Numat Technologies Inc.

Numat Technologies Inc., a minority-owned small business based in Chicago, Illinois, manufactures metal-organic framework (MOF) technologies and chemical protective materials for defense and energy applications, operating exclusively as a prime contractor on federal contracts and grants with no subcontractor footprint. The company delivers research, development, and production across SBIR, STTR, and Other Transaction Agreements, with recent work focused on scalable MOF manufacturing processes and chemical-biological protective ensemble prototypes.

Numat's customer concentration is heavily weighted toward defense and research agencies. The Department of Energy Office of Science leads by award count (7 awards), while the Office of the Secretary of Defense dominates potential value at $27.7 million from a single Other Transaction Agreement for metal-organic framework manufacturing and process technologies awarded August 2, 2022, running through September 22, 2026. The Department of the Army accounts for seven awards across two organizational components: five awards totaling $4.1 million potential value through Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command, and two awards totaling $4.2 million through the Joint PEO Chemical and Biological Defense. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Naval Sea Systems Command, and Naval Air Warfare Center round out the defense customer set. These five customers account for 81% of award count and 99% of combined potential value.

Numat's capability portfolio centers on metal-organic framework research, manufacturing scale-up, and defense applications. Representative work includes the $27.7 million OTA with the Office of the Secretary of Defense to deliver improved MOF manufacturing processes and a validated large-scale dual-use manufacturing line (performance through September 2026); a $1.5 million STTR Phase III award from Army RDECOM (April 2024, completion April 2027) for scaling MOF production to pilot scale and advancing supramolecular engineering; and two concurrent OTAs with the Joint PEO Chemical and Biological Defense (both December 5, 2025) totaling $4.2 million ceiling for production of chemical-biological protective ensemble prototypes using MOF technology, completing December 2027. Naval Sea Systems Command issued a $1.7 million SBIR Phase II contract for continued MOF development under Topic N211-034 (completion June 2026). Energy work includes three Department of Energy Office of Science grants: $199,483 for functionalized polymeric resins for rare-earth-element separations (July 2023–April 2024, CFDA 81.049), an unnamed $199,966 project grant for continuous synthesis of metal-organic frameworks for xenon capture (June 2022–March 2023, CFDA 81.049), and a radionuclide monitoring systems project (July 2023–November 2024).

Award activity shows modest recent volume (one award in 2024, two in 2025) following a baseline of two to three awards annually from 2021–2023. Four awards totaling $33.4 million in combined potential value reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, creating significant recompete exposure: the Secretary of Defense OTA ($27.7 million), the two Joint PEO Chemical and Biological Defense OTAs, and the Naval Sea Systems Command SBIR. Numat's work clusters under research-and-development NAICS and PSC categories, with concentration in applied research, exploratory development, and specialty clothing (chemical protective garments). The company's total combined potential value across all twenty-one prime awards sits at $41.1 million, though obligated dollars total $45.4 million, indicating some drawdown against ceiling values on active contracts.