Quantum Space LLC

Quantum Space LLC, a Maryland-based limited liability company, holds multiple prime contracts and indefinite-delivery vehicles with the Department of Defense for space-domain awareness systems, advanced propulsion development, and multi-layered homeland defense capabilities. The vendor competes on a full-and-open basis across its federal portfolio, with no set-aside designations across recent awards.

Quantum Space operates as a prime contractor on 82% of recent awards, with a focused capability portfolio in aerospace propulsion, space systems engineering, and defense research and development. Representative work includes a $1.799 million firm-fixed-price definitive contract awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory on September 18, 2025, for flight development of an ascent propellant (total small business set-aside) with performance at Hawthorne, California and completion scheduled for October 19, 2027. The vendor also holds a $1.8 million Air Force Research Laboratory definitive contract awarded April 7, 2025, for propulsion technology development at Edwards Air Force Base, California, completing December 7, 2026, and a prior $1.783 million Phase II contract from September 13, 2023, for catalytic propellant decomposition chamber development under the Sequential STRATFI-TACFI program. Earlier work includes a $747 thousand definitive contract from NASA Headquarters (July 17, 2024) to provide research reports on Mars sample return studies and a $391 thousand Other Transaction Agreement with the Air Force (August 20, 2024) for a commercial disposal services study in Rockville, Maryland.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Department of the Air Force and associated defense organizations. The top two funding agencies by potential value are the Space and Missile Systems Center (2 awards, $1.84 billion combined potential value) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (3 awards, $5.4 million), accounting for roughly 99% of combined potential value across the portfolio. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, NASA Headquarters, the Missile Defense Agency, and the Department of the Navy round out the customer base. The divergence between award count and dollar concentration reflects Quantum Space's positioning on two large aerospace-focused IDIQs that anchor the portfolio's dollar value.

Quantum Space holds positions on three major indefinite-delivery vehicles. The Space and Missile Systems Center awarded a $1.843 billion multiple-award IDIQ on April 8, 2026, extending through April 8, 2036, to define, design, and build technologies and space-based systems for the space domain awareness mission area. The Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) contract, a $151 billion multiple-award IDIQ awarded December 29, 2025 and extending through December 28, 2035, covers research, development, prototyping, systems engineering, weapon design, production, and test and evaluation across air, missile, space, cyber, and hybrid threat mitigation domains. Quantum Space received an initial $500 delivery order under SHIELD on December 29, 2025. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $4.898 million multiple-award Other Transaction IDV on February 17, 2026, for the Lunar Assay via Small Satellite Orbiter (LASSO) program.

Activity has grown from one award in 2023 to five in 2025, with two awards (combined potential value $3.6 million) reaching ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and facing recompete exposure. The vendor carries $11.1 million in combined obligated dollars against $1.85 billion in combined potential value across the portfolio, indicating substantial unexercised contract ceiling. On the subcontractor side, Quantum Space subcontracts to Peraton Inc. on advanced space research involving spacecraft electronics and systems design (December 11, 2025) and to Axient LLC on new entrant certification systems engineering and integration services (June 18, 2024). Service Contract Inventory data captures minimal activity: two SCI records in FY2024 (one prime, one as a named sub) with zero invoiced revenue in the SCI dataset, reflecting the vendor's focus on R&D contracts, fixed-price development efforts, and classified work outside SCI's reporting scope. Quantum Space operates a subsidiary, Orbit Systems, LLC, a for-profit limited liability company.