Outside Analytics Inc.

Outside Analytics Inc., doing business as Outly, is a small business providing geospatial analytics, remote sensing, space situational awareness, and data visualization technologies to the Department of Defense and Space Force as a prime contractor on research, development, and space domain awareness programs. The company operates from Broomfield, Colorado, with over 80 engineers and scientists, and competes predominantly in full-and-open (non-set-aside) space and defense markets, though it holds a seat on the OASIS+ Total Small Business IDIQ awarded in December 2024.

Outly's customer concentration is heavily tilted toward Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC). The top five customers by award count account for 91% of recent awards, led overwhelmingly by SMC within the Department of the Air Force Space Command with 11 awards carrying $249.2 million in combined potential value — nearly 99% of the vendor's total portfolio. The Department of the Army, Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory, and Missile Defense Agency round out the active set with single-digit awards in the low millions or hundreds of thousands. This concentration reflects Outly's specialization: space situational awareness, space domain detection, and derived weather products for advanced aerospace defense.

Outly's capability work centers on space domain awareness and multi-source detection systems. Representative prime contracts include a $26.2 million firm fixed-price delivery order from SMC under the DAVE SBIR Phase III program (issued July 2024, completion July 2028) for technology development supporting space situational awareness and domain detection; a $5.2 million Other Transaction Agreement with SMC awarded December 2021 for web-enabled common operational picture solutions supporting Space Command situational awareness; a $1.3 million OTA also from SMC (December 2021) for multi-source derived weather systems; and an Army Small Business Innovation Research Phase II award of $1.7 million (September 2023, completion September 2025) for sensor technology research. Outly also holds a single-award SBIR Phase III indefinite-delivery contract with SMC valued at $215 million (awarded June 2024, completion June 2029), which serves as the parent vehicle for the $26.2 million TAP LAB delivery order. Most recently, Outly was awarded a seat on the SHIELD multiple-award IDIQ issued by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, a multi-domain defense vehicle extending through December 2035, with a $500 inaugural delivery order already placed.

Vehicle positioning reflects both SBIR dominance and recent expansion. Outly holds positions on the DAVE SBIR Phase III IDIQ ($215 million ceiling), the Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ through MDA, the OASIS+ Total Small Business set-aside IDIQ (awarded December 2024 with no specified ceiling and a five-year base plus five-year option through December 2029), and appears to have ordering relationships under Alliant II and other indefinite-delivery vehicles with five and three task orders respectively.

Activity trajectory shows significant acceleration in 2024 (eleven awards) following sparse years (one award in 2022, two in 2023), with two awards so far in 2025. The recompete cliff presents moderate risk: one award valued at $26.2 million (the DAVE SBIR Phase III delivery order) completes within the next twenty-four months. Combined potential value across all awards stands at $251.9 million, with $95.1 million obligated to date (38% of potential).

In its subcontractor role, Outly supports Parsons Government Services as the primary prime on multiple task order modifications spanning cyber mission support and services across 2023 and 2024, and also subcontracts to United Launch Alliance on cryogenic propulsion flight demonstration work. The vendor operates predominantly as a prime (59% of awards by count) rather than as a feeder subcontractor, concentrating its sub work under two established primes. Outly's capability portfolio is tightly focused on space and aerospace defense; the vendor does not span civilian agencies and does not compete under traditional 8(a) or HUBZone set-asides, relying instead on SBIR programs and full-and-open defense competition, with the OASIS+ vehicle as its primary small-business set-aside vehicle for broader federal services access.