Ranger Defense, Incorporated

Ranger Defense, Incorporated operates exclusively as a subcontractor to Torch Technologies Inc., delivering specialty engineering and technical support to the Department of Defense across 58 sub awards since late 2022. The vendor is a for-profit Subchapter S corporation headquartered in Madison, Alabama, competing in the engineering services space (NAICS 541330) without SBA set-aside designations and exclusively through the Multiple Award Schedule vehicle.

Ranger Defense's capability footprint centers on missile and aviation systems engineering. The concrete work spans three recurring domains: specialty engineering support for the Army's Systems Readiness Directorate (AvMC SRD) covering materiel suitability, product assurance, and production sustainment across aviation, missile, ground, sea, and soldier systems; technical and engineering support for the Weapons Development and Integration Directorate (TDD) on the FARA (Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft) weapons systems development, including system architecture, trade-off analysis, and operational systems engineering; and lifecycle engineering support for the Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) encompassing hardware design, software development, simulation and modeling, test planning, and integration support. Representative task orders awarded under Torch include FARA weapons system architecture analysis and trade-off support (multiple task orders since January 2024), AMRDEC lifecycle engineering support (first sub award October 2022, recurring monthly), and SRD specialty engineering for product assurance and sustainment (recurring support since October 2022 through April 2025). Performance occurs at both contractor and government facilities with infrequent OCONUS travel; work involves ITAR-controlled technical data transfer to Foreign Military Sales customers.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to Army aviation and missile programs. The Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Missiles and Space accounts for 28 awards, with the Army Materiel Command Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command driving an additional 15 awards — together representing the entirety of Ranger Defense's DoD portfolio. The Department of the Air Force Defense Finance and Accounting Service accounts for 15 awards, though the source does not clarify whether this represents financial management support or secondary work stream unrelated to the primary aviation-missile focus. All 58 sub awards flow through the Multiple Award Schedule vehicle, which Torch Technologies holds as the prime vehicle holder.

Ranger Defense operates entirely as a Torch Technologies subcontractor, with no prime contract footprint and no visible teaming with other firms. The SCI dataset captures minimal reporting — 0.8 FTEs in FY2024 across two named subcontractor records — reflecting the vendor's small scale on SCI-reportable contracts and the reality that much of the work may fall below the $150,000 SCI threshold, be classified, or represent task-order labor flowing through Torch's existing vehicle. Activity has accelerated sharply: two awards in 2022, two in 2023, and 45 in 2024, suggesting Ranger Defense's integration into Torch's recurring AMRDEC and TDD support streams expanded substantially in 2024. Combined potential value across all 58 sub awards is $555 thousand, indicating the vast majority of work is task-order level with small individual values rather than large contract awards.

Provide engineering, maintenance, and logistic support for aviation, ground support equipment, missile, automotive, and tracked vehicles to the USG.