Newbridge Partners, Inc.

Newbridge Partners, Inc., a SBA-certified women-owned small business based in Herndon, Virginia, operates as a prime contractor (71% of recent awards) and subcontractor on defense and aerospace research and development contracts, with a portfolio concentrated in advanced sensor systems, space technologies, and geospatial intelligence architecture. The company competes across mixed set-aside postures — small business set-asides dominate the SBIR and STTR Phase I and II work, while Newbridge also holds unrestricted seats on the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ and GSA's Multiple Award Schedule.

Newbridge's federal footprint is anchored in small-business research programs. The largest single award is a $20.16 million cost-plus-fixed-fee definitive contract from the Air Force (awarded August 2021, completing August 2026) for geospatial intelligence network architecture research supporting C4ISR and cyber mission advancement. Supporting that anchor are multiple SBIR Phase I and Phase II awards spanning sensor technologies, space platforms, and pilot situational awareness: a $1.69 million Army SBIR Phase II contract for staring sensors (awarded March 2024, extended through December 2025), a $1.25 million Air Force Research Laboratory Phase II award for advanced coelostat beam director design (awarded March 2026, completing June 2028), and earlier Phase I work with NASA Shared Services Center on star tracker and grism pointing mechanism development ($149,986 and $149,755 respectively, both completed February 2024). In December 2025, Newbridge secured a seat on the SHIELD IDIQ — a multi-award vehicle with a multi-billion-dollar ceiling running through December 2035 supporting missile defense, space, and cyber modernization across the Department of Defense. Recent activity also includes a $599,254 DARPA research contract (awarded January 2025) for microsystems technology and a $915,100 woman-owned small business set-aside with the Army Corps of Engineers for regional leadership development training (awarded April 2023, completing June 2027).

Customer concentration remains distributed across defense and civilian space agencies. The top five funding sources by potential value account for 96% of the portfolio, with the Department of the Air Force dominating at $20.2 million on a single contract, followed by the Department of the Army at $1.9 million, the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory at $1.2 million, the Army Corps of Engineers at $915 thousand, and GSA Federal Acquisition Service at $800 thousand. By award count, NASA Shared Services Center leads with three Phase I SBIR actions, the Army with two awards, and the Missile Defense Agency with two awards. Newbridge's vehicle position includes the SHIELD IDIQ (one delivery order issued at $500 as of source date), the Multiple Award Schedule ($800,000 ceiling, with labor categories spanning Engineer/Analysts and facilitators at $92.86 to $219.69 per hour, all non-cleared roles), and one task order each under the One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) suite.

Activity grew from two awards in 2022 to a peak of six in 2025, then moderated to two in 2026 year-to-date. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $26.1 million, though obligated dollars ($33.1 million) exceed potential value by 27%, indicating milestone-based payments or modifications pushing spend ahead of ceiling. Three awards totaling $22.3 million in combined potential value face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months — the $20.16 million Air Force geoint contract (August 2026), the Army SBIR Phase II staring sensors award (December 2025), and the Army Corps of Engineers leadership program (June 2027) — creating significant recompete exposure in that window. Newbridge subcontracts to larger primes including Riverside Research Institute (for phenomenology-based infrared target analytical training supporting the National Air and Space Intelligence Center), Applied Research Associates (on multiple personnel and facilities task orders), Modern Technology Solutions Inc. (for the ARCWERX Artemis aerospace systems integration and digital engineering program), and Booz Allen Hamilton (on community space platform modeling and simulation evaluation). The vendor's core capability set centers on advanced sensor research, space system technologies, geospatial intelligence architectures, and defense modernization, with secondary capability in leadership development and administrative consulting.

NewBridge Partners, Inc. specializes in strategic technical, programmatic, organization development support services. We focus on customers in the Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), Federal Civil Agencies, State Agencies, and commercial entities.

We specialize in providing strategic engineering, program management, and organizational development support to enable our clients to succeed in ways that wouldn't otherwise be possible. We bring together a wide variety of tools, methods, materials, and people in unique ways to create value-added products and high payoff results for our customers.