full-and-open competition on defense and space primes (SHIELD, Seaport-NXG, Air Force IDIQs) with small-business-set-aside pursuit on civil space and civilian R&D (NASA ARTS, OASIS+SB, OASIS+WO, SBIR). This mixed competition strategy, anchored by emerging large-dollar IDIQ positions at DoD and NASA alongside a heavy subcontractor load under Lockheed, SAIC, and Peraton, positions Metis as a growth-stage space-systems and aerospace-engineering player with increasing exposure to multi-billion-dollar defense vehicles and a subsidiary structure supporting specialized space-launch operations.

Technical services in the areas of aeronautics, aviation safety, science and engineering.