Neros, Inc.

Neros, Inc., a small business defense technology manufacturer based in El Segundo, California, designs, develops, and produces Blue List-compliant unmanned aircraft systems and command-and-control technologies for Department of Defense agencies as a prime contractor (86% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on special operations and modernization programs. The company competes predominantly under Total Small Business set-asides on Army indefinite delivery vehicles, with full-and-open competition appearing selectively for specialized development work with Air Force Research Laboratory and Naval Special Warfare Command.

Neros' customer concentration centers on Army platforms. The top five funding organizations by count and value account for 96% of combined potential value, led decisively by Army Forces Command ($25.3 million across four awards), followed by DOD Washington Headquarters Service ($1.8 million), Air Force Research Laboratory ($1.3 million across three awards), Naval Special Warfare Command ($503 thousand across two awards), and Army Training and Doctrine Command ($333 thousand). The disparity between award count and potential value reflects Neros' reliance on a single large indefinite delivery vehicle: the Master Blanket Purchase Agreement with Army Forces Command established August 15, 2025, carries a $25 million ceiling through August 14, 2030, for procurement of Blue List-compliant unmanned aircraft systems and associated parts on a multiple-award basis. Neros has generated ten task orders ($1.1 million combined potential value) against this BPA as of mid-2026, pricing on firm fixed-price terms. Recent BPA calls include a $216 thousand order for UAS design and development (February 2026), a $267.5 thousand TRADOC call for UAS delivery at Fort Moore, Georgia (September 2025), and a $126.6 thousand Army Forces Command call (August 2025).

Neros holds two additional prime vehicles: a Basic Ordering Agreement with Army Contracting Command at Redstone Arsenal and Program Executive Office Aviation established January 14, 2026, for drones and drone components in support of Executive Order 14307 through January 12, 2031 (no dollar ceiling specified in source), and multiple standing research partnerships with Air Force Research Laboratory. Named capability work includes a $1.1 million Air Force Research Laboratory purchase order for custom command-and-control link development and Peregrine Hybrid prototype testing (June 2024, extending through June 2026); a $1.8 million Other Transaction Agreement with Washington Headquarters Service for electromagnetic interference-resistant communication systems (August 2024, completing November 2025); a $503 thousand Naval Special Warfare Command order for Neros Archer UAS First Person View development (August 2025); a $297.5 thousand Air Force Special Operations Command order for modular-payload Group 1 quadrotor platforms weighing under 10 pounds with swappable batteries, cameras, and flight control modules, performed at Clovis, New Mexico (August 2025); and a $202 thousand Air Force purchase order for First Person View equipment (September 2025).

Activity has accelerated sharply — four awards in 2024 to fifteen in 2025, with nine awards recorded through May 2026 — driven by the August 2025 Army master BPA and subsequent task order execution. The company's capability portfolio emphasizes First Person View-equipped unmanned aircraft, modular quadrotor systems, the Neros Archer UAS platform, custom ground control systems, and command-and-control link systems designed for electromagnetically challenging environments, grounded in prior Small Business Innovation Research and Small Technology Transfer Research phases with Air Force Research Laboratory and prior work with U.S. Special Operations Command. Neros subcontracts to CACI, Inc. on hardware procurement for Global Operational Support Information Insight and Threat systems; to ManTech TSG-2 Joint Venture on Marine Corps Force Design and Modernization for Archer Drone delivery; to Smartronix, LLC on C6ISR capabilities for U.S. Special Operations Command Pacific; and to Leidos on Common Hardware Systems 6th Generation procurement. NAICS concentration sits with Aircraft Manufacturing (18 awards) and Research and Development in Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (six awards); PSC concentration sits with Unmanned Aircraft (17 awards) and National Defense R&D Services (three awards).